I wonder what kind of rock base the region is made of, At the great Mammouth Cave National Park in Kentucky if they have any real cold snaps the potential of cave ins, like ceiling in the caves falling down, are greatly increase that they have been known to shut down the cave tours for a few days. Same effect with the thawing weather in the north. In the spring time there is a lot of pot holes. I wonder if maybe the snow and cold weather had anything to do with this wall caving in or in setting off a earthquake through the caving in of rock in certain underground caverns that might be in the area of Jersuem. Does anybody out there know how othen Jersuem gets snow. Does anybody know what kind of rock base is under the area and how many caves there might be in the area. I'm really curious now.
This wall collapse comes about a year after another part of the wall also fell down. These are parts to the right of the Wailing Wall itself but closer to (and below the level of) the Al-Aksa mosque and the waqf's unauthorized (and suspiciously deep) excavation, and the corresponding bulge that appeared in the southern retaining wall a couple of years ago.
That there had been an earthquake earlier that week undoubtedly had something to do with the collapse, and maybe also the snowfall contributed in some way. But the fact is that those walls stood for more than 2000 years, despite earthquakes and snowstorms, and only now - now that the Moslems are doing new and deep excavations on the top of the Mount - do we have walls collapsing and bulges appearing.
I have no doubt that the waqf's unsupervised project on the top of the Mount is the cause. I am not sure what Israel can do to stop this, although using the Army to seal off all Arab access to the Mount and then conducting a thorough Israeli inspection would probably bring the Arab-Israeli conflicts to another flashpoint.