Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood Gets It Wrong On Israel And The Jews
HARRIET Sherwood brings Guardian readers news of Israel – and she gets it wrong. Says she:
Israel has approved a £15m five-year plan to develop the area around the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site…
No. The Temple Mount is the Holiest site in Judaism. On it sits the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Temple Mount is where the Holy of Holies was, the place where the Ark of the Covenant was housed during the first Temple. That as the house of worship built by Solomon the son of David in 957 BCE. The Dome was completed in 692 CE.
Sherwood goes on:
The announcement of the plan drew sharp criticism from the Palestinians.
“Any Israeli activities in the occupied part of Jerusalem are illegal,” Ghassan Khatib of the Palestinian Authority told Haaretz. It’s not healthy as far as the peace process is concerned because peace would require the end of the occupation of East Jerusalem,” he said.
Jewish construction work around the area has triggered protests and violence in the past.
As has Islamic construction…
Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
