ARCHAEOLOGIST: BARAK
ALLOWS WAQF TO BUILD ON TEMPLE MOUNT
The Moslem Waqf, engaged in intensive earthmoving and excavation
works on the Temple Mount, continues to violate Israeli law there. The police
have not intervened, and archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar says that this is with
the Prime Minister's say-so. Mazar, who is a member of a committee to prevent
the destruction of ruins of Temple Mount artifacts, told Arutz-7 today that the
Waqf's work has continued there non-stop for a long time, but "over the
last week and a half, the works have really taken a more intensive turn. Trucks
are coming out loaded with pieces of the ruins - and all with Prime Minister
Barak's approval. The other ministers know that it is Barak and Barak alone who
makes the decisions. We have tried to meet with Barak for months, but he simply
ignores us. A while ago, there was a plan to build a grandiose mosque on the Temple
Mount - the biggest one in the Middle East... Now, with work going on a full
200 meters north of Solomon's Stables [where work was permitted in the past]
and next to the Gate of Mercy, it makes us suspect that these plans have been
revived... This must be stopped."
(A7 12/12/00)