PA TV: “Only Muslims have a right” to the Western Wall, which was “not part of the alleged Jewish Temple”

Official PA TV program Capital of Capitals, on the Western Wall

Official PA TV host: This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing Wall. And it will return to its original state when the transient settlers leave… The Jews used the site as a place of worship only after the publication of the British Balfour Declaration in 1917, and this wall was not part of the alleged Jewish Temple (sic.).

[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals, June 14, 2023]

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."

The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that “His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate “responsible for putting into effect the declaration,” which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel’s War of Independence.

The allegation that Jews didn’t pray at the Western Wall till after the Balfour Declaration was issued is false. Jews have been praying at the Western Wall since they were given permission by Sultan Suleyman to do so in 1546 at the latest, and an abundance of evidence proves Jewish history at the Temple Mount.