CNN tries to get it right, but once again emphasizes the Muslim ties to the Temple Mount and ignore Judaism’s.

JERUSALEM (CNN) — An Israeli-Arab legislator Friday helped negotiate an end to a standoff between Palestinians and police at a disputed Jerusalem holy site.

The Palestinian protesters were upset with an Israeli construction project near Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The area known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary or Haram Al-Sharif to Muslims is sacred to both groups.

No mention that the Temple Mount is the holiest site in all of Judaism. Just a little moral equivalency in the third parargraph: “sacred to both groups.”

This is why the world hates Israel. Because the world media refuses to do what it claims is its job: Telling both sides of the story in an unbiased fashion. I’m seeing a decided tilt towards the Muslim view of the Temple Mount.

The AFP has done the expected and also downplayed the significance and holiness of the Temple Mount to Jews. That’s three for three. Time to check for UPI’s version.

The site, venerated by Muslims as the third holiest site in Islam and by Jews as the location of their ancient temple that was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, is a notorious flashpoint where violence has periodically flared.

And here comes the Muslim Big Lie:

Thousands of Palestinians had attended prayers at the mosque and heard the Jerusalem mufti slam the current Israeli works.

Israel is “Judaizing Jerusalem,” he declared, urging Muslims throughout the world to “protect” occupied east Jerusalem and the mosque esplanade.

Here’s a hint for you, morons: Jerusalem was Jewish long before Mohammed had his fever-dreams in the desert. Three millennia of Jewish history has “Judaized” Jerusalem. (I so hate that word.)

Watch for UN condemnation, upcoming.

The AP joins Reuters in downplaying the holiness of the Temple Mount to the world’s Jews. Find for me, please, the part in the lede that identifies the Temple Mount as either the site of the two Temples, or Judaism’s holiest site. Because I’m not seeing it.

Israeli police stormed the grounds of Islam’s third-holiest shrine Friday, firing stun grenades and tear gas to disperse thousands of Muslim worshippers who hurled stones, bottles and trash in an eruption of outrage over Israeli renovation nearby.

The clash at the end of noon prayers came after days of mounting tensions over the work and raised concern that protests at the site could spread to the West Bank and Gaza, as they did at the start of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. No serious injuries were reported.

About 200 police streamed on to the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, to try to quell Muslims rioting over the repair work on a centuries-old ramp, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Clouds of tear gas rose up at the holy site and stun grenades set off sharp booms. A doctor treating some of the injured, Dr. Khalil el-Baba, said officers fired rubber bullets at protesters, but police denied that.

It takes the AP seventeen more paragraphs to get to this, the third-to-last paragraph in the story.

The compound is venerated by Jews as the site of their biblical temples.

But in the paragraphs immediately before that, they assure us again of how holy the site is to Muslims:

The complex, home to the golden-capped Dome of the Rock shrine and Al Aqsa mosque, is sacred for Muslims, who believe that it is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.

But of course, there is no bias against Israel—or Jews—in the mainstream media. It’s all anti-Muslim, you see.

Watch how Reuters assists the palestinian attempt to remove all signs of Judaism from Jerusalem by ignoring the existence of the Temple Mount.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned a call by his defense minister to consider halting excavations near Jerusalem’s most sacred Islamic shrine that have angered Muslims, an official said on Thursday.

The dig, outside a compound housing the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, has exposed the depth of Arab suspicions over Israeli activities in Arab East Jerusalem and the simmering tensions between Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

Arab states have asked Israel to halt the work at Islam’s third holiest shrine, charging it could damage the mosque’s foundations. Palestinian militants have threatened to end a three-month old Gaza truce with Israel.

Three paragraphs, three references to Islam, Arabs, and their shrines and religion. Not a single word about the fact that the Temple Mount is THE holiest site in Judaism, bar none. This is the most you get, in the fourth paragraph:

Israel said the holy places would not be harmed by what it called an attempt, mandated by law, to salvage artifacts before construction of a pedestrian bridge leading to the complex known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount.

And then, toward the very end of the article, Reuters acknowledges that maybe, just maybe, the site may be of value to Jews:

The compound, where two biblical temples once stood and Muslims believe Mohammad ascended to heaven, is in Arab East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in a step that has not won international recognition.

This is why we call them: Al-Reuters

I don’t buy the new “unity” government. I give it three days, max, before Hamas says they’ll never, ever, ever treat with “the Zionist enemy.”

Rival Palestinian factions signed a power-sharing accord aimed at ending months of bloodshed Thursday, agreeing that the Islamic militant group Hamas would head a new coalition government that would “respect” past peace agreements with Israel.

This is the money quote:

Much of the negotiations centered on a single word. Abbas pressed Hamas to accept the stronger stance of “committing to” past peace accords with Israel signed by the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Liberation Organization. But in the end, he was forced to settle for the promise to “respect” them.

Really. A week on the outside. I think even though the Saudis and Abbas sat Hamas down and told them that all they had to do was pay lip service to the agreement, Hamas is going to shoot itself in the foot again. Their Jew-hatred is so intense that they simply cannot stand to let the world think that there might be a chance for peace with Israel—because Hamas wants to replace Israel with an Islamic state. It’s in their charter.