PILGRIMS BEING BLOCKED from holy sites was the cause of the Crusades, and we rightly think that whoever ends up owning the Holy Land ought to allow pilgrims in. But the Israelis are not. They are blocking *Jews and Christians* from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, because the Moslems object. See CNSNews.com on August 7. Maybe we should launch a crusade against Israel.

Isn't it interesting that Israel doesn't simply raze the Dome of the Rock and restore the Temple Mount as a Jewish site? There are religious reasons for not doing that--it would embarass rabbinical Judaism considerably to have to deal with the possibility of a new Temple, animal sacrifices, and so forth, just as it would embarass many Christian churches to have to deal with the Return of Christ-- but that kind of thing happens in India every now and then, it seems.

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