Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
A correction here to this logic. Jerusalem the city is NOT a holy place. There are several locations in the and around the city that are considered holy in some respects to the 3 religions in question, but the city itself is not one major shrine or temple. I saw no reference in the article of the path taking them directly past the Wailing Wall or anything along those lines. Even if it did, I doubt I'd care.

As for the view of this being "provacative", my thoughts are that I disagree. The city does indeed have multiple sites of religion significance to the 3 major monotheistic religions, so what? It sounds like they are making a point to do this in that city to demonstrate solidarity and determination. The whole "this is provacative and they are asking to be attacked" argument sounds awfully close to the "she got raped because she was dressing like that" one.
If you're a young woman wearing a short skirt, there are some neighbourhoods you had better not walk in alone at night. Call me a rape apoligist if you like, but that's a simple fact.
Large parts of Jerusalem are filled with fundamentalists (not only talking about muslims) who won't appreciate such a parade in "their" city, even if they pick their route carefully to steer away from these parts.

I hope the police will take efforts to protect them, 'cause they're going to need it.