I have to agree with Jeffrey. Islam has a long track record of disrespecting the holy places of the dhimmi, often with the express intention of eradicating any inconvenient history that contradicts the mythology that "the Middle East is Muslim land." It was the land of Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and many other religio-ethnic groups before it was Muslim, and it only became Muslim through aggressive and bloody conquest. The blowing up of the Buddhist statues, the destruction of the interior of the Temple Mount by Arafat's WAQF, and the destruction of Joseph's tomb, the countless churches turned into mosques, the blatant rewriting of history under the guise of "scholarship," is Stalinist, to be precise. It is no different from airbrushing inconvenient people out of photographs. That is the deeper war of which Israel is on the front line, and that should never be forgotten. My problem with the Palestinian State is not with Arabs naming themselves "Palestinians," or wanting their own country, or it being on the heartland of Jewish history, or them calling it "Palestine." What I object to is how lightly Jews and leftists treat this war of facts, and how easily we give history away, and expect to keep our souls. The Arabs know exactly what they are doing. They know there was a Jewish temple under Al Aqsa Mosque. They delierately chipped all the stars of David off an ancient building (I remember reading this story, and I just tried googling it and can't find a reference, so I forget which building it was). If you tell the Big Lie often and long enough, it will replace the truth. I don't have an existential problem with Palestine being on Jewish land. (I have a practical problem with its current manifestation.) But I object to the formulation that "Israel is stealing Palestinian land." That is the Big Lie, and I even know rabbinical students who will tell it, in the belief that they are promoting social justice by doing so.