Wednesday, December 8, 2010

'Study' Denying Jews' Right to Kotel Resurfaces

tUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010



by Khaled Abu Toameh


Only days after it was removed from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information website, a “study” denying Jews’ rights to the Western Wall has resurfaced, this time on the official website of the PA’s news agency, Wafa.

By publishing the document on Wafa’s website, the official mouthpiece of the PLO and the PA, the authority has sent a message that its has officially endorsed its findings.
The “study,” which had sparked strong condemnations from Israel and the US, was written by Al-Mutawakel Taha, a senior official with the Ministry of Information in Ramallah. 

The five-page document claims that the Western Wall, which it refers to as the Al-Buraq Wall, is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and has always belonged to Muslims. It states that Muslim “tolerance” had allowed Jews to stand in front of it and cry over its destruction. “This wall was never part of the so-called Temple Mount,” Taha wrote in his project. “The wall is the property of Muslims and there never was a stone in it that dated back to the era of King Solomon. Jewish faith has no connection to this wall.” 
The document accused “Zionist occupation of falsely and unrightfully” claiming ownership of the Western Wall. 

The “study” disappeared from the Ministry of Information’s website almost immediately after the US condemned it strongly. Initially, the ministry claimed that hackers had penetrated its website and removed the Western Wall report. However, a senior PA official in Ramallah later admitted that the “study” had been removed under pressure from the US Administration. 

Khaled Abu Toameh

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Posted by sally at 7:19 AM


Note:

Well, since the Obama Administration plans to announce today, December 8th, that the "negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel have failed", looks like the PLO/PA's have decided to stir up a few more lies and false history - something they do so well and often!

As for any announcements that the "Peace Talks" have failed, I have a few comments to add on this issue:

1.  What talks and between whom?  Abbas refused to speak and negotiate directly with Israel; preferred to take his orders from the Arab Council and discuss the Arab's demands directly with Obama.

2. Obama and his entire administration, from Biden on down, did everything possible to mock, embarrass and force Prime Minister Netanyahu to freeze buildings in both East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.

3.  After a 10-month freeze, agreed to by Israel in order to get the peace talks "moving", Abbas finally said he would be willing to discuss in negotiations, "peace" ... "If"  

If Israel would agree to continuing freezing building and growing ... 

4.  Obama asked Israel to "freeze" for another 3 months; even offered Israel some bribes to do so; then, Obama's group denied such bribes; and refused to put in writing an "Agreement" stating that the U.S. and Arabs would not request an extension of the "freeze" after THREE MONTHS.

5.  WHY?  What exactly would have been so difficult to write down a simple  Agreement between the U.S. and Israel?

6.  Well, for starters, Abbas and the Palestinians said talks would not come about even if Israel froze their construction to build homes, because they did not appreciate the U.S. offering anything to Israel (bribes) and they expected the freeze to continue until a peace agreement was finalized.

7.  Picture another 10, 20 or 100 years of Israel not building homes, while the Arabs continued their on-going, never-ending, attempts to steal the Land of Israel from the Jewish people, while stalling talks or agreeing to accept Israel as a Jewish State with the right to exist!

8.  How many are aware of the fact that while the Jewish people have ceased building, the Palestinians, aided by the United States, have continued building all these months.

Is there another word for "hypocrisy"?  One-sided, biased negotiations, with Obama supporting the Arabs, while ignoring the rockets continued to be shot into Israel from the Palestinians in Gaza?  Has our administration once mentioned or demanded that the Palestinians stop the murdering of Jews along the Israeli highways?  Has this administration commented on the Jihad of Israel's lands/forests with fires set all over Israeli terrority - in the name of Allah?

Of course not!  


To mention the fact that the Muslims have never sought peace would put a damper on Obama's "Religion of Peace" ideology and that of the Islamic world.  the Palestinians have no inkling on how to go about peace - only terror, as their organization's leader Arafat had taught and fought up until Arafat's death.  Arafat's successor is Abbas - that should explain why there is no talking peace with these Arab Palestinians.

How about beginning with the Palestinians teaching their children that the Jewish people have a right to exist; they are not "pigs and animals" to be murdered,etc.  

Until the Palestinians lay down their weapons,begin to teach their children the art of loving thy neighbors and not shooting them down in cold blood; until the Hamas Palestinians either leave Gaza, or the world stops aiding their little organization of terror; until all Arabs agree that the State of Israel is the Jewish State and that Palestine is actually Jordan; there shall never be peace.

Peace, for the Jewish people, can NEVER be the giving up of land, submitting to its enemies, no matter who and for how long the world pressures its leaders.

Peace, is never guaranteed to the Jews, if they go against the very teachings of the Torah.  I believe it took the hand of one higher than the Palestinian Authority and Obama (much higher, as in our blessed Creator) to prevent this farce  from continuing - than all Israel says, Amen!  

Shout it from the roof tops later today - "Israel stands for the Jewish people.  Her land is not for sale to the highest bidder".

Thank you, Lord, for hearing the prayers of all who pray at the Kotel and around the world, for the safety and security of Israel (sometimes, in spite of its liberal leaders).

Bee Sting


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