For two thousand years, Jews have prayed and longed to return to Jerusalem. Each Passover night, during their long years in the Diaspora, they lifted the cup and pledged to celebrate if possible, "Next year in Jerusalem!"

Three times a day, century in, century out, Orthodox Jews have prayed that God would restore His house and dwell in the midst of His people again. And all this time, even as they were praying, Muslims invaded the land which is holy to God and His people, and erected their mosques especially on places holy to the Jews, not so much out of love for their Creator but out of spite, to prevent the Jews from ever rebuilding their shrines again.

From the minarets on the place most holy to the Jews, God's Temple Mount, Saddam Hussein was encouraged to complete what Hitler had left undone. Instead of prayer, these minarets bellowed Itbach el Jahud (slaughter the Jews), incitement to murder the Jews!

And the Jews allowed it all to happen: the takeover of their most holy place, even when it became desecrated as a place of violence and hatred and thousands of stones and bottles were thrown repeatedly on Jewish worshippers standing near their Western Wall.

History was rewritten: the Mountain of the Lord where the Jews' Temple twice stood has been denied any historicity. According to these same Islamic revisionists, the Western Wall's holiness is purely attributable to the legend that Mohammed fastened his horse, El-Buraq, to its stones before, according to the same legend, ascending for a heavenly visit.

No, nothing that the Jews treasure as holy is holy or significant to Israel's enemies. And unbelievably, the Jews today have to plead before Clinton that if they surrender this, the holiest asset of their faith, to these murderers, that it will at least be documented that once upon a time the Temple Mount had a connection to the Jewish people.

What utter degradation! There was even the cute notion that to get out of this tug of war, God would be given final sovereignty over the mount, as if He who claimed it to be "His holy hill" (Psalms 2) needed to bend towards men to receive "His right"!

How did this all come to pass? Would the Muslims, for peace sake, surrender Mecca and the Ka'aba stone to the Jews? Would Catholics, for peace sake, surrender the Vatican and St. Peters Cathedral?

Would any nation in the world, after praying for 2000 years to return to its holiest place on earth, forfeit it for a peace which will not even be a real peace but a stage for further concessions till Israel, according to the deep-seated wish of many of her Muslim enemies, is dissolved and is no more?

And this prize is given to those who, through their leaders in the days of Haj Amin el-Husseini, encouraged Hitler to speed up his extermination of the Jews, and who have fought what was left of the Jews year after year as the survivors immigrated to a land partitioned for them by the United Nations?!

Think of this! The prize of the Jews' most holy place is being offered to those who murdered Jews; terrorized them for years; brought the whole Muslim and Arab world against them; terrorized them in the air by exploding their planes; terrorized them in their synagogues from Paris to Istanbul; killed or wounded their peaceful diplomats and athletes in places all over the world; burned their carefully planted forests; torched or stole their cars by the tens of thousands; broke nearly every promise they made through treaties with Israel.

Why is Mein Kampf still required reading in many Arab universities?

Is this the prize Israel is willing to give to those who have as yet never kept their word, and who still in their heart of hearts dream of the day when all Palestine shall be theirs?

Is Israel willing to cut out her very heart, the heart of Jerusalem, holy to the Jews from time immemorial, and offer it to a people who have just murdered and lynched them and are not even willing to teach the lessons of peace in any of their school books nor on their Palestinian television and radio broadcasts? They should now receive Israel's heart before any true proof of the smallest commitment to peace and respect has been shown by them?

What utter folly! It is beyond comprehension. "Am Naval ve lo Chacham!" [O dull and witless people, Deuteronomy 32:6]

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How is it possible that the usually clever Israelis are so void of understanding when it comes to relating to their enemies death wish upon them? They resemble the Jews in Europe who, by continually trying to accommodate the ever increasing measures of enmity by the Nazis, thought that they would thus placate their enemies so that they would let them live their lives in peace, however humiliated and abused. Israelis behave

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