@Medievalgirl2
Do you realise that Jews setting foot on the Temple Mount is considered a form of "settler violence"? Let me put that into perspective with a hypothetical: imagine Catholics took over Mecca, built a Cathedral on top of the Kaa'ba and then banned any Muslims from worshipping there. That's basically what happened to Jews.
Temple Mount - setting foot on the Temple Mount (the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque) is not considered a form of settler violence by Jews. Firstly, Jewish visitors are allowed on Temple Mount and into the mosque as tourists. We are simply asked not to pray or hold religious ceremonies on Temple Mount. Haredi rabbis actually forbid praying there because the site has not been consecrated.
Historically what happened is the Romans destroyed the 2nd Temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD and built a stable block on this holy site. They then built a royal/governer’s palace next to it and a temple to Apollo.
Under Constantine, a small church to St Helena was started on Temple Mount but it was never finished and ended up being a rubbish dump.
Later, Islam came about and built a shrine over the rock Mohammad is meant to have ascended from (Dome of the Rock) and converted the temple to Apollo into the first Al Aqsa mosque.
The crusaders in the 11th c. converted the dome of the rock to a Christian church and the Al Aqsa mosque to the Templar HQ and palace for the King of Jerusalem.
When Saladin re-conquered Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa was converted back to a mosque and shrine.
When it was captured in 1967 by Israel, we decided to leave it under Jordanian management because the UN partition sets it aside for the Arab/Palestinian future state. We pray at the western wall, just outside the compound, because that’s all that’s left of the 2nd Temple after Roman destruction followed by Christian, Muslim, Christian and now Muslim building on ruins or conversions.