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Western Wall stones crumbling
Nissan Straukler
Published: 15.04.08, 12:24
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1. knock it down and build a mall
Mr Leftie ,   TA Israel   (04.15.08)
about time to knock it down , i think a new mall would better serve the nation.
2. #1 Jews are Jews neither right or left
A simple Jew ,   Israel   (04.15.08)
You may call yourself Mr. Leftie, but you sure as hell don't represent Jews with leftist views. Simply put, knocking down our Jewish heritage is also taking away any trace of real Jewish identity. I prefer to think that you have no Jewish heritage to begin with, and just happen to live an alien life here in our country rich with Jewish heritage.
3. #1 The Third Beit Hamikdash will be built there VERY SOON
Miriam ,   Israel   (04.15.08)
be'ezrat Hashem and then vayomru vagoyim, we will merit that all the nations throughout the world will say: Hashem melech, Hashem malach, Hashem yimloch le'olam va'ed.
4. Thank God for Al Aqsa
Jo Jo ,   London   (04.15.08)
If not for the Muslims, the Israelis would have probably turned the site into a mall. Shame on those "Jews" from TA, (read: Tel Aviv). Maybe we should also demolish all the artifacts on Masada and turn it into a theme park.
5. To number 3, yes long live
Palestinian   (04.15.08)
Beit al-Maqdis.... Cool, same name in Arabic as Beit- Ha Mikdash! This only shows again and again, that we are same people, same origin, same God... But who cares after all!
6. to #1
Maud Weiss ,   canada   (04.15.08)
how shameful of you...
7. #1 u r way out of line! We all need Western Wall its ours
Sally Forth ,   Jerusalem of course!   (04.15.08)
it is part of our national, cultural, spiritual heritage.
8. #1 r u really a nasty right winger? I dont know...
Ami Israel ,   Jerusalem   (04.15.08)
any leftists who would agree with your statements. You are all alone and in a minority
9. #5 Do you know that the Koran which was written thousands of
Miriam ,   Israel   (04.15.08)
years after the Torah, was based on the Torah. And that's the reason for the similarities. You live and learn.
10. Are you all absolutely sure #1 wasn't being sarcastic?
Another Leftie ,   Israel   (04.15.08)
11. Build
Zion   (04.15.08)
Sell the wall on eBay, dump the mosque on the Mecca overnight and build the third temple. Arabs wouldn't notice the difference from their daily propaganda of a tacky golden blob on TV.
12. Why Is It Crumbling Now After Thousnds of Years
(04.15.08)
because the Arabs have been digging underneath the Temple Mount in order to expand their mosques without any engineers supervising them.
13. #12 what 1000s of yrs -- its the 19th c. part that is
crumbling! where did ,   u learn 2 read?   (04.15.08)
14. temple mount remedial geography & general information
Sally Forth ,   Jerusalem   (04.15.08)
the part that is crumbling is the 19th century western section at the top (see text #12) The Moslem digging/building has all been on the eastern side of the temple mount. That is under Churvat Shlomo on the southeastern side and near the Moslem girls school which has as its outer wall the Golden Gate that is on the eastern side. The Jewish digging/building has all been on the western side that is the The Western Wall Heritage Cave underneath the northwestern section of the Wall and in the Orphel gardens underneath the northeastern section of the Wall. Oh and of course we need to mention that hundreds of homes were torn down in front of the Western Wall to create the huge plaza back in 1967. In other words #12 everyone has been building and digging under around and in the Temple Mount for quite sometime!
15. western wall
sas ,   israel   (04.16.08)
this whole country is crumbling to pieces.
16. Where do the Rabbis get their stupidity from??
EGW ,   vancouver canada   (04.17.08)
42' long and 11 ' high?? This sounds to ME like the HERODIAN stones, and not those on the top of the upper 18th cent. addition which are rather small. And, although I was very close to the Wall, and walked around the whole city, I cuould see all the lower part of the walls, all Herodian, and none of them seemed to ME to be as much as half the height you mention. On another point, this nonsense about Halacha. Why do the rabbis need to stick their stupid noses in here. They are not normally stupid, but they often do and say very stupid things. The stones as described were put there less than 2 00 years ago by anti-semitic GOYIM, .......AND this is only a wall RETAINING the debris used to artificially fill up the mountain top. Very far from where the actual Holy Temple stood. A RETAINING WALL......
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