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Southern Wall of Temple Mount in Danger of Collapse
(Jerusalem Viewpoints - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem represents the greatest point of sanctity for the Jewish people, the site of the biblical Holy Temple. Muslims, led by the Israeli Islamic movement, are seeking to turn the entire area into one giant mosque, and into an exclusively Muslim area. They are working diligently to erase and destroy every archeological remnant and finding that may testify to any Jewish spark or connection to the place. During October 1999-January 2000, a huge hole was dug in the Temple Mount and archeological remnants from the First and Second Temple periods were thrown into city garbage dumps. The unsupervised construction has also led to an increasingly dangerous buckling of the southern wall, which may collapse at any moment.