The Palestinians are not angry because Jews prayed. They are angry because the camera refused to lie about whose mountain it is. Last night, @itamarbengvir and tens of thousands of Jews filled the Western Wall plaza for Selichot, the same stone retaining wall that held up the Temple compound more than a thousand years before Muhammad was born and more than a thousand years before anyone poured the first foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. That wall is not a polite neighbor of the mosque. It is what is left of the Jewish Temple Mount. The plaza is not “too close.” It is the foot of the site. That is the line that never appears in the Telegram and Twitter meltdowns. They will tell you the scandal is that Jews dared to gather in the thousands near Al-Aqsa. They will not tell you that Jewish prayer at that mountain predates the mosque, predates Islam, and predates the entire political story they built on top of it. The history did not start in 1967, and it did not start in 638. It started with a Temple 3000 years ago. Everything else arrived later and then demanded exclusive title.

1/ 🧵🧵🧵 The West has spent three years shouting “but the children” at Israel, as if the only children in this war were the ones Hamas and Hezbollah put in front of a camera. In a long list of Islamic war zones the child is not the reason the fighting stops. The child is inventory. He is a soldier, a miner, a suicide belt, a stretcher extra, and sometimes a pregnancy undertaken so there will be another martyr to celebrate. That is not simply a metaphor. It is a recruiting model that has been running for decades.