VICTOR SHARPE
The infamy perpetrated by the Muslim Waqf, occurring daily upon
Jerusalem's Temple Mount, cries out for speedy denunciation by the
entire world. Tragically it will not happen for a veritable veil of
deception has fallen across what is left of the West.
As Giulio Meotti, a journalist with the Italian newspaper, Il Foglio, wrote back in 2012
: "The
Waqf is now attempting to deliberately destroy all archaeological
evidence of Jewish claims to this site, while using terror and
intimidation to impose its exclusive claim to the Temple Mount. The Waqf
has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the site. At the
entrance, a Waqf sign says "The Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything
in it is Islamic property.
"Today Jews are barred from praying on the Mount and are not even
allowed to carry any holy articles with them. With Muslim observers
supervising visits, Israeli police, to their shame, have frequently
arrested Jews for various "violations," such as singing or reciting a
prayer even in a whisper."
What may well be one of the worst crimes against civilization is the
ruthless and relentless destruction of Jewish and Christian artifacts
and antiquities by the Moslem authorities, the Waqf, who were foolishly
given permission by Israel's Moshe Dayan to control the Temple Mount
in 1967.
This was done as one of numberless concession by the Jewish state to
encourage Muslim peaceful coexistence. It was, and remains, a hope as
delusional as a mirage in the desert. Remember the Taliban destruction
of the 2,500 year old statues of Buddha in Afghanistan? It is,
tragically, the same Muslim arrogance and hatred for all other
religions.
Despite Israeli protests, the Waqf is in the process of deliberately
desecrating tons of precious archaeologically rich soil. One
archaeologist described the disturbed sites as "an archaeological
crime" and
an assault upon Jewish and Christian history.
Professor Gabriel Barkai, and other Israeli archeologists and
volunteers, desperately search through the tons of earth and rubble
unceremoniously dumped by the Muslim Authorities in the nearby Kidron
Valley. The archaeologists and their helpers have uncovered thousands
of rare and important artifacts from the First and Second Temple
periods, as well as from Roman and Byzantine periods, among them a rare
bulla dating from the First Temple Period.
But each precious find, ripped and torn from its age old location
upon the Temple Mount by Palestinian Muslims, fatally compromises what
each item can tell us: a most grievous and barbarous sin against
history and civilization.
The catastrophe is continuing even now as the Muslim Waqf
remorselessly desecrates and gleefully destroys all non-Muslim
artifacts and antiquities and as much evidence as it can of
Judeo-Christian civilization upon Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
The fear of Islam is so debilitating in Europe that governments are
falling over themselves to placate and appease Islamic demands and are
fearful of condemning the Palestinian and Muslim desecration on the
Temple Mount. Jews who ascend the Mount are enjoined by their faith to
do so with the utmost consideration for the sanctity of this holiest of
all Jewish religious sites in the world.
But Muslims often stream out of the Al Aksa mosque filled with
unholy violence after hearing hateful sermons at Friday prayers. Very
often, young thugs throw rocks down upon the heads of Jewish
worshippers at the Western Wall. Such is the venom by those who follow
the "religion of peace."
The fact that young Arabs, those who call themselves Palestinians,
desecrate the site by playing football upon it indicates how
hypocritical are the Muslim claims that this is their third "holiest"
Islamic site. The very purpose of building the two mosques upon the
very place where the two Jewish temples stood and later a church was
always a political Islamic decision in order to de-legitimize both
Jewish and Christian associations with it and present to the world the
"triumph" of Islam over Judaism and Christianity.
Sadly, by bowing to the dictates of the notorious Muslim Waqf, the
present persecution of Jews upon their holiest site will continue. As
if the wholesale destruction of Jewish antiquities - a crime against
history and religion - is not a calamity by itself, the so-called
Palestinian Authority has just in the last week or so now also demanded
that even the Western Wall, known as the Kotel, be given to them.
We should remember that during the 19 years the Jordanians illegally
occupied Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank), and, in
particular, the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Old City and
the Western Wall, Jews were forbidden to pray at the Kotel, which the
Jordanians deliberately used as a rubbish dump.
Christian pilgrims, during the 19 year old illegal Jordanian
occupation, had to walk along a disgusting garbage strewn Via Dolorosa.
Today, under Israeli administration, all faiths are free to worship
without hindrance and with full respect except, of course, where the
Muslim Waqf exerts its noxious influence.
In addition to the disrespect shown Christian pilgrims under the
Jordanian occupation, 57 ancient synagogues were destroyed in the Old
City after the Jewish residents had been driven out and the Jewish
gravestones upon the Mount of Olives desecrated and used as latrines by
the Jordanian Arab Legion.
That will be the fate again of all Jewish and Christian sites if the
Palestinian Authority occupies East Jerusalem and again divides the
city, which the Obama Administration and the Kerry State Department,
along with the European Union and the UN are pushing for.
Victor
Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of several books including The
Blue Hour, a collection of short stories, and Volumes One and Two of
Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.
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