Chanukah irony

Chanukah Today - Most Likely Politically Incorrect -Daryl Temkin, PhD

[I]f the Maccabees were alive today, they would likely be shocked.

The Temple Mount which they liberated and Israel recaptured almost forty years ago is still off limits to Jews. The Maccabean rekindling of the Menorah on the Temple Mount, if attempted today, would be an inciting act likely considered imperialistic aggression, a breach of International Law, an offense to human rights, and could potentially ignite a most intense intifada. Today, Jews are not allowed to set foot on the Temple Mount without being escorted by an appointed Muslim guard. The guard makes sure that the Jew only stands in a restricted location and makes sure that the Jew does not utter any potential prayer.

As many celebrate Chanukah, known as the holiday commemorating religious freedom, it is astonishing that the very geographic location of the...story is [now a] place of extreme religious intolerance.
[Israel Institute]