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Read Prophecy 63,"O Israel, Where Is Your Blood Sacrifice?"
Archaeologists Say that the Southern Wall Will Soon
Collapse Together with the Mosque
The Temple Mount Faithful to Sharon:
Let it collapse! This is the Hand of Father God Yahweh!
On 27th August 2002, the archaeologists of the Israeli Antiquities Authority warned that the southern wall of the Temple Mount is in great imminent danger of collapsing. They stated that the bulge in the wall, which was first noticed after Tisha b’Av last year immediately after the Temple Mount Faithful had carried the cornerstone for the Third Temple to the area in front of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, has become much larger. Last year the bulge was 70 cm and was 30 metres long. The bulge has now increased to over 1 metre and is much longer.
The archaeologists also stated that if the wall collapses, the Al Aqsa mosque will collapse together with it as well the other two illegal mosques that have been built over the past years when they changed the Hulda entrance to the Temple Mount and the so-called Solomon’s Stables and made them into the mosque in the Middle East. Both of these holy places, together with the southern wall were built by the Israeli King Herod and completed by 10BCE. They were part of the temple complex. On the southern wall were the Double Gate and Triple Gate which were known as the Hulda Gates after the prophetess Hulda and were used as the main entrance for millions of Jewish pilgrims in the Second Temple. The Hulda Tunnel and Solomon’s Stables (which were never stables and did not exist in the time of King Solomon but were erroneously called this by the Crusaders) remained exactly as they were at the time of the Second Temple until recently when the Arabs on the Temple Mount covered the beautiful ornamentation and the pillars and illegally converted the area into a mosque.
The archaeologists called on the Israeli authorities to repair the wall. However, the archaeologist, Eilat Mazar, stated that nothing can prevent the imminent collapse of the wall. They also stated that they do not know the reason for the bulge. However, the Arabs on the Temple Mount refuse to allow the Israeli authorities to try to repair the wall.
Yesterday (28/08/02) the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement sent an open letter to Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel. In the letter the chairman of the Movement, Gershon Salomon, stated that the reason for the bulge and the "danger" of the wall collapsing is the Hand of the Father God Yahweh of Israel. Gershon wrote in the letter that the bulge and probable collapse is no accident but the commencement of a godly move for the collapse of all the strange, pagan Arab presence on the Temple Mount which is the most holy site of the temple.
This is a fulfilment of the prophecies of the prophets of Israel for the redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world. It is so sad that everyone who looks for the reason for the bulge are too blind to understand this prophetic fact. Gershon called on the Israeli authorities and the archaeologists not to interfere in Father God Yahweh’s activities and to prevent any activity to repair the wall. This godly event signifies the start of the collapse of the walls of violence and hatred against the people of Father God Yahweh and the presence of the Arab Islamic enemy of Father God Yahweh and people of Israel in the most holy place of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel.
The Father God Yahweh of Israel is moving the end-time history of Israel and all the world towards the purification of His holy hill from the foreigners and their desecration and towards the rebuilding of the temple. This is also the start of Father God Yahweh’s judgement on these foreign enemies on the Temple Mount who have desecrated, vandalised and destroyed the remains of the First and Second Temples, built new mosques on the holy site of Father God Yahweh and still continue their activities to convert the Temple Mount into an Islamic site by eliminating the remains of the Jewish temples. They dared to lift their hands against the Father God Yahweh of Israel and the people of Israel. They were deluded into thinking that they could deny and ignore the existence of the temple on the Temple Mount and in this way prevent the godly historical end-time step of the redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world.
The Father God Yahweh of Israel showed them that no one can raise their hands and fight against Him. So many enemies of Israel who have occupied the Temple Mount and Jerusalem since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70CE have completely disappeared from the stage of history like dust in the wind under the judgement of Father God Yahweh. This and even worse will be the fate of the current enemies of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel on the Temple Mount and all over the land of Israel.
Gershon called on Ariel Sharon not to squander the great credit that Father God Yahweh and history gave him at a very great and critical time in the history of Israel but to co-operate with Father God Yahweh and to remove His enemies from his most holy hill and to immediately start the building of the Third Temple
Gershon reminded Prime Minister Sharon of the Hand of Father God Yahweh on the southern wall of the Temple Mount during Tisha b’Av 2001 when the Temple Mount Faithful Movement carried the cornerstone to the area in front of the wall and its historical gates and how the bulge had immediately started to appear. It was a clear message from Father God Yahweh that the gates and walls should immediately be opened to the cornerstone and the starting of the rebuilding of the temple. Exactly as His word states in the Psalms, "the stone which the builders rejected became the head of the corner". Through this cornerstone Father God Yahweh caused a political and spiritual earthquake in Israel, the Middle East and all over the world.
In all the Arab countries models of the temple that they built were burned and again the had illusions that they could prevent this major godly end-time event by such activities which again brought them to desecrate the Name of Father God Yahweh. It is no accident that Father God Yahweh caused the bulge and eventual collapse on the southern wall of the Temple Mount. This was the main entrance for pilgrims to the First and Second Temples and Father God Yahweh is eager to open this wall and its gates to millions of pilgrims to the Third Temple.
On Saturday 24th August 2002, the anti-Israeli Islamic Movement in Israel brought 45,000 of its members to the Temple Mount and held a demonstration against the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. The Temple Mount Faithful Movement sent a message of protest to the Israeli authorities and asked them why they did not prevent this demonstration which again desecrated the holy site of the Father God Yahweh of Israel. During the demonstration they incited the Arabs against the Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem and the land of Israel. They stated that the land of Israel is "Palestine" and that there is no place for the Jews on the Temple Mount or in Jerusalem and all of the land of Israel.
They denied that the Temple Mount had been the site of the First and Second Temples and the godly historical heart and soul of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. It was a terrible revolt by the followers of Yasser Arafat, the enemies of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel on the Temple Mount, against Father God Yahweh and the eternal covenant that He made with Abraham and Israel when He gave the land of Israel to His people Israel only and gave them the Temple Mount and Jerusalem where they were to build His house. It was a rude lie against the history of the relationship and long link between Father God Yahweh, Israel and the Holy Land; a history of thousands of years of the people of Israel who lived in this land since the time of Abraham and King David and built it to be the land of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. The reaction of Father God Yahweh came immediately. On the next day the archaeologists discovered that the size of the bulge had increased. This was again an immediate sign of the Hand of Father God Yahweh and His judgement.
In his letter to the Prime Minister, Gershon stated that we are now standing at the threshold of a new and decisive stage in the major, historical, prophetic, godly move for the redemption of the Temple Mount, the people and land of Israel and of all the world. We are now witnessing the final death throws of the cruel, foreign and vandalistic occupation of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the land of Israel. Father God Yahweh will no longer suffer the continued desecration of His holy mountain. If the Israeli Government will not immediately stop the enemies occupation as Father God Yahweh expects it to do, then Father God Yahweh Himself will very soon stop it which He has already started to do.
The bulge in the southern wall is the start of this irreversible move of Father God Yahweh.. The people of Israel and all the world cannot and will not succeed in running away from the Temple Mount and from the godly task of the people of Israel to immediately rebuild the house of Father God Yahweh. The Temple Mount and the temple will pursue them and the temple will soon be rebuilt whether they want it or not. This is the hour decreed by the Father God Yahweh of Israel.
The collapse of security, the economy, the community, morality, the cruel terror attacks, the terrible carnage on the roads and the political and social instability all over the world are a result of the shameful ignoring of the Temple Mount and the call of Father God Yahweh to the immediate rebuilding of the temple which will open a new godly era of morality in the life of all the world.
Gershon called on the people of Israel and its leadership to heed the call of their Father God Yahweh, the Father God Yahweh of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to join Him and His prophetic end-time redemptional move, to immediately purify the holy hill of Father God Yahweh and to immediately build His house on the Temple Mount which will be the major tower of light for Israel and all the nations and a house of love and worship for the people of Father God Yahweh and all the world. We are calling for the awakening of everyone for this major prophetic and godly end-time event in Israel and all over the world. Let us not miss the great godly opportunity which He privileged us to have at a very critical and exciting time in the history of Israel and all the world.
Everyone in Israel and all over the world is called on to pray loudly the following Word of Father God Yahweh to His prophet, Isaiah which has started to become reality and will soon be completed on the Temple Mount.
Isaiah 25
"O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For you have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt. Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you. For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of tyrants was like a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat is removed by the shadow of a cloud; so the song of tyrants shall be brought low.
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the covering that is cast over all the people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will destroy death for ever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the insult of his people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. And it shall be said on that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trampled down in his own place, like straw is trampled down in the dunghill. And he shall spread out his hands in the midst of them, as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plunder of their hands. And the high fortifications of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
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A new report by a group of senior Jordanian engineers concerning the ominous bulge in the southern wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount recommends replacing some of the eroding stones in the two-thousand-year-old wall in order to prevent it from future collapse, Jordanian officials said Monday.
The 36-page report, completed Monday by a team of engineers from Amman's prestigious Royal Scientific Society, will be forwarded this week to the relevant Jordanian government ministries, the society's director, Khaled Kahhaleh, said in a telephone interview from Amman Monday.
A yearlong dispute between Israel and the Wakf, the Islamic religious trust - which oversees day-to-day maintenance at the site - over who will fix the large bulge was resolved earlier this month with a decision to involve Jordanian engineers, who inspected and took a sampling of the protruding wall.
The decision to let the Jordanians do to the work, which was made at a top-level meeting headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, follows repeated warnings by Israeli archaeologists that sections of the wall are in unequivocal danger of collapse, and comes just ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to flock to the site.
Kahhaleh said that the findings of the report were "not as dramatic" as the warnings voiced by many Israeli archaeologists and the Antiquities Authority, and voiced his readiness to carry out the needed renovation work at the site, pending his government's authorization.
"We are willing to use our expertise to carry out any action that is needed," he said.
The report cites water dripping into the wall over past years as a potential cause over the bulge, said Dr. Raich Najim, a former Jordanian minister who was involved in the drafting of the report. "The penetration of rainwater into the interior of the wall over time, and change of temperature, created certain voids in the wall," he said in an interview from Amman.
Najim said that a 40-meter section of the wall "needs some reinforcement," while the damaged stones in the center of the bulge - an area of some 140 square meters - should be taken out and replaced.
"We need to replace the eroded stones and inject new binding materials," he said. Najim said that although such work will "take time," there was "no danger" of the wall's collapse, as Israeli archaeologists had feared.
The Antiquities Authority declined to comment on the Jordanian report Monday, maintaining its virtual media silence on the ultra-sensitive issue.
As the authority conducted a series of tests on the outside of the wall in 2000, archaeologists felt the bulge was likely due to unauthorized Wakf construction work at an underground area known as Solomon's Stables inside the wall. Faulty draining was cited by the authority as probable cause for the bulge in its own report, issued last year.
Over the past year, in what has been referred to as "the battle over the bulge," intermittent discreet negotiations with the Wakf reached an impasse over a disagreement about who will fix the problem - Israel or the Wakf - with both sides preventing the other from carrying out the renovation work needed.
"I cannot tell you when it will happen, and I do not know what section will fall, but I can tell you that the southern wall is indeed in danger of collapse," Antiquities Authority head Shuka Dorfman said last month.
As Jordanian engineers completed their survey on the southern wall bulge this week, it remained unclear if they would also be consulted about a smaller section of the mount's western wall that archaeologists say shows signs of dampness and has begun to protrude as well.
Prior to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, Jordan was in charge of maintenance at the bitterly contested compound that is home to Judaism's holiest site and is revered, as well, by Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, Islam's third holiest site. In the years since, the PA, seeking to gain a foothold in Jerusalem, ousted both the Jordanian-appointed Wakf director and the Jerusalem mufti - both of whom had for years quietly cooperated with Israel - and replaced them with people of its own.
The Israeli government has said that it is in Israel's best interest to involve the Jordanians in the work.
Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police have barred non-Muslims, including archaeologists, from entering the Temple Mount since then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon's controversial visit in September 2000, leaving the area without any archaeological supervision. The two years since then is the longest period the site has been closed to Jews and Christians since the unification of Jerusalem in 1967.
Bulge On The Southern Wall Of The Temple Mount Becomes Larger!
Read Prophecy 63,"O Israel, Where Is Your Blood Sacrifice?"
Archaeologists Say that the Southern Wall Will Soon
Collapse Together with the Mosque
The Temple Mount Faithful to Sharon:
Let it collapse! This is the Hand of Father God Yahweh!
On 27th August 2002, the archaeologists of the Israeli Antiquities Authority warned that the southern wall of the Temple Mount is in great imminent danger of collapsing. They stated that the bulge in the wall, which was first noticed after Tisha b’Av last year immediately after the Temple Mount Faithful had carried the cornerstone for the Third Temple to the area in front of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, has become much larger. Last year the bulge was 70 cm and was 30 metres long. The bulge has now increased to over 1 metre and is much longer.
The archaeologists also stated that if the wall collapses, the Al Aqsa mosque will collapse together with it as well the other two illegal mosques that have been built over the past years when they changed the Hulda entrance to the Temple Mount and the so-called Solomon’s Stables and made them into the mosque in the Middle East. Both of these holy places, together with the southern wall were built by the Israeli King Herod and completed by 10BCE. They were part of the temple complex. On the southern wall were the Double Gate and Triple Gate which were known as the Hulda Gates after the prophetess Hulda and were used as the main entrance for millions of Jewish pilgrims in the Second Temple. The Hulda Tunnel and Solomon’s Stables (which were never stables and did not exist in the time of King Solomon but were erroneously called this by the Crusaders) remained exactly as they were at the time of the Second Temple until recently when the Arabs on the Temple Mount covered the beautiful ornamentation and the pillars and illegally converted the area into a mosque.
The archaeologists called on the Israeli authorities to repair the wall. However, the archaeologist, Eilat Mazar, stated that nothing can prevent the imminent collapse of the wall. They also stated that they do not know the reason for the bulge. However, the Arabs on the Temple Mount refuse to allow the Israeli authorities to try to repair the wall.
Yesterday (28/08/02) the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement sent an open letter to Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel. In the letter the chairman of the Movement, Gershon Salomon, stated that the reason for the bulge and the "danger" of the wall collapsing is the Hand of the Father God Yahweh of Israel. Gershon wrote in the letter that the bulge and probable collapse is no accident but the commencement of a godly move for the collapse of all the strange, pagan Arab presence on the Temple Mount which is the most holy site of the temple.
This is a fulfilment of the prophecies of the prophets of Israel for the redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world. It is so sad that everyone who looks for the reason for the bulge are too blind to understand this prophetic fact. Gershon called on the Israeli authorities and the archaeologists not to interfere in Father God Yahweh’s activities and to prevent any activity to repair the wall. This godly event signifies the start of the collapse of the walls of violence and hatred against the people of Father God Yahweh and the presence of the Arab Islamic enemy of Father God Yahweh and people of Israel in the most holy place of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel.
The Father God Yahweh of Israel is moving the end-time history of Israel and all the world towards the purification of His holy hill from the foreigners and their desecration and towards the rebuilding of the temple. This is also the start of Father God Yahweh’s judgement on these foreign enemies on the Temple Mount who have desecrated, vandalised and destroyed the remains of the First and Second Temples, built new mosques on the holy site of Father God Yahweh and still continue their activities to convert the Temple Mount into an Islamic site by eliminating the remains of the Jewish temples. They dared to lift their hands against the Father God Yahweh of Israel and the people of Israel. They were deluded into thinking that they could deny and ignore the existence of the temple on the Temple Mount and in this way prevent the godly historical end-time step of the redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world.
The Father God Yahweh of Israel showed them that no one can raise their hands and fight against Him. So many enemies of Israel who have occupied the Temple Mount and Jerusalem since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70CE have completely disappeared from the stage of history like dust in the wind under the judgement of Father God Yahweh. This and even worse will be the fate of the current enemies of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel on the Temple Mount and all over the land of Israel.
Gershon called on Ariel Sharon not to squander the great credit that Father God Yahweh and history gave him at a very great and critical time in the history of Israel but to co-operate with Father God Yahweh and to remove His enemies from his most holy hill and to immediately start the building of the Third Temple
Gershon reminded Prime Minister Sharon of the Hand of Father God Yahweh on the southern wall of the Temple Mount during Tisha b’Av 2001 when the Temple Mount Faithful Movement carried the cornerstone to the area in front of the wall and its historical gates and how the bulge had immediately started to appear. It was a clear message from Father God Yahweh that the gates and walls should immediately be opened to the cornerstone and the starting of the rebuilding of the temple. Exactly as His word states in the Psalms, "the stone which the builders rejected became the head of the corner". Through this cornerstone Father God Yahweh caused a political and spiritual earthquake in Israel, the Middle East and all over the world.
In all the Arab countries models of the temple that they built were burned and again the had illusions that they could prevent this major godly end-time event by such activities which again brought them to desecrate the Name of Father God Yahweh. It is no accident that Father God Yahweh caused the bulge and eventual collapse on the southern wall of the Temple Mount. This was the main entrance for pilgrims to the First and Second Temples and Father God Yahweh is eager to open this wall and its gates to millions of pilgrims to the Third Temple.
On Saturday 24th August 2002, the anti-Israeli Islamic Movement in Israel brought 45,000 of its members to the Temple Mount and held a demonstration against the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. The Temple Mount Faithful Movement sent a message of protest to the Israeli authorities and asked them why they did not prevent this demonstration which again desecrated the holy site of the Father God Yahweh of Israel. During the demonstration they incited the Arabs against the Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem and the land of Israel. They stated that the land of Israel is "Palestine" and that there is no place for the Jews on the Temple Mount or in Jerusalem and all of the land of Israel.
They denied that the Temple Mount had been the site of the First and Second Temples and the godly historical heart and soul of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. It was a terrible revolt by the followers of Yasser Arafat, the enemies of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel on the Temple Mount, against Father God Yahweh and the eternal covenant that He made with Abraham and Israel when He gave the land of Israel to His people Israel only and gave them the Temple Mount and Jerusalem where they were to build His house. It was a rude lie against the history of the relationship and long link between Father God Yahweh, Israel and the Holy Land; a history of thousands of years of the people of Israel who lived in this land since the time of Abraham and King David and built it to be the land of the Father God Yahweh and people of Israel. The reaction of Father God Yahweh came immediately. On the next day the archaeologists discovered that the size of the bulge had increased. This was again an immediate sign of the Hand of Father God Yahweh and His judgement.
In his letter to the Prime Minister, Gershon stated that we are now standing at the threshold of a new and decisive stage in the major, historical, prophetic, godly move for the redemption of the Temple Mount, the people and land of Israel and of all the world. We are now witnessing the final death throws of the cruel, foreign and vandalistic occupation of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the land of Israel. Father God Yahweh will no longer suffer the continued desecration of His holy mountain. If the Israeli Government will not immediately stop the enemies occupation as Father God Yahweh expects it to do, then Father God Yahweh Himself will very soon stop it which He has already started to do.
The bulge in the southern wall is the start of this irreversible move of Father God Yahweh.. The people of Israel and all the world cannot and will not succeed in running away from the Temple Mount and from the godly task of the people of Israel to immediately rebuild the house of Father God Yahweh. The Temple Mount and the temple will pursue them and the temple will soon be rebuilt whether they want it or not. This is the hour decreed by the Father God Yahweh of Israel.
The collapse of security, the economy, the community, morality, the cruel terror attacks, the terrible carnage on the roads and the political and social instability all over the world are a result of the shameful ignoring of the Temple Mount and the call of Father God Yahweh to the immediate rebuilding of the temple which will open a new godly era of morality in the life of all the world.
Gershon called on the people of Israel and its leadership to heed the call of their Father God Yahweh, the Father God Yahweh of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to join Him and His prophetic end-time redemptional move, to immediately purify the holy hill of Father God Yahweh and to immediately build His house on the Temple Mount which will be the major tower of light for Israel and all the nations and a house of love and worship for the people of Father God Yahweh and all the world. We are calling for the awakening of everyone for this major prophetic and godly end-time event in Israel and all over the world. Let us not miss the great godly opportunity which He privileged us to have at a very critical and exciting time in the history of Israel and all the world.
Everyone in Israel and all over the world is called on to pray loudly the following Word of Father God Yahweh to His prophet, Isaiah which has started to become reality and will soon be completed on the Temple Mount.
Isaiah 25
"O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For you have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt. Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you. For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of tyrants was like a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat is removed by the shadow of a cloud; so the song of tyrants shall be brought low.
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the covering that is cast over all the people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will destroy death for ever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the insult of his people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. And it shall be said on that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trampled down in his own place, like straw is trampled down in the dunghill. And he shall spread out his hands in the midst of them, as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plunder of their hands. And the high fortifications of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
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Jerusalem Post
10.28.2002A new report by a group of senior Jordanian engineers concerning the ominous bulge in the southern wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount recommends replacing some of the eroding stones in the two-thousand-year-old wall in order to prevent it from future collapse, Jordanian officials said Monday.
The 36-page report, completed Monday by a team of engineers from Amman's prestigious Royal Scientific Society, will be forwarded this week to the relevant Jordanian government ministries, the society's director, Khaled Kahhaleh, said in a telephone interview from Amman Monday.
A yearlong dispute between Israel and the Wakf, the Islamic religious trust - which oversees day-to-day maintenance at the site - over who will fix the large bulge was resolved earlier this month with a decision to involve Jordanian engineers, who inspected and took a sampling of the protruding wall.
The decision to let the Jordanians do to the work, which was made at a top-level meeting headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, follows repeated warnings by Israeli archaeologists that sections of the wall are in unequivocal danger of collapse, and comes just ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to flock to the site.
Kahhaleh said that the findings of the report were "not as dramatic" as the warnings voiced by many Israeli archaeologists and the Antiquities Authority, and voiced his readiness to carry out the needed renovation work at the site, pending his government's authorization.
"We are willing to use our expertise to carry out any action that is needed," he said.
The report cites water dripping into the wall over past years as a potential cause over the bulge, said Dr. Raich Najim, a former Jordanian minister who was involved in the drafting of the report. "The penetration of rainwater into the interior of the wall over time, and change of temperature, created certain voids in the wall," he said in an interview from Amman.
Najim said that a 40-meter section of the wall "needs some reinforcement," while the damaged stones in the center of the bulge - an area of some 140 square meters - should be taken out and replaced.
"We need to replace the eroded stones and inject new binding materials," he said. Najim said that although such work will "take time," there was "no danger" of the wall's collapse, as Israeli archaeologists had feared.
The Antiquities Authority declined to comment on the Jordanian report Monday, maintaining its virtual media silence on the ultra-sensitive issue.
As the authority conducted a series of tests on the outside of the wall in 2000, archaeologists felt the bulge was likely due to unauthorized Wakf construction work at an underground area known as Solomon's Stables inside the wall. Faulty draining was cited by the authority as probable cause for the bulge in its own report, issued last year.
Over the past year, in what has been referred to as "the battle over the bulge," intermittent discreet negotiations with the Wakf reached an impasse over a disagreement about who will fix the problem - Israel or the Wakf - with both sides preventing the other from carrying out the renovation work needed.
"I cannot tell you when it will happen, and I do not know what section will fall, but I can tell you that the southern wall is indeed in danger of collapse," Antiquities Authority head Shuka Dorfman said last month.
As Jordanian engineers completed their survey on the southern wall bulge this week, it remained unclear if they would also be consulted about a smaller section of the mount's western wall that archaeologists say shows signs of dampness and has begun to protrude as well.
Prior to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, Jordan was in charge of maintenance at the bitterly contested compound that is home to Judaism's holiest site and is revered, as well, by Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, Islam's third holiest site. In the years since, the PA, seeking to gain a foothold in Jerusalem, ousted both the Jordanian-appointed Wakf director and the Jerusalem mufti - both of whom had for years quietly cooperated with Israel - and replaced them with people of its own.
The Israeli government has said that it is in Israel's best interest to involve the Jordanians in the work.
Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police have barred non-Muslims, including archaeologists, from entering the Temple Mount since then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon's controversial visit in September 2000, leaving the area without any archaeological supervision. The two years since then is the longest period the site has been closed to Jews and Christians since the unification of Jerusalem in 1967.