At a blog news conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation, One Jerusalem's Chairman Natan Sharansky announced the launch of a petition drive (directed at Prime Minister Olmert and President Bush) to stop the Muslim religious authority (Waqf) in Jerusalem from continuing to destroy irreplaceable artifacts from King Solomon's Temple and Christian Churches from antiquity.

Sharansky told the bloggers that the Waqf is turning the Temple Mount into a mosque to make it off limits to non-Muslims.

Sharansky also made a powerful case for supporting democratic forces in Iran (See Power Line). He voiced his opposition to providing nuclear technology to the despotic regime in Tehran. Read his remarks at Hugh Hewitt and Gateway Pundit.

Please pass petition around to your address book. You have the power to help save Jewish and christian heritage that is being destroyed.