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Jews have no right to Western Wall, PA 'study' says
Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/22/2010 | KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Posted on 11/22/2010 3:15:47 PM PST by HearMe

‘Muslim tolerance allowed the Jews to stand in front of it and weep,’ says Information Ministry official.

The Western Wall belongs to Muslims and is an integral part of Al-Aksa Mosque and Haram al-Sharif (the Islamic term for the Temple Mount complex, meaning 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 ministry, to “refute” Jews’ claims to the Western Wall.

In the past, PA leaders and officials have also denied Jewish rights to the Wall, insisting that the Temple Mount never stood in the area.

The new document 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 there isn’t one stone in the wall that belongs to the era of King Solomon.

The “study” also contends that the path next to the Western 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.

“Al-Buraq Wall is in fact the western wall of Al-Aksa 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.”

Taha was referring to an Arab uprising throughout Palestine over access to the Western Wall during which 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed over a few weeks.

The author, who is affiliated with PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, emphasizes that over the past few decades, Jews have failed to prove that the wall has 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 Al-Buraq Wall is a Muslim wall and an integral part of the Aksa 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 Al-Buraq Wall or other religious sites.”


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I expect peace to break out any minute now.

All Jews have to do is give up their religion, their history, their land....... and their life.

F**k Obama. And Hilary Clinton even more.

1 posted on 11/22/2010 3:15:56 PM PST by HearMe
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To: HearMe

The arabs don’t want peace. You have to defeat them.


2 posted on 11/22/2010 3:18:34 PM PST by marron
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To: HearMe

Every non-Muslim must ask every Muslim they know this question:

Where in the koran is the word “Jerusalem”?


3 posted on 11/22/2010 3:19:42 PM PST by samtheman
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To: HearMe

The cult of Islam spawns hate, lies and death. It is the trinity of Satan.


4 posted on 11/22/2010 3:21:11 PM PST by Armaggedon
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To: HearMe

When the Israeli’s took Jerusalem back they should have never allowed access to the site to anyone other than Jews and Christians. Turnabout is fair play...they were denied access when Jordan controlled the site.


5 posted on 11/22/2010 3:21:20 PM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

Zechariah 12:3

Daniel 12:4 “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Revelation 13:14, 15 “Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”


7 posted on 11/22/2010 3:21:49 PM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: HearMe

The PA has denied the Jews have the right to live; who do they think cares what they say about “rights”?


8 posted on 11/22/2010 3:23:41 PM PST by Spok ( "Woe to them who call the day, night and the night, day." -Isaiah)
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To: marron

‘Muslim tolerance allowed the Jews to stand in front of it and weep,’

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Muslim ‘tolerance’ is an oxymoron.


9 posted on 11/22/2010 3:25:24 PM PST by 353FMG (In the end, it will be either ISLAM or America -- it can never be both. Choose NOW!)
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To: HearMe

Don’t look good when the Muzzys won’t even acknowledge who buit the wall.


10 posted on 11/22/2010 3:26:37 PM PST by mosesdapoet ("To punish a province Let it be ruled by a professor " Frederick The Great paraphrased)
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To: HearMe

Their prophet Muhammed NEVER entered Jerusalem — he died in Arabia.

Muslims are attempting to erase history — a tyrant’s trick — and lie when it comes to the issue of Jerusalem.


11 posted on 11/22/2010 3:28:15 PM PST by SatinDoll
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To: HearMe

I believe the Vatican agrees with the Palestinians here, but demands UN control of Jerusalem.


13 posted on 11/22/2010 3:29:31 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: F15Eagle

The world’s hatred of Israel is the world’s hatred of G-d.

Never before in the history of the world has one nation been the target of a global delegitimization campaign such as is ongoing against the tiny nation of Israel.

The torrent of invective, misrepresentation and egregious falsehoods directed against Israel’s Jewish inhabitants and national and international policies knows no comparison, except perhaps existed in the narrow confines of 20th century Nazi Germany

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9817


14 posted on 11/22/2010 3:30:49 PM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: Bobalu

The government of Israel certainly gave the Moslems an opportunity to exhibit tolerance. Now that they’re claiming exclusive rights it’s time to expel them and begin operations under a different sort of rule.


15 posted on 11/22/2010 3:31:18 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: Bobalu

Israel should round ‘em all up, and dump ‘em over the Jordanian border, and say;
“That’s it. We’re done with this.”


16 posted on 11/22/2010 3:34:13 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: F15Eagle

Thanks for the info!

That is why I said the Blood Moon Eclipse on Dec 21, 2010 might have biblical significance, as the War on Israel may take place, and the Great Tribulation will start....

Officially Winter occurs in the Northern Hemisphere Dec 20 2010

Matthew 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Mark 13:18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

Matthew 24:19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

Matthew 24:21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.


17 posted on 11/22/2010 3:35:01 PM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: samtheman
Jerusalem... I have mixed feelings on that one.
you are correct Islam has no religious binds with Israel at all but if they didn't THINK so they will be nuked.

Muslims think a lot of things that are flat out wrong... this one might be to our advantage.

18 posted on 11/22/2010 3:36:54 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: HearMe

GO HELL .. !.. Palestinian Authority .. GO TO HELL !


19 posted on 11/22/2010 4:00:41 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: Armaggedon

The cult of Islam spawns hate, lies and death. It is the trinity of Satan.<<<<<

The antiChrist will be a muslim - IMO


20 posted on 11/22/2010 4:06:08 PM PST by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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