[left that other site]

I’ve been there. If it is the same dig that I had the prieledge of exploring, then it was nowhere near any residences. There is a large buffer area between the old city wall down to the road below. Nearly all of it was once covered with grass, but as more and more of it is uncovered, a wealth of 1st century ruins details the lives of the people in that time. On the eastern side, near the Hulda Gates, there is an old Muslim cemetery, but not much of anything else. They have even found hundreds of foreign coinage from the 1st Century, which would indicate that this is where the Money Changers would sit and exchange foreign coins for the “Sheckle of the Sanctury” often at illegal, usurious prices. And we KNOW what happened to THEM! LOL. These digs are wonderous, historical places that validate both the Jewish and Christian Bible. As long as no GRAVES are disturbed, I have no problem with Biblical Archaeology. BUT there are political forces in the Holy Land that DO NOT want a Jewish Connection to the temple mount to be proven by these digs.

And we KNOW who they are!

[sphinx]

I assume you’re referring to the Jews who keep planting artifacts on ancient Muslim holy sites ....?

[Fred Nerks]

THE MUFTI'S PANIC

Monday, 27 June 2005 The Mufti's panic: The Gihon resurfaces under the Temple Mount

The Gihon River mentioned in Genesis 2:13 flows under Jerusalem, directly under the Holy Temple Mount, under what today is known as the Dome of the Rock in the Al Aksa mosque. There, it's known as Siloam Spring (see Rashi on Kings I, 1:33), and flows out in the direction of Silwan (Arabic for Siloam), the Arab town directly to the South of the Temple Mount. King Hezekiah sealed off the waters of the Gihon when he was threatened by Sannherib and the Assyrians (see Chronicles II, 32:30 and Talmud tractate Brachos 10b).

According to Islamic tradition, when the waters of the Gihon begin surfacing under the Dome of the Rock, then the Jewish Messiah is fast on the way, and their downfall is imminent. Soon, very soon, there won't be any more mosques on the Temple Mount.

In recent months, several witnesses have told about water seeping out of the floor near the base of the Dome of the Rock. The Jerusalem Wakf, the Moslem religious authority, has hurried to fabricate the lie of faultry drainage causing the water seepage. All you have to do is to pick up an East Jerusalem phone book, and call any plumber at random; you'll have a 50-50 chance that he's one of the many that the panicking Wakf has summoned to stop the trickling, but to no avail. The Mufti himself knows darn well that all the plumbers in the world won't stop the waters of salvation from gushing out soon; the Siloam Pool will be the mikve where Moshiach Tzidkenu will immerse himself every morning before praying and learning.