Opinion To place a mirror in front of the erasure of the Temple Mount's past Israel today

1952 Years after the destruction of the Second Temple, Palestinian elements are engrossed in writing a new and false historical story for the Temple Mount, the place of the Temple: they were here before us;

We, the Jews, robbed, smoked, burned, and above all invented a story, out of nowhere, about the mountain and the temple that resided in it.

"Al-Maz'um", they call the temple.

want to say: the pretentious, the imaginary and the false;

The Jews lack any connection to the city and the holy places.

This is the additional layer that reinforces their colossal historical forgery, which concerns the false blood plot "Al-Aqsa is in danger".

Since 1967, Palestinians have accused Israel of intending to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque through archaeological excavations under it (it was not, of course, and was not created - N.S.); injecting chemical substances into its foundations; artificial earthquakes; and more of the best of the Palestinian bag of lies.

Thousands of illusory horror cartoons in which the Jews are presented in the spirit of "Der Stirmer" as devouring ice cream cones in the shape of the Al-Aqsa Mosque;

Like octopuses or snakes entwining the Dome of the Rock, and sometimes as those who guillotine the Dome of the Rock's head and storm Al-Aqsa with bulldozers to destroy it.

All of these have been used to support the plot for many years.

Our natural tendency in the face of the sweeping denial of the existence of the temple and the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, in an attempt to dispel the lie, is to turn to the familiar historical research, and even to archaeology.

But it turns out that it is not enough.

The Palestinians also turned historians and archaeologists into inventors.

On the other hand, the Palestinian falsehood has difficulty dealing with one claim, but it is precisely this that Israel rarely makes use of: in complete contrast to the sweeping denial of the known mountain beams, precisely the Islamic sources

The classics from the 9th century to the beginning of the 20th century - describe the beams of the Temple Mount exactly as they are told in the Bible and in Jewish sources.

Muslim prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque, photo: AP

Everything is there, precisely in the ancient Muslim writings as well as in the newer ones: the building of the first temple on the site of the rock on the Temple Mount by David and Solomon, its destruction by the Babylonians and Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian exile, the permission given by Cyrus the king of Persia to return to the land and build the second temple and its destruction by the Romans led by Titus.

Furthermore, the early Muslim sources do not only adopt the Jewish story of the history of the Temple Mount.

They even emphasize the fact that Islam sanctifies Jerusalem and the Temple Mount complex, because of their ancient sanctity to the Jews.

This is from a Muslim theological concept, according to which Islam is largely a continuation of Judaism.

Running away from the truth

Official Israel avoids placing this mirror in front of today's prevalent Muslim false narrative.

Those who have been doing this in recent years, in the books and studies they have published, are Prof. Yitzhak Reiter and Dvir Diment, attorney Dr. Shmuel Berkowitz and the undersigned.

Thus, for example, the 11th-century Jerusalem geographer and historian Al-Maqdisi, and the 14th-century Iranian halakhic scholar Al-Mastufi identify the Al-Aqsa Mosque with Solomon's Temple.

Jalal al-Din Rumi's poem from the 13th century also defines the construction of the Solomon Mosque as the construction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Abu Bakr al-Wasti, who was a preacher of al-Aqsa Mosque at the beginning of the 11th century, brings in his book "Praises of Jerusalem" various traditions that present the Jewish past of the Temple Mount.

Police officers near Al-Aqsa Mosque, archive, photo: AP

And there are dozens more of them, ancient Muslim religious scholars, who are revered and accepted by the contemporary Muslim scholars of Halacha, whose testimonies are faithful about Islam today in every other matter, except for the matter of the Temple Mount and the Temple.

Today's Islam simply runs away from these evidences and ignores them.

On top of that, the most convincing sources for the existence of the temple and the first place of the Jews on the Temple Mount are Islamic from the time when the Dome of the Rock was built.

These teach about a kind of overlap that the Jews made on the mountain with the Muslims, to help them get to know the sacred compound, shortly after the defeat of the common enemy - the Byzantines.

Other days on the Temple Mount

Additional studies by senior scholars of Islam in our time show that in the early days of the Dome of the Rock, there were many similarities between the worship rituals conducted by the Muslims on the Temple Mount and those practiced in the Temple.

Dr. Milka Levy-Robin, for example, brought up several years ago in her research that the Muslims in those years anointed the drinking stone with the "incense of the drugs", according to her indications found in the sources of the Sages.

She also found that the clothing of Jews and Christians who served at Al-Aqsa at that time was very similar to the clothing of the priests described in the Bible.

Archaeologist Prof. Dan Behat points out that the Muslims, who knew about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, respected the Jews in the first centuries for maintaining the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque with maintenance work there;

Sweeping the floors and areas of the mosques, filling the candles with oil and even cleaning the mikvahs there.

But why go back?

Even in the last two hundred years the story of the Jewish temple was accepted by many of the Muslim leaders in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

The Palestinian nationalist Araf al-Araf (1892-1973), who ran the Rockefeller Museum, wrote in his books that the Temple Mount, the site of Al-Haram al-Sharif, is on Mount Moriah mentioned in the book of Genesis, where there was a thresher of the Hibbutzi ark, which David bought to build on it the temple, and that Solomon built the temple about 1,000 years BC.

The abbreviated guide to the history of "Al-Haram al-Sharif - Jerusalem", which the Waqf itself published in several editions in the 20s and 30s of the previous century, also confirms: "The identification of the site with Solomon's Temple is beyond any doubt."

Even the manuals published during the time of the "Grand Mufti", Haj Amin al-Husseini, the father of the Palestinian national movement, confirm this in the same wording. 

A good liar, therefore, should also remember to whom he told the truth, and especially in our case - when.

Palestinians are bad liars.

The research toolbox that is at Israel's disposal to debunk their lies on the Temple Mount issue is getting richer all the time, and what a shame that the Israeli propaganda does not take advantage of it.

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