UNESCO Denies Jewish Connection to Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Mosque

[Saif al-Arab]

Al-Aqsa was built by various different Arab dynasties so indeed Jews have no connection to it. Unless they will claim that those Arabs were Arab Jews which would be an absurd claim.

"The mosque was originally a small prayer house built by the Rashidun caliph Umar, but was rebuilt and expanded by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al-Walid in 705 CE. The mosque was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 746 and rebuilt by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 754. His successor al-Mahdi rebuilt it again in 780. Another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033, but two years later the Fatimid caliph Ali az-Zahir built another mosque which has stood to the present day."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque

I cannot see the harm really. Nobody is denying, for example, that the Western Wall has no ties to Jews. Not even the Temple Mount as a whole. Unless I have misunderstood something here. Also I am afraid that UNESCO has nothing to do with Arabs. It is a Western organization and the West is many times more pro-Jewish than pro-Arab or pro-Muslim in general.

My wish is to visit and pray in Al-Aqsa. What a beautiful mosque.



Every Arab Muslim longs to pray in it and visit it. No doubt that it must be under Palestinian authority and Jordanian custody until a sovereign Palestinian state has been proclaimed.

 

[Hindustani78]

I'm incredibly ashamed that India denied they Jewish people's connection to Jerusalem. Shame on South Block for their ill-though populist vote.

Well , no offense but its state of israel which is doing UN resolution violations and is having very aggressive policy in the region.

Republic of India stands for 2 state solution with Al Quds as capital of Independent Palestine State.

 

[Solomon2]

Al-Aqsa was built by various different Arab dynasties so indeed Jews have no connection to it. Unless they will claim that those Arabs were Arab Jews which would be an absurd claim.

• Tuesday, November 08, 2016
• 
  Elder of Ziyon

The Muslim coin that proves the Muslims knew the Temple was in Jerusalem

This Umayyad coin was minted in 696 CE in Jerusalem:

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The text says ""Aliya, Madinet Bayit al-Maqdis" - "Aliya" meaning Aelia Capitolina, the Roman name for Jerusalem, plus 'city of the Holy Temple'.

We have seen that Muslims, some even today, refer to all of Jerusalem as "Bayit al Maqdis', the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple. In this coin it calls Jerusalem the "City of the Holy Temple" and the menorah, symbol of the Temple, leaves no doubt that they were referring to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

I had written about the Muslim Menorah coins before, and there is an interesting theory that would explain both there are only five branches, why the base has two legs instead of three that the Menorah had, and (possibly) why the tops have a horizontal line instead of flames. There were other Muslim coins that portrayed a seven-branch menorah.

Either way, the many Jerusalem Muslim coins with the menorah show that the Muslims always knew that the Temple was built there, indeed that is why the Dome of the Rock was built where it was.

Not that this is the only proof, of course.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

• Tuesday, November 08, 2016
• 
  Elder of Ziyon

The Muslim coin that proves the Muslims knew the Temple was in Jerusalem

This Umayyad coin was minted in 696 CE in Jerusalem:

​

The text says ""Aliya, Madinet Bayit al-Maqdis" - "Aliya" meaning Aelia Capitolina, the Roman name for Jerusalem, plus 'city of the Holy Temple'.

We have seen that Muslims, some even today, refer to all of Jerusalem as "Bayit al Maqdis', the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple. In this coin it calls Jerusalem the "City of the Holy Temple" and the menorah, symbol of the Temple, leaves no doubt that they were referring to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

I had written about the Muslim Menorah coins before, and there is an interesting theory that would explain both there are only five branches, why the base has two legs instead of three that the Menorah had, and (possibly) why the tops have a horizontal line instead of flames. There were other Muslim coins that portrayed a seven-branch menorah.

Either way, the many Jerusalem Muslim coins with the menorah show that the Muslims always knew that the Temple was built there, indeed that is why the Dome of the Rock was built where it was.

Not that this is the only proof, of course.

What you have posted does not change the history or the builders of Al-Aqsa. UNESCO agrees with this as does every sane historian.

As for that Jewish Temple. Nobody has denied that it existed once (like 1000's upon 1000's of monuments that once existed in the Arab world and the world as a whole) but you have no proof of it having existed in the same exact spot.

In fact that would make no sense as the first Muslim Caliph Omar (ra) lifted the Jewish ban in Jerusalem that the foreign Romans had been enforcing for centuries in a row. There was no persecution of Jews either. The Jewish population is also thought to have returned in great numbers from exile and actually grown under Umayyad rule and later Arab dynasties.

Anyway as an Eastern European Jew, what genetic relationship do you really have to those ancient Hebrews/Israelites/Jews who were indistinguishable from their Arab neighbors? Which is also the case with 50% of all Israeli Jews who happen to be Jews from Arab countries. (Arab Jews, Mizrahi's or whatever name you want to give them).

Do you even speak Hebrew?

Anyway "Elders of Ziyon". What a brilliant, neutral, objective, sane etc. source. Could not have done without it.