Join Oriel Moran for a personal tour through Jerusalem’s Old City, highlighted by an emotional and powerful visit to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount.

Arabs complain that the move was a “direct provocation against the feelings of all Muslims around the world.”

It is still jarring every time to report that Jews have been arrested for doing what God told them to do, in the place He told them to do it.

This incident is the latest in a series of apparent acts of desecration of the holy site by Muslims.

The current arrangement is anachronistic, discriminatory and contradicts today’s international norms.

While the century-old struggle is mostly cast as a conflict over land, the Biblical viewpoint discloses something deeper: That it is a battle over whose god is truly God – YHWH of Israel or Allah of Arabia?

Conditions are ripe, on the eve of a Temple-centred Jewish commemorative day, for an eruption of violence from Islamist terrorist groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

“Fighting for equal rights and access for Jews on the Temple Mount is the most fundamental movement for the Jewish people today.”

A journalist’s visit to Mecca was wrong and may set back Israeli-Saudi normalization. But analogizing this stunt to Jews visiting or praying on the Temple Mount is equally offensive.