Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 | 1:55 a.m.
As President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton use carrots and sticks to push Middle East peace talks into high gear, a recent pronouncement by an official of the Palestinian Authority, left unchallenged, will be a deal-killer. It was not about “the right of return,” or Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. It was the pronouncement by Mutawakel Taha, a senior official with the PA’s Ministry of Information that “there is no archeological evidence that the Temple Mount was built during the period of King Solomon ... One can only conclude that Al-Buraq Wall is a Muslim wall and an integral part of the Aksa Mosque and Haram al-Sharif.” Taha, who is also a respected Palestinian poet and writer, explains that Jews never worshipped at the site until the Balfour Declaration of 1917. “This wall was never part of the so-called Temple Mount, but Muslim tolerance allowed the Jews to stand in front of it and weep over its destruction.” Not one stone of the Western Wall belongs to the Temple of Solomon, he asserted.
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