Posted on 10/18/2014 4:09:36 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday encouraged Islamists to continue efforts aimed at preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, calling on Palestinian Arabs to prevent "settlers" from entering the site using "all means" necessary.
His comments came days after Israeli police once again clashed with Muslim extremists protesters violently demonstrating against Jews visiting the Temple Mount, which is Judaism's holiest site and also the location of the Islamic Al Aqsa complex.
"It is not enough to say the settlers came, but they must be barred from entering the compound by any means. This is our Aqsa... and they have no right to enter it and desecrate it," Abbas said.
The PA president was speaking at a conference in Ramallah after a spate of clashes this week since a Monday confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli police.
Abbas insisted that "defending Al-Aqsa" was tantamount to defending Jerusalem, which the Palestinians are demanding as the capital of a future state.
"Jerusalem is the jewel in the crown and it is the eternal capital of the Palestinian state. Without it, there will not be a state," he said.
"It is important for the Palestinians to be united in order to protect Jerusalem," he added.
Earlier on Friday, hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza in a rally protesting the presence of Jews on the Temple Mount, organized by the Islamist Hamas movement...
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It’s only fair. Islam — founded in the 7th century AD — was obviously there first, before the Jews built it in 1000 BC.
If that doesn’t make sense to you, it means you’re not a liberal.
A liberal would have no problem with this claim and these numbers.
Tear down that gold domed abomination.
wow, these muslims show such peace to non-muslims/s
He doesn’t even realize how stupid he sounds.
An up armored D 9 would clean up that mess in a few hrs an put a slow down to this jabbering.
Got my vote!
The Project Background
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the most sacred site for Judaism. It was the site of the First and Second Temples and other national institutions. The site is also sacred for Christianity and was used by the Crusaders in the medieval times. Since the Early Islamic period the Temple Mount has been the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest mosque in Islam, and also the site of the shrine of the Dome of the Rock.
Even though the Temple Mount has played a major role in the history of Jerusalem, no systematic archaeological excavation has ever taken place there, in spite of the fact that Jerusalem is one of the most excavated cities in the world. The Waqf, the Muslim trust which manages the site, has always objected archaeological research.
On various occasions during the last century the Waqf conducted construction and renovations without any archaeological supervision or control, causing severe damage to ancient remains. The peak of these construction projects occurred during the years 1999-2000, when large scale earthworks took place using heavy machinery; the purpose being to create an entrance to Solomon’s Stables (an ancient subterranean structure) which had been converted into a new mosque. In addition, in an open area on the eastern side of the Temple Mount, the ground level was lowered with bulldozers in order to lay new pavement slabs. About 400 truckloads of soil saturated with archaeological artifacts from all periods in the history of Jerusalem, were removed and dumped in various locations, mainly in the nearby Kidron Valley.
These works were illicit and disregarded Israeli antiquities laws which require a salvage excavation prior to any construction in an archaeological site. In a proper archaeological excavation the exact location and context of artifacts are documented, and the finds are removed with great care. When an archaeological site is excavated brutally with heavy machinery, ignoring the context and finds, major archaeological data are lost and can never be retrieved. However, out-of-context finds that are recovered from archaeological sites still preserve some valuable archaeological information. These finds, when studied thoroughly, can increase the information about the site, especially if it hasn’t previously been excavated, such is the case with the Temple Mount.
The Temple Mount Sifting Project was established with the purpose of sifting all the debris removed from the Temple Mount and to try to retrieve as many artifacts as possible, using the wet-sifting technique. Most of the finds can be identified and dated by matching them to parallel finds found in a clear context elsewhere. This comparative methodology is widely used in archaeological surveys studying sites only by collecting artifacts from the topsoil.
Unique methodological techniques were developed in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, which is somewhere between a survey and an excavation, in order to study the finds. After the identification and sorting, advanced quantitative analytical techniques are used to reveal the unique patterns of the material culture of the site.
The National Parks Authority allocated a special site in the Emek Tzurim National Park, and special installations were set up in order to allow large groups of volunteers and visitors to participate in the wet sifting.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The dome is really aluminum, anodized to a gold color
Yeah, guess that wouldn’t have been good. The screaming jihadis might also have decided to riot and kill a bunch of random people around town. They don’t know how to take a joke, these muslims.
It’s disgusting how many artifacts these muslims dump every year. Once these things are lost you can’t get them back.. It makes me so mad.
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