"Israelis, Muslims at odds over bridge work near holy site; Area’s control is sore point since takeover after 1967 war" December 13, 2011|By Matti Friedman, Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israel closed a pedestrian walkway next to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site yesterday before work to replace it, despite vehement Muslim objections to any construction at the spot.
The dispute illustrated how the holy city’s clashing religious claims and sensitivities can turn even the most mundane aspects of urban life into potential conflict.
The controversy surrounds the Mughrabi Bridge, a walkway that leads up to one of the world’s most combustible holy sites: the enclosure known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
The city’s chief engineer ordered the walkway closed because of fears of fire or collapse. The bridge was built in 2004 as a temporary replacement for an adjacent older ramp that collapsed in a snowstorm.
Muslim anger and international politics have put any plans to renovate or replace the structure on hold since then. Muslim leaders charge the planned work is part of a plot to destroy their holy sites, a notion Israel rejects....
As part of the theft of Palestine and wider war on Islam, yeah.
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Then they can rebuild their temple, cui bono?
Also see: Netanyahu and the End Times
Yeah, nothing to it all, right?
