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.