On Friday a week ago, three Arab-Israeli gunmen carried out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, shooting dead two Druze Israeli police officers. That those terrorists opened fire from within the Temple Mount compound itself makes this terror attack different from others that have occurred in the Old City in recent months.
How is it that within the space of a few days, the focus of media coverage is no longer on the terror attack itself or the question as to how weapons were able to be brought into the area of the Temple Mount? Instead, Israel is once again on the receiving end of charges that it is seeking to change the delicate status quo on the Temple Mount at the expense of Muslim worshipers.