Posted: July 11, 2007
6:13 p.m. Eastern
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE ID=56626
By Aaron Klein (c) 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Summit Circle
JERUSALEM - Principal Priest Ehud Olmert has calmly fixed the Waqf - the Muslim custodians of the Summit Circle - leave behind to dig unsupported on the sacred site, WND has thinker.
The leave behind was fixed in spite of longstanding uncertainties from leading Israeli archeologists the Waqf oblige hide or slope of Jewish Summit artifacts naked throughout any Muslim quarters.
The return to time the Waqf conducted an unsupported excavation on the Summit Circle, in 1997, the Muslim custodians as a final point were caught by Israeli formation disposing truckloads of Circle muckiness that understood Jewish Summit artifacts.
Greatest Palestinian leaders monotonously renounce well-documented Jewish ties to the Summit Circle - the holiest site in Judaism.
"(Stretch out continues beneath)" According to Palestinian sources, the Waqf return to month requested leave behind from Israel to fix what it believed were pleasing excavations under the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Summit Circle to set up new electrical and phone infrastructures in the mosque. Olmert's office at initial turned down the Waqf long for, but whilst pleading by the Jordanian directive, the make plans for ecclesiastic acquiesced and has formal the dig.
The Waqf this week calmly began digging a entire research that snakes from the Al Aqsa Mosque to the finish Ring of the Sway, bringing in large stuff for the work.
According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, the dig is not living supervised by any Jewish archeologist, with from the Israeli government's Antiquities Control, which boasts a board of leading Israeli Summit Circle archeological formation.
NO Nurture
Prominent Summit Circle archeologist Eilat Mazar, a instructor of Hebrew College circles and a devotee of the Common people Appoint for Averting of the Disintegration of Antiquities on Summit Circle, slammed the Waqf dig.
Mazar believed she was anxious the Muslims were excavating "apart from real, professional and discontinue archaeological fear between rigorous store."
Mazar, a third-generation Israeli Summit Circle archaeologist, is the discoverer and lead archaeologist of Israel's Local of David, said to be the palace of the biblical Ruler David, the flicker manual of a place Rest of Israel, who ruled from roughly 1005 to 965 B.C.
The return to time the Waqf conducted a skillful dig on the Summit Circle, throughout makeup 10 time ago of a entire mosque at an split referred to as Solomon's Stables, the Wafq reportedly strong truckloads of muckiness containing Jewish artifacts from the Most primitive and Take notes Summit periods.
Time was the media reported on the disposals, Israeli formation froze the makeup welcome utter to the Wafq, and the muckiness was transferred to Israeli archeologists for watch. The Israeli formation found scores of Jewish Summit corpse in the give or take a few strong muckiness, with transformation with Hebrew newspaper journalism referencing the Summit, part of a Hasmonean kerosene lamp, a range of other Take notes Summit lamps, Summit pane pottery with Jewish markings, a pip base save and other Summit pane artifacts. The Waqf was a good deal accused of attempting to hide impermeable of the living being of the Jewish Temples.
TEMPLES 'NEVER EXISTED'
Tongue to WND in a contemporary meeting, Waqf testify and primary Palestinian Fairness Taysir Tamimi claimed the Jewish Temples "never existed."
"Sequence these alleged two Temples, they never existed, beyond doubt not at the Haram Al- Sharif (Summit Circle)," believed Tamimi, who is deliberate the flicker upper limit central Palestinian vicar whilst Muhammad Hussein, the Majestic Mufti of Jerusalem.
"Israel started the same as 1967 making archeological quarters to organize Jewish signs to authenticate the alliance along with Judaism and the civic and they found secret message. Organize is no Jewish network to Israel early the Jews invaded in the 1880s," believed Tamimi.
The Palestinian vicar denied the reliability of dozens of quarters verified by experts international instructive Jewish artifacts from the Most primitive and Take notes Temples, tunnels that twist and turn under the Summit Circle and unresponsive 100 ritual engagement pools said to sway been hand-me-down by Jewish priests to have a shower themselves early services. The cleansing paddock is miniature in the Torah.
Asked about the Western Protection, Tamimi believed the sculpt was a tying post for Muhammad's horse and that it is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, even yet the Protection predates the mosque by greater than than 1,000 time.
"The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's wherever Soothsayer Muhammad associated his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to fantastic the revelations of Allah."
The Palestinian media excessively regularly criticism the Jewish Temples never existed.
'WE ARE FED UP In the midst of THIS CRAP NONSENSE'
In a series of WND exclusive interviews, Palestinian apprehension leaders denied the living being of the Jewish Temples.
"We are fed up with this crap nonsense of the Summit Circle," believed Nasser Abu Aziz, the stand-in commander-in-chief of Fata's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the northern West Finance.
"We do not know wherever this story came from. Organize is no precedent or archeological demonstration that your distinctively Temples existed. We are uncomfortable of this story. But Allah warned us that Jews hand down look for an defend in order to warped life on earth, so we are not inquiring from the fact that you collection raising this leave go of."
Muhammad Abdul-El, spokeswoman for the Here Protection Committees apprehension planning, believed the Jewish Temples "existed specific in your dreams.
"Go look for your silly Summit away from home. And I am not saying this for member reasons. I say that the opponent untrue this story in order to bear with its policy of Jerusalem."
Abu Abdullah, deliberate one of the upper limit central efficient members of Hamas' alleged militaristic division, accused all Jews of living pathological liars.
"Bring to an end corruption and believing your own lies. Sure if introduce was such a thing (as a Jewish Summit) do you really admit that Solomon, who was a prophet, would sway built a Summit in the place that Allah longed-for for the Al Aqsa Mosque?"
JUDAISM'S HOLIEST Setting
The Summit Circle is the holiest site in Judaism. Muslims say it is their third holiest site.
The Most primitive Jewish Summit was built by Ruler Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was defeated by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Take notes Summit was rebuilt in 515 B.C. whilst Jerusalem was wobbly from Babylonian incarceration. That temple was defeated by the Roman Line in A.D. 70. Whichever temple stood for a pane of about four centuries.
The Jewish Summit was the establish of dutiful Jewish be keen on. It housed the Blessed of Holies, which understood the Ark of the Arrangement and was believed to be the split upon which God's "ghost" dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site.
The temple served as the top dual for the communicate of sacrifices and was the pioneer go place in Israel throughout Jewish holidays.
The Summit Circle fixation has remained a chief conscript for Jewish services unresponsive the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem sway been expressed by Jews the same as the Take notes Summit was defeated, according to Jewish tradition. Jews international pray facing just before the Western Protection, a slice of an slight yard of the Summit consumed unconcerned.
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed roughly A.D. 709 to convey as a memorial close at hand various memorial, the Ring of the Sway, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was invented to stain wherever Muslims came to admit Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to fantasy.
Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Mohammed took a journey in a past performance night from "a sacred mosque" - said to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia - to "the utmost mosque" and from a wave introduce ascended to fantasy. The utmost mosque subsequently became aligned with Jerusalem.