A Palestinian Authority university lecturer is the latest PA academic to rewrite history and deny Jewish history in Jerusalem – in particular, the Jewish people’s connection to the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) of the Jewish Temple.
Shamekh Alawneh, a lecturer in modern history at Al-Quds Open University, says the Jews invented the connection to the Wall for political purposes, to convince European Jews and Zionists to come to “Palestine.”
“It has no historical roots,” he said on a television program called Jerusalem – History and Culture. “This is political terminology to win the hearts and the support of the Zionists in Europe, so they would emigrate and come to Palestine. Nothing more!”
The show’s interviewer also refers to the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, and to Jewish plots to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Denying Jewish history in Jerusalem and the existence of the Jewish Temple is a central component of PA political ideology. This denial started with Yasser Arafat and continues to be reiterated by academics, politicians and religious leaders.
PA leaders systematically distort the ancient history of Jerusalem, ignoring the vast historical documentation and thousands of archeological finds related to Jewish history that have been found in Jerusalem.
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Shamekh Alawneh ……”Al Nakba”! And remember if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That’s no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel.
They also want a lot of dead Jewish people , of course — that’s where the real fun is — but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel – or “The Zionist Entity” as their textbooks call it — for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they’re the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God’s Earth, and if you’ve ever been around God’s Earth, you know that’s really saying something.
It really ticks me off when we here the POS Obama say how wonderful the Muslims are, how they have given soooo much to the world. HA! No freakin way. But Muslim Obama goes on and on about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I’m missing something, the Arabs haven’t given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
Shamekh Alawneh, chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews.
Just reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
“Palestinian” LOL more like “Other Arabs Who Can’t Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death.”
PLO admits Palestinian People is a myth. …….*”The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” ~ PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews . . . . Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us?
“The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation’s supposed ancient name, though they couldn’t even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity.”
— Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995
Really? Tell that to the descendants of Maccabeus, who restored Jerusalem after Antiochus destroyed her and burned the Torah. Jerusalem is the birth place of the three biggest religions in the world today-Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Each has a wall to pray to. I can pray at two of them, being a christian descendant of Judah, the oldest son of the 12 tribes, through whom King Solomon and David and Jesus’ earthly father, Joseph descend. Anyone who denies basic religious facts is a fruitcake with too many nuts and dried cherries!
I’m just a nice Jewish boy who would like to wipe everyone of those camel screwing A holes off of the planet. But thats just my opinion, you are free to think as you please. Well, not for much longer.
The Arabs are a screwed up people. Almost as screwed up as our Democrats. The only thing the Arabs have is sand, with oil underneath. If we would drill for oil in America we could cut our cord to the MidEast. Without oil money from the West(and China)the Arabs would go back to their most primative ways(as though their tech toys and skyscrapers make them modern peoples-not!)
“THE WESTERN (WAILING) WALL “Hakotel Hama’aravi” is all that remains of the Jerusalem temple where Jesus taught and prayed. This wall formed part of the plaza upon which stood the remodeled temple of Herod the Great. Herod’s vast remodeling project began in 19 BC, and continued long after his death. It was completed only 7 years before the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. It acquired the name “Wailing Wall” because during the long exile of the Jewish people from the city, they could return only once a year to mourn the destruction of the Temple. When Israeli tanks rumbled into Jerusalem’s Old City in June of 1967, it was the first time, except for a brief period in 135 AD, that Jews controlled the site since 70 AD.”–This land has always belonged to the Jews.
At the turn of the last century, there were Jews and Bedoins or nomads living in the area. the Nomads were Arabs who had been kicked out of their own country and wandered the desert. I think it was because of the British partition and one section became known as Palestine. Hence the Palestinians for the better part of 70 years is all. They have no rights to this land.
The only thing that keeps them going is free money from the obama’s of the world. This man is a liar.
When Roman General Hadrian destroyed Jerusalem, he changed all the maps afterwards to read PALESTINE! This is a fact. Israel belongs to GOD’S chosen people – period!
Thank you everyone so much.
I agree, Israel belongs to God’s
chosen people.