The Beit HaMikdash

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November 2, 2016

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours

As noted on our breaking news ticker, a stabbing was thwarted at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron yesterday when a female terrorist armed with two knives was disarmed and captured just as she was beginning a stabbing rampage. Because of the alertness of security personnel, no Israelis were wounded.

Elsewhere a bus was attacked by terrorists at the Karmi Tzur intersection in Gush Etzion (windows shattered, passengers traumatized), and other “rock” and Molotov attacks took place at Hawara, Deir Razah, Abu Dis, Hevron (in the Jabel Johar neighborhood), the Mt. Hevron bypass road, Al Khader, and Qabatiya to name a few locations.

“It’s all right to encourage boycotts of Israel, but we do not support them?”

Yesterday, a statement made about BDS made by EU Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini on September 15 came to light. In response to a query about BDS, she wrote:

“The EU firmly condemns threats and violence against human rights defenders under all circumstances. The EU regularly raises questions related to the protection of human rights and human rights defenders in its dialogue with the Israeli authorities, and calls on both Israel and the Palestinians to refrain from provocation and to resolutely fight incitement and hate speech.

The EU stands firm in protecting freedom of expression and freedom of association in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which is applicable on EU Member States’ territory, including with regard to BDS actions carried out on this territory. Freedom of expression, as underlined by the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, is also applicable to information or ideas ‘that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population’. The EU rejects the BDS campaign’s attempts to isolate Israel and is opposed to any boycott of Israel.”

Say what? Let’s restate this in simpler terms vis a vis Israel.

The EU ardently supports all human rights defenders especially those that criticize Israel, and we have conveyed this to Israeli authorities. And, by the way, we have told Israel and the Palestinians to stop hate speech and incitement.

However, when it comes to the anti-Semitic speech and incitement coming from BDS, we support the BDS right to engage in such speech even if it offends, shocks, or disturbs a sector of the European population (read “Jews).  But, by the way, the EU rejects the BDS campaign to isolate Israel and is opposed to any boycott of Israel.

What utter garbage.

Reject the BDS campaign to isolate Israel? Opposed to any boycott of Israel? Then why are Israeli products labeled in Europe?

TODAY’S BLOG

The Beit HaMikdash

First a brief etymological discussion:

For almost 3000 years, Jews referred to the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem (and later the ground on which they stood) as:

בית המקדש, Beit Ha-Mikdash, meaning “The House of the Holy”

From this Hebrew phrase came the Arabic بيت المقدس variously spelled in English as Bayt al-Maqdis, Bayt al-Muqaddas, and Bayt al-Makdas.

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It is from the same Arabic phrase بيت المقدس, that the Arabic name for Jerusalem, al-Quds, is derived.

All of this is old history. Everyone, with the exception of UNESCO, knows that the Arabic name for the Temple Mount and even the Arabic name for Jerusalem is Jewish and Hebraic in origin. 

Thus it is that yesterday, your humble servant was surprised when two Israeli archaeologists proclaimed that they had found a Muslim reference to the Temple Mount in a mosque that was built between 634-644 CE in the village of Nuba near Hevron.

Note the writing above the arch.

The inscription reads:

“In the name of Allah the Merciful and Compassionate, this property in Nuba, in its borders and territories, is dedicated to Beit Almakdas and the al-Aqsa mosque by the Prince Umar ibn al-Khattab for Allah to be praised.”

Why was your humble servant “mildly surprised”? I was surprised at the almost shocking historical illiteracy of the two archaeologists who made the announcement, and the news media that reported it  (well, not really shocked at the media).

Why?

For several reasons.

First, one does not have to go to Nura to find such an inscription. One can find one in the Kipat HaSela (Dome of the Rock) itself.

Second, there are a plethora of such references through the centuries.

Third, if one looks carefully, or even not so carefully we see Muslims today still using the the Jewish name for the Mount.

For example, one of the worst terror groups in the Sinai is named Ansar Bait al-Maqdis.  And the internet is full of such references. Here a picture from a website devoted to giving pictures of “Islamic landmarks.” Note the supposed name for this area in the lower right hand corner; also note how the Western Wall has become al-Buraq.

My point here today is that there is nothing new about Nura, and as the old saying goes, “there are none so blind as those who will not see.” As for the Palestinians, they never miss an opportunity to try to usurp Jewish history.