“All of us are scared that there will be a religious war, that extremists from both sides will start fighting each other.”
Source/Credit: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By William Booth and Ruth Eglash
Posted: November 20, 2014
Clerics in prayer after killings at synagogue
Israelis and Palestinians expressed fear Wednesday that their decades-old conflict was moving beyond the traditional nationalist struggle between two peoples fighting for their homelands and spiraling into a raw and far-reaching religious confrontation between Jews and Muslims.
The threat -- perhaps more accurately, the dread -- of an incipient but deadly “religious war” was expressed by Muslim clerics, Christian leaders and Jewish Israelis one day after a pair of Palestinian assailants wielding meat cleavers and a gun killed five Israelis, including a prominent American-Israeli rabbi in a Jerusalem synagogue.
“All of us are scared that there will be a religious war, that extremists from both sides will start fighting each other,” said Oded Wiener, an Israeli Jew from the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land.
For weeks, Jerusalem has been a center of clashes, protests and deadly attacks that began over one of the city’s major flash points -- a contested religious site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Jewish activists have been pressing the Israeli government to insist that Jews be allowed to pray on the raised esplanade, which also harbors the Al Aqsa mosque, the third-most-holy site in Islam.
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