under a militant Muslim occupation that forcibly forbids any Jew or Christian from praying or reading the Bible there. This shameful situation continues despite the fact that Israel supposedly guarantees “freedom of access” to religious sites according to their 1967 Law for the Protection of the Holy Places.
Israeli “leaders” continue to look the other way as the Muslims practice blatant religious discrimination daily. Israel must stop taking into “protective custody” those who seek to exercise their religious rights upon the Temple Mount and instead REMOVE THE THREAT. I was arrested on Simchat Torah (the Last Great Day) in 1995 to protect me from the mad Muslims, as related in a “House of Prayer for ALL nations?”
As written in a letter published in the Jerusalem Post: “The Temple Mount is not in our hands, because it is not in our hearts and minds. This is to the shame of our political and religious leaders. I doubt that Jews prayed for 2,000 years to return to Zion and pray at a wall.”
Of course, on an individual level we must welcome God into our hearts and minds, our personal lives, to find a loving home (Isaiah 66:1-2). But on a NATIONAL LEVEL, on a physical plane, we need a physical building to serve as the “Embassy of the Eternal.” We shouldn’t become so “spiritual” that we forget our Hebrew roots and biblical responsibilities as a NATION, since the vast