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In August 15, 1929,
militant Zionist groups paraded in the vicinity of Al-Buraq Muslim
Wall,
which Jews believed
since long times to be their Wailing Wall, in the first political
demonstration of its
kind after the British occupation of Palestine in 1918. Under the
aegis
of the British invaders,
Palestine witnessed a process of mass Jewish immigration and
colonization. The
Mandate authorities encouraged Zionists to build some 60 Jewish
colonies in less than a
dozen of years, from 1918 to 1929.
As a result of those
grave developments, especially the Zionist political demonstration
at
Wailing Wall stirred
Palestinian susceptibility and tolled the bills of an impending
catastrophe.
Consequently the first
Palestinian revolution erupted in the face of the Zionist attempt to
mess with Haram al-Sharif
(Noble Sanctuary) and its Western Wall, a Muslim property the
seventh century when two
Umayyad Caliphs, Abdul Melik and his son Walid built the
magnificent Mosque of
the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, which both constitute
Haram Sharif. The
Ottomans and previous Muslim rulers allowed Jews to visit and
practice
their prayers at Walling
Wall without changing the legal status of the Muslim holy places
allowed Jews.
A British-appointed
Commission of Inquiry, with the approval of the Council of the
League
of Nations, reported
rightfully on Zionist instigated violence in the aftermath of the
first
political militant
demonstration by Zionist groups of August 15, 1929 “ the Arabs have
come
to see in Jewish
immigration not only a menace to their livelihood but a possible
overlord
of the future.”
The Commission concluded
that the ownership of the Western Wall belonged solely to
Muslims and it formed an
integral part of Haram Sharif.
Unfortunately, Israel
occupation of Arab East Jerusalem in June 1967 encouraged
extremist Jewish groups,
as Faithfuls of the Temple, to blackmail Muslim worshippers from
time to time,
threatening to demolish al-Haram and build the third Temple.
Moreover,
occupation troops
surround the Mosque of al-Aqsa every Friday, harassing Muslim
worshippers and not
letting in anyone who is under certain age or not holding Israeli
ID.
Zionists used
metaphysical religious myths and the holy places in Jerusalem as
fig- leaf to
hide their evil designs
and insatiable appetite for devouring all the Arab lands in historic
Palestine never mind how
indigestible they are.
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