You Call Jerusalem Holy—Then Fire Missiles at It?

The Quran Doesn’t Mention Jerusalem, or the Palestinians — Not Even Once.

Mar 26, 2025

They pray with their behinds facing the remains of the Jewish Temple—over which they deliberately built the Dome of the Rock.

Those Islamist jihadists claim that Jerusalem is holy to them. They share a common goal: the so-called “liberation of Al-Aqsa from Israel,” as they fantasize.

“Freeing Al-Aqsa,” as they put it—and actively work toward—is, in practice, the expulsion of Israel from Jerusalem’s Old City, where Al-Aqsa was built over the ruins of the ancient Jewish Beit HaMikdash (the Jewish Temple).

Don’t you just love how mosques are conveniently built atop other religions’ holy sites as a form of “inspired” religious colonialism?

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people—its heart and its soul. And in the jihadists’ twisted worldview, it holds the key to Israel’s destruction.

So, it’s a symbol, you see?
Beit al-Maqdis (the Temple Mount) was built by Solomon, son of the renowned Jewish King David.

In the attached image, you can see an illustration of the location of the Jewish Temple—its layout marked in different colors—and what was built on its remains.

This is a model of the Second Jewish Temple, presented at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. We, Jews, are not allowed to pray at the holiest place for us—in our own country, in our own capital—on the very site where our Temple once stood. Unfair and absurd, right? But it is what it is.

On that note—“dear” Palestinians, you were invented in 1964. Prior to that, there was never a “Palestinian people,” never a Palestinian state, and therefore, no capital for a state that never existed—not in Jerusalem, and not anywhere else on earth.

Please, remind me: is Mecca the capital of Saudi Arabia?
No. It’s NOT.

Just an observation, since you claim Jerusalem is holy to Islam—and that, for this reason, it should be the capital of your imaginary Narnia-state of “Palestine.”
That’s a ridiculous claim.

Even Jordan, which controlled East Jerusalem until 1967, never declared it its capital.
Instead, it set its capital in Amman.

Just a Quick Question for the Islamists

If Jerusalem is so holy to you, as you claim… why do you keep firing missiles at it?
Why would you launch rockets at what you consider your holy city?

“Al-Aqsa Flood,” you say.
But is that a flood of rockets you’re firing at Al-Aqsa itself?

We Jews are the ones protecting your so-called “holy sites”—and the Muslims who pray there—by intercepting your missiles, launched by you, right above their heads.

Watch the attached video: Jews protecting Muslims praying in “Al-Aqsa” from Muslims trying to kill them with rockets fired at Jerusalem.

Listen to the alarms calling those who pray to evacuate to safety.

Holy for them, right?

That’s why the word “Jerusalem” doesn’t appear in the Quran—not even once.
Nor do the Palestinians.

Jews are mentioned in every religious book of the three major monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Not only mentioned, but recognized as the rightful owners of the land of Israel.
The Palestinians are not mentioned at all—understandable, considering they were only recently invented.

Even in the Quran, not only are the Palestinians never mentioned, but the “sons of Israel” (Bani Isra'il) are referenced many times as the rightful owners to the land of Israel. Here’s just one quote from the Quran affirming that - one out of many:

وَأَوْرَثْنَا الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا ۖ وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ الْحُسْنَىٰ عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا ۖ وَدَمَّرْنَا مَا كَانَ يَصْنَعُ فِرْعَوْنُ وَقَوْمُهُ وَمَا كَانُوا يَعْرِشُونَ

If you believe in the holiness of the Quran, you should also believe what it says regarding the right of the Jewish people to their land—and to their eternal capital, Jerusalem.

***Al-Aqsa is indeed mentioned in the Quran, but not in the context of Jerusalem. Many Islamic scholars argue that the Al-Aqsa Mosque—where Muhammad is said to have carried out his famous "Night Journey"—is actually located in the town of Al-Ji'rana in Saudi Arabia, and has no connection whatsoever to Jerusalem.

Jews came from Judea, that's why we're called “Jews”

Judea was a Jewish kingdom that came into being more than 2500 years ago, and its capital was JERUSALEM (which is Israel’s capital city even today and the holiest place in the world for Jews. You should come visit!).

So where did the name “Israel” come from exactly?

Israel is the formal Hebrew name for Jacob, who appears in the Bible; after he wrestled the Angel of God, (Genesis 32:28), he was renamed “Israel” which literally means “wrestles with God” in Hebrew. And we, as a people, are named for him.

That's religious evidence.

The Palestinian “history” began when the State of Israel was established, and they, Arab tribes, became its antithesis.

Look at Israel intercepting the missiles being fired at Al-Aqsa.

Israel is protecting freedom of religion and the right to worship for all faiths—including Islam.

Meanwhile, those Islamists launching rockets (among other vile terror operations) are trying to impose their radicalism on the entire world, abusing “God,” Allah, to justify and advance their devilish cause.

Israel is a shield for freedom, while Islamist jihadists—and their supporters around the world—are weaponizing that very freedom to destroy it.

No place is truly “holy” to the Islamists.
Nothing is holier than killing “the other.”
And who is “the other”?
It’s easier to ask:

Who isn’t?

In the picture, that’s me looking at Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount)—the very place where the Dome of the Rock was built directly on top of the ancient Jewish Temple.
It is always incredibly special to visit the holiest place for Jews in the entire world — our beloved Jerusalem.

I’ll be sharing my personal story soon, so you can truly understand the deep connection I have with our eternal capital, Jerusalem. 😊

"Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light. Behold, I am a violin for all your songs."

— Naomi Shemer, Jerusalem of Gold

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Tzlil Berko is an experienced security consultant and entrepreneur. She is also an avid writer of poetry, song lyrics, short stories, scripts, & more. Tzlil has played a major role in conceiving and writing with her parents, Drs. Anat & Reuven Berko, a TV psychological thriller and family melodrama drawing on Dr. Anat Berko's books and the family's remarkable personal story. She is currently completing her thesis on the potential relationship and influence between terrorism and the Metaverse.