PA libel: The 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque arson was committed by a “crazy rabbi”
Excerpt of a column by Yahya Rabah, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “The 52nd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque”
“Last Saturday [Aug. 21, 2021] was the 52nd anniversary of the greatest crime committed by the terrorist bodies in the history of Zionist Judaism and messianic Judaism: the day of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It was committed… by a crazy man who was blind with hatred and fanaticism, namely Rabbi Kakhakh (sic., the fire was set by Australian Christian Michael Rohan who had a mental health disorder, PMW was unable to find records of a “Rabbi Kakhakh”). To this very day there are despicable sick people of his ilk, such as [former Israeli Parliament Member] Rabbi [Yehuda] Glick…
Jewish Zionism and Jewish messianism gives itself rights that are nothing but delusions and tales,including the tales [that] this foolish rabbi who burned the Al-Aqsa Mosque [believed in]. He deluded himself that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is just a building, just stones. No, you fool! …The Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are the inheritance of a nation, and nations do not belittle their inheritances as some sick ones do who carried out normalization [with Israel], may they be cursed (refers to Abraham Accords; see note below -Ed.).”
Michael Rohan - Australian Christian with a mental health disorder who set fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969. For years, the Palestinian Authority has falsely accused Israel of setting the fire.