May 5, 2006

Jerusalem Through Jaundiced Eyes

By HAIM WATZMAN

Three disgruntled undergraduates sit in the cool shade of a stone-paved tunnel that links the Muslim and Jewish quarters of Jerusalem's Old City. Along with 17 other Muslim and Jewish students from Wesleyan University, they've just descended from the holy site where the Jewish Temple once stood, and where al-Aqsa Mosque now stands. The issue of who should control the Temple Mount (its Jewish name) or al-Haram al-Sharif (its Muslim name) is one of the most contentious issues between Muslims

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