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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10615
Temple Denial
(Israel Hayom) Ruthie Blum - Former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold has written about "Temple Denial," the Palestinian campaign to cast aspersions on Israel's connection to Jerusalem in general and to the Temple Mount in particular. "The great irony of this new Palestinian version of Jerusalem's history is that it contradicts the original Islamic tradition. Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari (839-923 CE) was a leading commentator on the Quran and is known as one of Islam's greatest historians. In his account of the conquest of Jerusalem by the second caliph, Umar bin al-Khattab, al-Tabari describes him heading toward 'the area where the Romans buried the Temple [bayt al-maqdis] at the time of the sons of Israel.'"