Thumbs up to UPI for aptly debunking Arab rumors that Israel is illicitly digging underneath the Temple Mount’s Al-Aqsa mosque:
At a press conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, the Al Aksa Foundation presented a file and discs containing pictures and a film of “Excavation being done underneath the Aksa Mosque.”
Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Mosque’s director, told the conference that the Israeli government has endorsed the excavation and that Israel is planning to destroy Al Aksa Mosque and replace it with the third Jewish temple. Ekrima Sa’eed Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, declared the works violate Al Aksa’s sanctity that stretches from the bottom of the land to the sky above it.
“Al-Aksa is at risk … a non-stopping danger,” warned Sheikh Ra’ed Salah.
The pictures and film the organizers provided did not prove works were under the mosque. They were pictures taken in the Western Wall Tunnels that run beside the half a kilometer long Western Wall. The tunnels are open to tourists….
It seemed that in the absence of hard facts rumors might do.
Will any other news services pick up on the truth?
