Temple Mount On Canadian TV (In June)

To be seen on Canadian television:

Canadian broadcast journalist Martin Himel, based in Israel since the 1980s, has produced an ambitious 13-part Vision TV documentary series on religious faith.

Twist of Faith focuses on how religion shapes current events and how current events affect belief.

and this should be very interesting:

The Temple Mount Controversy, the last in Himel’s series, to be televised on June 1 at 10 p.m., turns on a pivotal holy site in the heart of Jerusalem, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims. Himel claims that, unless they share it, there will never be peace in the region.

If he is right, both sides are doomed to perpetual conflict.

Jews differ on a lot of issues, he observes, but they agree that the Temple Mount, the locale of the ancient temple, is Judaism’s most holy site.

For Muslims, the Noble Sanctuary is associated with the prophet Mohammed’s journey to Jerusalem and two buildings bound up with Islam – the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque.

Judging by Himel’s interviews, Muslim clerics are particularly adamant over the ownership of the site. The mufti of Jerusalem, a perfect example of unreasonableness, rejects Jewish rights to the Temple Mount and adds that if Jews want peace, they should stay away from it.

He and others claim, without the slightest shred of evidence, that Israeli archeological excavations are damaging the foundations of the Noble Sanctuary.

In closing, Himel interviews a group of high-minded Jews and Arabs who believe that the Temple Mount should be shared. But, as he suggests, they are definitely in a minority.

I'm not in it