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PA Tells Palestinians: Western Wall in Jerusalem Belongs Only to Muslims
(Jerusalem Post) Donna Rachel Edmunds - The Western Wall belongs only to Muslims and must be defended even to the death, Palestinians were told on official PA TV and in the official PA newspaper. PA TV said, "Since Islam's conquest [in the 7th century], the al-Buraq Wall [the Western Wall] has remained an Islamic waqf [an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law]. The Muslims have the absolute right to it and there is not even one rock there that dates back to the period of King Solomon, as the Jews claim." The Western Wall, part of Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount, is a remnant of a large retaining wall built by King Herod to support the mount for the Second Temple. No part of Solomon's First Temple remains, although artifacts from that period have been found in the area.