After Egypt helped broker a ceasefire between the Iranian-funded and controlled ‘Islamic Jihad’ in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces, Egypt’s Ambassador to the United Nations proceeded to lay a scathing rebuke of the Jewish State. It is not surprising in the Arab world, specifically in Egypt and Jordan, where the ‘democratic’ leaders are brutal autocrats who fear a daily rebellion from their largely misguided, uneducated populace.

In 2022, Egypt’s leadership is as illegitimate as the claim Arabs calling themselves Palestinian have to Judea and Samaria. By any legitimate democratic standards, they are anything but; they control their citizens through a routine of force, economic blackmail, and even the threat of torture or death. It is not surprising that, on the one hand, Egypt acts as a partner in peace with Israel; on the other, they go to extraordinary lengths to shame the Jewish State. However, the fact that Egypt criticized Israel about this is most upsetting, and it is about time that Israel stood up to say as a nation that it will not take it anymore.

The Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations, Osama Abdel Khalek, chose the precise moment that Israel’s Ambassador to the body, Gilad Erdan, thanked the Egyptian leader, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi for “restoring the calm and stability to our region” to lay a scathing rant against Israel.

While Egypt & other Arab states w/ ties to Israel still traditionally maintain critical lines toward Israel at the UN, the rhetoric employed by Amb Osama Abdel Khalek appeared to go much further than what is used publicly by Egyptian officials, particularly in recent years (2/7)

— Jacob Magid (@JacobMagid) August 9, 2022

Abdel Khalek went on to blast the killing of “43 martyrs”. He chose the word ‘shahid’ on purpose to show allegiance to the spineless fighters who hide behind the elderly, children, and women to launch crude rockets at Israel’s elderly children and women. It is the same language used by those that sent 19 Muslims to kill thousands of innocent civilians by flying hijacked passenger aircraft into iconic American buildings on September 11, 2001.

The ironic part here is that he got the number of dead wrong; as of Tuesday, 46 members were killed, of which 11 are confirmed to have died by errant Islamic Jihad rockets – but the Ambassador did not mention this fact.

Then the Ambassador went off on “settlers under the protection of the Israeli police to incur the courtyards of the Haram al-Sharif” (The Noble Sanctuary), a poke at the heart of Judaism that is central to the entire conflict. First, it is noteworthy that most Islamic texts dispel the idea that the Temple Mount is holy to Muslims. Muhammad’s night journey could not have been taken from Jerusalem as Islamic forces did not conquer the city until long after he had died. ‘Al Aqsa’ means the ‘outermost,’ meaning the furthest mosque in Muhammad’s empire, which at the time would place it somewhere along the Red Sea in modern Saudi Arabia.

“……this Saudi Arabian lawyer claims that the real Al Aqsa Mosque is not located in Jerusalem at all – but in Mecca, Saudi Arabia!”

Saudi Lawyer Shuts Down Israeli-Palestinian Debate by Exposing Where Al-Aqsa Really Is - Israel Unwired https://t.co/OJvIm5cZit

— _edwardmondini_ (@_edwardmondini_) May 28, 2021

The offensive part here is that this is the holiest site for Jews. Not the second, not the third. The Jews have one sacred site in their religion, and the Arabs have planted their flag firmly on it to place false facts on the ground about some longstanding attachment to the land. The truth, from history and actual texts that predate Wikipedia and the Electric Intifada or anything .com related, is that there never was a Palestinian Arab civilization. Arabs were living in the land known as Palestine. Still, they rarely cooperated as they typically were from different parts of the Islamic world and refused to be called Palestinian.

More facts that you may not have known:

There are additional examples of the fact that the Jews called themselves “Palestinians” and used this term.

Here are some examples:

The name of the Jewish orchestra was “The Palestine Orchestra.” pic.twitter.com/BKW6WQvk8V

— MidEastTruth.com (@MidEastTruth) July 4, 2022

The fact that an ambassador in one of the most anti-Israel bodies in the world would use his position to twist further the knife that is Moshe Dayan’s biggest mistake is a sign that as far as the Arab World has come to accepting Israel, it is mere wordplay. The Arab Street is truly who they are accountable to, and the average Arab citizen is miseducated and grew up with an innate hatred of The Jewish State. A campaign to delegitimize Israel from its inception that was coordinated with help from the Soviet Union has led to entire generations of Arabs being brought up to believe that Jerusalem is holy to their religion when it is not, and it was not until the Jews began coming back to the land in the late 1800s.

Arabs had no interest in the Biblical land of Israel or even Jerusalem for that matter until the Jewish Zionist movement began in the late 1800s.
Here is how the Temple Mount looked in 1870's. pic.twitter.com/FcxjB1OhUo

— Shimon Levit (@ShimonLevit) March 13, 2019

For proof, all you have to do is look at pictures of Jerusalem from the late 18th and early 19th century; what they call ‘The Noble Sanctuary’ was nothing more than a garbage dump. The giant Gold Dome that can be seen from miles away was not there – the dome of the rock (Mosque of Omar) was black and built centuries ago as a shrine to preserve the foundation stone. Read accounts of travelers like Mark Twain, who described the area as barren and devoid of life. If this were truly a Mecca to the Muslims, pun intended, there would have been more care for the area, more visitors, and a more significant presence back then.

“Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. So small! Why, it was no larger than an American village of four thousand inhabitants Mark Twain in Jerusalem population 4,000 in 1867 pic.twitter.com/iQlTtPoMjl

— Izzy David (@destination1111) May 31, 2021

The fact an Arab Ambassador from a country that is at ‘peace’ with Israel, in fact the first country to sign a peace deal with the Jewish State, continues to spin this lie is obscene. Jews have more of a right to the Temple Mount, Haram Al’ Sharif, Al Aqsa Compound, or whatever they want to call it than any other religious group, including Muslims. The fact that Moshe Dayan ceded it to the Jordanian Waqf after Israel won the 1967 war is an offense to Judaism. While his reasons were sound, he must have foreseen that the area itself would be used to promote the propaganda that has driven the conflict for the last 55 years.

Dayan needed to rip the Band-Aid off and deal with the immediate repercussions. By allowing the Muslims to continue to control the area, they allowed a false narrative to take root and made even liberal Jews question their claim to the land. In the time that the Muslims have had since the creation of the Jewish State, they have pilfered history and, in a concerted effort, worked to destroy ancient artifacts that are sacred to the Jewish people and that serve to undermine the modern Arab narrative about the mountain.

The only solution is to reclaim the compound and place it firmly under Israeli sovereignty. This would not change anything other than who can go up and when. Israel, as a free and open nation, will allow all to go up and will open up the compound and the historical buildings there to the world instead of closing it off to simply Muslims. Yes, this will cause unrest, but as we have seen over the past decades, the Arabs in the land don’t need a legitimate reason to riot – they have been doing so with no cause all along.

Jerusalem is Zion. Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. Of this, there is no doubt.