wanting the Wailing Wall to be Jewish, anyway?

No.

Xenophobia and scapegoating are.

challenge to his throne whether it's ISIS, Wahabi/Suni Muslims, or Al-Quaeda. No way can he expect to maintain the monarchy by being neutral.

But couldn't he do it in a less xenophobic means?

Perhaps by saying since he jumps up and down while singing parts of the Quraan to tunes by Belletti in the shower for at least 25 minutes each day he's single-handedly preventing the rain of pineapple pork chops in Mecca that is the required precursor of the Umdillian invasion task force that can land there and only there?

You know, something that's less hate-inducing and just a bit more grounded in reality? Get them to direct their hatred and paranoia at pork chops and the ever unrepentant Umdillians?

it was never mentioned in the Quran at all.

so we know that Jerusalem was a holy place from the very beginnings of Islam. Muslims initially prayed towards Jerusalem before Muhammad had a vision that said to pray towards Mecca.

of a political holding, it was really a backwater town under the Muslim Caliphs, later on the Sultans of the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires.

The Umayyad dynasty built the dome of the rock, al-Aksa and other structures in the region to improve their standing and weaken the control of the arabian caliphs in the Ummah.