Apostate prophet cant find political motives; change of Qibla to appease a people?

In answer to the video "The Truth About The Kaaba"

The Quran then clarifies how this first qibla change, that occured in Mecca, away from the Kaaba to Jerusalem was extremely difficult, for the Kaaba was the very symbol of the Abrahamic religion that Muhammad was sent to revive. Muhammad was supposed to be the answer to Ibrahim and his son's prayers centuries ago as they raised the Kaaba, praying God to send a prophet from among the inhabitants of the land, to purify them and dedicate them to God 2:129,62:2. The descendants of Ibrahim and Ismail, Arab Muslims and pagans alike, held the Kaaba in great veneration. This exposed the prophet to more opposition and those who rejected him would argue that he claims to revive the way of Ibrahim through his spiritual claim over the Kaaba, but is now telling his followers to face Jerusalem. The verse 2:143 refers to that incident

"And we did not make the direction of facing/Qibla that you were on, except to know who follows the footsteps of the messenger from who turns upside down on the back of his feet. And it was burdensome except on those that God gifted guidance".

The verse speaks of how this first Qibla change, away from the Kaaba, to Jerusalem was very burdensome to many early followers who started harboring doubts. What history later showed and what the Muslims at the time couldnt have known, was that through this divine command, the Kaaba was being prepared to fulfill its universal role, to be freed from its ancient, immemorial tribal confinement to the Arabs. Islam, and more precisely the ummatan wasatan, the balanced nation as the Quran calls its adherents 2:143, should be above customs, traditions and cultures. The Arabians who became Muslims had to purge their minds of these barriers which the Quran repeatedly brings down.

This transfer of the qibla from Mecca to al-Quds was a denationalization test for the Muslims, to show that they could make the transition from culture to covenant, from tradition to taqwa or God-consciousness. They had to shed their “national” pride by abandoning Mecca and embracing al-Quds. All the history and folklore associated with Mecca in the pre-Islamic Arabian mind and conscience had to be left behind.

But the prophet proceeded with that burdensome order while subtely keeping sight of the Kaaba, to the pagans' dislike and to the believers' relief, by facing the southern wall of the Kaaba towards the north, so as to face both the Kaaba and Jerusalem during prayer BukhariV6,B60,N16 & Tafsir Ibn Kathir

"In Makkah, the Messenger of Allah used to pray in the direction of Bayt Al-Maqdis, while the Ka`bah was between him and the Qiblah. When the Messenger migrated to Madinah, he faced Bayt Al-Maqdis for sixteen or seventeen months, and then Allah directed him to face Al-Ka`bah in prayer".

After his migration to Medina, the prophet had no choice but to pray exclusively towards Jerusalem as previously ordained in Mecca. The sacred area of the Farthest Masjid

17:1"whose precincts We did bless"

where the Temple of Solomon once stood and his people prostrated to God. Very devout Jews even considered the Temple as the only place fit for a complete prostration. The Jews performed rituals and prayers, including prostrations in that area even before the Temple was built 1Sam1. It was a blessed and sacred area, a terminology always associated with the land given to Abraham and those that followed him among the Israelites, including Solomon 5:21,7:137,21:71,81. This is why the Muslims were told to prostrate in that direction, regardless of whether a temple stood there or not.