First Temple relics found in Wakf "rubble"
From Isreal National News we get the article Dumped Temple Mount Rubble Yields Jewish Artifacts. In November 1999, the Islamic Wakf carried out an illegal construction project on the Temple Mount, Judaism�s holiest site. The unsupervised digging caused irreparable damage to the important site, as well as to untold priceless artifacts contained in rubble removed during the construction and dumped clandestinely in the Kidron Valley.
Though the archaeological remains were no longer in their original contexts, they held enormous potential to shed light on the undocumented human history of the Temple Mount, as systematic archaeological excavation or scientific study have never taken place there. The mounds of dirt in the Kidron Valley therefore contained the only available data from the Temple Mount to which modern archaeologists have ever had access.
Though the archaeological remains were no longer in their original contexts, they held enormous potential to shed light on the undocumented human history of the Temple Mount, as systematic archaeological excavation or scientific study have never taken place there. The mounds of dirt in the Kidron Valley therefore contained the only available data from the Temple Mount to which modern archaeologists have ever had access.
So the Wakf not only carried out illegal construction possibly weaking the structure of the temple wall, they attempted to make centuries old artifacts dissapear by burying them in garbage and rubble.
Why?
He said the project is of particular importance due to the Islamic Waqf efforts to perpetrate something that he says is worse than Holocaust denial. "There is a phenomenon of Temple denial," Barkai said. "I just heard [Arab] MK Dahamshe this week in the Knesset denying that there were ever temples on the Temple Mount. It is a part of the cultural Intifada. I think it is just as serious as Holocaust denial. This intifada started in Joseph�s tomb and is trying to deny Jewish rights to the country."
If we pretend that neither Jewish Temple that we all know existed on that hill was ever there then we can pretend that there weren't Jews living under an organized government centered in Jeruselam a millenium before there was such a thing as Islam. Right, I get it.
I don't agree with everybody's religious beliefs. They have the right to their beliefs regardless of my agreement or disagreement. If I had to pretend highly provable truths to be fiction in order to defend my religious convictions I think I would be looking for a new religion.
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