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Discrimination Against Jews at Our Holiest Site Never Made Sense to Me

(Twitter) Jason Greenblatt - Like so many things about this conflict, people say different things - "status quo," "historical status quo," "legal status quo" - and people define these differently. The demands to maintain the so-called status is completely unhelpful and deepens the problem. And if we want to use "historical status quo," let's understand actual "history" and remember that Jews (of which I am a very proud one) had two Temples on the site and worshiped on this holy site for a very significant period of time, over the span of two Temple periods. In a world where people of good faith are attempting to fight against all sorts of discrimination, why is the discrimination against Jews and Jewish prayer at the holiest site for Jews still demanded? It never made sense to me that this wasn't part of the "status quo." That's why in the peace plan we released it called for all religions to be allowed to pray at this site, which is holy to countless people around the world, and to end the discrimination against Jews at this site. To demand otherwise is completely dishonest. Let's end the discrimination, once and for all. The writer is a former White House Mideast envoy (2017-2019).
2023-01-05 00:00:00
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