Thursday November 25, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Here are a few comments from the newly released five page official report of the Palestinian Authority about the Jewish connection to the Western Wall.

The author of the study is Al-Mutawakil Taha, deputy minister of information. The study itself, which is published on the official website of the Palestinian Authority, totally rejects any connection of Jewish history to the Wall or anywhere on the Temple Mount. It suggests that all of the history of the area is Muslim and Arab.

"This wall has never been a part of what is called the Jewish Temple."
Explaining why Muslims permitted Jews to pray at the Wall the paper asserts:
"it was Islamic tolerance which allowed the Jews to stand before it and cry over its loss."

No serious historian or archeologist promotes this thesis. And yet, it is the official point of view of the Palestinian Authority.

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