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Here's how the BBC spins this story. Basically it turns the truth upside down. You would never know viewing these slides that Jews are not allowed to pray on the Mount or that Muslims are destroying Jewish artifacts.

Dore Gold on the Muslim confrontation with Jewish history, described further in his book:

This story about French perfidy provides another example of Orwellian rewriting of Jewish history. Did you know that parts of Israel are considered to be French national soil? You have to read the whole thing to grasp the full scope of the deception but here's a piece:

. . . . holding any entertainment at a tomb seems offensive -- violating the dignity of the dead -- as well as somewhat macabre. But the music festival at Kings' Tomb is all the more repugnant. It is clearly an Arab nationalist celebration at a Jewish tomb of much historical interest. A Jewish site is used for an anti-Jewish call to arms, thus violating the site's deed of transfer to France. Moreover, France (and other Western states and agencies) have tolerated or collaborated with -- if not sponsored -- several Arab falsifications of history in the Festival publicity, even if not agreeing with these falsifications.

Furthermore, the French state has caused damage to antiquities on its self-proclaimed National Domain sites, thus violating the Israeli Antiquities Law. Jon Seligman, Jerusalem Regional Archeologist of the Antiquities Authority, notified Israel's Foreign Ministry (22 January 2001): "The French Consulate has conducted works at these sites, causing irreversible damage to antiquities and contravening the provisions of the law governing the right to conduct archeological work, using the claim that the sites are under French 'sovereign' control . . . . The ancient tombs and miqva'ot (ritual baths) excavated by de Saulcy in 1863 are some of the most significant tombs found in the city of Jerusalem. Careful preservation and maintenance of these finds is important for the conservation of a site which clearly is of universal significance..."

He mentioned the "severe damage" to the tombs caused by the electrical work in 1996. This scoffing at the antiquities law by the French consulate occurred not only at Kings' Tomb, St. Anne's, and the Pater Noster (Eleona) Church on the Mount of Olives -- all under Jordanian control from 1948 to 1967 -- but at a monastery in Abu Ghosh within the Green Line, under Israel's jurisdiction since 1948, and also claimed as French National Domain.

Ron Coleman says that “Never again” is the Big Lie of the second half of the twentieth century. Yes. And rewriting history is one outrage to which we Jews supposedly say "Never Again!" Well, only if it's Nazi history. We get justifiably exercized over David Irving and his ilk, but the WAQF of the Temple Mount we placate instead of denounce.

(The illustration is from Digging the Temple Mount: How Not to Do It, from Dr Leen Ritmeyer's blog about archeology at the Temple Mount. Lots more good stuff there.)