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Ten Centuries of Islamic Sources Confirm Jewish Ties to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - Israel could counter Muslim lies about the Jewish history of Jerusalem by pointing out 10 centuries of Islamic sources that confirm Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, or the Ottoman decrees that guaranteed the Jews the right to worship at the Western Wall. Aref al-Aref was an Arab public official in the time of the British Mandate in Palestine. In the final years of Jordanian rule over east Jerusalem, he also served as director of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum near Damascus Gate. Al-Aref, an avowed Palestinian nationalist, adhered to historical truth and scientific research and wrote in his books that the Temple Mount is the same Mount Moriah mentioned in Genesis, the site of the Jebusite threshing floor that King David bought to build the Temple on it, and that David's son, Solomon, built the Temple in the year 1007 BCE. Al-Aref wrote this when the Old City of Jerusalem was still part of the Kingdom of Jordan. Israeli archeologist Prof. Dan Bahat notes, "In the Quran itself there are sources, such as Surah 2 and Surah 7, which identify the Hutta Gate as the gate through which 'the children of Israel' would one day enter the Temple Mount. The...gate is located under the Mughrabi Bridge, which goes over the women's section of the Western Wall Plaza."