Posted on 01/03/2006 6:18:45 AM PST by anotherview
Jan. 3, 2006 14:28 | Updated Jan. 3, 2006 14:42
Israel denies Temple Mount excavation
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Aerial view of Temple Mount
Photo: Areil Jerozolimski [file]
The Israel Antiquities Authority denied on Tuesday accusations that archeological excavations were currently underway below the Temple Mount and that a synagogue had opened at the site.
Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem District Archaeologist Yuval Baruch said that all of the gates to the Temple Mount compound had been blocked by massive construction in historical times.
"The only gates open today are the official ones - they are open to Muslim worshippers and visitors - and they are under the control of security officials and Waqf representatives," Baruch stated.
Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement's northern faction, had said at a press conference earlier Tuesday that al-Aksa Mosque was in danger, and declared that if archeological excavations in the vicinity of the Western Wall tunnels were to continue, Israel "would find itself at war with the entire Muslim world."
He said that Israel was building a synagogue and a large model of the Second Temple at the excavation site, which is 97 meters away from the Dome of the Rock.
At the press conference, Salah screened a video that supposedly showed Jews praying at the illicit synagogue.
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Sounds like the stupid dome is about to fall because of islamic digging. So of course blame the Jews for their own stupidity and perhaps finally get the islamic world mad enough to once again go after Israel, the silver lining(in their twisted minds).
If a synagogue will be built there, it will be built where desolate, pagan rubble once stood--not under it.
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