New excavation at Temple Mount: Muslims claim to be replacing sewer line

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, December 11, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
New excavation
at Temple Mount
Muslims claim to be replacing sewer line

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Posted: December 11, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Just two weeks after Israel's Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi boasted there would be no more construction by Muslims on the spiritually sensitive – as well as archaeologically sensitive – Temple Mount, Jewish activists report new excavation by the Islamic Waqf has exceeded more than two feet, raising new concerns about irreparable damage to Judaism's holiest site.

According to the Muslim authorities, which oversee the Islamic shrines on the Temple Mount, the new excavation is designed to replace a sewer and water line.

The activists, seeking to prevent additional damage to the holy site by the Islamic authority, were kept at a distance from the excavation by police, not even permitted to obtain details from the tractor operator to file a police complaint against him.

Last month, Hanegbi told the Jerusalem Post plans to reopen the Temple Mount last summer were carried out with the full cooperation of the Islamic Waqf, which maintains the day-to-day maintenance at the site. Hanegbi said the closure of the site to Jewish and other non-Muslims was "a political mistake on the part of the (Ehud) Barak government which simply gave in to Arafat's dictate."

Hanegbi also said there was "total supervision" of the site, which, he said, would prevent further archaeological destruction caused by unsupervised and unauthorized Waqf construction, such as the construction of an immense mosque at the Solomon's Stables six years ago. The stables, an underground architectural support of the mount, is now home to the largest mosque in Israel, which seats 30,000 people.

Hanegbi said officials are not permitting "one stone" up to the mount without police approval, adding that since he assumed his position he has not heard any complaints from the Antiquities Authority over the lack of archaeological supervision at the site.

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[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, December 11, 2003

Quote of the Day by woodyinscc

[Texas_Jarhead]

I just don't understand how the Israeli government can allow the Muslims to continue to destroy their archeological heritage.

[NewRomeTacitus]

“Never have Jews or Israel taken Muslim gravestones and turned them into urinals and paving blocks. But the Muslims routinely do it to Jewish and Christian headstones. The Arabs now occupying Israeli land and falsely claiming it for their own (most of them are really Jordanian or Egyptian--like Arafat) are systematically looting and destroying Jewish holy sites and archaeological preserves in an effort to de-legitimize the Hebrew people and deny their claims as indigenous people.”

From http://www.jewishindy.com/article.php?sid=2966

[boris]

The Dome of the Rock should be flensed of the obscenity that currently defaces it; it should be scrubbed to bare molecules of stone.

Soonest.

--Boris

[Imal]

Muslims have a documented history of defacing and destroying world treasures, from stripping the polished casing stones off the Great Pyramid to the recent demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, and thousands of other unforgivable outrages over the centuries, an inexorable pattern which continues unabated to this day.

Muslims have repeatedly demonstrated contempt toward the sensitivities of Jews with their abuse and mistreatment of the Temple Mount, have a perfect record of breaking every agreement made with them regarding it, and a stated intent of keeping Jews cut off from the holiest place in Judaism.

Muslims have utter disregard for anything non-Muslim, cannot be trusted to protect sacred treasures, and must be removed from the Temple Mount forever.

[Little Ray]

Bulldoze the Dome of the Rock ping.

[Thinkin' Gal]

You wrote...

Muslims have a documented history of defacing and destroying world treasures, from stripping the polished casing stones off the Great Pyramid to the recent demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, and thousands of other unforgivable outrages over the centuries, an inexorable pattern which continues unabated to this day.

Muslims have repeatedly demonstrated contempt toward the sensitivities of Jews with their abuse and mistreatment of the Temple Mount, have a perfect record of breaking every agreement made with them regarding it, and a stated intent of keeping Jews cut off from the holiest place in Judaism.

Muslims have utter disregard for anything non-Muslim, cannot be trusted to protect sacred treasures, and must be removed from the Temple Mount forever.

Deserves a repeat and bump.

[steve86]

Thinkin' Bump