Eye on the Middle East Nov/Dec 2012

In an attempt to comply with the U.S. State Department, an Israeli Knesset member has proposed legislation to let Christians and Jews pray on the Temple Mount. But the bill has ignited such an outburst of Muslim protest that it has almost no chance of passing. Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib told reporters, “The stars in the sky are closer to us than Israel is from taking a place in the al-Aqsa Mosque