IN February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem, both in the Palestinian city of West Bank, to be designated as Jewish heritage sites. Even worse, an Israeli professor named Mordechai Kremnitzer says: "Muslims should transfer the stones of the Dome of the Rock to Mecca, as Jerusalem is a Jewish city and has got nothing to do with Islam." Let us look at what history tells us. Professor of Islamic History Mohamed Emara says that Moses was born in the 13th century BC, while Jerusalem was built by the Arabs in 4,000 BC, about 2,700 BC before the birth of Moses. Moses was born and lived in Egypt. He died in Sinai and nobody knows where his grave is. He wanted to go to Jerusalem, but the Jews were afraid to let him in. The Jews have occupied Jerusalem around 27 times and torched it around 17 times. When Omar Ibn al-Khattab, the Second Righteous Caliph, after the death of Prophet Mohamed, entered Jerusalem, he promised not to harm them or their possessions ��" land, money and churches. Abdel-Fattah is an Egyptian writer for children [email protected]
