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JERUSALEM \u2014 Glimmering over Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex\u2019s ancient golden dome exudes a serenity that stands in stark contrast to an earthly tug-of-war over who should worship at the holy site.<\/p>\n

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A flashpoint for violence in recent decades, a once-fringe movement that is seeking to end the compound\u2019s Islamic governance, allow non-Muslims to pray there and even one day build a new Jewish temple on the site is gaining traction within the Israeli government and also among some American evangelical Christians. <\/p>\n

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The Temple Mount movement \u2014 a loose coalition of Israeli religious and nationalist organizations \u2014 harbors a potentially explosive mix of prophecy and politics that aims to upend some 1,300 years of Muslim control over the third-holiest site in Islam and the holiest one for Jews. <\/p>\n

\u201cMuslims are allowed to sing, unfortunately tourists are not yet allowed to sing,\u201d U.S.-born rabbi Yehudah Glick and one of the movement\u2019s leaders, told NBC News as he led a tour of some 20 people around the compound last month. \u201cOne of our major battles is to change that situation and to be allowed to sing and pray on the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the tour, Glick quoted from holy texts including the Bible\u2019s Book of Zechariah, which prophesies God\u2019s return to Jerusalem. He also asked his party to envision the first and second Jewish temples that once stood here, as described in ancient Hebrew texts.<\/p>\n

Among those in his group were evangelical Christians, some of whom are drawn by the belief that God promised the land of Israel to the Jews, who would rule it until the return of Jesus to Jerusalem for the rapture and to lead their ascent to Heaven.<\/p>\n

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Cydney Galbraith, a designer from Canada who was on Glick\u2019s tour, said she believed divine intervention would force Muslims out of the complex.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the Lord is going to do something so unusual that our minds can\u2019t conceive,\u201d said Galbraith, who describes herself as a Christian Zionist. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to watch him push them out. He\u2019s going to totally drive them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Glick advocates for a future temple that is a \u201chouse of prayer for all nations\u201d and not exclusively Jewish, Christian or Muslim.<\/p>\n

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Even the idea that the compound could become a shared space belies the political reality of modern Israel, according to Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher with the Israeli rights group Ir Amim, which documents conflict in Jerusalem and advocates for all of the city\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n

Pointing to the fact that most Palestinians live under occupation and the people of east Jerusalem are effectively denied political representation, he said the idea of sharing the compound \u201cis very twisted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAny place that Jewish settlers, Israeli settlers, and the Israeli government put their eyes on, the thing is to expel Palestinians from it,\u201d he said, referring to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and evictions of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem. <\/strong>\u201cTo think that in the most holiest place, most contested place, things will be different is very naive.\u201d <\/p>\n

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