Who Owns The Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa? | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Sacred and significant to Jews and Palestinians alike, the Temple Mount has a long and tumultuous history, serving today as a focal point and symbol of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

For the Jewish People, the Temple Mount is known to be its holiest site. It is the site of the Foundation Stone, the center of the universe and where Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac, as well as the place where King Solomon built the holy First Temple. For Palestinians and other Muslims, the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound is considered the third holiest site in Islam, the place to where Muhammad travelled from Mecca and ascended to heaven in a single night.

Since the formation of Zionism and the founding of the State of Israel, the Temple Mount has once again become a site of tension between competing peoples and religions, sparking conflict over antiquities claims, Jewish prayer, and security presence. At the center of the violence is the fear that recognizing the claim of the Other's connection to the site will mean that the Other rightfully owns the Temple Mount to the exclusion of all other peoples and faiths.

From its origins as a symbol of legitimacy for various empires and groups to its current role as a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Temple Mount continues to represent the complexities and tensions of the region.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:38 Foundation stone
01:28 First Temple
02:19 Babylonian Exile
02:34 Return to Israel and Second Temple
03:00 Roman Exile and destruction of Second Temple
03:26 Western Wall
03:51 Mohammed's journey to Jerusalem
04:16 Spread of Islam and Dome of the Rock
04:39 Christian Crusades
05:33 Muslim reactions to Zionism
06:11 Israel's War of Independence
06:37 Six-Day War (1967)
07:13 Jewish control of the Temple Mount
07:48 Jewish presence on the Temple Mount
08:02 Conflict surrounding the Temple Mount
08:36 Control and ownership of the site
08:58 Conflict surrounding antiquities
09:44 Erasure of Jewish connection to the site
11:26 Outro

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Image and footage credits:

Andrew Shiva
National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office
Ariely
M.t.lifshits
Daniel Case
creisor
Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Nima Boroumand
Gary Lee Todd

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