Dore Gold is an Israeli-American who served under two terrorist prime ministers in Israel, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. Gold wrote a book accusing Saudi Arabia of supporting terrorism, although he personally hails from a terrorist “country" that occupies, destroys and murders women and children. Avigdor Lieberman, meanwhile, is a Moldovan who was as a brothel bouncer before immigrating to Israel. Today, he is the Foreign Minister of Israel, and his track record in this post is very befitting to his experience as a thug and a bully [...]. So what is in common between Gold and Lieberman, other than serving a terrorist state founded on the basis of myths of the Hebrew Bible that no antiquities or archaeological traces in the Middle East corroborate? Both men have attacked President Mahmoud Abbas, Gold arguing that Abu Mazen denies the existence of the Temple of Solomon in the Haram al-Sharif, and Lieberman, believe it or not, because the Palestinian president is “the main obstacle to peace". Israel is the main obstacle to peace. Every single minister in its fascist cabinet and its terrorist army, as well as its terrorist security services, is an obstacle to peace. Lieberman is a pariah among the world's foreign ministers. No one speaks to him except some in the former Soviet republics. He is also accused of embezzlement in Israel, and has been facing courts for 14 years on charges of transferring money to fake offshore companies run by his daughter. Lieberman's main expertise is in brothels and with drunkards, and he behaves himself accordingly. For instance, Lieberman demanded that the Quartet dismiss Abu Mazen and call for new Palestinian elections. I say that Abu Mazen is the most pro-peace Palestinian leader, and any alternative will probably be more stringent. Furthermore, the Quartet does not have the right to keep him in place or dismiss him, as Mahmoud Abbas was elected president by the Palestinians. Gold claims that Abu Mazen, and Yasser Arafat before him, as well as Dr. Nabil Shaath, Dr. Saeb Erekat and Yasser Abed Rabbo deny the existence of the Temple of Solomon. I ask that my name be added to the group. The Temple does not exist in our land, which lies from the Sea to the River, and there are no traces of Jewish prophets there whatsoever. Yes, there were Jews here, but they were tribes and clans present throughout the entire Middle East. But Jewish kingdoms and prophets are myths of the Hebrew Bible that are uncorroborated by factual history. Gold studied at Columbia University, while I studied at two American schools, the American University of Beirut and Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (where I did not complete my studies). In both universities, I learned that history and known antiquities deny the claims of the Torah. Gold wrote in Israel Hayom, a paper owned by the Zionist American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Gold quoted al-Tabari's history on Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab. But what I know about the subject is that Omar sided with Patriarch Sophronius and expelled the Jews from the Holy City, after giving safe passages for them and their properties, and left the city to the local Christians and the Muslims who came with him. This is while bearing in mind that the Ghassanid Arabs ruled Jerusalem before the advent of Islam from their capital in the Golan. Since the Christians were – and still are – in dispute over the share of each one of their respective sects in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Caliph handed over the key of the most important Christian church to one of the Sahaba [companions of the Prophet] accompanying him. To this day, the key is in the hands of the Muslim Nusseibeh family, who is entrusted with opening and closing the church's door. The Nusseibeh family, along with many Arab families from Jerusalem, can trace back their well-established presence in the Holy City to 1,000 or 1,400 years in the past. Yet two foreign mongrels like Gold and Lieberman have the gall to talk about the Jewish relationship with Jerusalem, when they never knew the city until they became adults and immigrated there. I say for myself that there are no Jewish antiquities in Jerusalem. The Temple of Solomon never existed anywhere (Abu Ammar once claimed it is located in Nablus), and the Temple Mount is a phrase of the Hebrew Bible rather than factual history. To be sure, the Haram al-Sharif is free of any Jewish traces, and when the Israelis excavated the site under Yitzhak Rabin's first tenure in the early eighties, they found an Umayyad palace. Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock were built by the Umayyads, and the mosque contains the Mawani mosque, named after the Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik bin Marwan, who built the mosque which was then completed by his son al-Walid bin Abdul Malik. The Palestinians, the Arabs and the Muslims are the rightful owners of the land, and their history alone is true. As for the likes of Lieberman and Gold, they are immigrants, or “Passers between the Passing Words", as Mahmoud Darwish once described them. One day, they will carry their names and leave our lands. [email protected]
