Perhaps An Exciting Archaeology Discovery

Haaretz reports:

...There is a well-known legend about a Palestinian treasure being buried in one of the neighborhood's houses during the War of Independence in 1948, and [it is claimed that] this legendary treasury may actually have comprised treasures from the Second Temple...[the] source for this claim is the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1952. The scroll, which was written on metal, details the places where the Second Temple's treasures were hidden after its destruction in 70 C.E. Among other things it says: "At the ashuach in Beit Hakerem, when you go 10 cubits to the left, are 62 talents of silver."

The accepted view is that "ashuach" signifies a reservoir and that the ancient Beit Hakerem is the modern-day neighborhood of Ein Karem. The only question...is the location of the ancient pool referred to in the scroll - and analyses of the area's former geography indicate that one possible answer is right under the giant lavatory.

"There is a chance, even if only a small one, that an exciting discovery could be made at Ein Karem, one of the most important discoveries in Israel of the last 100 years,"...

Well, what do you know.  The stuff legends are made of.

After all, what is odd is that the Palestinian Authority denies the Temple existed or existed in Jerusalem. And just recently, it was reported on July 12:

...Mahmoud Labadi, a charismatic, old-guard PA aparatchik...launched himself into the realm of fantasy by claiming that the entire Jewish historical claim to Jerusalem’s core is bogus, because no Jewish temple ever existed in the area. Palestinian leaders have fallen back on this insulting conspiracy theory for years. It’s become part of Fatah lore. But this was the first time I’d been assailed by it in person, and I was somewhat shocked [shocked, I tell you. - YM] by the experience.

“This temple — I will tell you frankly, this is not a Jewish temple. This is a myth. This was a palace — a palace where David and Solomon lived … They are looking everywhere in [Jerusalem's old city] to find some traces. Until now, 43 years of occupation, they couldn’t find any real trace of any kind of temple. It’s mythology they build in their heads. You know what I say — I’ve told this to some Jewish counterparts — pick the highest mountain in Jerusalem and build your [new] temple there.” (Remaining firmly in the sphere of conspiracy theory, Labadi then rehashed the debunked claim that Israeli archeologists are plotting to destroy the Dome of the Rock, which sits on the Temple Mount.)

As with all backward-looking conspiracy theories, this one is being used to advance a forward-looking agenda — which is to strip Israel of its historical identity as the homeland for the Jewish people.

Note this:

As part of the continuing Palestinian denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem, a Palestinian researcher and specialist on Jerusalem has claimed that the well-known verse of the Hebrew psalm, "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill," is not a Jewish source at all. He said that the words were uttered by a Christian Crusader, and have only recently been "borrowed" by Jews and "falsified in the name of Zionism."

 
And note this:

... intention to continue its atrocious plans of grabbing hold of al-Aqsa Mosque in an attempt to destroy it and to be replaced of the so-called the "TEMPLE"...

So, if the Temple was a "myth", how could there be a 'Palestinian' legend that the Second Temple treasures are buried there, unless the adjective 'Palestinian' doesn't refer to Arabs?

It doesn't?



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