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Posted on 01/16/2003 5:03:20 AM PST by SJackson
How many priceless Jewish artifacts and religious objects will be destroyed in the name of appeasing the PLO?
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One of the most exciting pieces of news in years is that of the remarkable archeological find, a clay tablet in ancient Hebrew from the 9th century BC, about which the entire Jewish world and much of the Christian world is suddenly abuzz. The tablet appears to be from one of the ancient kings of Judea, Jehoash, describing repairs performed on the First Temple, the original Temple of Solomon, repairs described in the Second Book of Kings in the Bible. It has been declared a bona fide antiquity to be taken at face value by Israel's National Geological Institute.
There is however another no less important aspect to this story. And that is that the story proves how far Israel's pusillanimous politicians are willing to go to accommodate the systematic destruction of priceless Jewish artifacts and religious objects in the name of appeasing the PLO.
The Israeli media, under the hegemony of Israel's Far Left, are being very coy about where the 9th century BC tablet came from. But it appears pretty obvious that it came from the diggings on the Temple Mount by the PLO. Ever since the beginning of the Oslo War Process, Israel's politicians have turned over control of the Temple Mount to the tender mercies of the PLO Terrorocracy (it was previously under the more enlightened control of Jordan). The PLO, for example, now appoints the religious leaders in the Mosques on the Temple Mount, imams who routinely call for suicide bombings and genocide of Jews with not a single act of correction by Israel.
The earth on the Temple Mount is filled with priceless artifacts and treasures, whose historic and religious and archeological value to Jews and to all mankind can only be guessed. The King's tablet found recently proves these artifacts go back at least 3000 years and probably go back further. The PLO however is devoted to perpetuating its lies about how there were never any Jewish Temples of Old standing on the Temple Mount, that the Western Wall has no religious nor historic significance to the Jews and is merely a spot where Mohammed supposedly tied up his donkey.
Even worse, the PLO is devoted to systematically destroying any archeological evidence that might be at odds with its Islamist-fascist ideology and its proclamations that there were never any Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount. Since there were no Jewish Temples there, according to Arafat's Mein Kampf, Jesus never tried to purify anything up there either and the place has no Christian significance, which will come as news to the earth's Christians.
In recent months, the PLO has operated wholesale "construction and renovation" operations on the Mount, right under Israel's nose, in which God knows how many priceless antiquities were systematically destroyed.
The PLO claims it was renovating the "stables" area under the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Any digging on the Temple Mount should have been done painstakingly with toothbrushes by experts, but the pusillanimous defeatist politicians of Israel - from the Sharon Administration!! - allowed the PLO to bring in bulldozers and heavy earth moving machinery onto the Temple Mount!! The result is like fixing one's teeth with a jackhammer.
The entire world was outraged when the Taliban blew up ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan. But what the PLO has been doing is far worse. On the Temple Mount the earth moving has already destabilized the "South Wall", a section of the ancient Herodian Wall around the Temple's perimeter, that is now in danger of collapsing. Historically and religiously, the South Wall is comparable to the Western Wall and every bit as sacred. Other artifacts, predating the birth of the Buddha by centuries, have no doubt been completely obliterated. The clay tablet is almost a thousand years OLDER than the Dead Sea Scrolls!
But the finding of the ancient tablet from the Judean King proves something else. Evidently the tablet was uncovered when one of the bulldozers was ripping through the earth on the Temple Mount and the tablet was unearthed and simply discarded. Someone must have come across it and sold it to an antiquities dealer, probably not knowing what it was. (That is also how the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.) My guess is that because the writing is the ancient Phoenician script, it was not recognized by the PLO as having Jewish significance and so was not deliberately destroyed by the savages as part of their campaign to obliterate evidence of the Jewishness of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount was a Jewish shrine thousands of years before Mohammed was born!
But the finding of the tablet is simply a blaring siren warning of what else has already been destroyed! The Sharon government - like the previous governments of Labor Party lemmings - has preferred to buy a few months of make-pretend "avoidance of confrontations" with the PLO over its destruction of antiquities by turning a blind eye.
Sharon is still traumatized by the campaign of world anti-Semites and Israel's anti-Jewish Left to represent the entire past 2.5 years of Palestinian atrocities as having been caused by Sharon's "controversial" visit to the Temple Mount in September 2000. In fact, that visit was exactly as "provocative" and "controversial" as would be a visit to the Vatican by an Italian politician. But Sharon is too timid to say so.
The Labor Party has always had a coy interest in ignoring archeological evidence of the Jewishness of the Temple Mount and indeed of all of Jerusalem, because the Labor Party seeks to create a post-Jewish Israeliness. The fewer the historic ties of Israelis to their Jewishness, the better, in their opinion. Shulamit Aloni, the Madame DeFarge of Labor's further-left coalition partner Meretz, while Minister of Education went so far as to demand that some books of the Bible never be taught in Israeli schools lest they make the children too "nationalist"!!
In the case of the Likud's sitting back while some of the most important artifacts of Jewish heritage are destroyed by the PLO - the explanation is simply cowardice. The Sharon government could have prevented the destruction simply be preventing heavy machinery being moved onto the Temple Mount by the savages. In exchange for a transient make-pretend avoidance of confrontation - during which the PLO is murdering hundreds of Jews per year anyway - the Sharon government is sitting back while some of the most important artifacts of Jewish history are systematically being destroyed. In two years no one will remember the "avoidance of confrontation" Sharon thinks he is buying. But in 5000 years Jews - and all of humanity - will still be mourning the systematic destruction of this priceless heritage by Likud cowardice.
Plaut teaches at the University of Haifa and is author of The Scout, Gefen Publishing House.
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Basically it was captured then turned over by Moshe Dayan right after the 6 day war. Dayan was great general but an atheist. Israel has been run by too many lefty atheists. That's why the 'Slamics are left to wreak havoc on the Temple Mount.
Personally, I think we are in the End Times, and hence there will not, in fact, be a lot of concern about these relics of antiquity then. But, until the Messiah comes, it is indeed a tragedy, and points up once again the fraudulence, wickedness, and hypocrisy of ISLAM--Religion of Peace. TM
If you read the accounts of the construction of the temple in both I Kiings and II Chronicles, you will note the critical role King Hiram's Phoenicians played in its contsruction. He lent artisans (particularly stonemasons and woodworkers (Phoenicia had many shipwrights)) and provided much of the material, particularly Lebanese Cedar.
CH2 2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
Ummm...No.
In 5000 years (Actually MUCH less time than that) we'll all be one race. And all of this current (And past) carnage will be looked apon with wonder, disbelief and sadness.
Muslims ravishing the Jewish Temple hurts the Christian heritage too.Part of the Christian heritage is having turned the Temple Mount into a garbage dump.
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