Didn Israel cut that tunnel, in 1996, right under some Islamic holy site, causing riots and bloodshed?
• The Israelis, of course, did not build a tunnel (in September 1996); they opened a new exit to an existing tunnel, parts of which were more than two thousand years old. Other, modern sections of the tourist tunnel had been open for more than a decade. The Israelis did not build under any structure; the tunnel runs along the outer, Western wall of the Temple Mount. The opening of the new door had no impact whatsoever on any structures and was, moreover, several blocks away from Muslim shrines, none of which suffered the slightest effects from Israel’s action. The Israelis did not harm any sites holy to Arabs. In claiming they had, one repeats a false charge that had violent consequences when it was used by Palestinian Authority and Islamic officials to incite Arab anger during the 1996 crisis. The number of Arabs killed in the subsequent rioting is put variously at 58 to 70, and the number of Israelis killed at 15.
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