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Israel Denies Temple Mount Excavation
reprinted from The Jerusalem Post
Jan. 3, 2006 18:40 / 3 Tevet 5766
by Etgar Lefkovits
Israel dismissed as "blatant lies" and "preposterous and unfounded allegations" claims voiced by the top Muslim religious authority in Jerusalem and the firebrand leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel Tuesday that Israel built a synagogue and was trying to destroy a mosque on the Temple Mount by its recently-completed construction of a visitor's center near the Western Wall.
Islamic leaders have been fuming for weeks now over Israel's recent construction of the visitor's center, adjacent to the Western Wall tunnels, angered over the project which highlights Judaism's connection to Jerusalem and the Western Wall.
The lavish new state of the art tourist center at the Western Wall tunnels incorporates ancient and modern Jewish history and includes an elaborate sound and light show that highlight both recent discoveries of artifacts and infrastructure dating back thousands of years.
The high-tech center, which aims to link the past with the future in an effort to reach out to Israeli youth, includes one of the world's oldest aqueducts, a ritual bath from the Second Temple period, a First Temple wall, as well as exhibits on modern day Jewish history, such as the Holocaust and Israel's fallen soldiers.
The top Muslim clergyman, or mufti, of Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, on Tuesday called the archaeological project an "aggression" that threatened the mosque compound and demanded an immediate end to the digs.
"These violations and aggression lead to tension in the region," he said at a Jerusalem press conference.
Sheik Raed Salah, a radical leader of Israel's Islamic Movement, who was freed from prison last year after serving a two year sentence for a series of security offenses including financing Hamas activities called the construction a "black stain" on Israel and accused the government of plotting to destroy the mosques to build a new temple.
Salah who heads the extremist northern branch of the Islamic Movement of Israeli Arabs which denies Israel's legitimacy has repeatedly warned supporters in the past that "Al-Aksa is in danger" and that Israeli extremists intended to attack the mosque at the Jerusalem holy site.
"These are lies, and there is nothing behind what they are saying," Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch said Tuesday.
"Archaeological excavations have never been carried out, and are not being carried out today, under the Temple Mount compound," Israel's Antiquities Authority said in a statement.
Though nearby, the visitor's center is hundreds of meters away from the Temple Mount compound.
The Islamic leaders' tirade comes just weeks after the Palestinian Authority's official website lambasted the construction project in a report that called into question Judaism's very connection to Jerusalem.
http://www.templeinstitute.org/news.htm Moslem Inciters Accuse Israel of Undermining Al-Aksa
reprinted from Arutz Sheva
16:58 Jan 03, '06 / 3 Tevet 5766
by Scott Shiloh
Moslem incitement on the Temple Mount has reached new depths, so to speak, as the chief cleric of the Al-Aksa mosque accuses Israel of building a synagogue under the mosque.
The cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, said at a news conference on Tuesday that Israel was building the synagogue in order to cause the mosque to collapse.
Israel has formally denied the charges, stating categorically that nothing at all was being developed under the mosque, let alone a synagogue.
A key speaker at the conference was Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, who holds the position of "General Mufti for Jerusalem and Palestine" for the Palestinian Authority.
Sabri told Wafa, the news agency for the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PA's umbrella organization), that "the Israeli authorities have been exploiting the big gates of the western side of Al-Aqsa since 1996 through conducting a series of excavation works which ended with clandestinely erecting a synagogue."
Another speaker at the news conference was Sheikh Raed Salah, head of Israel's Islamic movement in the Galilee. Salah recently finished serving jail time after being convicted of providing assistance to a terrorist organization.
Salah threatened that Israel will be faced with war with the entire Moslem world for opening and excavating an underground tunnel parallel to the Western Wall. That tunnel has been opened to tourists since 1996.
Regarding the purported synagogue, Salah said it contained a model of the Temple and was located 27 meters from the Mosque of Omar, located roughly on the site where the Temple once stood.
Sabri said that the construction of the synagogue, which he described as having five rooms, "proves that the Israelis did not find any sign of the Temple. That is why they made up some rooms to vaguely narrate their religious history."
The Palestinian Authority has repeatedly used attempts to deny the existence the Jewish Temples as a means to bolster their claim that the Jewish people have no legitimate rights to the land of Israel or Jerusalem.
The PA's denial of the Temple's existence was raised in the negotiations that took place at Camp David in the summer of 2000, just before the outbreak of the Oslo War. The issue was one of the factors leading to the breakdown of the talks.
Leading Israeli archeologists and Biblical scholars have accused the Moslem Wakf, or religious trust, of deliberately attempting to wipe out the archeological remains of the Temple. Over the past few years, the Wakf has been carrying out large-scale excavations on the Mount, especially beneath the Al-Aksa mosque, in an effort to expand the size of the mosque to accommodate thousands of worshippers.
Much of the earth excavated from that project, which is suspected of containing rich archeological remains dating from the First and Second Temples, has been dumped as garbage at Jerusalem refuse sites.
http://www.templeinstitute.org/news.htmQUOTE(hannah fievel @ Jan 19 2006, 09:11 AM)
Hello, Found this on the web, thought I would share the info:
Occupied Jerusalem - The Israeli occupation authorities are currently speeding up efforts to destroy the holy Aqsa Mosque in order to construct the alleged Jewish third temple on its ruins, the Aqsa foundation catering for the Islamic holy shrines in Palestine disclosed.
The foundation in statement said that the Israeli quarters were unanimous on building the temple, adding that the Tel Aviv government was attempting to get an international backing for the step.
In the meantime, the Israeli far-rightist parties shrugged a proposal made by an Israeli research institute that the holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem be put under the international custody.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian national assembly on Monday cautioned that the continuous Israeli excavations below the Aqsa Mosque would entail disastrous consequences.
We shall see what this "brings forth",
The times sure do seemingly be moving "ever onward"! Pray for the jews to find Him in these last days, amen. YSIC hannah fievel
PS Anyone catch Jerusalem "under international custody"...hmmm, me suspect foul play at work here, any thoughts?
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We need to pay close attention to what they are doing! Now we have the Noahide Laws incorporated in the US laws....if you have read any of them, it will scare the bejebber's out of ya! That I know. Be-heading is one of the Sanhedrin laws.....and our Government gave them the authority to pull it all off. We weren't even supposed to endorse any religious documents. And it went unnoticed by the American People, why? Because we were not made aware of the law, elsewise, I think a lot of religious leaders would have been turning cartwheels on the White House lawn! Freedom of religion in this country just got a whole lot less! It went right ourt the door, so to speak. The Taliban has nothing on this religious faction.....we are in for a bumpy ride! 