Not every rock. There are foundation corner stones that were so huge that neither the Romans nor the Babylonians could budge them, and they are easy to find in the vast labyrinth of tunnels underneath the Temple Mount, along with mosaics with Jewish themes. These are all artifacts that are still intact, and there are daily guided tours of them in the Old City, along with the “burnt house,” a museum of the home of a Cohen who perished in one of the conflagrations caused by wars with Rome.
“And what the hell does this have to do with the Holocaust and Exodus?”
It has become fashionable for “many” as you call them, to deny these key historical events of Jewish history, and now some damned history channel special is doing the same with Solomon and Herod’s Temple, echoing recent Islamic deniers who apparently never read the Koran.
I recall one Holocaust denier by the name of David McCalden (died of AIDS years ago), who also denied the story of Purim and the use of Auto da Fe in Spain by the Inquisition.
Finally, it’s utterly stupid to claim on the one hand that “every single rock was thrown down and it was utterly destroyed,” and on the other hand that the Temple Mount is really a Roman fort. The Romans won the Judaean wars, not the other way around. And they left one wall of the Temple standing, to rub it in the Judaeans’ faces that they lost. That wall is still standing. I’ve prayed at it, as have Jews throughout the ages, and along side it are newly unearthed tunnels, mikvaot (ritual baths), as well as the aforementioned vast subterranean labyrinth, mosaics, and gigantic corner stones.
But of course, what is all that next to a TV special.
That wall is not the Temple wall.
The Temple was in the city of David. BTW, nobody even knew where the City of David was until recently.
Besides that, there was absolutely NO living/moving water on the traditional Temple Mount.
But then again, like Jesus Christ said, traditions...