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Alt Palestinian History. • Norman A Rubin While lathering my face to begin my morning ritual of a shave, I was glad we weren’t nuked as it was a clear sunny day, warm and inviting. I had a few good thoughts on my mind.

Iran got a taste of its own medicine - a suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least twenty-six others in an area of southeastern Iran on Sunday – and Pakistan launched an attack on the Taliban and their allies in the province of Waziristan – hope it works this time.

Heavens to Betsy I learned that my favorite television news broadcast, Fox News was the enemy of the people according to a White House spokesman. Well in the Land of Yodel voted to endorse the controversial findings of the Goldstone Report on last winter's Operation Cast Lead Israeli excursion in Gaza, only giving what is permissible for the US in Afghanistan, Russia in Chechnya and Turkey in northern Iraq, but is forbidden for the State of Israel to defend its border with the Gaza Strip.

And the health care debating in the USA continues to wrangle about – this time the youth of the nation will bear the brunt of the costs, and of course, as another false promise from the astute senators that they will be greatly benefited by the new proposal – and there will be no cost of living allowance at the end of the fiscal year for old age pensions – no money.

In another development in the crazy Mid-East, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad rejected a political platform of the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad. The Platform, which was published early this week, pledges that the Fayad government would work toward establishing a de facto Palestinian State within two years even if no agreement was reached with Israel. The Platform talks abut peaceful resistance against Israeli 'occupation'. The two Islamic groups said in response that the only way to establish a State was through 'armed struggle'. They said that Fayad's plan was unrealistic and unclear, adding that it would be impossible to establish a State 'under occupation'. Well, there goes another dream of Obama for making peace in the thought of clearing Jewish settlements from the West Bank would help. Doesn't work, as whatever the suggestion for peace talks and establishing a Palestinian State, the Palestinians will always find a stumbling block.

As I rinsed the razor I thought of a report by the Palestinian Authority's chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi who claimed that there was no evidence that the Jewish people ever lived in Jerusalem and the Temples never existed. And he goes on in his lying statement that all archaeological work conducted by Israel after 1967 'failed to prove that the Jews had a presence in Jerusalem and that the city was never a Jewish city'. Tammani in his propaganda accused Israel of distorting the facts and forging history with the aim of erasing Arabic and Islamic character out of Jerusalem. But he is the one who is doing the ethnic cleaning by his words in a campaign to squeeze Jews out of the Holy City. Yet the good sheikh should read the Koran. The Holy book itself gives us the evidence of the destruction of the two Temples that had stood on the site of the al-Aska mosque - what could be clearer?

Arabic historians indicated that the Dome of the Rock on the temple Mount was built in 691AD by Abd El Malik ibn Mirwan, the Omayas Khalif of the Umayyad dynasty. The historians indicated that the holy site was built on the site of the First and Second Temples – The Dome of Rock is the site where the Patriarch Abraham took his soon Isaac to sacrifice on the word of the Lord. Everywhere about the Mosque of Omar are portions of pillars, curiously wrought altars, and fragments of elegantly carved marble—precious remains of Solomon's Temple. These have been excavated from all depths in the soil of Mount Moriah, and the Moslems have always shown a disposition to preserve them with the utmost care. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Dome_of_the_Rock

And why today the custodians, the Wafk (the Islamic Trust) of Jerusalem, are destroying all archaeological remnants of the ancient Jewish presence on the Mount?

The existence of the Temple is made clear in the New Testament and the stories of Christ within the Temple complex. The great work of Herod the Great is written in Josephus's book 'Contra Apion' in the rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem and the great stones that he used in the building of the Temple that can be seen today. Josephus mentions that there was a stone on the southeast corner Temple where the priests stood and blew their trumpets to usher in the Jewish Sabbath – the stone has been found with the inscription 'Lebett Hatekia' (the place of Trumpeting).

While I luxuriated in applying shaving lotion to my face I thought that I would not argue with that false historian as I know that is what is ingrained in my heart is a firm belief of the First and Second Temples and that these religious edifices stood on the Temple Mount. The Jewish religious documents and literature is all I need for my deep convictions.
Note
1) The Dome of the Rock should not be confused with the al-Aska Mosque and the Mosque of Omar situated on the Temple Mount.
2) The same sheikh in the recent past stated emphatically that the Palestinians were descendants of the ancient people of Canaan; not withstanding that former head of the Palestine Liberation Army Yasser Arafat (deceased) was born in Cairo, Egypt and was brought to Jerusalem by his uncle to seek work. And according to British Mandate reports many of the Arab fellahin entered Palestinian for the same reason.
3) Well my sheikh we Jews can say that we are descendant of Adam and Eve – with written evidence according to the Bible – Book of Genesis.

© Norman A Rubin
<normrub2000 at gmail.com

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