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)