Muslims themselves gave us the tools to disprove Palestinian lies ?
Of all the Palestinian lies about the Temple Mount, the most dangerous is the false thinking being created. In recent years, the Palestinians have been kneading the timeline of history as if it were dough. They are writing a new historical story for Jerusalem: the Muslims were here first, while the Jews – who have no ties whatsoever to the city and its holy sites – arrived after them, then proceeded to steal, block off, and invent a story about the Mount and the Temple that sits there. David Singer: PLO Opens Door to Jordan Returning to Judea and Samaria
For the past few years, Israel has opted to stay in its PR comfort zone. In the face of these mega-lies, it chose to focus on the Palestinian ritual that goes along with the invented history and assigns Israel an intention of destroying "Al-Aqsa" by means of an artificial earthquake and "throwing chemicals on the foundations of the mosque," as well as horrific cartoons that show Jews as "Dr. Streimer" or as snakes and octopuses wrapping themselves around the Dome of the Rock, stealing ice cream bars shaped like Al-Aqsa with evil looks, or cutting off the top of the Dome of the Rock with a guillotine and rushing Al-Aqsa on D9 bulldozers to raze it.
But none of these imaginings or works of art comes close to the seriousness of what Palestinian leaders have been doing to their people's thinking for several years now: the "historical" statement that Jewish ties to Jerusalem are based on falsehoods; that Jews have no true ties to Jerusalem; that the Temple never stood on the Temple Mount; or that the Temple itself was only imaginary – "Al-Mazoom," as they call it.
The immediate reaction to this false version of history is to turn to archaeology and well-established history – hundreds of Jewish and Christian historical sources – to disprove the plié. But it seems that isn't enough. Even the long list of prominent Muslim religious figures who for 1,300 years wrote unhesitatingly about the Temple Mount as the location of the Jewish Temple makes no impression of missions of Muslims.
So we need something else – to delve into the history of the Mount. In the past few years the research "tool belt" at our disposal has expanded, and we should use it. More and more academic studies are showing that the Muslims, from the first time they visited the Mount, used Jews to find their way around and that the Jews were the ones who taught Muslims about the Mount and where its borders lie, as well as the boundaries of the Foundation Stone, and that the first Muslim ceremonies at the Dome of the Rock bore a striking resemblance to Jewish ceremonies at the very Temple whose existence the Muslims now deny.
Netanyahu had no compunction in calling out and exposing the continuing travesty of justice that these current protestations represented.
However the roadblock jamming any progress in resolving the conflictwas suddenly cleared when days later PLO President Mahmoud Abbas announced:
"The Israeli occupation authority, as of today, has to shoulder all responsibilities and obligations in front of the international community as an occupying power over the territory of the occupied state of Palestine, with all its consequences and repercussions based on international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which holds the occupying power responsible for the protection of the civilian population under occupation and their property, criminalizes collective punishment, bans theft of resources, appropriation and annexation of land, bans forced transfer of the population of the occupied territory and bans transfer of the population of the occupying state (the colonialists) to the land it occupies, which all are grave violations and war crimes"
Stripped of the lies and false and deceptive claims contained in this statement that have formed part and parcel of the PLO’s propaganda arsenal since its formation in 1964 – Abbas’s message was clear: Abbas was now turning over responsibility for Judea and Samaria to Israel.
The PLO had never claimed “regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” or “on the Gaza Strip” as article 24 of its founding 1964 Charter declared. Its activities were to be “on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields”.
This PLO position only changed in 1968 after Jordan – having occupied Judea and Samaria between 1950 and 1967 driving out every Jew living there – lost that territory to Israel in the Six Day War. Gaining sovereignty in 100% of Judea and Samaria by the creation of another Arab State became the focus of the PLO from 1968.
President Trump’s peace plan offeringthe PLO possibly 70% of Judea and Samaria plus Gaza (see map below) has been rejected by the PLO.
Abbas – in turning over responsibility for Judea and Samaria to Israel – has opened the door to Jordan replacing the PLO as Israel’s negotiating partner.Successful negotiations between Jordan and Israel could see Jordan annexing part of Judea and Samaria, Jordanian citizenship being restored for the Arab residents as existed between 1950 and 1988 and a possible end to the Jewish-Arab conflict.
King Abdullah – expect a call from President Trump.
Are deep security ties between Israel and Jordan at risk? – analysis
Israel’s defense establishment understands the need to prevent a collapse of such ties, as the two countries not only have robust security coordination and intelligence sharing mechanism regarding the common threats. According to foreign reports, Jordan has allowed Israeli jets to use its airspace for its war-between-wars campaign in Syria.
The strategic depth provided by Jordan, which has not entered into any alliance with neighboring countries hostile to Israel, has kept Israel’s eastern and longest border the quietest and safest for 25 years.
Both Jordan and Israel understand that should security ties fail, not only will King Abdullah face instability at home, but the violence could spill over the border to Israel.
With a majority of Jordan’s citizens of Palestinian descent, Palestinian self-determination and maintaining the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem are key aspects of public discourse in Amman and contribute to the cooling relationship between the neighboring countries.
In March, Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz told CNN that “today, we are at the lowest level in the relationship that has been since signing the peace treaty” and warned that the peace treaty itself was at risk.
Razzaz also denounced Israel’s alleged “violations of the sanctity of Muslim and Christian endowments in Jerusalem.”
While Netanyahu and Abdullah both recognize the need to keep the peace, domestic pressures in Jordan might make it difficult for the king to continue it at the low-profile level it currently stands.
That would not be good, for either side.