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November 18, 2008 | 4:13 pm

Palestinian negotiator: Jews have no claim to Temple Mount

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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This is not an uncommon opinion among Palestinian leaders. It’s about politics and rhetoric and deception. And it’s ridiculous. Causes and solutions to the I-P conflict aside, you can’t argue that Jews have no historic connection to Jerusalem or the Temple Mount. Evidence of the Exodus may be thin but not that Jews inhabited Eretz Yisroel for millenia.

The story from the conservative WorldNetDaily, via Solomonia:

JERUSALEM - The Jewish Temples never existed and Israel has been working to “invent” a Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem, the chief Palestinian negotiator asserted.

Ahmed Qurei, the Palestinian Authority official leading all peace talks with the Jewish state, made the controversial statements in a small media briefing Wednesday attended by WND as well as by a Palestinian media outlet and an Arab affairs correspondent for a major Israeli newspaper.

But the Israeli publication decided not to print Qurei’s comments, while the Palestinian publication, the Al-Ayam daily newspaper, made news of the remarks.

Qurei said “Israeli occupation authorities are trying to find a so-called Jewish historical connection” between Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, “but all these attempts will fail. The [Temple Mount] is 100 percent Muslim.”

“The world must be mobilized against all these Israeli attempts to change the symbols and signs of Jerusalem,” he said. “There is nothing Jewish about the Al Aqsa Mosque. There was no so-called Jewish Temple. It’s imaginary. Jerusalem is 100 percent Muslim.”

Continued Qurei: “The Arab world is called to interfere to stop the Israeli plans in Jerusalem, to stop the Israeli attempts to create a Jewish character to Jerusalem and the Al Aqsa mosque. Also to the Old City, which is the first step in the war to defend Jerusalem and Al Aqsa.

“They are competing against time in order to create facts on ground in the surrounding the imaginary Temple,” Qurei added.

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If you ever want to know the truth in Israel, take statements by Arab leaders and turn them upside down, and substitute Jews for Arabs etc.

In Israel, every construction job must be cleared by the Antiquities department. Roads and hotels have unearthed human remanins and artifacts everywhere. The Temple Mount was always considered too sensitive to excavate. No problem for the Arabs, who have brought up tractors and dump trucks to destroy evidence of the Temples. Anguished Jews have been scouring and cataloging rubbish heaps left by the Arabs that include crushed First Temple artifacts. Nobody cares, not even the anti-Jewish secular authorities. Here is one website devoted to this tragedy http://www.har-habayt.org/ and its blog http://templemount.wordpress.com/

Here is a direct reply to the absurd statements above, http://www.ratzer-holyland.com/Articles/Temple.html

But for political reasons, the palce is being de-judaized rather than thr revers, and even the New York Times is startiung to use words like ‘alleged’ and ‘reputed’ and ‘legendary’ when referring to the Jewish Temples. If one wanted to know about this, the MSM is not the plavce to go. Just Google
temple mount excavations destruction
or surf some variant of that, click on ‘Images’ and there is all you may want to know.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/23/08 at 2:30 am

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