Posted on 11/25/2010 7:58:33 PM PST by markomalley
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinian leadership on Thursday to renounce an official Palestinian report asserting the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, is not Jewish.
Al-Mutawakil Taha, deputy information minister in the Palestinian Authority, published a five-page study on Wednesday disputing Jews' reverence of the shrine as a retaining wall of the compound of Biblical Jewish Temples destroyed centuries ago.
The wall is adjacent to a politically sensitive holy complex in a part of Jerusalem that Israel captured in a 1967 war. The area, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, is home to al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
"Denial of the connection between the Jewish people and the Western Wall by the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Information is baseless and scandalous," Netanyahu said in a statement issued by the prime minister's office.
"The Israeli government expects the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to renounce the document and condemn it, and to stop twisting historical facts," he said.
In the report, Taha wrote the Western wall is a "Muslim wall and an integral part of al-Aqsa mosque and Haram al-Sharif," a position echoing past statements by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Taha issued the document after Israel approved on Sunday a five-year renovation plan for the Western Wall area.
Israel annexed East Jerusalem, where the Western Wall is located, after the 1967 conflict and claimed all of Jerusalem as its capital in a move that has not won international recognition.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they want to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Good luck with that request.
Palestinian leadership living in denial of HISTORY again? Denial is NOT a river in Egypt!
Trusting the financier of the Munich Olympics atrocity
has paid off for Israel exactly how?
While scholars have puzzled for years as to the timing of when Jesus’ prophecies of Matthew 24 have/would occur, they will come when “not one stone will be left upon another”-—in other words when the Western Wall is torn down. As long as that wall stands, the Temple is not completely destroyed;when that wall comes down it will be the beginning of the End.
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