If the imposter Benjamin Netanyahu were told: the peace process, he would reply: Iran. If he were told: the peace process, he would reply: the Jewish state, or security, or the borders. Now, he is saying: the Western Wall. What is the difference between the Wailing Wall and the Western Wall? The first was 30 meters long, and after the occupation, it became 60 meters long. The second almost stretches the length of all of Jerusalem, or 488 meters according to some. In the beginning, we used to hear about the Wailing Wall, and then the Western Wall crept into the Israeli political lexicon, despite the fact that there are no Jewish historical traces of any kind. Instead, there are some lies and false claims about Jewish ruins, which might perhaps go on tomorrow to also include the Nile and the Euphrates, or the so-called Land of Israel which never existed historically or geographically. The recent controversy started with an article written by Al-Mutawakel Taha, an Information Ministry official, and was posted on the ministry's website. The article was referred to by the Jerusalem Post, after which Netanyahu made it a big issue, because Taha said that the Al-Buraq Wall is the Western Wall of Al-Aqsa, which the Zionist occupation claims to be the Wailing Wall. The Israeli Prime Minister said that the lengthy report is reprehensible and scandalous. But it is he who is reprehensible and scandalous, being a ‘street card magician', who only knows the craft of lying to other people. The only truth in this entire subject is that Israel is in its entirety an illegal settlement outpost in Palestine. The Jews have invented a religion to steal a whole country from its people, and the government of Netanyahu continues to steal, occupy and destroy. The following is meant for Muslims before Jews. I have said it in this column before, and decided to reiterate it today as the issue was raised again. My university education was in Arab literature and history, not journalism. When I was studying for my Masters at the American University of Beirut with Professor Ihsan Abbas (and Professor Mohammed Najm when the former was absent), I chose to minor in Middle Eastern History and Islam. After that, I studied Middle Eastern History at Georgetown University. I then went back to the subject to help my son in his exams, after he chose to study languages and history at the University of Oxford. I have also worked after that for thirty years in the field of Western-Islamic dialogue, through the World Economic Forum in Davos. I conducted a comparative study between the Quran and the Tanakh, especially the Torah or the first five books which they call the Five Books of Moses, and the books of Joshua, Judges and the Book of Ruth, and even the Minor Prophets near the end of the Torah. I dare say that my knowledge of the subject is good, and that this gives me the right to comment on the subject as a student of history, not as a commentator. I say that the lessons we learn from history, not religion, show that there were Jewish gatherings or tribes in most of the Middle East and the Fertile Crescent. However, there never were any Jewish kingdoms in Palestine or elsewhere. What we have before us then, are religious myths written 500 to 1000 years after the alleged events took place (Quranic revelation was recorded immediately, for example, and the majority of the New Testament or the Christian Bible was written by Christ's disciples within three or four decades of their teacher's message) My personal belief is that the ancient prophets mentioned in the Quran are different from those of the Jews. I wish that a capable Islamic organization, such as the Organization of the Islamic Conference, would hire Muslim historians who studied in the West to write a comprehensive study on the subject and settle the matter once and for all. I have a clear example: There are no traces in Egypt or Sinai at all of Jewish presence there, at any point in history, although all ancient ruins in Egypt are preserved, and date back to a time before the alleged Jewish history and then after it. Today, there are history books written by Jews, including Israelis, that say that Jews of Western origin are Khazars who fled to Eastern Europe and then Central Europe from the Caucasus, and ended up being the Ashkenazi Jews in Palestine. Here, I call on Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian and international archaeologist, to settle the matter for us, and tell us clearly whether there are any traces of Jewish presence in Upper Egypt, the Delta, the coast or the Sinai. The name Moses was mentioned 136 times in the Quran, according to my personal statistics. However, the details about Moses in the Quran differ than those in the Torah, and scholars must no doubt be able to better explain the subject that I can. This is important, in order to separate the prophets mentioned in the Quran from those of the Jews. The Israeli Reuven Barko, who writes in Israel Hayom, could not (on 25/11/2010) find evidence of Jewish presence and their prophets except by quoting the Quran and the prophet's biography. I say that the reason is because there is nothing in history or geography that proves their religion is true. They invented a religion to steal a whole country from its people. [email protected]
