Reply To: Har HaBayis Revisited

Let me see if I understand this discussion:

1. does ascension to HHB actually provoke Arab violence, or is it just a convenient excuse for Mr. Abu Mazzen to call for terror attacks. in which case he has no shortage of convenient excuses?

2. does cessation of ascension to HHB cause even more Arab terror, by a. emboldening the Arabs in the notion that Al Kuds is theirs and b. allowing the Arabs a greater foothold in a strategic area, from which they can launch greater attacks in the near future (like in Gaza, where it took them a few years before they eventually began to shoot rockets and dig tunnels)

Can anyone prove any of these two points, using actual facts, and not just “EVERYONE knows” or “Rabbi A is greater than Rabbi B”?