Sharing Jerusalem and her Holy sites is one of the most difficult problems in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The intractable problem is that a mosque and a temple cannot occupy the same point in space simultaneously. Who has sovereignity over the Holy places controls the possibility for destroying and rebuilding on the same spot on earth.
A Temple in the Sky: Davnentheque
This proposal responds to the longing of Jews for their Temple, destroyed since Roman times by placing in space a temple-space station in a geosynchronous orbit. This means that for an observer at a fixed location on earth, the space station returns to exactly the same place in the sky at exactly the same time each day. The temple will be located on a vertical axis exactly over the sacred point on earth in latitude and longitude, but about twenty two miles high in space. In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes around another object while under the influence of a central force, such as gravity.
This vertical line corresponds to the Axis Mundi, a sacred axis originating in the center of the Earth and passing through the Temple Mount to infinity. This proposal allows the Jews to rebuild their temple in a manner that permits existing Moslem structures to remain untouched.
A Bridge on the ground:The Mushah-duct (mushah=masses in Arabic) -a new arterial infrastucture for East Jerusalem.
To solve the sovereignity issue and to give free access to the Palestinians to the top of the Temple Mount we propose to build “a bridge” from Abu Dis, the Palestinian administrative/political seat, to the Temple Mount. This bridge ‘solution’ is based on a proposal by Dr. Moshe Amirav (NewYorkTimes 2000).
