ELDER OF ZIYON: Ottoman archives recognize Al Aqsa mosque built on area of Temple

Elder of Lobby noticed this in the Ottoman Imperial Archives:

Let's look at that caption a little closer, shall we?

I guess this is when the Muslims that claim there was never a Jewish Temple on the site regroup and decide that Solomon was a Muslim.

New Music Video in Solidarity with Yehuda Glick: We Will Ascend The song, "Shuv Na'aleh L'Beit Mikdashnu" (We Will Ascend Again to our Temple) dedicated to Yehuda Glick. שוב נעלה -הרב יהודה גליק

The song, "Shuv Na'aleh L'Beit Mikdashnu" (We Will Ascend Again to our Temple) dedicated to Yehuda Glick. Watch here:

Mordechai Yitzhar wrote and composed a song dedicated to Yehuda Glick's recovery.

Glick, a leading advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, was shot last Wednesday evening outside of the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. He has been in intensive care at Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center since the assassination attempt.

A prayer march for Glick will take place Thursday night. Marchers will walk from the front of the Begin Heritage Center to the gates of the Temple Mount.

Some of the song's poignant lyrics include: "Our souls burning from the inside, this Temple has been our home for generations, a house of prayer for all nations."

It includes footage from Glick's countless visits to the Temple Mount, as well as visits by MK Moshe Feiglin, who has been outspoken on the issue of Jewish prayer rights there.

Despite its status as Judaism's holiest site, Jews are forbidden by Israeli authorities from worshiping on the Temple Mount in response to Muslim pressure. Increasingly, activists have been challenging those restrictions; the video includes footage of one group which managed to smuggle a set of Arba Minim - the Four Species of plants waved during prayers on the Sukkot festival - onto the site.

The men were later arrested.

It also includes footage of Muslim harassment of Jews on the Mount, including a clip of one particularly ugly incident in which a group of hassidic children and their families were mobbed by throngs of Muslim extremists.

The song ends on an optimistic note: "We will merit in our days to see (restored) the days of yore, and the songs of the Levites will be heard in our land."

JEWISH PRESS: The Eternal Connection of the Jews and Temple Mount; Despite PA claims that no Jewish connection existed, many Muslim religious sources throughout history have accepted the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount area By: Rachel Avraham

The picture no one seems to remember: Jewish soldiers celebrating the liberation of Temple Mount, 46 years ago Friday.

The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount as a sacred Jewish holy site has existed since ancient times.
The Jewish people have a historical, religious, spiritual, and nationalconnection to the Temple Mount area dating back to antiquity. For the Jewish people, it is the holiest site on the entire planet. It was the location of the creation of Adam, the binding of Isaac, as well as both the First and Second Temples. When the Jewish Temple existed, all Jews used to visit there to perform sacrifices to G-d three times per year, as commanded by G-d. It was the sacred building that housed the Ark of the Covenant in which the Ten Commandments were stored.

Archaeological treasures found there demonstrate that a Jewish Temple used to exist on the Temple Mount. While the Islamic Waqf has attempted to destroy such evidence, Israeli archaeologists have been able to rescue some of it, such as a fragment from a Herodian style Second Temple era sculptured stone that used to stand on the Temple Mount; a Babylonian arrow head attesting to the destruction of the First Temple; and the seal of a First Temple-era priestly family. The Western Wall also still stands today, as a visual reminder that a Jewish Temple used to exist on the Temple Mount.

Despite PA claims that no Jewish connection existed, many Muslim religious sources throughout history have accepted the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount area. According to GLORIA: the Global Research in International Affairs: “In Sura 17:1 of the Koran, the “Farthest Mosque” is called the al-masjid al-Aqsa. The Tafsir al-Jalalayn, a well-respected Sunni exegesis of the Koran from the 15th and 16th centuries, notes that the “Farthest Mosque” is a reference to the Bayt al-Maqdis of Jerusalem. In Hebrew, the Jewish Temple is often referred to as the Beyt Ha-Miqdash, nearly identical to the Arabic term.”

Furthermore, GLORIA notes, “In the commentary of Abdullah Ibn Omar al-Baydawi, who authored several prominent theological works in the 13th century, the masjid is referred to as the Bayt al-Maqdis because during Muhammad’s time no mosque existed in Jerusalem. Koranic historian and commentator, Abu Jafar Muhammad al-Tabari, who chronicled the seventh century Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, wrote that one day when Umar finished praying, he went to the place where ‘the Romans buried the Temple [bayt al-maqdis] at the time of the sons of Israel.’”

Even upon the destruction of the Jewish Temple, Jews have continued to journey to the Temple Mount area, in order to weep pver the destruction of their holy site. According to the Cairo Genizah, following the Arab conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century, seventy Jewish families relocated to Jerusalem and lived very close to the Temple Mount. The Cairo Genizah claimed that they established a synagogue in Warren’s Gate, that wealthy Jews used to contribute money to pay for the upkeep of the Warren Gate synagogue, and many Jews used to go on pilgrimages to the holy site, until the Warren Gate Synagogue was destroyed during the First Crusade.

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Yet, even following the destruction of the Warren Gate Synagogue, Jews continued to travel to the Temple Mount to pray. One medieval Jew, Nachmanides, wrote shortly after making Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael around 1263, “But the loss of all this and of every other glory my eyes saw is compensated by having now the joy of being a day in thy courts, O Jerusalem, visiting the ruins of the Temple, and crying over the desolate sanctuary.” In modern times, many Jews travel to the Western Wall, otherwise known as the Kotel, to pray and place a note to G-d inside the cracks of this ancient wall. According to Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Seward, Jews were praying at the Western Wall well before the rise of modern Zionism.