Intense Moslem Waqf desecration on the Temple Mount continues. Yisrael Caspi, of the Committee to Prevent Temple Mount Desecration, told Arutz-7 today:
\"Our aerial pictures of two days ago show severe damage to the eastern wall of the great pit that was dug in Nov \'99, a wall that was very important to the Antiquities Authority in terms of dating many findings and layers there... There has also been brutal damage by tractors to a building that is over 1,300 years old. We have not seen such damage in almost a year... What is happening is that the Waqf has been working furiously over the past month, with the feeling that the government is doing nothing to stop them and they can do what they want, at least until the new government comes in. They bring in hundreds of Israeli-Arab volunteers every Saturday, to tile more and more areas, and carry out other work... We, including some of the top archaeologists in the country, have written some ten letters over the past year to the Prime Minister and Public Security Minister Ben-Ami, and we have not received any answer at all... I told Ben-Ami that, as a professor of history, he will not be forgiven by history for the damages that he is allowing on the Temple Mount; he had no answer...\"
Caspi continued,
\"We demand that the new government take steps and prevent the Moslems from destroying Jewish artifacts there. This is absolutely not a political, religious, or ideological matter; rather, any sane government must realize, from a historic, scientific, archaeological, cultural standpoint, that it must immediately stop the damage being done to the Jewish artifacts there. There is no security justification whatsoever for the current situation - all it takes is a decision and determination by the government to carry it out.\"
\"Our aerial pictures of two days ago show severe damage to the eastern wall of the great pit that was dug in Nov \'99, a wall that was very important to the Antiquities Authority in terms of dating many findings and layers there... There has also been brutal damage by tractors to a building that is over 1,300 years old. We have not seen such damage in almost a year... What is happening is that the Waqf has been working furiously over the past month, with the feeling that the government is doing nothing to stop them and they can do what they want, at least until the new government comes in. They bring in hundreds of Israeli-Arab volunteers every Saturday, to tile more and more areas, and carry out other work... We, including some of the top archaeologists in the country, have written some ten letters over the past year to the Prime Minister and Public Security Minister Ben-Ami, and we have not received any answer at all... I told Ben-Ami that, as a professor of history, he will not be forgiven by history for the damages that he is allowing on the Temple Mount; he had no answer...\"
Caspi continued,
\"We demand that the new government take steps and prevent the Moslems from destroying Jewish artifacts there. This is absolutely not a political, religious, or ideological matter; rather, any sane government must realize, from a historic, scientific, archaeological, cultural standpoint, that it must immediately stop the damage being done to the Jewish artifacts there. There is no security justification whatsoever for the current situation - all it takes is a decision and determination by the government to carry it out.\"