Is the Dome of the Rock Muslim or Jewish?

            TURNING THE TABLES AROUND TO SEE IN THE EYES OF A JEW

A common Palestinian's opinion:

"I like Jews but I hate Zionism"

"I have nothing against Jews, but I don't like Israel."

I used to hate words like "Yerushalayim", "Shalom", "Yesrael", or anything Jewish as I considered them foreign words forced into my homeland of what I and my people called "Palestine". To me Israel was an occupier, an oppressor, a thief in the night who snuck in one day to rob me of my home, heritage, and land.

I hated the Jew in Israel and was determined on their destruction, to the point that I resorted to rioting and terrorism. By any means Israel must be terminated. Later on, and for unknown reasons I wanted to put myself in the shoes of a Jew and started studying the Bible. I realized then that studying an important portion of scripture made me see things from the eyes of a Jew who was put on a mock trial, His name was Yeshua ben Yosef identified by gentiles as the name of Jesus of Nazareth. I concluded that the only way to reach peace in this turbulent world, is for us to remove ourselves for a while, enter behind the eyes of this Jewish Messiah, see how He sees, feel the way He feels, and understand how and why things are the way they are.

I began to see things differently, having lived in the Holy Land I failed during all these trips to Jerusalem, to see why the Jews were only allowed a Wailing Wall as the holiest place for them. Why was the Jew not allowed to worship on the Temple Mount or even be allowed to rebuild it - if the Muslim world has Mecca, the Catholic world has the Vatican, and many Christian pilgrims are allowed to visit all the holy sites, yet the Jew is barred to have a Temple, especially when the Temple was originally theirs? The world would be in uproar if someone other then Muslim takes over Mecca !

We have seen in history the numerous wars of the crusades over allowing the Christian pilgrims to visit their holy sites in Jerusalem but here we have Jews in Israel having the upper hand, being more powerful then their enemy, yet they allow their most holy site to still be trodden by the Muslim Gentiles, especially when Sheik Ikrimeh Sabri Jerusalem's Grand Mufti, preaches daily sermons from Israel's first and foremost holiest site calling for the destruction of the Jews. These folk have to listen to the loud speakers while they worship outside under the weather elements, and in the bottom western side designated for the Jews, to only hear that the Wailing Wall area is in reality an Islamic site called "Al-Buraq", and it too belongs to the Muslims: "The 'Al-Buraq' Wall [the Western Wall] is a part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Jews have no relation to it, whether or not a decision to expropriate it was made." (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Ikrama Sabri in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, November 22, 1997.

While Mecca is the only place demanded for Muslims in The Quran, Judaism is the only religion in which the city of Jerusalem is an inseparable part of religious faith. Jews alone are mandated by biblical law to celebrate their religion in Jerusalem. Muslims refer to some tradition of extra "Haj" requirements to visit Jerusalem, yet such practice seem to have never been followed from time immemorial. Jerusalem seems to have gained importance only when the Jews laid claim to it.

How is it that the Jew and under all the circumstances, must remain silent? Why is it that much of the world is in denial when the facts are that the Temple Mount is known to have had the first and second temples built on that site by Jews and for Jews? Does a Muslim mosque on the Temple Mount make it null and void of it being Jewish?

Then you have the Palestinian prominent historian Jarid Al-Kidwa announced from the Palestinian TV that: "The stories of the Torah and the Bible did not take place in the Land of Israel--they occurred in the Arabian peninsula, primarily in Yemen. The identity of our father Ibrahim [Abraham] who is mentioned in the Koran is clear. From the Koran's description of him it arises that he lived in the southern Hejaz [Saudi Arabia], near Mecca." Mr. Al-Kidwa also announced that the Arab in reality has the true Jewish blood while the Jew is from a Khazarian race.

            THE UNLIKELY SCENARIO

Assuming that the Jews decided for one reason or another to agree with Mr. Al-Kidwa that Mecca has really been built by the their father Abraham, and some day they fought an Arab resistance which prohibited the Jew from worshiping in Mecca and Israel decided to take over Saudi Arabia, put their Kohanim Ha-Gadol (High Priest) over that holy site, take out everything Arabic, and have Hebrew calligraphy written all around the Cabba's wall, and make it an abomination for any Muslim to set foot on it's ground. Yet can this scenario be allowed in the Muslim and Christian world? This would be unthinkable !!! Things are different when we turn the tables around.

Now let us assume that the Arabs decided after all these harassments, to overcome the Jew and take back Saudi Arabia, will the Mullahs of Islam stand silent and allow all this sacrilege to continue? What would you assume that Arab and Muslim masses will do to these Jews? It could be possible that Mecca's Grand Mufti will make an exception to allow the sacrifice during the Haj be both sheep and Jew. Yet, the Jew who has never taken over Mecca or occupied and Arab nation, suffers such things, and dares to remain silent, and instead of his outcry, he is being sacrificed throughout history for simply being Jew.

We have seen throughout history and during every war against the Jew in the Middle East the cry of the Arab leaders to kill the Jew were ever they are found. Even after they are dead they seem not to escape the wrath, in their holiest city 2,500-year-old Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a road was dug through it using Jewish tombstones for a pathway to the Arab Legion army latrine. Yet the Jew have not revenged, he remains silent. This silence in front of a world of false accusers is quite amazing.

Studying The Bible taught me more then how it is like to be a Jew, but how to look at things after clearing the murky water. Being a Christian from the Bible's perspective is in reality being a "Spiritual" Jew. Christianity is not a new religion, it is simply the original Jewish faith fulfilled in Messiah. It is only then I realized that the way to true and everlasting peace, is to see how God in the Bible is able to reconcile between Jew and Christian. I started to realize that God is indeed a God of peace and that the God of Islam is indeed bent on destructing the Jew. The Bile did not have a single verse calling the Christians to destroy Jews, yet the tyrants of Christendom spoke on their own accord and the Muslim God was not the same God mentioned in scripture. How is it then that Christendom claims to follow God's commandments, yet from long ago they failed to have peace with the Jew?

That facts are - many Christian movements have always existed throughout history, these "spiritual" Jews followed the Bible, and not only were successful to make peace with the Jew, but aided them to obtain freedom at last. True Christianity will always reconcile between Jew and Gentile. But with this reconciliation always comes persecution and mock trials.

It is after I removed the scales from my eyes, replacing my prejudice heart, and study the simple facts, I decided to become a Christian. it's a long testimony, but now I am amazed, and still have a difficult time believing that I became quite the opposite of everything I was taught and believed in. Whatever Popes declared or Martin Luther wrote against the Jews was the works of their own hearts and had nothing to do with our Lord.

Today, I love Hebrew, the Jews, and Israel and ready to fight for her rights of existence as long as their is still a breath left in my life. Before you judge me, or accuse me of madness or treason, please put me on trial and read my lines and weigh the facts to see for yourself if what I am about to share is based on factual evidence.

Defenders of Jews in Germany during Adolf Hitler's reign was looked upon as traitors, but after the evil episode was over, these folk were recognized as righteous gentiles. So why do people prefer to live a nightmare through to realize their errors? Why not wake up before it even starts? The Middle East and the Islamic World in general are bent on destroying Israel, why not wake up and stop the repetition of history against the Jew?

My conclusion of all of my life's research is this: Simply put, there is no freedom of speech, thought, or religion in any Arab or Muslim nation. These nations once taken over by Islam, they have little difference in their ways from communism. Most of all, it has the same inclination to export its ideas. It does not respect national borders, and the end justifies the means: "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption.... " (2 Peter 2:19). I have learned that once I expressed my opposing views and exercised these rights my own people the Arabs and Muslims who claim to fight for freedom, were the first to condemn me. In a debate over my thoughts with a group of Muslims and Arabs on the internet, out of the whole group, everyone but one lady declared that I must be killed as a result of my "Apostate" opinions. Finally I have learned what it is like to be a Jew.

The brainwash of the Arab and Muslim masses by Islam's propaganda has produced narrow minded cookie cut mentality, similar to what we see in Communist and Nazi regimes, who think that their struggle is a struggle of justice, but always and ignorantly following a lie and walking into the traps of evil tyrants. The sad thing is, once they rid one tyrant, another more evil seems to crop up. The truth is, people have no right to complain since the tyrants they seem to get is in reality the representation of their own hearts - they condemn others, so they themselves are condemned. Corruption only begets more corruption, and evil only begets more evil, it will never stop until we have a change in heart.