2002 Temple Mount

2002 The Temple Mount

Haj Zaki al-Ghul (Jerusalem’s “shadow” mayor from Amman), voiced a similar claim. In a 2002 lecture at the annual al-Quds conference in Jordan, al-Ghul stated that King Solomon had ruled over the Arabian Peninsula, and that it was there, not in Jerusalem, that he built his Temple.

Source: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/03/01/king-solomons-vanishing-temple/

English Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, who dug in Jerusalem before 1967, wrote, “The site of the Temple is not in doubt… [T]he retaining walls of the platform of Herod’s Temple are still visible today, now crowned by that supreme example of Moslem architecture, the Dome of the Rock.” Arab writers deny this conclusion.

A Palestinian named Arafat Hijazi wrote in a 2002 article on the website of the Islamic Movement in Israel’s southern branch that “42 archeological teams excavated at al-Aqsa between 1891-1925, and hundreds [yes!] have excavated since 1967, but not one archeologist has found a remnant of the Temple or any indication of the existence of Jews in Palestine.”

Source: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/03/01/king-solomons-vanishing-temple/