Never The Twain ....

"Muhammad is a pig."
"I felt like it would be an embarrassment not to say anything, a reflection not just on us, but on Israel We have a right to be there."
"This is the only place in the world where Jews cannot pray. Arabs can wave [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] and Hamas flags, and we cannot pray or wave Israeli flags, and the world does nothing."
"There's no good solution. You can't share it [Jerusalem sacred site of Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary] There's no partition. It wouldn't work. There is no point in trying."
Aviya Morris, West Bank settlement, Shiloh

David Vaaknin for The Washington Post    Aviya Morris, left, Raphael Morris and their child Liberty Zion in Merav, a religious Kibbutz located on Mount Avinadav. Aviya is a member of a group of activists calling themselves Students for the Temple Mount.

The 20-year-old mother of one child left her settlement home for a visit to Jerusalem's Old City to see the Temple Mount, and pray at the Wailing Wall, the ancient remnant of the Second Temple of Solomon. She ascended the Mount where, built over the ruins of the Temple representing the holiest site in Judaism, sits the Islamic Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque. That area, which Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary representing the spot from which Mohammed is said to have ascended on his steed to Paradise, represents the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina.

Video Still: Israeli riot police attempt to establish order from rioting Muslims protesting Jewish presence on the Compound

In Islam, any geography once sanctified to Islam, cannot be countenanced as reverting to its original state. In this case, Muslims refuse to recognize that Israel's most sacred site in Judaic tradition is a reality, to assume so is heretical and an abuse of Islamic tradition, not to be tolerated. There is much that Islam does not tolerate. Israel and Jews, on the other hand, are expected to be tolerant of the fact that Muslims will not permit Jews to pray, to laugh, to utter words taken as prayer, at their own most sacred site.

Before the 1967 war between Israel and the invading Arab armies, the site was administered by Jordan. And under the administration of Jordan, Christians and Jews were restricted from accessing their sacred sites. After the war which Israel won, enabling it to capture from Jordan the Old City with its sacred places of worship, access was open to everyone. But as a conciliatory effort toward peace, Israel agreed to permit Jordan, through the Islamic Waqf authority, to administer the dual site.

Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images   Jewish settlers accompanied by Israeli security guards visit the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site which is also sacred to the Jews and known to them as Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 28, 2015.

It was agreed that Jews would be prohibited from praying on the Temple Mount but permitted to pray below, at the Wailing Wall. Jews were permitted to visit the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary, but only under specific conditions, and never to pray, to sing, or to express in any manner their religious devotion. This restriction has been enforced by Israeli police to keep the peace, tenuous as it is. Islam denies the historical Biblical existence of the Temple of Solomon, although there exists more than ample archaeological evidence to augment Biblical accounts.

Resistance by Islamic clerics and Arab Palestinians to any Jewish presence at the sites has grown, and it has grown with violence The latest tactic was to have Muslim women police the area informally  to halt any Jews from presuming to pray or to sing there, their presence seen to be defiling the al-Aqsa mosque. When Aviya Morris was there on the walled compound she was hounded by veiled Muslim women who shouted at her "Allahu akbar" [God is great], and "death to the Jews".

That provocation, she explained, led her to retort: "Muhammad is a pig". Doing so could mean her death; in certain quarters in the Arab Palestinian world, there have been calls for her death. Israeli authorities have cautioned her to stay clear of the Old City for awhile, until things calm down. As matters stand, Israel and its authorities have been anguished over the violence that has occurred at the hands of some Jewish settlers who have clashed with police, and are felt to have been behind the recent fire-bombing of a home in a West Bank town claiming the lives of an infant and his father.

Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images    Muslim women shout slogans as Jewish settlers accompanied by Israeli security guards visit the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site which is also sacred to the Jews and known to them as Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 28, 2015.

Palestinian female guardians follow Jewish visitors and their police escorts for the purpose of ensuring that Jews do not pray in the proximity of the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque. They spit venomous hatred at the presence of Jews -- in a Jewish nation, at the site of the most venerated Judaic site -- where the two religions' sacred places intersect; the original temple overbuilt by a later religion claiming to represent God's finished version of monotheism, a deliberate act of obliteration long practised by Islam.

Aviya Morris belongs to a group calling themselves Students for the Temple Mount, which believes that Jews have a right to pray where their own spiritual origins are located, in their own country, dedicated to their welfare and security. They feel that Israel should be ruled by Torah law, and the third Temple should be rebuilt They want equal rights to pray. They do not advocate for destruction of the mosque.

Whereas Palestinian wardens claim their mission protests against Jewish visitors, fearing Jews plan to return to worship en masse there, and plan to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build a third temple over its ruins. Palestinian media play up those fears, claiming Jews who arrive at the sanctuary are "raiding" or "laying siege" to the compound, not visiting as they are permitted to do. Palestinian social media sites air the video of Aviya Morris's insult to Mohammad, calling for her death.

The Torah, she says in an interview, is replete with "exact guidelines" for the architecture of the Third Temple. "It it were up to us we'd rebuilt it now", she states "That's our solution."