Like I said, liar, Muslims drew first blood by committing the Hebron massacre and genocide upon the ancient Jews of Hebron. Which left Jews with no option but to defend themselves by creating groups like the Irgun and Haganah. That is a fact. Now run along. Islam defender.
Siege and attacks of convoys trying to reach Jerusalem.
Attacks on jews has been ongoing for around a century. Muslims either forget or did n't know that Omar, Saladin and Suleiman all consulted jews and invited them to visit the mount. The western wall was also purified with rose water so jews could pray at what is left of the Herodian temple that was destroyed by the Romans.
The relationship between jews and muslims have had it's ups and downs, but the tolerance of jews as people of the book, the foundation of Islam should be more accepting of the right of jews to pray not just at the wall but on the mount as well.
The dome of the rock was originally a place of pilgrimage for jews and christians. The dome was for all pilgrims to visit and pray. Al Aqsa was built for the muslims, leaving the dome for the pilgrims. The mount was the site of the jewish temple. The building of the temple by Solomon is part of the quran. The temple was visited by Jesus in his last days. There is ample evidence of the temple in greek and roman records. The treasure of the temple are seen on the the Arch in Roman of Titus.
>> Wakf guidebook, 1925, cover
The Temple Institute
Guidebook Puts the Lie to Current Arab Campaign
In 1997, the chief Moslem cleric of the Palestinian Authority, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, stated, "The claim of the Jews to the right over [Jerusalem] is false, and we recognize nothing but an entirely Islamic Jerusalem under Islamic supervision..."
Thus began a campaign to convince the world that the millennia-old natural association between Jerusalem and Jews was untrue. As Islamic Movement chief Raed Salah stated in 2006, "We remind, for the 1,000th time, that the entire Al-Aqsa mosque [on the Temple Mount], including all of its area and alleys above the ground and under it, is exclusive and absolute Moslem property, and no one else has any rights to even one grain of earth in it."
However, it is now known that this "absolute" Moslem claim is actually not as absolute as claimed. In fact, back in 1925, the Supreme Moslem Council - also known as the Waqf, which has overseen Temple Mount activities on behalf of the Moslem religion for hundreds of years - boasted proudly that the site was none other than that of Solomon's Temple.
The Jerusalem-based Temple Institute (
The Temple Institute: The Holy Temple in Jerusalem: Yesterday Tomorrow Today) reports that it has acquired a copy of the official 1925 Supreme Moslem Council Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Moslem name for the Temple Mount). On page 4, the Waqf states, "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which 'David built there an altar unto the L-rd...', citing the source in 2 Samuel XXIV,25.
Wakf guidebook, 1925, excerpt close-up
The Temple Institute
In addition, on page 16, the pamphlet makes reference to the underground area in the south-east corner of the Mount, which is refers to as Solomon's Stables. "Little is known for certain of the history of the chamber itself," the guide reads. "It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D."
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was in fact the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples which stood for nearly 1,000 years (see below).
Wakf guidebook, 1925, excerpt
The Temple Institute
Proof of Moslem Anti-Jewish Revisionism
The Temple Institute's Rabbi Chaim Richman writes that the pamphlet provides proof that the Waqf's current position is a departure from traditional Muslim belief. "In recent years," he writes, "the Moslem Waqf has come to deny the historic existence of the Holy Temple, claiming that the Temple Mount belongs solely to the Moslem nation, and that there exists no connection between the Jewish nation and the Temple Mount. It is clear from this pamphlet that the revised Waqf position strays from traditional Moslem acknowledgment of the Mount's Jewish antecedents."<<
Why are jews denied the right to pray not just at the western wall but on the mount, anywhere they want?
