TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH:

US politician hopes to speed building of third temple (Jerusalem Post)
By YAAKOV KATZ

Orly Benny-Davis has come a long way from her youth in Ramat Gan. Today a well-known US political activist, Benny-Davis ran for the senate last year in her home state of South Carolina. On Monday night, she was in Jerusalem to attend the 11th annual Temple Mount dinner and to help speed up the construction of the third temple.

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How will the temple be rebuilt while the Muslim mosques are currently standing?

"No one knows how the temple will be built," he [Rabbi Menahem Makover] said. "But that is not the main issue. What we are here to do is to inform people of the importance of the temple and to show them it is not a theoretical idea but is real and alive."

Not everyone agrees with Makover that the way to rebuild the temple is not known.

"Maybe there will be a tsunami-like disaster similar to the one in Southeast Asia which killed hundreds of thousands of people," said Baruch Ben-Yosef, a member of the Temple Mount Faithful.

Now that is macabre. All I can say is that I hope he's not being quoted accurately.

"The mosques will be moved to Mecca where they should be, and we will climb the Mount to build an altar and conduct sacrifices."

I'm not impressed with the plan so far.