Shaul Bartal har skrivit en artikel om hur palestinierna försöker omskriva historien och förnekar judarnas koppling till Jerusalem och Israel.
Fabricating Palestinian HistoryThe Battle over Silwan
"...The tactic of denying a Jewish past to sites
and holy places in the Land of Israel is of relatively
recent vintage in the Arab-Israeli conflict
but one that has increased dramatically in the past
few years.
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, where both the
First and Second Temples stood for some eight
hundred years in total, now holds the Dome of the
Rock, al-Aqsa Mosque, and the underground
Solomon’s Stables mosque.
Both in 1925 and again
in 1950, Palestine’s Supreme Muslim Council unequivocally
recognized the Jewish connection to
the Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary; i.e.,
Temple Mount), describing it as a holy site for
Jews in its self-published A Brief Guide to al-
Haram al-Sharif:
Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple
is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according
to universal belief, on which “David
built there an altar unto the Lord.”4
By the mid 1950s, this admission had been
expunged, and by 2001, the chief Muslim cleric
of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Jerusalem
mufti Ikrima Sabri, was able to state,
There is not [even] the smallest indication of
the existence of a Jewish temple on this place
in the past. In the whole city, there is not
even a single stone indicating Jewish history.
Our [Muslim] right, on the other hand, is very
clear. This place belongs to us for 1,500 years..."
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