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PA Mufti denies Jewish connection to Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 26, 2010
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PA Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein:
"Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine… in the Friday sermon and prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday… pointed out that the occupation authorities are vigorously embarking on carrying out scary, terrifying plans, directed towards the respected plaza of the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall), which represents part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and is an Islamic trust for Muslims alone.”
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PA's former PM denies Jewish history in Jerusalem
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 23, 2010
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Headline: "He [former PA Prime Minister Abu Alaa (Ahmad Qurei)] demanded of the international community to intervene in order to prevent war – Abu Alaa warns of a religious war breaking out in view of the fact that Israel continues with the Judaization and Israelization of the holy city"
"[Abu Alaa said that Israel's demolition order in Jerusalem is] part of feverish efforts to blur and to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem, to melt the Palestinian, Arabic and Muslim Jerusalem characteristics, and to color them with artificial Jewish Talmudic symbols." |
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PA Mufti denies Jewish connection to Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 14, 2010
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PA Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein:
"The meeting concerned recent developments in the Palestinian sphere, especially the repeated [Israeli] violations against the holy places, foremost among them the Al-Aqsa Mosque… The Mufti warned of implementation of the plans for Judaization of the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall), aimed at turning it into a center for the Jewish nation.”
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PA Mufti: Israel plans to build "alleged Temple" on Al-Aqsa ruins
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), May 22, 2010
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Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine:
"First and foremost [of the plans for occupation and aggression] is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, whose existence angers the extremist enemies [Israel] who call for the alleged Temple to be built upon its ruins." |
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PA conspiracy theory: Hurva synagogue as prelude to 'alleged Temple'
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 16, 2010
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PA TV news broadcast:
Newsreader: "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has exposed a 300-year old Jewish legend which is behind the building of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City. This [Jewish] prophecy regards the building of the synagogue as a concrete step toward the building of the alleged Temple."
Report on the riots in Jerusalem
Reporter: “The building of the alleged Temple will begin March 16 this year. The prophecy includes signs that the Jews will begin building their alleged Temple together with the inauguration of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City (of Jerusalem). In other words, the Hurva synagogue is a prelude to the destruction of Muslim Jerusalem."
Interview with Yasser Abd Rabbo, secretary of the PLO Executive Committee, concerning the riots in Jerusalem:
"[Israel] entered the holy places to fulfill a [prophetic] legend in order to build what is called ‘the alleged Temple,’ and [Israel] sees the building of a new synagogue as a prelude to this." |
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PA: Hurva synagogue will not create Jewish right in Jerusalem
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 15, 2010
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PA TV news broadcast
Interview with Hatem Abd Al-Qader, responsible for Fatah's Jerusalem portfolio:
Abd Al-Qader: “The Jews have no history here [in Jerusalem], therefore I think the inauguration of [the Hurva] synagogue will not create a historical or religious right for Jews in Jerusalem.” Click here to view |
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Jordan conference: 'Zionist' history of Palestine must be rewritten
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Nov. 15, 2009
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Headline: "...Al-Quds [Jerusalem] Conference Religion and History in Jordan calls for inclusion of the history of Jerusalem in the Arab curriculum."
"Participants at the congress called upon Western historians and Western research centers to revisit the ancient history of Palestine and of Jerusalem in a critical, fair and accurate manner, since this history was written in accordance with Torah - and Talmudic thought, which is far removed from accuracy and objectivity. [The conference participants] also called upon researchers of the city of Jerusalem to relate to the commentary on the findings of the archaeological excavations carried out by the occupation - with great diligence, and with renewed investigation of the reports and commentaries that are the basis for the studies which have been dominated by the Zionist institutions of the world." |
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Arab employees slander Jewish Temple as false
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 13, 2009
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Palestinian TV broadcast an interview with two employees of the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem, in whcih they defined the Israeli historical narrative regarding the Jewish connection with Jerusalem, which they are meant to convey to tourists, as "false," and testified that they teach different information instead:
PA TV Host, Khuloud Al-Afifi: "[Speaking about the site known as David's Citadel] So we've spoken about its importance, its location, and its connection to the Christian religion, and that it's an Islamic structure, but what, inside this Citadel... is [related to] the alleged Israeli history, which the Israelis claim? What exactly is inside the Citadel?"
History scholar Abir Zayyad: "... In the hall pertaining to the Bronze Age, which they [the museum] call the [period of the] "First Temple" - and this appellation is not correct - in that period they focus on the issue of Palestine - that the Jews, comprising 12 tribes, entered it, and how Palestine was divided in this period between the 12 tribes, and the process of the conquest of the city of Jerusalem by David, and the construction of the alleged First Temple by Solomon."
[Zayyad goes on to say that the archaeological findings indicate that David and Solomon did not live in Jerusalem or in "Palestine," and that there are no structures in Jerusalem that can be attributed to them.] |
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Mufti of the Holy Land: No sign of Jewish presence in Jerusalem ever
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Oct. 10, 2009
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| “The Mufti of the Holy Land, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri [Head of the [Palestinian] Organization of clerics and Disseminators of Islam and former Mufti of Jerusalem], spoke about the history of the Arabs and the Muslims in the Holy Land and noted that the Arabs are among the earliest peoples that settled in Jerusalem, 7,500 years before the Christian era… He said that the occupation authorities [Israel], in their excavations under the walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, have discovered a wall from the Canaanite period, and found no sign testifying to Jewish [presence]…” |
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Israel prepares destruction of Al-Aqsa to build alleged Temple
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Al-Ayyam, Sept. 23, 2009
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| "Sheikh Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi [PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:] ... in an Id al-Fitr sermon which he delivered at the Ibrahimi Mosque [in Hebron], called upon the Palestinian people, wherever they may be, to continue to head for the Al-Aqsa Mosque... to defend it and to ruin the Israeli plans of excavations beneath its foundations and establishing synagogues and settler outposts around it and preventing [Muslim] worshippers from reaching it, in order to seize control of it in preparation for its destruction and the establishment of the alleged Temple in its place." |
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PA Chief Justice of Religious Court: No truth to Jewish ties to Jerusalem
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Aug. 27, 2009
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"Sheikh Dr. Tayseer Rajab Al-Tamimi, Chief Justice of the religious court (and) head of the Islamic-Christian Council... said that Jerusalem is an Arab and Islamic city, and that the false claims by the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, that [Jerusalem] is Jewish… [sentence incomplete]
Al-Tamimi stated that none of the excavations undertaken by the occupation authorities since 1967 have revealed any finding confirming that the Jews have a history [in this city], or the existence of their supposed Temple, and this is acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists themselves. The claims by the Jewish rabbis and their extremist organizations are merely lies and deceit and false claims, with no truth to them." |
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Israel will destroy Mosque to build "alleged Temple"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), July 29, 2009
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“Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi PA Chief Justice of Religious Court [and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law] said that… [the Al-Aqsa Mosque] is subject to an [Israeli] conspiracy that threatens its structure and identity, to cause it to collapse and to establish the "alleged Jewish Temple" upon its ruins. Sheikh Al-Tamimi clarified in a press release yesterday that the occupation authorities have been planning this since the conquest of the occupied city [Jerusalem] in 1967, and noted that the dangerous effects and results of the Israeli excavations beneath the foundations of the Mosque and its walls… are a sign that Israel aspires to complete control of it, in preparation for its destruction and the establishment of the alleged Temple instead…
He noted that the network of tunnels under the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the excavations have caused weakening and collapse of the foundations of the mosque, and warned of its complete collapse, adding that the mosque has become suspended in the air." |
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PA lie: Israeli excavations have not found coin or jug
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 23, 2009
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Dr. Jamal Amaru, lecturer in Urban Planning, Bir-Zeit University:
"There is a view that where it [the Dome of the Rock] stands was the Holy of Holies of the fictitious Temple – and by the way, that is merely an illusion. There is no remnant of it. It's a myth. A story of no value, like the Arabian Nights, and other legends…
Only in Palestine… [after] 60 years of digging, and they've found nothing at all. Not a water jug, not a coin, not any earthen vessel, no bronze weapons, no piece of metal, absolutely nothing of this myth, because it's a myth and a lie. This digging has not left a single meter [unturned], but it has achieved absolutely nothing. Therefore, [by means of] these myths, they want the fictitious Temple to replace the mosque of the Dome of the Rock."
Interviewer: "That's what they're planning." |
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Jews have no right to Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 23, 2009
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Ikrima Sabri, Head of the [Palestinian] Organization of clerics and Disseminators of Islam and former Mufti of Jerusalem:
“Sheikh Sabri said that in the holy texts of the Quran and the Hadith, the Jews do not have any rights to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Therefore, this site is holy only to Muslims, and no one among the heavenly [monotheistic] religions shares it with them. Dr. Ikrima emphasized that no [Muslim] can bargain or give up [even] the smallest bit of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and anyone who does is considered a traitor of Allah, his Messenger, his religion and his homeland. [The Mosque] is a trust that passes from generation to generation. Sheikh Sabri demanded of all the Arab and Muslim states to bear responsibility and unite in their position on the protection of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
[Note: The PA argues that the area of the Western Wall to be part of Al-Aqsa Mosque even though it is 80 meters away.] |
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Jews have no connection to Jerusalem
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 9, 2009
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Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:
"I know of Muslim and Christian holy sites in [Jerusalem]. I don't know of any Jewish holy sites in it... Israel has been excavating since 1967 in search of remains of their Temple or their fictitious Jewish history." Click here to view |
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PA Religious leader: Religious Jews deny Western Wall part of Temple
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 9, 2009
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Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:
"When the Prophet [Muhammad] entered Jerusalem, after landing with his 'riding animal' in the Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, he tied it to the western wall, which is known today [by Muslims] as the al-Buraq Wall, and which the Jews usurped by falsification and deception [saying it is the Western Wall of the Temple]. Orthodox Jewish groups, such as Neturei Karta, denounce all the actions of the Israeli government and the Zionist movement in Jerusalem. They, more than us, say these claims are false and a distortion of the Jewish faith." Click here to view |
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PA daily denies Jewish history in City of David, site of Jerusalem's palace
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Al-Ayyam, May 19, 2009
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| "The process of violating the village of Silwan is not new; it began at the time when the Al-Aqsa mosque was marked as a target - ever since the conquest of the city of Jerusalem first began. As a first stage there was a Judaization of the Silwan Spring (Shiloah Pool) and its environs, although it is an Islamic religious endowment. Appropriate legends were linked to the spring, with Talmudic ceremonies and false claims related to a historical Jewish presence and a Temple in the region." |
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PA TV: Jewish Temple is "self-delusion" and "imaginary"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 16, 2009
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PA TV documentary: "Synagogues Encircling Al-Aqsa":
"[The Jews] wept and cried over the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque due to the self-delusion and falsification that this was a remnant of a wall of the alleged Temple…
From the Al-Burak wall [the Western Wall] they began digging under the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque. They dug the Western Wall tunnel... and they inaugurated another synagogue – the closest, according to their self-delusion, to the Holy of Holies of the imaginary Temple."
This documentary has been broadcast on PA TV before: May 1, 2009, May 2, 2009, April 10, 2009, and Nov. 2, 2009. |
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