The Biden administration declined to defend Israel at a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday called to rebuke Israel for allowing a Jewish minister to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
The site, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is where Jews believe the Holy Temple stood before it was destroyed by the Babylonians and by the Romans. Jews around the world face the site in daily prayers.
Israel conquered the entire Old City in a defensive war against Jordan during the Six Day War in 1967, when Jordan — despite Israeli please — joined Egypt and Syria in battle. In an effort to respect Islamic sentiments, Israel allowed Muslim religious authorities to continue to run the Temple Mount and to restrict Jews’ access to the site .
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of a right-wing religious nationalist party and the country’s new minister of police, promised to visit the Temple Mount as a statement that Jews were equally entitled to access their holiest site. They were able to provoke a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, where Israel’s ambassador, Gilad Erdan,the absurdity of holding an emergency meeting about a Jew visiting the center of Judaism:
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