re: #1 ProLifeLiberal

Not only that, but there is still the issue of 50% of the Israeli Public wanting to put up the Temple and demolish the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa. That poll was last year from Israel National News in 2010.

I *strongly* question the accuracy of that poll.

Half of Israelis aren’t very religious; and even among religious Jews, the idea of rebuilding the Temple lost majority support about 1800 years ago. Even between the First and Second Temple (after return from the Babylonian exile) there was strong disagreement about whether it was a good idea — one of the prophets had vehement arguments with the king over whether it was an insult to a universal god to try to tie him to a geographic location. That argument took place when there wasn’t anything else that would need to be torn down, when there wasn’t an international community to consider, when there weren’t archaeological and architectural reasons to leave it alone.