The attempts of the Zionists to aggress upon Al-Aqsa Mosque are repeated on the grounds that it was built on the ruins of Solomon's Temple, of which, according to their claim, only one wall remains. They go there to perform their prayers while swaying back and forth, weeping bitterly to the sound of a myth that has no existence except in their mentality, which believes that this wall is a remnant of the Temple. They believe that God, Yahweh, will dwell there with His chosen people after taking revenge on humanity in the battle of the Last Days, which they call "Armageddon." The Lord says: "Say to all kinds of birds and to all the beasts of the field, 'Gather and come, assemble from every side to my sacrifice that I prepare for you, a great sacrifice I will make on the mountains of Israel; and you shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk from my sacrifice which I prepare for you'" (Ezekiel 39: 17-18).
The mentality that instigates attacks on our sacred places every time is a sick and obsessive mentality, consumed by thoughts of revenge to the extent of drinking blood and being quenched by it!
The above text is just one of hundreds of texts that call for revenge and aggression found in their holy book, supported by the Christian mentality that combines their scriptures with the Bibles in one book, with the only difference being the identity of the awaited Christ.
Just as individuals can suffer from feelings of inferiority and inadequacy, some nations also experience similar feelings when their beliefs are insulted, degraded, and destroyed by others. This is the complex at the core of Zionist thought, which believes in its superiority over others, accompanied by deep-seated feelings of contempt and inferiority that are unparalleled. Even if they possessed all the weapons in the world, the historical proof of the falsehood of the Western Wall is not difficult at all to establish.
If we concede hypothetically to the existence of Solomon's Temple (who died in 931 BC), and then the division of his small kingdom into two kingdoms; "Israel" in the north, and "Judah" in the south with its capital in Jerusalem, this temple was not a grand structure comparable to the temples of contemporary civilizations such as the Assyrian and Egyptian ones. Historical studies have confirmed the existence of two Canaanite temples in the Levant dating to the same period that resemble in descriptions what is referred to as Solomon's Temple. The Torah states: "The length of the temple that Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits, its width twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits" (1 Kings 6:2). The Israelites had no part in its construction; according to the testimonies of the Torah itself, builders from Tyre constructed it, and even the building materials were brought from there. This matter is detailed extensively in the commonly accepted Torah
This structure was removed from existence and its contents were looted when Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem and left it as a heap of ruins (1 Kings 25:8-9), and the people of Jerusalem were exiled to Babylon. This temple was not sacred during the period of its construction and removal, as idol worship took place within it, and a form of prostitution known as sacred prostitution was practiced there, where prostitutes would gather money for the restoration of the temple under the supervision of the priests themselves. The Torah says about the Jews, "They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and worshiped the idols of Ashtoreth and the images" (2 Chronicles 24:8).
After the fall of Babylon in 539 BC at the hands of the Achaemenid Persians, they allowed the Israelites to build a new temple, which was smaller than the first temple. Even the Torah elevated Cyrus the pagan to the ranks of the prophets because he permitted them to rebuild a new temple, as it came: "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah" (Ezra, 1:2), "And this temple was a poor shadow of the first temple" (3 Ezra, 12).
There is no indication whatsoever that it was located on the site of the first temple, and this is a fact that is overlooked by Jewish literature, which claims that the place of the second temple was based on the premise that it was in the same location as the first and second temples, and that Al-Aqsa occupies their place.
By the year 332 BC, Jerusalem was under Persian rule; it came under the rule of Alexander the Great following the defeat of the Persians by the Greeks.
After the division of Alexander's empire among his commanders, Palestine became a land of conflict among them; this led to their weakening and the spread of Greek culture among the Jews, until the Roman commander Antiochus IV Epiphanes entered Jerusalem in 168 B.C. and destroyed the Second Temple. Despite its restoration, it was subjected to looting and vandalism in 54 B.C. by the Roman commander Crassus, leaving no trace behind. This marked the beginning of the end of the Second Temple.
And when Antiochus IV desecrated the temple and slaughtered pigs within it, the Jews rose up in rebellion. However, when Crassus destroyed it, they did not stir, for they had lost much of their religious zeal under the weight of Greek and Roman cultures. Indeed, the Book of Maccabees describes the temple: “It was filled with wickedness and debauchery, to the extent that foreigners began to practice various forms of fornication and to sleep with women within its corridors” (1 Maccabees 6:3-4).
To win the favor of the Jewish subjects, Herod the Great, who was the governor of Palestine under the Roman government, built a new temple for his Jewish subjects in 19 BC. This temple is not mentioned in the Torah and served more as a political, economic, and tourist center than anything else, aimed at gaining the goodwill of the Jewish subjects and appeasing them by the ruling authorities. It became a hub for moneylenders and traders and was referred to by Christ as a den of thieves. Christ himself paid the temple tax imposed by the Romans on the Jews (Matthew 17). He described those working in it, saying to them: “It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13). This is considered the third temple, and there is no indication that it was built on the ruins of the second temple.
This structure was completely destroyed when the Roman commander Titus entered Jerusalem in 70 AD during the reign of the famous Emperor Nero following the Jewish revolt. He ravaged the Jews and demolished the Temple, leaving not a single stone intact. The last chapter of the Temple's existence ended in 135 AD when the Roman commander Hadrian entered Jerusalem and completely eradicated the Jewish presence, expelling the Jews from Jerusalem, plowing the site of the Temple itself, and establishing a new colony which the Arabs called "Eelia."
This brief summary gives us an idea of about three structures that were built for the Jews within Jerusalem from the time of Solomon until now. There is no historical truth that they were in the same location, or that anything remains of them, and that they were centers of corruption, immorality, prostitution, and debauchery. The claim that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built over the temple is merely a myth that modern Zionism has worked to instill in the minds of obsessed Jews. The notion that this wall is a remnant of the First Temple is baseless; after the establishment of “Israel,” Ben-Gurion wrote that there is no meaning to “Israel” without Jerusalem, and no meaning to Jerusalem without the temple. Six days after Jerusalem fell, excavations began under the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the pretext of searching for the foundations of the alleged temple.
Despite what is said and written, the religious war over the Al-Aqsa Mosque is indisputable, and the claim that the Wailing Wall confirms the Jews' right to build their temple is merely a myth they seek to instill through calls for a Jewish “Israel.” They use this silent wall as one of the means to achieve that and nothing else.
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