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"The West Bank is part of Jordan |
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The West Bank was never legally part of Jordan. Under the U.N's 1947 Partition Plan -- which the Jews accepted and the Arab rejected -- it was to have been part of the an independent Arab state in the Westren Palestine. But the Jordanian army invaded and occupied it during the 1948 war. In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Only two goverments Great Brtian and Pakistan formally recongnized the Jordanian takeover. The rest of the world, including the United States, never did. During the 1950-1976 period of its occupation, Jordan permitted terrorists to launch raids into Israel. Jordan lost the West Bank after the Jordanian Army entered the war in 1967. |
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"Jeruaslem is Isalm's third most holy city |
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Muslims try to connect Jerusalem to Islam by using a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled "The Night Joureny". It relates that in a dream or vision, Mohammed was carried by night "from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs..." In the seventh centurty, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being Mecca and Jerusalem, And that's as close to Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jeruaslem back to days of Abraham. |
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"The Temple Mount has always been a Muslim holy place and Judaism has no connection to the site." |
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The Area of Solomom's stables is believed to date as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple. According to Josephus, it was in exsistence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews as the time of the conquest of Jeruaslem by Titus in the year 70 A.D. More authoritatively, the Koran - the holy book of Islam describe Solomon's construction of the first temple (34:13) and recounts the destruction of the First and Second Temples (17:7). The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount dates back more than 3,000 years and it rooted in tradition and hisotry. When Abraham bound his son, Issac, upton an altar as sacrfiice to God, he did so atop Mount Moriah, Today's Temple Mount. |
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"Under Israeli rule, religious freedom has been curbed in Jerusalem" |
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After the 1967 war, Israel abolished all the discriminatory laws promulgated by Jordan and adopted its own tough standard for safeguarding access to religions shrines. "Whoever does anything that is likey to violate the freedom of access of the members of the various religions to the places sacred to them". Israeli law stipulates, "Is liable to imprisonment for a term of five years". Israel also entrusted adminstration of holy places to their repective religous authorties. Thus, for exmaple, the muslim Waqf has responsibility for the mosques on the Temple Mount. |
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