בילדער: מתנחלים ביי הר הבית (מקום המקדש)

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This morning I and about 20 of my neighbors made a group visit to the Temple Mount, some for the first time.
At first there were some problems allowing some members of the group to enter (including myself) but in the end everyone was permitted in, with extra special restrictions (in addition to the normal laundry list of restictions) l'kvod Ramadan.

Here are some pictures with brief explanations and a view you don't often get to see of the makom hamikdash:

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Here is a photo of the South West Corner of the Mount, I believe there is some Museum of Islam here but Jews are not allowed inside. To the right is th e end of the Western Wall where there are now excavations going on ( Wilson 's Arch I believe). To the left is the Al Aksa mosque (not in the picture):

Here is a veiw of the dome of the rock from directly in front of the Al Aksa Mosque. The mosque blocks part of the Sharai Chulda which was the main enterence to the Temple Mount by Jews who ascended from the City of David (where most of the population lived). In the times of the Temple this is the view the Jews would have as soon as they entered the Mount, but obviously with the Beis Hamikdash there instead of the current structure. I couldn't take pictures of the entrence to the Al Aksa Mosque because the Arabs were particularly ancy today, probably as a result of fasting. But it is not much to see anyway, some green doors and cubbies to put your shoes. 
 

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Here is a picture of the South East corner, the area known as "Solomon's Stables", which BTW had nothing to do with Shlomo Hamelech or the Temple, and this part of the Temple Mount was added by Herod centuries later. The right side is also opposite the Chulda Gates, the main entrence for Jews in Temple Times and the Eastern side of the Al Aksa Mosque can be seen .

Notice all the construction equipment. The Arabs have turned the entire NE corner of the Mount into a HUGE underground mosque in the process destroying precious holy artifacts from the Temples , and undermining the structure of the walls which had to be fixed by Jordaian engineers. The fill is just dumped in piles on the Temple Mount then carried away by dump trucks and discarded like yesterday's trash. In addition to trying to convert the entire Temple Mount into one giant Mosque, there is a clear goal of the Arabs to destroy all physical evidence that the Temples ever stood. Sadly, the Israeli government does nothing to prevent this wanton destruction, despite the physical danger of the entire area collapsing potentially killing thousands of Muslim worshipers (let alone the archeological and historical damage to the Jewish People and the deliberate defacement of our most holy site:

 
 

Here is a picture of the SE corner directly on top of the huge underground mosque. The scaffolding on the wall is part of the process to repair the buckle in the wall and prevent a full scale collapse:

Here is a newly built entrence to one of the underground mosques. This was not here
last time I was on the Temple Mount

Here are piles of stones which are being used to pave the entire surface of the Temple Mount. For centuries most of the Mount was unpaved d irt