Unfortunately, claiming that the excavations which produced this find are taking place beneath the Temple Mount/ Noble Sanctuary is precisely the disinformation that triggers confrontation against Israel from throughout the Muslim world.

The excavations are taking place along the outside of the Western Wall close to the corner with the southern wall.

The only people excavating under the holy site is the Muslim Waqf which has spent years randomly digging with the aim of removing all evidence of Jewish history at the site. No international organization has protested and somewhat ironically, the dump site of the "waste" has revealed an abundance of archaeological finds.

The government of Israel is led by Likud and it is logical that the ruling party would be proud of such a significant find, regardless of their political position. Parties from the right to the left do not deny the right to Jewish sovereignty over their most holy site however hard the Arabs may try to baselessly claim their right to the area.

One can only hope that this misleading report has few readers who might use it as another excuse to demonize Israel and incite violence.

Amazing that a 2000-year old discovery cannot be told without having a modern political story attached.

Perhaps the continued false and misleading position of the Palestinian leadership that there is no history of Jews in Jerusalem has something to do with the political position.

Perhaps the history of Arab sacrilege on the Temple Mount, and the active erasing of archeological evidence, and destruction of Jewish artifacts has something to do with this.

Only under Israeli control has a modicum of free access to the holy city of Jerusalem been maintained for all religions. The international community has been wrong not to recognize Jerusalem as the unified capital city of Israel.

Hope this newly dicovered will conclude who owns the ancient Jerusalem.

The Mu slim Waqf, which controls the Temple Mount, has conducted ongoing "excavations" there in order to destroy any Jewish connection to Jewrusalem. In addition, Mu slims are being buried there so as to prevent any future Jewish construction work in the area.

This is the very interesting video. It is very much focusing on the rituals of the jews of ancient times.

http://www.educationrequirements.org/archaeologist.html

The Roman Empire systematically destroyed the religious places, writings and documents of the Jewish people to discourage, intimidate, break their faith in God and subjugate them. These tactics, and worse, have been used from the beginning of time in an attempt by the agressor to rewrite history and represent the brutal conquerer as the beginning of the nation. Only the best hidden clues survive as proof of the true claims of sometimes scattered peoples. The Roman Empire used the same tactics on those who believed Jesus was the proof and fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy of the Son of God, Redeemer, then diverted the Message. In these restless times of upheaval we must keep the proof and surrounding information safe for all generations of thuth and freedom seekers to know. Truth IS the pathway to free peace. Remember that evil hates truth and those who hold it dear.

Re: cause of above comment can enlighten all generations to come if thought on without bias or partisan politics. Patience and love can overcome anything, said my son last evening. I believe the same.

"overcome almost anything."

CNN, why is my comment from Dec 29th still awaiting moderation?
Why post anything on this blog if readers can't comment?

Take pleasure in moral support! I want to give it a try.

i agree with you . Same thing happened with the Indian subcontinent. When Islam came, it brought with it looting , plundering of the place, demolition of places of worship, conversion of women and children and killing of men. Then they changed names of towns, melted away local currencies, although some names stuck on. (Like Raval pindi- which is sanskrit is Raul Pindi'- the shiva.) Universities were burnt with students and libraries, so a great body of knowledge was lost.

It was even easier for the Islamists because they had no gods, no idols to install, no architecture or no paintings to replace the old. They just had to destroy what was useless for them, and loot what they could.

One magnificient monument withstood this carnage, its what we call Taj Mahal now. It was built much before Shahjahan, who just took it over from the Rajput king and defaced it in 13 years.
One day some technology will allow us to see what lies behind the 500 doors closed shut by govt. of india , and who knows it would be the greatest discovery in the century..!
thanks

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The Palestinians should be allowed to excavate parts of today Israel as the land west of th Jordan river offers much more than a strictly Jewish history.

Why do the commentors act as if the Muslim waqf is such a powerful and comtrollng entity? Israel controls every inch of the holy space because their racism and hatred of islam and fear of equality feed every aspect of their lives. They will bulldoze Muslim graves and constantly deny the existance of any Islamic history for their advantage. The red sea scrolls are a perfect example, stolen by the state of Israel because of greed and racism. Islam and Christianity hold just as much claim to the scrolls as the Jews but the sick racism of Israel denies that right in the name of Archaeology... what a joke!

fred,

Israel together with archaeologists from around the world excavate sites revealing all the history of the region.

Palestinians do a lot of excavating and do a good job at destroying all the history.