Was Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in 2000 the trigger for what the Arab community calls the Al Aqsa Intifada? Or was this a pre-planned assault orchestrated by the likes of Marwan Barghouti, Raed Salah of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel and even the Palestinian Authority?In this final installment…
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Should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount? Or will it inflame Muslim sensitivities? Learn the history of this debate from the Six Day War in 1967 when General Moshe Dayan argued with Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the issue, to the fire started by Australian tourist Denis Michael Rohan, the shooting by Allan…
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Today the media loves to discuss “settler violence,” but it is rarely interested in its historical origins. This episode picks up the story of Yehuda Etzion and Menachem Livni who had set out to trigger redemption by any means necessary. As it turns out, events went in another direction and their actions continue to have…
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In politics as in physics – for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s signing of the Camp David Accords with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat did not produce a singular response, but it did send shock waves through every aspect of Israeli society. Among the idealists of the settlement movement,…
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