Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:49:51 PM
JERUSALEM – The Israeli government gave permission to the Muslim custodians of the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to carry out construction on the Mount last week using a tractor, according to Palestinian Authority sources.
The construction may have damaged antiquities and is said to have made it more difficult for archaeologists to find temple artifacts.
Pictures obtained by WND clearly show the Waqf, the Mount's Islamic custodians, last week using a heavy tractor to lay massive stone tiles over an area of the Mount some archaeologists believe a Second Temple wall was discovered recently.
Pictures of the purported wall surfaced after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last summer gave the Waqf permission to use tractors to dig a 1,300-foot trench around the periphery of the Mount. The Waqf claimed the trench was necessary to replace electrical cables outside mosques on the site.
Allowing the use of bulldozers at any sensitive archaeological site is extremely unusual, particularly at the Temple Mount, which experts say contains sealed layers of artifacts as shallow as two to three feet below the surface.
The Mount never has been properly excavated. Heavy equipment could easily damage any existing artifacts, stress Israeli experts, who assert the area should be excavated slowly and carefully by hand.
Israel gives the Palestinian's everything else; they might as well go ahead and give them their holiest site as well. Par for the course of suicide. Israel is losing itself brick by precious brick. It's beyond all reason how the Jews could turn-over the Temple Mount to the Palestinian murderers. Something evil and insidious truly festers in the Israeli government today, and it's name is Ehud Olmert. The Jews have lost their minds.