Dr. Eilat Mazar, an active member of the Committee Against the Destruction of Temple Mount Artifacts, has been outspoken against the Moslem Waqf\'s attempted destruction of Jewish history at Judaism\'s holy site, the Temple Mount. She apprised Arutz-7\'s Ariel Aviv of the situation at present:
\"The large-scale destruction of artifacts has stopped, and the trucks have stopped carting away tons of valuable debris, but the situation is still bad: There is no supervision whatsoever on the Temple Mount. We have no way of knowing what is going on underground in the large caverns, where the Waqf had been making preparations to build and make major changes... We do see that the Southern Wall is beginning to buckle because of the changes they are making. It used to be that we had to stand from the side to see it, now everyone can see the wall\'s \'belly\' from the front, and nothing is being done about it. The Israeli authorities can\'t go in, no non-Moslems can go in, no supervisors, nothing... The Sharon Government has decided to ignore the matter, despite the critical importance of what is going on there. Only the police are allowed in... A catastrophe can happen, and then we\'ll be blamed - and maybe justifiably so, since we are doing nothing to stop it...
\"The Arab press is full of lies denying Judaism\'s claim to the Temple Mount. They say it is an ancient mosque - not from the times of Abraham, but from the times of Adam and Eve! I did not make that up, that\'s what they say. Their stated goal is to turn the entire Temple Mount compound - all 144 dunams [about 36 acres] - into an active mosque that no one can fight against. And they are doing so, and no one is stopping it; new mosques have already been built there… From my work in the nearby City of David and the vicinity, I am certain that remnants of the First and Second Temples, and of other periods, are found there under the Temple Mount - yet the Moslems took out 20,000 tons of excavations from there [last year] and threw it in the garbage! This has stopped of late, but the government absolutely must take action to preserve this site.\"
\"The large-scale destruction of artifacts has stopped, and the trucks have stopped carting away tons of valuable debris, but the situation is still bad: There is no supervision whatsoever on the Temple Mount. We have no way of knowing what is going on underground in the large caverns, where the Waqf had been making preparations to build and make major changes... We do see that the Southern Wall is beginning to buckle because of the changes they are making. It used to be that we had to stand from the side to see it, now everyone can see the wall\'s \'belly\' from the front, and nothing is being done about it. The Israeli authorities can\'t go in, no non-Moslems can go in, no supervisors, nothing... The Sharon Government has decided to ignore the matter, despite the critical importance of what is going on there. Only the police are allowed in... A catastrophe can happen, and then we\'ll be blamed - and maybe justifiably so, since we are doing nothing to stop it...
\"The Arab press is full of lies denying Judaism\'s claim to the Temple Mount. They say it is an ancient mosque - not from the times of Abraham, but from the times of Adam and Eve! I did not make that up, that\'s what they say. Their stated goal is to turn the entire Temple Mount compound - all 144 dunams [about 36 acres] - into an active mosque that no one can fight against. And they are doing so, and no one is stopping it; new mosques have already been built there… From my work in the nearby City of David and the vicinity, I am certain that remnants of the First and Second Temples, and of other periods, are found there under the Temple Mount - yet the Moslems took out 20,000 tons of excavations from there [last year] and threw it in the garbage! This has stopped of late, but the government absolutely must take action to preserve this site.\"