Posted on 11/22/2010 12:20:04 PM PST by wmfights
The Western Wall belongs to Muslims and is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Haram al-Sharif [the Noble Sanctuary], according to an official paper published on Monday by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information in Ramallah.
The paper, which has been presented as a “study,” was prepared by Al-Mutawakel Taha, a senior official with the PA Ministry of Information to “refute” Jews’ claim to the Western Wall.
In the past, PA leaders and officials had also denied Jews’ right to the Kotel, insisting that the Temple Mount had never stood in the area.
The new paper claims that the Western Wall, or Al-Buraq Wall as it is known to Muslims, constitutes Waqf property owned by an Algerian-Moroccan Muslim family.
It claims that there isn’t one stone in the wall that belongs to the era of King Solomon.
The “study” also found that the path next to the Wailing Wall was never a public road, but was established only for the use of Muslims living in the area or making their way toward the mosques on the Temple Mount.
“The Zionist occupation falsely and unjustly claims that it owns this wall which it calls the Western Wall or Kotel,” Taha, who is also a renowned Palestinian poet and writer, wrote in his project. “The Al-Buraq Wall is in fact the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
He added that the Jews had never used the site for worship until the Balfour Declaration of 1917. “This wall was never part of the so-called Temple Mount, but Muslim tolerance allowed the Jews to stand in front of it and weep over its destruction,” he wrote.
“During the British mandate in Palestine, the number of Jews who visited the wall increased to a point where the Muslims felt threatened and then there was the Al-Buraq Revolution on August 23, 1929, where dozens of Muslims were martyred and a large number of Jews were killed.”
The author, who is affiliated with PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, emphasizes that over the past few decades Jews had failed to prove that the wall had any connection to their religion.
“Many studies published by Jewish experts have affirmed that there is no archeological evidence that the Temple Mount was built during the period of King Solomon,” the paper added. “One can only conclude that the Al-Buraq Wall is a Muslim wall and an integral part of the Aqsa Mosque and Haram Al-Sharif. No one has the right to claim ownership over it or change its features or original character. Also, no one has the right to agree with the occupation state’s racist and oppressive measures against history and holy sites.”
The PA ministry’s study also warned that “no Muslim or Arab or Palestinian had the right to give up one stone of the Al-Buraq Wall or other religious sites.”
This crap is getting SO old.
I just did a study and incredibly enough I found it belongs to me!
That goes right along with their other long held belief that Jews have no right to oxygen...
The same study goes on to say that they also have no right to eat Christmas snow.
Actually, if you research history, this is a wall of a Christian Church...the Romans destroyed everything in Jerusalem...nothing was left standing....later a Christian Church was built with a certain type stone and it has been found to be the stone wall of a Christian Church. So it is neither the Jews nor the Moslems...
Oh, yes. I’m shocked. The ‘’study’’ is even ‘’affirmed’’ by “Jewish experts’’ . Can ya beat that?
Do not spout garbage like this and say if you research history. If you make the statement YOU back it up or sh*t up.
Do your own research, sir. Otherwise, remain ignorant of the facts.
Wow! Where did you learn Biblical history, Ripleys ‘’Believe It on Not’’?
It's all part of the "big lie", the Jews really have no claim on Jerusalem. If that's true then they really don't belong there.
There seems to be one constant with muslims. They lie.
No wonder the libs love the muzzies so much!
Tit 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth....and
Mathrew 15:9
Mark 7:7
Col 2:22
1 Tim 4:1
Jesus was a Jew(Hebrew). But what does anything you’re saying have to do with The Wailing Wall? There was Judaism before Christianity and before Islam. The Hebrew people(the Jews) built The Temple Mt.
Good point.
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