2 posts tagged “archaeology”
Well it looks like the Waqf attempt to destroy any historical remains of the Jewish Temple underneath the Temple Mount has been foiled by the discovery of some remains of the First Temple built by Solomon son of David. Muslims historians have been spreading the lie that the Jewish Temple never existed to prop up their myth that Mohammed took off from a winged horse into the heavens on the site of the Temple Mount. Hello! Old Mo died before Mohammedans conquered Byzantine Christians at Jerusalem giving them the usual Mohammedan choice: Convert, become a person possessing no rights in remaining a Christian or die.
JRH 3/14/08
The Western World pressures Israel because they also fear rioting and oil deprivation pressure. And they what? France and Britain without any help from America could push local rioters back to the land of their ancestors and blow up the impotent military infrastructures of the Middle East.
Sounds harsh huh?
I can’t help it. The more I think about the Temple Mount, how Mohammedans treat Jews and Christians, the absurdity of the Danish Cartoons (originally published in Cairo) and on and on; my blood begins to boil. When I think of the Westerners that capitulate to these impotent foreigners, I need to reach for an extra dose of high blood pressure pills.
WAKE UP! KNOW THYSELF!
JRH
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Temple Tantrums:
by David Parsons
Israel has suspended plans for a footbridge from the Western Wall plaza to the Mughrabi Gate entrance into the Temple Mount after preliminary archeological digs in the sensitive area sparked Arab riots in the Old City and Muslim protests worldwide in recent weeks. The pretext for the violence is an 80-year-old Palestinian claim that the Western Wall is actually the Muslim holy site al-Buraq – named after the horse in Muhammad’s mythical ‘Night Journey’ to Jerusalem.
The footbridge was to replace a wooden ramp built on an embankment of fill material collapsing from heavy rains and earth tremors in recent years. The endangered ramp leads to the Mughrabi Gate, the only access for non-Muslims entering the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
The project first required archeological excavations to identify any antiquities beneath the proposed bridge, an area rich with layers from the Second Temple, Byzantine and early Islamic periods. Once excavated, the bridge pilings were to be anchored in such a way as to preserve any antiquities found.
Israeli authorities had quietly vetted and approved the project, even receiving a nod from the Jordanian-controlled Waqf (Islamic trust) that oversees the Muslim sites on the Temple Mount. But when the digs began in early February, hysterical Muslim leaders incited riots in Jerusalem after Friday prayers, charging that the work endangered al-Aqsa – the gray-domed mosque on the south end of the Temple Mount
Israeli officials issued reassurances that the excavations were safely beyond the al-Aqsa compound. But Palestinian leaders countered that the Western Wall is “occupied territory,” as well as an exclusively Islamic holy site known as the “al-Buraq Wall.”Sheikh Raed Salah, the militant head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, urged Arabs to launch a ...
