PA University Lecturer: No Jewish Connection to Western WallFor the Herodian Temple Platform, of which the Wailing/Western Wall is a part, see here. For similar claims and an explanation of the "Al-Buraq Wall," see here.
by Israel National News
(IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority university lecturer was the latest PA academic to rewrite history and deny Jewish history in Jerusalem, which was the Jewish capital for a full 1,600 years before Muhammad authored the Muslim Koran. The lecturer denied the Jewish people's connection to the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported that Shamekh Alawneh, who teaches modern history in the televised lectures of Al-Quds Open University, said Jews invented the connection to the Wall for political purposes, to convince European Jews and Zionists to come to “Palestine.”
The Jewish claim to the Western Wall “has no historical roots," he said on a television program called “Jerusalem – History and Culture.” The Jews’ claim, he said, 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!”
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
MORE JEWISH-TEMPLE DENIAL, this time from a lecturer at Al-Quds Open University (with video):