The palestinians were allowed to completely desecrate Joseph’s Tomb (as well as murder Israelis who tried to stop them, or simply protect the Torah scrolls from the mob). They have destroyed precious artifacts from the Temple area, specifically from Solomon’s Stables. They constantly accuse Israel of destroying the mosque (that was deliberately built on top of the Temple Mount after the Muslim conquest, which is what Muslims do), and of “judaizing” Jerusalem—in the lies they tell that Jerusalem has no Jewish history, in spite of mountains of archeological proof to the contrary.
So now they’re trying to start another lie, that archeologists are trying to destroy the mosque from underneath. They are trying to riot.
Palestinian organizations threatened on Tuesday to respond with attacks inside Israel if its Antiquities Authority continues works to reinforce the Mugrabi Gate, which leads to the Temple Mount and is in danger of collapsing.
Several Arab youths hurled rocks at security forces Tuesday afternoon in protest at the works.
And Jordan, which is desecrating the Temple Mount by adding another minaret to the mosque, is helping the riots along by jumping in and accusing Israel of causing—wait for it—tensions that could “derail” peace talks. Uh-huh. The nonexistent peace talks are going to fail because Israeli architects are trying to repair a damaged bridge.
“Israeli excavation works near the al-Aqsa mosque in the holy city of Jerusalem have led to a dangerous rise in Middle East tensions and could derail revival of Arab-Israeli peace talks,” Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Tuesday.
“What Israel is doing in its practices and attacks against our sacred Muslim sites in Jerusalem and al-Aqsa is a blatant violation that is not acceptable under any pretext,” the monarch was quoted by the state news agency Petra as saying.
And let’s hear from the “moderate” king of Jordan:
“This is a dangerous escalation we have seen in the last few hours … These works and excavations pose a threat to the foundations of al-Aqsa (al-Sherif),” the monarch said.
Liar.
Yuval Baruch, a Jerusalem district archeologist, said that the reinforcement works at the Mugrabi Gate are nowhere near the Temple Mount.
The Antiquities Authority intends to insert support columns for the Mugrabi Gate after the original pathway collapsed during a snow storm in 2004 and the temporary bridge constructed at the site was deemed dangerous.
The Mugrabi Gate is used by Jews and tourists to reach the Temple Mount. It is also where police prepare to break into the Mount on Fridays when riots develop at the site.
Watch for Israel to cave to the pressure. Countdown to Ahmadinejad’s accusation in three, two….
The Muslim Waqf, or foundation, that runs the site has been conducting illegal digging within the Temple Mount for years, aimed at destroying any archaeological sites that might be there for fear that they would, if excavated, support Jewish claims to Jerusalem. They have gone so far that they have undermined the structure, and a heavy 100 year rain, or even a lesser one, is likely to lead to a landslide that would destroy the mosques as well as the rest of the Mount. The Muslims will then blame the Jews, of course, although the Israel Antiquities Authority has tried for years to get them to stop. The Muslims just ignore its orders, although it legally has jurisdiction over the site. Of course, Israel does not want to risk the massive violence that would come if it tried to enforce such orders, so the Muslims are left to destroy their Holy Shrines (and ours) in peace.
They have the corrupt, weak, insolent nonentities that are Peretz, Olemrt and Livni pegged right.