What is Beneath the Temple Mount?

Smithsonian Mag ^ | April 2011 | Joshua Hammer

[NoLibZone]

Yes. The capital of “Syria Palestina”... is ROME.

Are you saying the lineage of “Palestinian” rulers is in Rome?

I don’t follow.

[NoLibZone]

What is Beneath the Temple Mount?

The long form Birth Certificate?

[airborne]

Natsheh won’t say if he believes in the existence of the First Temple, given the current political climate. “Whether I say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ it would be misused,” he tells me, fidgeting. “I would not like to answer.”

This guy is lying, and he knows it.

He also knows he would be killed for telling the truth.

Muslims are as animals.

[SunkenCiv]

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[LadyDoc]

I was just listening to a talk by Professor David Nieman (on youtube) and he was discussing how the elites of Israel were taken off to Babylon, but they left the poor behind, while a lot of the middle class took off to Egypt. He says in an “aside” comment that he wonders if the palestinians were descended from those left behind and who lost their faith and later were forcibly converted to Islam.

Awaiting DNA studies on this one...if it is closer to the Jewish DNA than to the Arab/phoenician DNA he might have a point.

[bert]

——golden-topped Dome of the Rock. -——

The dome is capped with gold colored anodized aluminum

Back in the early days of the internet I worked with kids at church researching Salomon’s temple and building a scale model. There are pretty good descriptions in the Bible. Surprisingly to me, there was a wealth of really solid information at Israeli web sites. The depth of the information and the quality of the web work was ahead of it’s time.

It amazed me that in East Tennessee we could access sites in Jerusalem to find very detailed information to magnify tremendously the Biblical descriptions.

[1010RD]

Do you know if the photo captioned “Both sides watch for any tilt in the status quo that threatens their claims to the Mount” is of a Muslim guard on one side and an Israeli guard on the other?

Also, where is that photo taken exactly?

[jjotto]

There are lots of DNA analyses of Jewish populations.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jewish-genetics/

http://www.cohen-levi.org/jewish_genes_and_genealogy/jewish_genes.htm

...The research was basd on samples from 29 populations, 7 Jewish, categorized into five major divisons: Jews, Middle-Eastern non-Jews, Europeans, North Africans, and sub-Saharan Africans.

The findings were that most Jewish communities, long separated from one another in Europe, North Africa, the Near East and the Arabian peninsula do indeed seem to be genetically similar and closely related to one another, sharing a common geographical origin.

These Jewish communities are more closely related to each other and to other Middle Eastern Semitic populations – Palestinians, Syrians, and Druze, than to their neighboring non-Jewish populations in the Diaspora.

The results also indicate a low level of admixture (intermarriage, conversion, rape, etc.) into the gene pool of these various Jewish communities...

[mad_as_he$$]

I love that guy.

[wally_bert]

I discovered his program a couple years back while convalescing at home after some minor emergency surgery. If I am home by myself, the idiot box is usually on H or HI and sometimes BBCA.

Anyway it was sitting on HI my second day home and I was too weak to move or even pick up the remote so I watched it. I really liked the writing, the humor, intelligence, and use of campy stock footage.

[submarinerswife]

I saw an episode of “The Naked Archaeologist” that featured this sifting project. It is one of my favorite shows on History International.

This is fascinating.

[Safetgiver]

They believe it was here that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the “Divine Presence” on the back of a winged horse... So why ain’t the horse revered as the prophet? He did all the work?

[Flag_This]

"Are you saying the lineage of “Palestinian” rulers is in Rome? I don’t follow."

I think he is saying that "Palestine" was a Roman construct and that the so-called "palestinians" don't have any connection to it at all.

[LadyDoc]

thanks for the headsup.

[gleeaikin]

Alas, truth, science and religion rarely coexist peacefully.

[John O]

They believe it was here that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the “Divine Presence” on the back of a winged horse... So why ain’t the horse revered as the prophet? He did all the work?

because moslems only copulate with camels.