The Temple Mount is Mine (Part 1 of 2)
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Social Studies
- Produced By: Willy Lindwer
- Year: 2002
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Running Time: 52m
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In this two-part series, International Emmy Award winning filmmaker Willy Lindwer attempts to decipher the mystical attraction of this site for the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - an attraction that has made this site, in the words of TIME magazine, "potentially the most volatile 35 acres on earth." Generally regarded as one of the world's most sacred spots, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is also the world's bloodiest and most controversial site over which battles have been fought for thousands of years. While the Israelites, Babylonians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans, British, Israelis, and Palestinians have all clashed over this 'hot spot', its ownership is still being contested.