Wednesday, November 9, 2005
JPost: Archaeologists decry Wakf 'renovation'
...The site in question, known as Hatuniyah, lies adjacent to the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount just outside the ancient compound, and has served in the past as a tower approach to the Temple Mount by way of the Double Gate.
"As part of our follow-up on Wakf activities over the last years, it has become clear that these projects are part of an overall Wakf plan to turn the whole compound into one exclusive Muslim site...and we have firm basis to suppose that the Wakf's aim this time as well is to take over this structure as well and incorporate it into the mosque at the site," the November 7 letter read...
...The renewed dispute also brought back to the fore the lack of Israeli archaeological supervision at the site, nominally the job of the Antiquities Authority.
With violence flaring in the region, neither the government nor the antiquities authority have ever pressed for renewed archaeological inspection at the holy site, as required by law, and instead rely on police for reports of any unauthorized building at the bitterly contested site.
A previous post with a link to video from under the mount itself is here.
It is appalling. It has been appalling. Who is guilty of the defiling; the Arabs, who outright say that they deny Jewish history and will destroy it, and then act to do so; or the Jews, who stand by cringing, wringing their hands, and "participating in dialogue" while their holiest sites are burned and smashed?
As an observant Jew, my heart bleeds every time I read of the progress in the Muslim campaign to destroy our heritage. As a human being, I am disgusted at the willingness of various entities to just ignore - or, worse, excuse - the depravities that are inflicted on Israel. Remember the outcry (righteous enough!) over the destruction of the Buddhas a couple of years ago? With all the "Zionist supporters" in America, where was the outcry over Joseph's Tomb? The disgusting murders at Har HaMachpela?
Most horrific, though, is the pathetic, unjust, and unworthy government of Israel. If the rest of the world hates Jews, nu, so be it; but when the Jewish "leadership" allows that hate to manifest as destruction and murder without fighting, it is time for a change.
Afo David Shelanu? Am Yisrael Chai!
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