It's a Jewish Temple

The Temple Mount

Take a good look at this picture (click to enlarge); it's the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The object with a gold dome is the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine built in 691. Remember the date. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is also located here, built by Umar the Great after the city was conquered by the Rashidun army, under the command of Abu Ubaidah, in November 636. Remember that date.

Have you been looking at the picture closely? It looks like it's empty, basically, except for that big gold ball placed incongruously to one side. No architect would build a structure looking like this. This is not surprising, because what you're looking at is a foreign structure slapped down on the ruins of the first and second Jewish Temple.

The original temple was built on this site by King Solomon about 1000 BC, destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, rebuilt between 520 and 515 BC and expanded by Herod during his reign from 37 BCE to 4 CE. Remember those dates.

Now ask yourself, which came first; the temple or the mosque?

Well, obviously, the temple by a matter of 1600 years. The mosque and the dome were put there deliberately to show the imperial power of the Islamic conquest, just as the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was renamed and reused as a mosque. Conquers do this kind of thing; they take the heart of their opponents and grind it into the dust.

So we should not be surprised to see this poster on the side of a Jerusalem bus.

'Build temple quickly, in our time' 

(Photo: Shmulik Grossman)

That's the temple in the image on the left of the poster. A big improvement over what's there now. Here's the story from YNetNews.com. 

Two hundred Egged buses were plastered with posters Sunday that call for the construction of the third temple "quickly and in our time". The posters carry a drawing of Temple Mount without the mosques situated there.

The posters were made by an extreme right-wing group called Eretz Israel Shelanu (Our Land of Israel), headed by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo and Baruch Marzel.

If I were Jewish; if I were an Israeli, I'd be supporting Rabbi Wolpo. It's a Jewish temple and it needs to be rebuilt, and, 'in our time.'

Certainly if the Wehrmacht had won the last war and built a National Socialist shrine on the foundations of the House of Commons in Ottawa, and had subsequently been defeated, Canadians would be putting up posters to have it pulled down and the original rebuilt, wouldn't they?

Wouldn't you?