FIRST TEMPLE FINDINGS

Here is the good news to be found within the bad news that was the Wakf's vandalism on the Temple Mount:

(IsraelNN.com) The unauthorized dig of a trench this past summer by the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount, in the course of which it was assumed that precious findings were destroyed, apparently had a thin silver lining. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) personnel monitoring the trench-digging have, for the first time, found traces of the First Temple.

The IAA studied an archaeological level dating to the First Temple Period, exposed in the area close to the south-eastern corner of the raised platform surrounding the Dome of the Rock.

Archaeological examination of a small section of this level, led by Jerusalem District Archaeologist Yuval Baruch, uncovered fragments of ceramic table wares, animal bones, and more. The finds date from the 8th to 6th centuries BCE; the First Temple existed between the 9th and 5th centuries BCE, having been built by King Solomon in 832 and destroyed in 422.

The archaeological team - Baruch of the IAA, Prof. Sy Gitin, Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Prof. Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Ronny Reich of Haifa University - reached the conclusion, after examining the finds and archaeological data, that their characteristics and location may aid scholars in reconstructing the dimensions and boundaries of the Temple Mount during the First Temple Period.

The finds include fragments of bowl rims, bases and body sherds, the base of a juglet used for the ladling of oil, the handle of a small juglet, and the rim of a storage jar. The bowl sherds were decorated with wheel burnishing lines characteristic of the First Temple Period.

The IAA announced that it will hold an archaeological seminar concerning these finds and their archaeological interpretation at a later date.

Interesting. Now, they should make sure that those artifacts are stored away tight in a museum warehouse where they'll be safe from any more of the Wakf's thuggery.

MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SITE OF THE ISLAMIC WAKF'S VANDALISM AT TEMPLE MOUNT

Some extra info on the Wakf's destruction at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.








Here's an article for starters from Breitbart (via One Jerusalem) that tells some starting details, and here's some photos of when a policeman stood in the way of a tractor they were using, a very bold move.






The part showing what appears to be wreckage is most disturbing. And that's why, here's an important petition to sign.






The Wakf cannot be allowed to have their way with Jewish history.

It's got to be stopped now.

KABBALAH JUNKIE ROSEANNE BARR: "THE ARAB'S PROTECTION IS THE ONLY REASON ANY HOLY SITE REMAINS IN ISRAEL"

It's interesting to see what happens when the mask of "anti-Zionism" falls off and Jew-haters start being honest in their hatred of Jews:

These were not Barr's first tirades against Israel. In December, she wrote she was "sick" of Israel and Zionism, while praising Arabs for protecting the nation's holy sites. "Zionism was the last nail in the casket of European jewry. The Arabs' protection is the only reason any holy site remains in Israel. The Jews line up to stone women who try to access those sites. I saw it with my own eyes. The Arabs do not invade other countries. The Israelis do. I am sick of Israel and I am sick of Zionists... The Jews are raised to be suicide bombers too"

If "the Jews" are being raised to become suicide bombers, they've got the worst teachers on the planet. As to the holy sites thing, oh come on. Do click through and take in the rest of the openly anti-Semitic crazy. She even drops a little bit of old school "the true Jews are Christians". That's how just plain crazy she is. But she's not coming out of nowhere. And she's not speaking just for herself.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]