Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “The Tunnel” (1/12)

• 00:01 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:07 ♪ ♪
• 00:23 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:28 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
• 00:40 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
• 00:45 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:46 TO AN UPDATED SERIES,
• 00:48 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 00:49 THIS IS A WORK THAT ZOLA AND
• 00:51 TOM McCALL DID BACK IN THE '90s,
• 00:53 UNEARTHING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
• 00:55 EVIDENCE OF BIBLICAL TRUTH.
• 00:57 AND WE'RE THRILLED
• 00:58 TO BRING THIS TO YOU TODAY.
• 00:59 YOU KNOW, THIS VERY TITLE
• 01:01 IS BASED ON THE VERSE
• 01:02 FROM LUKE 19:40 WHERE JESUS SAID
• 01:05 THAT IF THE DISCIPLES
• 01:06 DIDN'T PRAISE HIM,
• 01:07 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT.
• 01:09 AND THEY ARE CRYING OUT
• 01:10 FROM ISRAEL, AREN'T THEY?
• 01:12 Katharine: CRYING OUT TODAY.
• 01:13 EACH AND EVERY DAY, THERE ARE
• 01:14 NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS THAT ARE
• 01:16 BEING DISCOVERED THAT ARE
• 01:17 UNEARTHING HOW REAL THE BIBLE IS
• 01:21 AND HOW MUCH WE CAN KNOW.
• 01:23 OUR CAMERA CREW GOES FROM DAN
• 01:25 TO THE DEAD SEA,
• 01:26 FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO PETRA,
• 01:29 SHOWING AND TESTIFYING
• 01:31 OF THESE WONDERFUL STORIES.
• 01:33 Myles: IT'S REALLY AMAZING.
• 01:34 THERE'S SUCH CONTROVERSY TODAY.
• 01:36 THERE ARE SO MANY POLITICAL
• 01:37 VIEWS TRYING TO INTERFERE WITH
• 01:39 THE SCIENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
• 01:41 AND THE WAY THAT UNEARTHS
• 01:43 THAT THE BIBLE IS TRUE.
• 01:44 WELL, WE GET A CHANCE
• 01:45 IN THIS SERIES TO SHOW YOU HOW
• 01:47 THE STONES ARE CRYING OUT
• 01:49 AND HOW THE VERY EARTH
• 01:50 IS VERIFYING
• 01:51 THAT THE BIBLE IS TRUE.
• 01:52 IN THIS FIRST SEGMENT, ZOLA'S
• 01:55 GOING TO SPEAK TO DANNY BAHAT.
• 01:56 AND TOM McCALL
• 01:57 WILL SPEAK WITH DAVID DOLAN.
• 01:59 AND DANNY BAHAT IS GOING
• 02:00 TO SPEAK ABOUT THE UNEARTHING
• 02:01 OF THE HASMONIAN TUNNELS
• 02:03 AND THE TIME OF THE MACCABEES
• 02:05 AND HOW WHEN THAT WAS BROUGHT
• 02:06 OUT, ARAFAT, BACK IN THE DAY,
• 02:09 HE SAID THAT IT WAS INTERFERING
• 02:11 WITH THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE
• 02:12 AND IT CAUSED RIOTS
• 02:13 IN WHICH 70 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
• 02:15 Katharine: IT'S SUCH A SHAME
• 02:16 THAT OUR NEWS REPORTERS
• 02:19 DIDN'T EVEN GO DOWN AND SEE
• 02:21 WHAT WAS BEING PROMOTED AS
• 02:24 SOMETHING THAT WAS INTERFERING
• 02:26 WITH MUSLIM HOLY SITES.
• 02:28 Myles: EXACTLY
• 02:29 Katharine: THIS IS WHY WE NEED
• 02:30 YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS SO MUCH
• 02:32 DURING THIS TIME,
• 02:33 SO WE COULD ACCURATELY SHOW YOU
• 02:34 WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAND.
• 02:36 WE TAKE YOU TO ISRAEL AND
• 02:38 ACCURATELY SHOW YOU WHAT'S GOING
• 02:40 ON THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE'S EYE.
• 02:42 Myles: EXACTLY
• 02:43 AND SO NOW LET'S GO TO ZOLA
• 02:44 ON LOCATION WITH DANNY BAHAT.
• 02:48 Danny: THAT'S A VIEW
• 02:49 OF THE OLD CITY FROM THE NORTH.
• 02:51 YOU CAN SEE THE PRAYING PLAZA,
• 02:52 WHICH IS HERE.
• 02:53 OUR TUNNELS GO ALL THE WAY ALONG
• 02:55 THE WESTERN WALL AND THIS IS
• 02:57 THE POINT WHERE WE GO INTO
• 02:59 THE MACCABEAN AQUEDUCT WHICH
• 03:01 GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HERE,
• 03:03 PAINTED IN BLUE.
• 03:04 THE LAST PART IS THE PART
• 03:06 THAT THE OFFICIAL TUNNEL
• 03:07 WAS MADE TO GO OUT HERE.
• 03:08 WE MADE THIS PLAN
• 03:10 IN ORDER TO SHOW, REALLY,
• 03:11 THAT WE'VE GOT NOTHING TO DO
• 03:13 WITH THE TEMPLE MOUNT PRECINCT.
• 03:14 WE ARE ALL THE WAY OUT
• 03:16 AND YOU SEE WE CAME EVEN FURTHER
• 03:18 FROM THE ABUTTING WALL TUNNEL
• 03:20 WHICH WE HAD BEFORE.
• 03:21 WE WENT ALL THE WAY,
• 03:22 AS FAR AS POSSIBLE,
• 03:24 TO ONE OF THE WIDEST STREETS
• 03:25 IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:26 Zola: THE ENTRANCE TO THE TUNNEL
• 03:27 IS HERE ON THE MAP
• 03:29 AND LOCATED ADJACENT
• 03:30 TO THE WESTERN WALL PLAZA.
• 03:32 DANNY AND I BEGAN OUR JOURNEY
• 03:34 AT THIS POINT.
• 03:36 THE LABYRINTH OF NARROW PASSAGES
• 03:38 IS MORE THAN 400 YARDS LONG
• 03:40 AND REVEALS OVER 2,000 YEARS
• 03:42 OF HISTORY.
• 03:43 THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE TUNNEL
• 03:45 IS AN ARCHED WALKWAY
• 03:46 BUILT BY THE MAMLUKES
• 03:47 SOME 700 YEARS AGO.
• 03:49 ITS PURPOSE IS TO SUPPORT
• 03:51 THE ROADWAY ABOVE.
• 03:53 A FEW HUNDRED FEET FURTHER,
• 03:55 THE PASSAGEWAY OPENS INTO
• 03:56 A SPECTACULAR SUBTERRANEAN ROOM.
• 03:59 THE FINELY FASHIONED STONES
• 04:01 OF THIS HERODIAN STRUCTURE
• 04:03 SPEAK OF A JEWISH LEGACY DATING
• 04:04 BACK TO THE SECOND TEMPLE.
• 04:07 DANNY BAHAT EXPLAINS.
• 04:09 Danny: THIS ROOM, IT DATES FROM
• 04:10 THE TIME OF HEROD THE GREAT.
• 04:12 ACTUALLY, IT IS
• 04:14 THE ONLY BUILDING, HITHERTO,
• 04:16 FOUND IN THE COUNTRY,
• 04:18 ALL BUILT OF ASHLA, WHICH MEANS
• 04:20 SQUARE-CAST STONES IN SUCH
• 04:22 A MANNER IN THE MINOR BUILDING,
• 04:24 BECAUSE WE KNOW WE HAVE MASONRY,
• 04:27 BEAUTIFUL ASHLA MASONRY
• 04:28 ON THE WESTERN WALL IN THE CAVE
• 04:30 OF THE PATRIARCHS AT HEBRON.
• 04:32 BUT THERE'S A KIND OF A ROOM.
• 04:33 THIS IS THE FIRST ONE HITHERTO
• 04:35 DISCOVERED IN SUCH A SHAPE.
• 04:37 WHAT IS IT, REALLY, FROM HEROD'S
• 04:38 TIME, I DON'T REALLY KNOW.
• 04:41 THERE ARE MANY SUGGESTIONS LIKE
• 04:42 THE CHAMBER OF ASHLA, WHICH WAS
• 04:44 A SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
• 04:46 DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD,
• 04:47 BUT I DON'T KNOW.
• 04:48 Zola: YES
• 04:49 Danny: BUT, OTHERWISE,
• 04:50 IT MUST HAVE BEEN A BUILDING
• 04:51 OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
• 04:52 THE PROBLEM IS THAT ITS SHAPE
• 04:54 WAS COMPLETELY DISTORTED
• 04:56 DURING THE EARLY ARAB PERIOD
• 04:58 WHEN IT WAS USED
• 04:59 AS A KIND OF A WORKSHOP,
• 05:00 WHERE THEY SMELTED METAL,
• 05:02 BECAUSE WHEN WE EXCAVATED HERE,
• 05:03 WE FOUND MANY SLAGS
• 05:06 AND OTHER FURNACES
• 05:07 AND ALL KIND OF THINGS.
• 05:09 WE, OF COURSE, CLEANED IT,
• 05:10 IN ORDER TO BRING IT
• 05:11 TO THE SHAPE AS IT WAS,
• 05:12 MORE OR LESS, AS IT WAS DURING
• 05:14 THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD...
• 05:15 LET'S SAY THE TIME OF CHRIST.
• 05:17 NOW, ALL TOGETHER,
• 05:18 WHAT I'D LIKE TO SAY,
• 05:19 THAT WALKING ALL THE WAY HERE,
• 05:21 WE WALKED UNDER DOMES AND VAULTS
• 05:24 WHICH DATE FROM
• 05:25 THE LATE MEDIEVAL, NAMELY FROM
• 05:27 WHAT WE CALL THE MAMLUKE PERIOD,
• 05:28 14th, 15th CENTURY,
• 05:30 AND WE CAME DOWN TO THIS PLACE
• 05:32 WHICH IS 1st CENTURY B.C.
• 05:33 Zola: OKAY, AS WE WENT
• 05:35 DOWNSTAIRS, OF COURSE, WE WENT
• 05:37 BACK HUNDREDS OF YEARS...
• 05:38 A THOUSAND YEARS.
• 05:39 Danny: IT'S TRUE.
• 05:40 THAT'S THE IDEA BECAUSE,
• 05:41 YOU SEE, THE SYSTEM OF TUNNELS
• 05:45 WHERE WE ARE NOW,
• 05:46 WHICH STARTED TO BE AND WHICH
• 05:48 THEY STARTED TO DIG IN 1968,
• 05:51 FOLLOWING THE SIX DAY WAR,
• 05:53 THIS SYSTEM OF TUNNELS I THINK
• 05:56 TODAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SITE
• 05:57 IN JERUSALEM.
• 05:58 WHY, BECAUSE THE HISTORY
• 06:00 OF JERUSALEM HAS UNDERGONE MANY
• 06:02 VICISSITUDES DURING HISTORY.
• 06:04 AND IN THESE TUNNELS
• 06:06 EVERY PERIOD OF THOSE PERIODS
• 06:08 IS SOMEHOW REPRESENTED.
• 06:10 IT MAY BE, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 06:11 THE EARLY ARAB, IT APPEARS,
• 06:13 IS PRESENTED BY REPAIRED WALLS
• 06:15 OF THE WESTERN WALL.
• 06:16 THE MAMLUKE,
• 06:17 THEY COVERED THE WESTERN WALL
• 06:19 IN ORDER TO LIFT
• 06:21 OR, ACTUALLY, TO, YES, TO RAISE
• 06:24 THE LEVEL OF THE OLD CITY
• 06:25 TO THE PRESENT LEVEL
• 06:27 BECAUSE OF VARIOUS OTHER REASONS
• 06:29 TO WHICH WE WILL REFER LATER.
• 06:30 AND ALL TOGETHER EVERY PERIOD
• 06:32 IS REPRESENTED SOMEHOW.
• 06:34 THIS ROOM IS ACTUALLY THE ACME
• 06:37 OF THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
• 06:39 IF WE DON'T SPEAK ABOUT
• 06:40 THE WESTERN WALL,
• 06:41 BECAUSE THE WESTERN WALL,
• 06:42 OF COURSE, IS THE REASON
• 06:43 FOR THE WHOLE THING.
• 06:44 Zola: NOW, THIS, RUNNING
• 06:46 NEARBY HERE, ARE TWO TUNNELS.
• 06:49 THE ONE I UNDERSTOOD
• 06:50 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST BUILT IN ORDER
• 06:51 TO STUDY ALONG THE WESTERN WALL.
• 06:54 THE OTHER IS THE ONE
• 06:55 THAT WAS IN THE NEWS RECENTLY.
• 06:56 Danny: YES, WE HAVE EXCAVATED
• 06:58 TWO OF THEM.
• 06:59 ACTUALLY, THE FIRST ONE,
• 07:01 AS YOU SAID,
• 07:02 IS AN ARTIFICIAL TUNNEL BORED
• 07:04 BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS SINCE 1968
• 07:07 IN ORDER TO EXPOSE
• 07:08 THE WESTERN WALL.
• 07:10 WE WENT ALONG ALL KINDS
• 07:11 OF SYSTEMS OF RETAINING WALLS,
• 07:13 VAULTS, ARCHES, ALL KIND OF
• 07:15 THINGS WHICH ARE STILL TO BE
• 07:17 ANALYZED BUT IN PRINCIPLE
• 07:18 WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE.
• 07:20 AT THE END OF IT, WE CAME
• 07:23 INTO A TUNNEL WHICH WAS BOUGHT
• 07:25 BY THE MACCABEES
• 07:26 NAMELY IN THE 2nd CENTURY B.C.
• 07:29 IT IS CALLED EITHER MACCABEES OR
• 07:31 HASMONEANS, WHICH IS SYNONYMS.
• 07:33 Zola: ABOUT 200 YEARS
• 07:34 BEFORE CHRIST.
• 07:35 Danny: 200 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
• 07:37 NOW THE THING IS THAT THIS IS
• 07:39 SOMETHING OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE,
• 07:42 NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTY
• 07:43 OF THE SITE,
• 07:44 WHICH WE'LL SEE LATER.
• 07:45 NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF
• 07:46 THE IMPRESSION ONE GETS WHEN
• 07:47 HE WALKS THERE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE
• 07:50 IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT REMAINS
• 07:51 EVER FOUND IN THIS COUNTRY
• 07:53 BEFORE, PERTAINING TO
• 07:55 THE MACCABEAN PERIOD.
• 07:57 THIS IS REALLY UNIQUE.
• 07:59 ALSO, BECAUSE OF THAT,
• 08:00 WE HAVE EXPOSED THE REMAINS
• 08:02 WHICH ARE VERY SCANT,
• 08:04 BUT STILL ARE QUITE SIGNIFICANT
• 08:05 OF THE PALACE OF THE MACCABEES,
• 08:08 WHICH WAS TO THE NORTH OF
• 08:09 THE TEMPLE MOUNT OF THAT TIME,
• 08:11 COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND
• 08:12 SHAVED AWAY BY HEROD THE GREAT,
• 08:15 WHEN HE EXTENDED
• 08:16 THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 08:17 AND BUILT ANTONIA FORTRESS,
• 08:18 THE FAMOUS FORTRESS WHICH PLAYED
• 08:20 SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE
• 08:21 IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY.
• 08:23 Zola: OKAY, THE MACCABEES
• 08:24 WERE A FAMILY THAT EXISTED
• 08:28 AND REVOLTED AGAINST
• 08:29 THE SYRO-PHOENICIANS
• 08:31 WHO WERE CONTROLLING THE LAND
• 08:33 AGAINST ANTIOCHUS, IF I'M RIGHT,
• 08:35 AND THEY HAD A PALACE HERE
• 08:38 AS YOU'RE EXPLAINING.
• 08:39 Danny: NOW THAT FAMILY IT WAS...
• 08:41 CAME ACTUALLY, IT WAS
• 08:42 THE RULER OF AUTOCRACY
• 08:44 IN OUR COUNTRY IN JUDAH.
• 08:46 AND IN THE 2nd CENTURY WHEN
• 08:48 THERE WERE TWO TRENDS AMONGST
• 08:49 THE JEWS LIVING IN THE COUNTRY
• 08:51 WHO WERE UNDER THE YOKE
• 08:53 OF THE SELEUCIDS.
• 08:54 THE SELEUCIDS WERE THE HEIRS
• 08:55 OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
• 08:57 NOW THERE WERE TWO TENDENCIES
• 08:59 IN THE COUNTRY, TO ACCEPT
• 09:00 THE HELLENISTIC WAY OF LIFE,
• 09:02 OR TO PRESERVE
• 09:04 THE AUTHENTIC JEWISH LIFE.
• 09:05 Zola: OKAY.
• 09:06 Danny: THE FIGHT
• 09:07 ALMOST ENDED WITH ENCOURAGEMENT
• 09:09 OF THE SELEUCIDS,
• 09:10 NAMELY OF THE THOSE, LET'S SAY
• 09:11 GREEK-ORIENTATED RULERS
• 09:14 OF THE COUNTRY TO GO INTO
• 09:16 REALLY GREEK-ORIENTATED WAY
• 09:18 OF LIFE, BUT THERE WAS A KIND OF
• 09:21 A ZEAL AMONGST THE RURAL PEOPLE
• 09:25 TO MAINTAIN JEWISH WAYS OF LIFE.
• 09:27 THAT FAMILY, WHICH COMES FROM
• 09:28 A LITTLE TOWN NAMED MODI'IN,
• 09:30 WHICH IS NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM.
• 09:31 IT'S ABOUT 30 KILOMETERS
• 09:33 FROM JERUSALEM.
• 09:34 THEY REBELLED AND THEY MANAGED
• 09:36 TO ORGANIZE A WHOLE REVOLT
• 09:38 AGAINST THE SELEUCIDS.
• 09:40 FINALLY JUDAH
• 09:41 RECEIVED ITS INDEPENDENCE,
• 09:43 AND FOR OVER 200 YEARS, JUDAH
• 09:45 WAS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.
• 09:47 Zola: AND THAT ESTABLISHED
• 09:48 A HOLIDAY CALLED "HANUKKAH."
• 09:51 Danny: BECAUSE OF THE VICTORY
• 09:52 WE CELEBRATE TO THIS VERY DAY,
• 09:53 THE HANUKKAH HOLY DAY, WHICH IS
• 09:56 ACTUALLY TO COMMEMORATE NOT ONLY
• 09:57 THE VICTORY OF THE SELEUCIDS
• 09:59 AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION
• 10:00 OF THE TEMPLE,
• 10:01 BUT ALSO IT IS IN ORDER
• 10:03 TO COMMEMORATE THE GREAT MIRACLE
• 10:05 WHICH OCCURRED WHEN THE JEWS
• 10:06 MANAGED TO KINDLE
• 10:08 THE CANDELABRUM FOR 8 DAYS,
• 10:11 ALTHOUGH THE EWER,
• 10:12 THE LITTLE PURE OIL THEY FOUND,
• 10:14 COULD SUFFICE FOR ONLY ONE DAY.
• 10:15 AND THIS IS REALLY
• 10:16 THE MAIN REASON
• 10:17 BECAUSE IT WAS A MIRACLE;
• 10:18 IT WAS A DIVINE MIRACLE.
• 10:19 Zola: TO TAKE YOUR ATTENTION
• 10:20 BACK TO THE TUNNEL THEN,
• 10:22 IT IS SORT OF--
• 10:23 WELL, IT'S MORE THAN SORT OF,
• 10:25 IT IS A REAL PROOF
• 10:26 OF THE JEWISH PRIMACY
• 10:28 IN THIS LAND AT THAT TIME.
• 10:29 Danny: DEFINITELY.
• 10:30 WHEN WE WOULD WALK
• 10:31 ALONG THE WESTERN WALL
• 10:33 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 10:34 YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE
• 10:35 ACTUALLY WALKING ALONG
• 10:37 THE MOST MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE
• 10:39 IN ANTIQUITY.
• 10:40 I ALWAYS SAY,
• 10:41 IN A KIND OF A JOKE,
• 10:43 THAT THE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT SEVEN
• 10:44 MARVELS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
• 10:47 I SAY ALWAYS THERE WERE NINE.
• 10:49 THE NINTH BEING, WHY DIDN'T
• 10:50 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM
• 10:52 BECOME THE EIGHTH?
• 10:53 BECAUSE, BY FAR MORE,
• 10:55 IT EXCEEDS ANY OTHER STRUCTURE
• 10:57 OF ANTIQUITY.
• 10:59 FOR EXAMPLE,
• 11:00 IF ONE OF THE MARVELS WERE
• 11:02 THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT AND
• 11:03 YOU COULD TAKE THREE AND A HALF
• 11:05 OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AND
• 11:06 PUT THEM ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 11:09 NOW, THE THING IS, THAT IT IS
• 11:10 REALLY A UNIQUE STRUCTURE
• 11:12 AND YOU'LL SEE WE ARE WALKING
• 11:13 AND WALKING AND WALKING ALONG
• 11:15 ONE MORE WALL WHICH ORIGINALLY
• 11:17 WAS VERY HIGH, IN SOME PLACES
• 11:19 OVER 200 FEET HIGH.
• 11:21 AND YOU ARE WALKING ALONG IT
• 11:22 WITH BEAUTIFUL MASONRY,
• 11:24 VERY WELL EXECUTED,
• 11:26 SO ALL THAT CAN REALLY GIVE YOU
• 11:27 REALLY THE IMPRESSION
• 11:28 OF HOW BIG IT WAS.
• 11:29 THE PROBLEM WE HAVE TODAY THAT,
• 11:31 UNFORTUNATELY, WE CAME AGAIN
• 11:33 TO THAT PHASE WHEN WE'VE GOT TO
• 11:35 PROVE THAT JERUSALEM IS HOLY
• 11:37 TO US AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 11:38 WAS BUILT BY A JEWISH KING.
• 11:40 AND THIS IS SOMETHING WHICH
• 11:41 I THOUGHT WILL NEVER OCCUR AGAIN
• 11:43 AND INDEED, IT COMES HERE AGAIN
• 11:45 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
• 11:46 WE'VE GOT TO BE A KIND OF--
• 11:48 TO TRY TO EXPLAIN
• 11:49 WHAT WE ARE DOING AND HOW.
• 11:50 THE JEWS WHO PRAY AT
• 11:52 THE WESTERN WALL WANT TO KNOW--
• 11:54 WHICH IS THE HOLIEST PLACE
• 11:55 FOR JUDAISM AT PRESENT--
• 11:57 WANT TO KNOW ALSO TO SAY
• 11:59 THE SECRETS OF THE WESTERN WALL,
• 12:01 WHERE DOES IT START,
• 12:02 WHERE DOES IT END?
• 12:03 AND THIS WAS REALLY THE PURPOSE
• 12:04 OF THE TUNNEL,
• 12:05 OF DIGGING THE TUNNEL,
• 12:06 AND I THINK WE GIVE
• 12:07 ALL THE ANSWERS
• 12:08 IN A MOST SATISFACTORY MANNER.
• 12:09 Zola: YEAH.
• 12:10 SO NOW, WITH THIS TUNNEL DUG,
• 12:12 PEOPLE FROM THE WALL CAN WALK
• 12:14 ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND COME OUT
• 12:16 AT THE VIA DOLOROSA IN
• 12:17 THE MUSLIM QUARTER OF JERUSALEM.
• 12:19 Danny: WHICH MEANS THEY CAN WALK
• 12:20 OVER I WOULD SAY ABOUT 400 YARDS
• 12:24 TO SEE THE GREATNESS
• 12:26 OF THE WESTERN WALL AND TO COME
• 12:27 OUT IN THE VIA DOLOROSA TODAY.
• 12:31 Zola: WHEN WE RETURN, WE'LL
• 12:32 JOURNEY DEEP INSIDE THE TUNNEL,
• 12:34 TO THE VERY BASE
• 12:35 OF THE WESTERN WALL.
• 12:36 AND, LATER ON, WHY DID THE MEDIA
• 12:38 MAKE SO MANY MISTAKES IN
• 12:40 REPORTING THE TUNNEL INCIDENT?
• 12:42 WE'LL GET A JOURNALIST'S
• 12:43 PERSPECTIVE.
• 12:44 David Dolan: AND I THINK THERE
• 12:45 WAS A REAL STEPPING BACK
• 12:47 AND SAYING WE'LL JUST REPORT
• 12:49 WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
• 12:50 WE WON'T ACTUALLY GO IN AND DO
• 12:51 ANY INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
• 12:52 OURSELVES, THAT'S THE SAFEST WAY
• 12:54 TO APPROACH IT.
• 12:55 ♪ ♪
• 13:04 ♪ ♪
• 13:38 Katharine: ISRAEL...
• 13:39 THE LAND OF COVENANTS...
• 13:40 THE LAND WHERE THE BIBLE
• 13:41 COMES ALIVE AND HIS VOICE
• 13:43 IS EVEN LOUDER THAN EVER.
• 13:44 Myles: I KNOW.
• 13:45 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 13:46 THE LAST TIME WE WERE IN ISRAEL
• 13:48 ONE OF OUR PILGRIMS FOUND A COIN
• 13:49 FROM THE MACCABEAN ERA.
• 13:51 THIS VERY SERIES THAT WE'RE
• 13:52 DOING, "THE STONES CRY OUT," IS
• 13:54 BEING VERIFIED EVEN IN OUR DAY,
• 13:56 SO YOU WANT TO COME TO ISRAEL
• 13:57 WITH US.
• 13:58 ANOTHER WAY TO STUDY
• 13:59 YOUR JEWISH-CHRISTIAN ROOTS
• 14:01 IS TO RECEIVE OUR INSTITUTE
• 14:03 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
• 14:05 IT'S AN AMAZING PACKET
• 14:06 OF TEACHING THAT CAME
• 14:08 FROM JEFF SEIF AND ZOLA LEVITT.
• 14:10 THERE'S ONE CD, THREE CDs,
• 14:11 OR THE ENTIRE SEGMENT OF 12 CDs
• 14:14 THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE.
• 14:15 IN FACT, IT'S BEEN SO--HAD SUCH
• 14:16 AN IMPACT ON SOME OF OUR PEOPLE,
• 14:18 THAT WE WANT TO HEAR FROM
• 14:19 ONE OF OUR STUDENTS RIGHT NOW.
• 14:22 Britnni Rummel: I WOULD
• 14:23 RECOMMEND THIS INSTITUTE
• 14:24 BECAUSE IT REALLY HELPED ME
• 14:25 DEEPEN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 14:27 GOING BACK AND LEARNING ABOUT
• 14:28 THE OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES, THERE
• 14:30 ARE A LOT OF CRAZY AND CONFUSING
• 14:32 THINGS IN THERE SOMETIMES, AND
• 14:33 TO REALLY GO BACK AND UNDERSTAND
• 14:35 THE CONTEXT OF IT, REALLY
• 14:37 HELPED ME WITH CHRISTIANITY,
• 14:39 BECAUSE WE HAVE HEBREW ROOTS.
• 14:40 WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN?
• 14:42 IT TEACHES YOU WHAT IT MEANS
• 14:44 AND WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR AND
• 14:46 IT JUST REALLY BRINGS ME BACK
• 14:47 TO YESHUA AND WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE
• 14:50 FOR HIM, AND IT REALLY JUST
• 14:51 STRENGTHENED AND DEEPENED MY
• 14:52 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD OVERALL.
• 14:55 Myles: I SO APPRECIATE
• 14:56 THAT TESTIMONY; YOU KNOW,
• 14:57 THIS IS NOT JUST A CD COURSE.
• 15:00 THIS IS COMPARABLE
• 15:02 TO A BIBLE COLLEGE COURSE.
• 15:03 THE RESOURCE THIS WEEK
• 15:04 IS THE ENTIRE INSTITUTE
• 15:06 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
• 15:08 I REMEMBER BRINGING A PASTOR
• 15:09 TO ISRAEL AND HE SAID,
• 15:10 "I WISH I HAD DONE THIS
• 15:11 35 YEARS AGO IN SEMINARY."
• 15:13 THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT
• 15:15 OF A SEMINARY COURSE
• 15:16 IN JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
• 15:18 Katharine: YEAH, THIS COURSE
• 15:20 WILL NOT ONLY INSPIRE YOU
• 15:22 IN THE WORD AND IN
• 15:23 THE JEWISHNESS OF THE GOSPEL,
• 15:25 BUT IT'LL EDUCATE YOU
• 15:26 IN YOUR HERITAGE THAT YOU HAVE
• 15:28 AS A SON OF ABRAHAM.
• 15:29 AND IT ALSO WILL HELP US
• 15:31 TO CONTINUE TO BRING YOU
• 15:32 THESE PROGRAMS THAT
• 15:34 WE LOVE TO BRING YOU FROM ISRAEL
• 15:36 AND FROM THE HEART OF GOD.
• 15:38 Myles: YES, SO LET'S GO BACK
• 15:40 TO ZOLA ON LOCATION
• 15:41 AT THE WESTERN WALL.
• 15:44 Danny: AT FIRST, WHAT WE SEE
• 15:45 HERE IS THE WESTERN WALL
• 15:47 TO OUR RIGHT-HAND SIDE.
• 15:48 THIS IS ACTUALLY THE LAST POINT
• 15:50 IN IT, AND IT IS ALL CARVED IN
• 15:52 THE ROCK BECAUSE HEROD THE GREAT
• 15:55 REALLY DESTROYED EVERYTHING
• 15:57 WHICH WAS BEFORE HIM.
• 15:59 AND WHAT HE DID WAS TO PUT HERE,
• 16:03 DOWN BELOW, IT IS NATURAL ROCK,
• 16:05 AND TO BRING ONE COURSE
• 16:07 OF STONES, WHICH WAS HERE.
• 16:08 Zola: OH, THIS IS ON TOP
• 16:09 OF THE BEDROCK.
• 16:10 Danny: YES, THAT'S BEDROCK.
• 16:11 DOWN BELOW, THIS IS BEDROCK
• 16:13 AND ABOVE IT, THE BUILDERS.
• 16:14 BUT THE MOST EXCITING OF ALL
• 16:16 THE STONES IN THE WESTERN WALL
• 16:18 IS THE ONE WHICH YOU SEE HERE,
• 16:19 BECAUSE HERE YOU CAN SEE
• 16:20 HOW HE BROUGHT IT
• 16:21 FROM THE QUARRY.
• 16:23 SEE...COMPLETELY ROUGH.
• 16:24 HERE YOU SEE THE CONCENTRIC
• 16:25 MOVEMENTS OF THE CHISELS,
• 16:27 WHERE THEY SMOOTH IT,
• 16:28 AND HERE IT IS,
• 16:29 ALREADY FINISHED.
• 16:30 IT IS THE ONLY STONE
• 16:31 ALONG THE ENTIRE STORY
• 16:33 WHERE YOU CAN SEE ON ONE STONE,
• 16:35 YOU CAN SEE THIS...
• 16:36 YOU CAN SEE THIS...
• 16:37 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT.
• 16:38 Zola: OH YES.
• 16:39 Danny: SO IT SHOWS US THAT,
• 16:40 ACTUALLY, ALL THE STONES
• 16:41 WERE HEWN WHEN THEY WERE
• 16:43 ALREADY INSTALLED IN PLACE.
• 16:44 Zola: I SEE.
• 16:45 Danny: YOU UNDERSTAND IT..
• 16:46 HE BROUGHT IT,
• 16:47 ROUGHLY HE WORKED ON IT ON SITE
• 16:50 AND HERE IT IS,
• 16:51 THE FINAL SHAPE OF IT.
• 16:52 YOU SEE, HERE'S ANOTHER STONE
• 16:54 LIKE THAT.
• 16:55 THIS ONE IS, AGAIN,
• 16:56 YOU SEE, IT IS ALREADY SMOOTH
• 16:57 AND BEAUTIFUL, BUT HERE,
• 16:58 YOU CAN SEE IT IS VERY ROUGH.
• 16:59 Zola: OH, YES.
• 17:00 Danny: NOW, WE ARE NOW--
• 17:01 THIS IS THE END
• 17:02 OF THE WESTERN WALL.
• 17:03 THE WESTERN WALL ENDS HERE
• 17:04 LIKE THAT...AND AS WE GO,
• 17:06 THIS LITTLE FLIGHT OF STEPS,
• 17:07 WE'LL FIND OURSELVES
• 17:08 IN THE MACCABEAN TUNNEL.
• 17:10 Zola: AT THIS POINT,
• 17:11 WE LEFT A SEGMENT OF TUNNEL
• 17:13 DUG BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND
• 17:15 WE ENTERED THE HASMONEAN TUNNEL.
• 17:17 ORIGINALLY AN AQUEDUCT, IT WAS
• 17:19 CONSTRUCTED OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO
• 17:21 TO SUPPLY WATER TO THE
• 17:22 MACCABEAN PALACE FURTHER SOUTH.
• 17:25 THE WINDING CHANNEL WALLS
• 17:26 STRETCH HIGHER AND HIGHER,
• 17:28 TOWARD THE OLD CITY ABOVE.
• 17:29 Danny: YOU SEE HOW IT'S GOING
• 17:30 HIGHER AND HIGHER?
• 17:31 Zola: YES.
• 17:32 Danny: THE REASON IS THAT
• 17:33 ACTUALLY THEY NEVER BORED IT
• 17:34 AS A TUNNEL.
• 17:36 THEY EXCAVATED IT FROM TOP
• 17:38 AND THEN THEY COVERED IT
• 17:39 WITH SLABS
• 17:40 AND THEN IT BECAME A TUNNEL.
• 17:41 BUT THE THING IS, THE HILL IS
• 17:44 HIGHER THE FURTHER NORTH WE GO
• 17:46 AND IF WE GO NORTHWARDS...
• 17:47 LOOK AT THAT...
• 17:48 AT REALLY LOOKS LIKE A CANYON
• 17:50 IN THE DESERT.
• 17:51 NOW THE THING IS, THAT IT WAS
• 17:52 MADE BY THE MACCABEES IN ORDER
• 17:54 TO SUPPLY WATER TO THEIR PALACE.
• 17:57 TILL THE DISCOVERY OF
• 17:58 THIS TUNNEL WHICH, BY THE WAY,
• 18:00 WAS DISCOVERED ALREADY
• 18:01 IN THE 19th CENTURY,
• 18:03 BUT THE EXPLORERS THERE DIDN'T
• 18:04 UNDERSTAND WHAT EXACTLY IT WAS.
• 18:06 SO WHAT THEY DID WAS THEY DIDN'T
• 18:09 KNOW TO WHOM TO ATTRIBUTE IT.
• 18:11 NOW WE KNOW VERY WELL
• 18:12 THAT IT IS PRE-HERODIAN, BECAUSE
• 18:14 HEROD THE GREAT BUILT A DAM HERE
• 18:17 IN ORDER TO STOP THE WATER
• 18:19 WHICH CAME ALONG THIS AQUEDUCT;
• 18:22 ACTUALLY TO STOP IT
• 18:24 FROM GOING INTO THE WESTERN WALL
• 18:25 AND TO FLOOD HIS WALKS THERE.
• 18:28 BUT THE FANTASTIC THING IS THAT
• 18:29 WHEN WE GO UP TO THE TOP
• 18:31 AND YOU SEE THE CANYON,
• 18:32 THE VIEW OVER THE CANYON
• 18:33 IS REALLY MARVELOUS.
• 18:35 AND IF YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE
• 18:36 UNDER THE OLD CITY
• 18:38 IT IS REALLY FASCINATING.
• 18:39 Zola: OH, YES.
• 18:41 Danny: WE MADE A GLASS BRIDGE
• 18:42 SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT WATER
• 18:44 STILL FLOWS UNDERNEATH.
• 18:45 Zola: OH, YES.
• 18:46 Danny: YOU CAN SEE IT
• 18:47 DOWN THERE.
• 18:48 YOU SEE, THE CEILING
• 18:49 IS REFLECTED IN THE WATER.
• 18:51 Zola: OH, YES.
• 18:52 Danny: AND THIS IS REALLY
• 18:53 A UNIQUE THING ALTOGETHER TO SEE
• 18:55 THE ENTIRE HEIGHT OF THE TUNNELS
• 18:57 FROM BOTTOM TO TOP.
• 18:59 Zola: WE CONTINUED OUR ASCENT TO
• 19:01 THE END OF THE HASMONEAN SEGMENT
• 19:02 OF THE TUNNEL, ENTERING THE
• 19:03 FINAL PART OF THE TUNNEL SYSTEM.
• 19:05 EXCAVATION COMPLETED HERE
• 19:07 IN 1993 STOPPED 12 INCHES SHORT
• 19:10 OF BREAKING THROUGH
• 19:11 ONTO THE VIA DOLOROSA,
• 19:13 SHOWN HERE ON THE MAP,
• 19:14 TRADITION HOLDS
• 19:16 CHRIST WALKED THIS STREET
• 19:17 TO HIS CRUCIFIXION.
• 19:19 FINALLY IN 1996,
• 19:21 NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISLAMIC
• 19:23 AND JEWISH AUTHORITIES RESULTED
• 19:24 IN THE APPROVAL AND CREATION
• 19:26 OF THE TUNNEL EXIT.
• 19:28 AT FIRST ALL WAS CALM, HOWEVER,
• 19:30 PALESTINIAN LEADER YASSER ARAFAT
• 19:32 MADE MISLEADING STATEMENTS
• 19:33 REGARDING THE TUNNEL LOCATION
• 19:35 WHICH INCITED RIOTS, KILLING 70
• 19:38 AND INJURING HUNDREDS.
• 19:39 SPEAKING NEAR THE EXIT, DANNY
• 19:41 EXPLAINS ARAFAT'S DECEPTION.
• 19:43 Danny: HE DIFFUSED,
• 19:45 IN THE INTERNET AND EVERYWHERE,
• 19:47 A MAP OF OUR TUNNELS AS IF
• 19:48 THEY GO UNDER THE TWO MOSQUES
• 19:50 ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 19:53 WE PUBLISHED A MAP OF THE WALK,
• 19:54 AS WE DO IN EVERY EXCAVATION.
• 19:56 AND HE TOOK THE SAME MAP
• 19:57 WHICH WAS PUBLISHED,
• 19:59 AND MOVED IT, THE TUNNEL.
• 20:00 HE PUT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 20:03 BETWEEN THE TWO MOSQUES.
• 20:04 THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
• 20:05 AND EVERYONE BELIEVED--
• 20:07 NO ONE COULD BELIEVE THAT
• 20:08 THE LEADER OF LET'S SAY A NATION
• 20:10 WITH NATIONAL ASPIRATIONS
• 20:11 CAN LIE TO THE WORLD
• 20:12 IN SUCH A MANNER.
• 20:14 AND THIS IS ACTUALLY
• 20:15 WHAT HE DID.
• 20:16 David Dolan: THIS POLITICALLY
• 20:17 THREATENS...
• 20:18 Zola: DAVID DOLAN,
• 20:19 VETERAN JOURNALIST AND RESIDENT
• 20:20 OF JERUSALEM SPOKE WITH
• 20:21 DR. McCALL ABOUT THE EVENTS.
• 20:23 Tom McCALL: WHY DO WE GET
• 20:24 THIS KIND OF WRONG INFORMATION
• 20:27 OR MISINFORMATION
• 20:28 OR DISINFORMATION?
• 20:30 David: THE PALESTINIANS
• 20:31 PRESENTED IT AS A TUNNEL
• 20:33 THAT AFFECTED THE MOSQUE
• 20:35 ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 20:36 SO THEY LEFT THE IMPRESSION THAT
• 20:39 IT DID GO ACTUALLY UNDERNEATH
• 20:40 THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE MEDIA
• 20:42 JUST REPORTED THAT WITHOUT
• 20:44 ACTUALLY CHECKING ON THE FACTS,
• 20:46 GOING DOWN THERE
• 20:48 AND LOOKING AT IT OR WHATEVER.
• 20:49 AND IT TOOK A FEW DAYS
• 20:51 FOR IT TO BE CLARIFIED EVEN HERE
• 20:53 LOCALLY, HERE IN THE MEDIA, THAT
• 20:55 THIS TUNNEL RUNS ON THE OUTSIDE
• 20:57 OF THE WESTERN WALL; THAT
• 20:59 IT'S AN ANCIENT TUNNEL, NOTHING
• 21:01 THAT HAS JUST BEEN BUILT.
• 21:02 IT WAS AN ANCIENT WATER TUNNEL
• 21:04 AT THE HASMONEAN PERIOD
• 21:05 AND THEREFORE HAS NOTHING
• 21:06 TO DO WITH THE MOSQUE ITSELF.
• 21:08 BUT, AGAIN, IT'S PRECISELY
• 21:10 ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF
• 21:12 THAT THE ISLAMIC CLAIM TO BE
• 21:15 THE FINAL REVELATION OF TRUTH,
• 21:16 THE FINAL FAITH,
• 21:18 THE SUPREME FAITH WAS,
• 21:20 THEY BELIEVED, CONCRETELY
• 21:22 DEMONSTRATED BY THEM
• 21:23 CAPTURING THE TEMPLE MOUNT FROM,
• 21:25 AT THAT TIME IN 638,
• 21:27 BYZANTINE CHRISTIANS.
• 21:29 Zola: AND YET THESE TUNNELS THAT
• 21:30 YOU HAVE EXCAVATED SHOW THAT YOU
• 21:33 WERE HERE MANY CENTURIES BEFORE
• 21:35 THE BIRTH OF MOHAMMAD EVEN.
• 21:37 Danny: DEFINITELY.
• 21:38 IT WAS THE JEWS WHO BROUGHT
• 21:40 THE ARABS HERE DURING THE
• 21:41 CREATION OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE
• 21:44 IN THE 7th CENTURY
• 21:45 BECAUSE WHEN THEY CAME HERE,
• 21:47 THEY DIDN'T KNOW
• 21:48 WHAT THEY ARE COMING TO.
• 21:49 IT WAS A CONVERTED JEW,
• 21:50 A MAN CALLED KA'AB AL-AHBAR WHO
• 21:52 BROUGHT THEM AND SHOWED THEM THE
• 21:54 HOLINESS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 21:56 AND THEY WERE DELIBERATING.
• 21:57 AND WE'VE GOT IT
• 21:58 FROM ARAB SOURCES.
• 21:59 THEY WERE DELIBERATING WHERE
• 22:00 TO BUILD THE MOSQUE BECAUSE THEY
• 22:02 HAD NO--THERE WAS NO IMPORTANCE
• 22:04 WHATSOEVER TO JERUSALEM
• 22:05 IN THEIR EYES.
• 22:07 Tom: AND ARCHAEOLOGY IS AT THE
• 22:08 HEART OF THIS WHOLE CONTROVERSY
• 22:11 OVER WHO OWNS WHAT
• 22:13 AND WHO HAS THE MOST CLAIM
• 22:16 TO THESE PROPERTIES.
• 22:19 IT'S AN AMAZING THING THAT
• 22:20 ARCHAEOLOGY WOULD HAVE SUCH AN
• 22:22 IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL HISTORY.
• 22:26 David: WELL, IT IS, AND IT'S
• 22:27 A FRUSTRATING THING FOR LOCAL
• 22:29 ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO JUST WANT
• 22:31 TO GO OUT AND DO THEIR JOB.
• 22:33 I'M TALKING ABOUT ISRAELIS
• 22:34 AND ARABS AND INTERNATIONAL
• 22:35 ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO JUST WANT TO
• 22:36 GO AND SEARCH FOR ANCIENT THINGS
• 22:38 AND THEY KEEP FINDING THAT
• 22:39 WHATEVER THEY FIND AFFECTS
• 22:41 TODAY'S POLITICAL STRUGGLE
• 22:44 AND THAT THEY'RE PULLED THIS WAY
• 22:45 AND THEY'RE PULLED THAT WAY.
• 22:46 Zola: EVEN WITH THE POLITICAL
• 22:47 PRESSURES, DANNY, KNOWING
• 22:49 THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL
• 22:50 FINDINGS FOR ALL FAITHS,
• 22:52 CONTINUES HIS WORK
• 22:53 AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 22:55 Danny: THE TUNNEL,
• 22:56 THE IDEA OF THE TUNNEL
• 22:57 IS TO EXPOSE TO THE JEWISH WORLD
• 22:58 THE SANCTITY
• 23:00 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 23:01 MOREOVER, IN THIS RESPECT,
• 23:03 SINCE IT REFERS TO
• 23:05 THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD,
• 23:06 IT IS ALSO OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
• 23:08 TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
• 23:10 TO THE MUSLIMS, OUR TUNNEL
• 23:11 IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE, FROM
• 23:12 THE SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW
• 23:15 WE HAVE REVEALED HERE
• 23:16 LAYERS OF ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT,
• 23:19 URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF JERUSALEM
• 23:21 OF WHICH THEY NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
• 23:23 SO, ALL TOGETHER, INSTEAD OF,
• 23:25 I WILL SAY, ENCOURAGING,
• 23:27 THE FACT THAT WE'VE GOT A SITE
• 23:29 WHICH EVERYONE...
• 23:30 JEWS...CHRISTIANS...AND MUSLIMS
• 23:32 CAN FIND EACH OF THEM SOMETHING
• 23:34 WHICH WILL WARM HIS POINT...
• 23:36 I MEAN, WILL WARM HIS HEART
• 23:38 WITH A CERTAIN POINT
• 23:39 OF HIS LEGACY,
• 23:41 THEY MADE A WHOLE MESS OF IT.
• 23:42 AND THIS IS, REALLY...
• 23:44 I'M AFRAID IT IS TYPICAL THING.
• 23:46 AND THAT'S WHY I'M SO FURIOUS,
• 23:47 BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WERE
• 23:48 AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS
• 23:51 WHICH THE WORLD DENIED.
• 23:52 AND, UNFORTUNATELY, THE MEDIA
• 23:53 TOOK PART IN THIS DENIAL.
• 23:56 Tom: WHAT DID YOU THINK
• 23:58 OF THE EARLY REPORTING THAT CAME
• 23:59 OUT ABOUT THE TUNNEL EPISODE?
• 24:03 Danny: WELL, TOM,
• 24:04 AS A JOURNALIST WHO'S LIVED HERE
• 24:05 AND REPORTED FROM HERE
• 24:07 FOR 16 YEARS I'VE GOT TO SAY
• 24:08 I WAS A BIT DISAPPOINTED IN IT.
• 24:11 JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT ALL OF
• 24:13 THESE ISSUES ARE VERY POLITICAL
• 24:16 AND EMOTIONAL, ETC.
• 24:17 THEY KNOW THAT SOMETIMES WE GET
• 24:19 A SLANTED VERSION OF WHAT'S
• 24:21 GOING ON AND THERE WAS I THINK
• 24:23 A VERY LIMITED ATTEMPT
• 24:25 TO CHECK THE FACTS.
• 24:28 WE HAD, FOR INSTANCE,
• 24:29 ARCHAEOLOGIST DANNY BAHAT
• 24:31 WHO'S SO INVOLVED IN THIS
• 24:32 AND YET HE WASN'T CONSULTED
• 24:35 BY THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.
• 24:37 THE BBC, CNN AND OTHERS
• 24:40 REPEATED THE REPORT THAT THE
• 24:42 ISRAELIS HAVE OPENED A TUNNEL.
• 24:44 WELL, OF COURSE, IT WAS JUST
• 24:45 AN EXIT TO THE TUNNEL,
• 24:47 A DOOR THAT HAD BEEN PUT IN.
• 24:49 SO THAT WAS VERY,
• 24:50 VERY MISLEADING.
• 24:51 AND THEY DIDN'T GO DOWN
• 24:53 AND LOOK AT THE THING TOO.
• 24:54 I WAS WAITING FOR ONE
• 24:55 OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
• 24:57 TO HAVE A CAMERA CREW
• 24:58 GO THROUGH IT AND SAY,
• 24:59 "THIS IS WHERE IT BEGINS,
• 25:00 THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS,
• 25:01 THIS IS WHERE IT IS
• 25:02 IN RELATION TO THE MOSQUE, ETC."
• 25:04 AND WE DIDN'T SEE THAT AT ALL.
• 25:06 SO IT WAS VERY SHALLOW REPORTING
• 25:08 I THOUGHT.
• 25:09 Zola: WHAT IF THE MUSLIMS
• 25:10 AND JEWS REALLY WORKED TOGETHER?
• 25:13 David: I WISH IT WERE.
• 25:14 I TELL YOU MY EXPERIENCE
• 25:15 NOW IS--AND I'M, OF COURSE,
• 25:17 YOU CAN IMAGINE I WANT
• 25:18 THIS PEACE AND EVERYTHING...
• 25:19 EVEN WITH EGYPT, WITH WHICH
• 25:20 WE SIGNED ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO,
• 25:22 A PEACE AGREEMENT;
• 25:23 YOU DON'T SEE ANY
• 25:25 SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION,
• 25:26 IN NO WAY, IN ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 25:28 WITH JORDAN,
• 25:29 I HOPE IT WILL WORK BETTER.
• 25:31 TO THE PRESENT THERE IS NOTHING.
• 25:32 I WONDER IF THE ARABS WILL DO IT
• 25:35 AT ALL, ESPECIALLY ON JERUSALEM.
• 25:38 I WONDER.
• 25:39 I WOULD LIKE IT VERY MUCH.
• 25:40 Zola: YOU WOULD HOPE--
• 25:41 Danny: YES, BUT REMEMBER THAT
• 25:43 STILL, THE FEELING THAT WE ARE
• 25:45 PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST HAS
• 25:47 NOT YET SEEPED TO THEIR MIND.
• 25:49 THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS
• 25:51 AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS.
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• 26:24 Myles: WE ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE
• 26:25 EXPERTS LIKE DAVID DOLAN AND
• 26:26 DANNY BAHAT TO EXPLAIN TO US THE
• 26:28 REALITY ON THE GROUND IN ISRAEL.
• 26:30 SINCE THE TIME OF THESE RIOTS,
• 26:33 WHAT'S COME TO LIGHT
• 26:34 IS THAT IT CAME TO PASS
• 26:35 DURING BIBI NETANYAHU'S
• 26:37 FIRST TERM, WHEN HE WAS HAVING
• 26:39 THE HISTORIC RECONCILIATION
• 26:41 MEETING WITH HELMUT KOHL,
• 26:42 THE CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY.
• 26:44 DURING THAT TIME, THESE RIOTS
• 26:45 STARTED AT THE WESTERN WALL
• 26:47 AND NETANYAHU SAID TO ARAFAT,
• 26:49 "I WILL HAVE TANKS IN RAMALLAH
• 26:51 IN 15 MINUTES,
• 26:52 IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE RIOTS."
• 26:53 THANKFULLY,
• 26:54 ARAFAT STOPPED THE RIOTS.
• 26:56 UNFORTUNATELY,
• 26:57 70 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.
• 26:59 Katharine: THANKFULLY,
• 27:00 FOR BOTH THE JEWS AND THE ARABS,
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