Last Friday, 45,000 Muslims ascended Temple Mount in Jerusalem for weekly prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.  Muslim officials later reported that the prayers went off without any incidents. In view of some recent episodes of Palestinians hurling stones on Israelis from the Mount and Israel’s countermeasures, one might think that a massive, peaceful Muslim prayer session would be deemed newsworthy at the Washington Post. Sadly, this is not the case.  Instead, William Booth, the Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief, filed a lengthy article that turns events upside-down – blaming Israel for creating tensions at Al-Aqsa that threaten a serious rift with Jordan, whose monarch is guardian and protector of Al-Aqsa (“Troubles at holy site threaten Israel-Jordan ties” page A6, top of international news section, Nov. 24). Here is Booth’s lead paragraph: Jordan’s king and his people are bristling with anger over Israeli actions at a...(Read Full Post)