{"id":24498,"date":"2017-08-04T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24498"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:11:32","slug":"letter-offers-helpful-historical-perspective-on-the-israelipalestinian-temple-mount-metal-detector-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24498\/letter-offers-helpful-historical-perspective-on-the-israelipalestinian-temple-mount-metal-detector-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Offers Helpful Historical Perspective on the Israeli\/Palestinian Temple Mount Metal Detector Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three terrorist gunmen killed two Israeli police officers last month at the Temple Mount outside of Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, Israel installed metal detectors at the entrance of the site to protect both visitors and officers. \u00a0Perhaps predictably, those seemingly common-sense measures triggered a call for a &#8220;day of rage&#8221; from Palestinian leaders, and an ensuing round of violent protests in Palestinian cities.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a reader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/do-metal-detectors-interfere-with-worship-1501791609?tesla=y\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> provides some helpful historical perspective in the ongoing controversy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is ironic that the Muslim population complains that the metal detectors interfere with their worship. \u00a0Until the Six Day War in 1967, when the Temple Mount was in Muslim control, Jews weren&#8217;t allowed to come within miles of the Western Wall, much less pray there. \u00a0To this day, Jews aren&#8217;t allowed to pray at their holiest site &#8211; the summit of the Temple Mount &#8211; by the Islamic Waqf.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three terrorist gunmen killed two Israeli police officers last month at the Temple Mount outside of Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, Israel installed metal detectors at the entrance of the site to protect both visitors and officers. \u00a0Perhaps predictably, those seemingly common-sense measures triggered a call for a &#8220;day of rage&#8221; from Palestinian leaders, and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386,1125,4900,4974],"class_list":["post-24498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestinians","tag-temple-mount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24511,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24498\/revisions\/24511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}