Israel's capital is Jerusalem. It is also the holiest city to the Jewish people. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem claims that there never was a second Jewish Temple, or any Jewish connection to the city. The Mufti is not an idiot.He is an anti-semite.
Aside from the archeological evidence, which is simply overwhelming, all ancient literature descibes the faces, politics and history of Jewish Jerusalem. The Arch of Titus commemorates her fall to Rome in 70. The New Testament, which Moslems accept as a holy book, is set in Jewish Jerusalem.
So there's too much obvious source material to call the Mufti an idiot. What's left is "anti-semite." Which is an old tradition by them, as Yasser Arafat's uncle, the Mufti al-Husseini, was a Nazi war criminal. Literally. He assisted Eichman.
Moslems claim Jerusalem as holy to them only because the Jews calim it as theirs. In truth, Jerusalem isn't mentioned ONCE in the Koran explicitly, and Moslems at prayer face MECCA.
And so, why is Jerusalem such a hot issue? Simple. It is God's City, and everybody wants to prove that they've got God right. If the Jews are there, well, that seems to prove all that Chosen People stuff, especially when Jerusalem was reunited in such MIRACULOUS ways back in 1967.
And you know what? It does.
"My House shall be a house of prayer for all the nations." This is the distinguishing feature of Judaism. It never negates the faith of other nations, so long as they are monotheistic and conform to the 7 laws of human morality. Judaism never claims you've got to be Jewish to be "saved".
And Judaism never wages war to convert "infidels".
That is the Jewish Jerusalem, a place where all peace-seekers can come and converse with God and each other. If it isn't there yet, it's because we need to seek it. "Inquire after the Peace of Jerusalem."
So whenever they talk of dividing Jerusalem, and a city holy to three faiths, etcetera, just forget it. It's only holy to three faiths or three hundred faiths when the Jewish people give her life and meaning. In other hands, Jerusalem was a scene of exclusion, persecution and violence.
Jerusalem of Peace can exist only if it is in the hands of her rightful people, the Jewish nation. Then all the naitons of the Earth can truly share in the Peace of Jerusalem.
