It is only the ongoing political issues which doesn't .... help matters. Look what happened when Ariel Sharon visited Haram al-Sharif :shrug:
You mean the pre-planned effort by the PA to use that as a justification for laucnhing a pre-planned terrorist war targeting Israel's civilian population, which took days of follow up incitement by the PA, including the pallywood mohhamed al-dura incident, to put into practice?
And look what happened when Netanyahu opened a tunnel that wasn't even remotely connected to the temple mount and could not have had any impact on the temple mount, right? Due to exactly the same incitement and an effort to mobilize violence for political purposes, the PA caused riots which killed, what, a hundred people?
At some point the Palestinians, and their supproters, will need to stop blaming others for every bad thing that happens. the start of the Oslo war was not spontaneous and was not triggered by the Sharon visit. That was a pre-text to implement a pre-planned strategy by the PA leadership.
It is not only Jews and Christians who are limited. So are Muslims, many times Israel prevents them from visiting as well not to mention Muslims worldwide are banned from going to Israel to visit Jerusalem
yes, because of threats of violence, which are often borne out. There is a MAJOR difference.
See, unlike pretty much everyone in the Muslim world, the Jews have this pesky trait of not being indifferent (let alone joyful) at the murder of other Jews by Islamic fanatics or PA suicide-murder automatons. And so they do wholly unreasonable things like trying to actually prevent other Jews from being murdered.
I get that this "causes" grievances, but c'est la vie.
Oh, and the last bit is not true. Muslims worldwide are not banned from visiting Jerusalem. That would be people with passports from enemy states formally at war with Israel, as well as anyone else who follows the recommendation of various "leaderships" that tell them visiting Jerusalem is aiding the enemy.
oh, and those who want to blow things up.