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There is no such thing as the Western Wall, says PA Daily, erasing Jewish history

Excerpt of an op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily

 

Headline: “The meanings of the 2021 Jerusalem uprising”

 

 

 

The glorious uprising of May 2021 has had a number of meanings and consequences in the political field, the legal field, and the field of the struggle, the most important of which are:

 

A. It has proven to everyone throughout the world that Jerusalem belongs to its Palestinian Arab sons, that it is their eternal capital, and that harming it, its identity, its history, and its future will cause undesired results…

 

C. The Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) is the Al-Buraq Wall, and not the Wailing Wall. It will never be the Wailing Wall in accordance with the history, facts, and international resolutions. Let them look for another wall for themselves somewhere else in the world.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Al-Buraq Wall - Islam's Prophet Muhammad is said to have ridden during his Night Journey from Mecca to "al aqsa mosque", i.e., "the farthest mosque" (Quran, Sura 17), and there tied his miraculous flying steed named Al-Buraq to a "stone" or a "rock." (Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Book 47, Hadith 3424). In the 1920's, Arab Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini decided to identify the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem as that "rock" or "stone," and since then Muslims refer to the Western Wall as the "Al-Buraq Wall."

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