Nadav Shragai, israelhayom.com
New historical documents revealed over the weekend further refute the Palestinians’ attempts to rewrite history, especially pertaining to the Jewish claim to the Temple Mount.
The Palestinian Authority’s propaganda over the past few years has spared no effort to debunk the inextricable Jewish link to the holy Jerusalem site, relentlessly underscoring only the Muslim link to Al-Aqsa mosque.
Recently, the Palestinians have begun claiming their right to the site stretches beyond the Al-Aqsa compound to include the entire site — even the Western Wall.
Nevertheless, two historical documents — “A brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif,” issued in 1924 by Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini’s Supreme Muslim Council, and an official Jordanian tourist map from 1956 — clearly identify only the familiar Al-Aqsa mosque compound as a Muslim site.
The Supreme Muslim Council’s document states that “the site’s affiliation with Solomon’s Temple is undisputed.”
The Jordanian map, which is in the possession of map collector Haim Steinberger, clearly indicates that at the time, Jordan recognized only the southern part of the compound, where Al-Aqsa mosque is, as Muslim territory.
Both documents contradict recent claims by the Palestinians and the Waqf, the trust that controls and manages the current Islamic edifices on and around Al-Aqsa mosque, that the site is only holy to Muslims.
We knew this all along anyway. Now show that to the Muslims and they will say, “Oh, now we understand. Sorry Israelis, guess we made a mistake.”
We don’t need proof and in truth neither do they, but for those who play the game there’s their kind of proof too.
for the Israeli Govt. to assert it’s rights. The Muslims already denied theirs.
(I won’t state my name. Making ‘Aliya.’ & don’t want to be censured by the Israeli Govt.
I’m practicing self-preservation. The Israelis should do the same.
In order to throw away all artifacts and other evidence that it was built by Jews.
Once they have finished their excavations (into which no outsiders, not even the supposedly ‘impartial (pro Islamic)’ U.N. is allowed by them to go into where they are digging, under the foundation) then they will likely exclaim to the world “Come and look, and see for yourself that there is nothing Jewish here”, of course not, after their historical revisionists have gotten rid of all the Jewish evidence.
Actually, the claims are refuted from other sources, such as the Tanach, the Talmud, the Rambam, and all the Jewish people and their sages for two thousand years.