I have a mild obsession with the city of Jerusalem, so there is a lot to talk about regarding the modern Middle East policy where that ancient city is concerned. The claims that Islam has over it are very recent, and it’s a simple math problem to work out as far as territory rights. The Arabs of Islam didn’t come along until about 600 A.D., after the fall of the Roman Empire, so claims to the area had long before been erased by the Greek and Roman Empires over a thousand years before. But before Islam indicated any claim to the area, especially around the Temple Mount, the most hostile piece of real estate on planet earth, the Hebrew people were in the region over three thousand years ago, 1600 years before the creation of Islam as a religion. I believe there was a very technological civilization in the area before any of them, including in North America, as it was global, and the only remnants of it are in our modern understanding of astrology. These people were large- what we call giants and had a very advanced civilization before and during the Ice Age. They used an astrology-like scientific approach to conduct a society that our history books do not yet understand. And they were at the Mount Moriah area for tens of thousands of years before the Jews considered settling it. One of their obvious artifacts of reference is Rujm el-Hiri, or Gilgal Refaim, “The Wheel of Giants,” which is so big you can see it from space, and it’s just west of the Sea of Galilee in the Golan Heights. When we talk about Goliath and his family of giants, who King David killed in battle, we are talking about the last of their ancient species, which is how Jerusalem was founded to start with, as David built his city there and started the location that would eventually become the temple of his son, Solomon.
I have a very nice map that shows the small mountain range that runs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and all these mountain peaks that are now covered by three thousand years of human history, built one on top of another, take up those high lands. The caves under the Temple Mount and Jerusalem were there long before anybody else. There are biblical kings, and others, who added a human touch, but there is a lot going on under Jerusalem that is very ancient, and doesn’t get talked about much at all. And is at the heart of the dispute in the Middle East. Do the Palestinians have any claim to the land? What is behind the aggressive talk Trump has put forth about making the Gaza Strip into an American free enterprise zone? Should the nation of Israel have ever been created after World War II? The argument is that we are violating the indigenous claims of the Arabs in the area, and they use the aggressive stance of Islam to drive away legitimate claims to history that the Jewish and Christian people clearly have a right to. More than that are the even more ancient cultures that we should be studying, but we can’t because of modern religious territorial squabbles that have no relevancy in the context of things. The history of understanding isn’t on a scale of acceptable criteria. Buried under all this religious history is a truth that is earth shattering and is at the heart of the whole problem. And it’s in those caves under the Temple Mount where Mount Moriah held significance long before Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac there on that Foundation Stone, or from Islam, Ishmael.
I had the rare privilege of reading the book Under Jerusalem by Andrew Lawler, The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City. I’m not one who constantly complains about how dumb archaeologists are and how they deliberately cover up the past with their discoveries. I get the game. They have to hustle to get funding, and the people giving them money want specific validation discovered with the digs. So, there is a lot of politics in archaeology. My favorite thing in the world is my Biblical Archaeology Review magazines, which I have been getting since childhood. I love reading about what archaeologists discover in the Holy Land. It is stunning how many feet of earth have been built up after three thousand years of people walking the streets of Jerusalem, and just how far under the modern city are the remains of the walled City of David. In some cases, we are dealing with 30 to 40 feet of ancient dirt, sewage, and garbage that has built up to become the modern ground. City streets in Jerusalem are not at the same level as they were during the time of David or earlier. And to get to the foundation layers of Solomon’s Temple, you would have to dig deep. The Second Temple period by Herod was 1000 years later, and many feet under even that period. Dirt comes in off people’s shoes over time, and it builds up slowly. And that’s just how old these sites are. But I’m saying that even with all those considerations, there are tens of thousands more years of history in that area. So we should be digging a lot more, giving archaeologists a lot more respect and money, and we should be openly prepared for what we learn during the adventure of discovery.
As to the Islamic claim of the Temple Mount and their abuse of the Jewish people who had the first claim on the land after they conquered it from the pagan worshipping Canaanites, they are just the most recent culture to claim it for themselves. They won’t let archaeologists dig under and around the Temple Mount to provide proof of the Jewish heritage. But then they claim that there is no proof of that Jewish heritage because it’s buried under 40 feet of soot because their time on Mount Moriah is so ancient that nearly two thousand years had to pass before Islam became a religion. The conflict and claims over the territory are entirely based on historical perspective, not a pursuit of the truth that is buried under layers of history on a range of small mountains that have been occupied for tens of thousands of years and of which the proof is in those caves under the Temple Mount. What we know about Derinkuyu, just to the north in Turkey, is that that underground city was dated to the same period as Solomon’s Temple and even much older in some layers of it. And, of course, the nearby Gobekli Tepe, dated in the 10,000 BCE range, has the same kind of math technology as the Rujm el-Hiri at the Golon Heights to the south. So what does all this mean? Well, Islam doesn’t have a legitimate claim to the area, not where they can demand that their heritage is more important than all this ancient history. And when they say, show me the proof, they can’t play games by denying dig permits and funding for the truth to be found. I would say that under the Mount Moriah complex is all the proof anybody needs. But Islam doesn’t want to know because then it would erode their political claims in the area and destroy their modern aggressions. Because they don’t want to see the truth. As many don’t because they are afraid of what they suspect to be the case. Giants ruled the earth and had a technology that was far more sophisticated than what we are achieving in a modern way. It was a different technology but undoubtedly very sophisticated and global. Eventually, we must admit to it if we want to advance.
Rich Hoffman
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