"In September of 1928, a group of Jewish residents of Jerusalem placed a bench
in front of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, for the comfort of
elderly worshipers. They also brought with them a wooden partition, to
separate the sexes during prayer. Jerusalem’s Muslim leaders treated the
introduction of furniture into the alleyway in front of the Wall as a
provocation, part of a Jewish conspiracy to slowly take control of the
entire Temple Mount.Many of the leaders of Palestine’s Muslims believed—or claimed to believe—that Jews had manufactured a set of historical and theological connections to the Western Wall and to the Mount, the site of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, in order to advance the Zionist project. This belief defied Muslim history—the Dome of the Rock was built by Jerusalem’s Arab conquerors on the site of the Second Jewish Temple in order to venerate its memory
(the site had previously been defiled by Jerusalem’s Christian rulers
as a kind of rebuke to Judaism, the despised mother religion of
Christianity). Jews themselves consider the Mount itself to be the
holiest site in their faith. The Western Wall, a large retaining wall
from the Second Temple period, is sacred only by proxy.The spiritual leader of Palestine’s Muslims, the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, incited Arabs in Palestine against their Jewish neighbors by arguing that Islam itself was under threat. (Husseini would later become one of Hitler’s
most important Muslim allies.) Jews in British-occupied Palestine
responded to Muslim invective by demanding more access to the Wall,
sometimes holding demonstrations at the holy site. By the next year, violence
directed against Jews by their neighbors had become more common: Arab
rioters took the lives of 133 Jews that summer; British forces killed
116 Arabs in their attempt to subdue the riots. In Hebron, a devastating pogrom was launched against the city’s ancient Jewish community after Muslim officials distributed fabricated photographs of a damaged Dome of the Rock, and spread the rumor that Jews had attacked the shrine.The current “stabbing Intifada” now taking place in Israel—a quasi-uprising in which young Palestinians have been trying, and occasionally succeeding, to kill Jews with knives—is prompted in good part by the same set of manipulated emotions that sparked the anti-Jewish riots of the 1920s: a deeply felt desire on the part of Palestinians to “protect” the Temple Mount from Jews."
For the rest of this article see;
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/the-roots-of-the-palestinian-uprising-against-israel/410944/?utm_source=nl__link6_101615
The concluding paragraph:
"The violence of the past two weeks, encouraged by purveyors of rumors who now have both Israeli and Palestinian blood on their hands, is rooted not in Israeli settlement policy, but in a worldview that dismisses the national and religious rights of Jews. There will not be peace between Israelis and Palestinians so long as parties on both sides of the conflict continue to deny the national and religious rights of the other."
And here are reasons it is difficult to move towards peace:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-new-terror-war-palestinians-deny-even-best-documented-attacks-on-jews/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-mufti-denies-temple-mount-ever-housed-jewish-shrine/
