PA President says the Jewish Temple was in Yemen

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: PA’s Abbas claims ancient Jewish temples were in Yemen, not Jerusalem. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed “[Israel] is trying to change the historical and legal status of the Islamic and Christian holy places, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque” (Danielle Greyman-Kennard with Yuval Barnea, Jerusalem Post).

The verbatim quotes are given in the article. The specific claim is that the Qu'ran and "other divine books" say that the Jewish Temples were in Yemen. He gives no citation. This sort of thing is not helpful, but Jewish-Temple denial has been coming in various forms from the Palestinian Authority and other pro-Palestinian sources for a long time. I noted the ridiculous claim that the Temple was located in Yemen back in 2007.

I have noted the Temple denial from the PA and others many times over the years. I discussed it in some detail here and here with links (cf. here).

As for President Abbas, he gets an F in history. But I do give him some credit for this (noted in the JP article):

Despite the historical revisionism, in his latest speech, Abbas demanded Hamas return the hostages to Israel and called them “Sons of dogs.”

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