The Israelis did not make an opportunity to justify their presence in Palestinian history and geography, especially in a city JerusalemAnd they took advantage of all the possibilities and all the impossible to violence, and to lying, the guardian of truth and history in order to justify their presence in the occupied land, claiming that they have a historical right.
When their arguments supported by violence, they employed their historians, each in his field, in order to tread the lies by turning the historical facts, so that they may do so get what they did not get in the gun and the tank.
The book “The City of Jerusalem is the time of the Crusades” of the Israeli archaeologist Adrian Boss as a great example of this, as the book tells us many historical facts and archaeological witnesses that appeared through the excavations and excavations played by the excavations, but at the same time it taches the poison in honey, and tries to create a role for the Jews with the beginning of the Crusader seizure of Jerusalem, always puts the Jews in the image, and gives them a role that did not, It calls them from the absence of imaginary history to the heart of the modern era.
The Crusader era
It was stated in the introduction to the translator of the book that the Crusades (1097 – 1291) was a military clash and a civilized confrontation between the Arab East under Islamic rule and the European Catholic West, which resulted in the establishment of a crusade entity under the sky of the Levant.Syria، Lebanon، Palestine، JordanIt is 3 Crusades: Edessa, Antioch and Tripoli, as its events resulted in the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its capital was Jerusalem first, then the capital moved to Acre after Hittin battle 1187 m.
This entity lasted for nearly 200 years, between the years 1098 AD, which witnessed the establishment of the Umara of Antioch and Rhaa, and the year 1291 AD, which witnessed the expulsion of the cruciate remains in the Levant by the Mamluk Sultan Al -Ashraf Khalil bin Qalawun.
The book, Dr. Ali Al -Sayed Ali, refreshes the supporters that the author of the book “The City of Jerusalem, the Time of the Crusades”, which was centered on the role of the fabricated Jews in the city of Jerusalem, the period of the Crusades.
Sections of the book
The book is divided into 3 chapters, the first from the city of the Middle Ages, the second from the remaining monuments of the city of Jerusalem under the Crusader rule, and the third entitled Arts and the Heritage of Crusades in the Middle Ages in the city of Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem house in the arts of Middle Ages.
Despite the allegations that are contrary to historical reality and facts; It contains information on a great importance, and a complete recount of the remaining monuments in the city of Jerusalem from the Crusader era, from the fortifications of its walls of 4 kilometers in length, and rebuilding and creating a number of gates, towers and castles, as royal palaces were built and divided into the city’s neighborhoods, and outside the walls many churches and monasteries were built, streets, squares, markets, and public buildings were built, and the buildings of industries and crafts were identified Trade, commercial and financial facilities, private private places, water sources, public resources, sanitation, cemeteries inside and outside the city, arts and heritage effects in the era of Crusades.
Middle Ages in the 20th century
The evidence and effects of Jerusalem are still a witness to the ancient city and the Arabism of the city, its markets, mosques, monasteries, churches, lanes, and ancient shops that have nothing to do At night, despite the erosion of the agricultural patch that is used to grow fruits and vegetables in front of the urban tide in the late 19th and early twentieth century, and despite its extension with gas, electricity, water and sanitation networks, and with the exception of the Jewish neighborhood that was rebuilt and expanded in 1967, the city is almost true of what it appeared to be 900 years ago, to the point that the visitor has almost no visitor. Miscism in it.
The translator says: After the Crusader invasion of the city of Jerusalem, the Jews did not have a presence in the city, and this was recorded by Spanish Rabi Abraham Haya around (1120-1129) “There is no one Jew in Jerusalem in our days”, but one Jew who lives in Jerusalem was registered at least in the beginning of 1146 AD, and about 1170 AD mentioned the Jewish travelers Benjamin Tetiline and one Jewish and one who works in the dye and lives Near David.
As for the Rabi Batiyya Al -Rabouni, who visited the city between 1184 and 1187 AD, he mentions one Jew who works in dyeing and called Rabi Abraham, and he was required to pay heavy taxes to the king in exchange for allowing him to stay in the city, while there were Muslims living under Crusader rule, and this was inferred from the records of the Espart Knights group, which is a cruciate military division that contributed prominently in the wars Crusader.
After the Crusader invasion of Jerusalem, the Jews had no presence in the city, and one Jew who lived in Jerusalem was recorded at least in the beginning of 1146 after the Crusades.
Create a role for Jews
The author showed great interest in antiquities, and he neglected many historical aspects, especially the cultural aspect of it, and not only this, but was not objective in dealing with some historical issues.
In the first chapter, it is reported that the Crusaders created a number of hospitals, markets, covered streets and public baths as new facilities on the city, and in fact all these facilities were present and known before, and the city’s residents benefited from them in light of the Islamic rule before and after the arrival of the Crusaders.
In the second chapter, he mentioned that the city was a few population under Fatimid rule, and that its population approached 20 thousand, citing the Persian traveler Nasser Khusrou, and this is a historical error or a lie from the author.
Also in the second chapter, the author disagreed with the historical reality and the logic of events in his narration of the events of the city in 1099 AD by the Crusaders when he mentioned: “And that to resist the Crusader invasion of Jerusalem, the population was mobilized, and most of them are Muslims and Jews throughout the city’s walls.” Attempting to create a defensive position for the Jews, contrary to that truth, which is that the people of Dhimma are Christians and Jews were prohibited from joining the soldier, and that the Islamic armies assumed the task of defending every city that was subjected to them.
He tries once again to create a role for the Jews with the beginning of the Crusaders’ seizure of Jerusalem when he was narrated after the invasion and the lack of the Crusader population because many of them returned to their homelands, and he says: “The decision prevented those who survived death from Muslims and Jews from returning to Jerusalem was not feasible.” The Jewish group in their temple because they did not forget their hostile position for Christ, peace be upon him.
“The author stated that the Muslims were a few at the beginning of the Islamic rule of the city, which lived in the Noble Sanctuary region, and this is a bond and a lie on historical facts.”
In the tenth chapter, the author intends to the historical fallacy in his talk about dividing the city into residential neighborhoods according to religious and ethnic origins, he states that Muslims were a few at the beginning of the Islamic rule of the city, lived in the Noble Sanctuary region, and this is a tucker and a lie on historical facts, it is natural that Muslims live in the Temple Sanctuary, as the Jews lived in the southwestern region of Jabal Zion, and it is known that the Christians of Jerusalem led by the Patriarch Zeronius asked the Caliph Omar bin Al -Khattab not to allow the Jews to reside with them in their city, and that the tolerance of Islam allowed the Jews to visit the city to leave it when he enters the night, out of respect for the desire of Christians from its people, so how did the Jews be allowed to live in? This or that is only attempts to create a historical role for them in the Holy City, which is an alleged, false and contrary to historical reality.
The author tries to me historical facts, as recorded in Chapter 11, when he explained the lesson that Israel benefited from the Crusader movement to confirm its entity when he said: “Just as the Crusaders had already done since 1140 AD, (they intent Ashkelon A center for waging a war of attrition on the enemy, and also accused Muslims of the legitimate lands of being gangs of the attack on the cruciate settlers.
The stealing of the heat
The author dates back to the heart of historical facts in the 16th chapter and he talks about the letters, he states that the dyeing of clothes almost was a stand on the Jews, and he cited this with the traveler Benjamin, who visited Jerusalem around the year 1172 AD, and he claims that he said: “The Jerusalem is a workshop for the dyeing of clothes that the Jews pay a simple annual rent for the King of Jerusalem.”
By referring to the text of Benjamin’s tricky journey, it stated: “It has a dyeing lab that the Jews rent from the King of Jerusalem annually, and their number in this city is about 200.” With the modification of the text, we see that this number is exaggerated, because the traveler is the Jewish porn, who visited Jerusalem after only 10 years in which only one Jew founded Ibrahim Al -Sabbagh, who was leading the king of Jerusalem a heavy tax.
The slander of Salah al -Din
One of the striking things is that it is recovered Salah al -Din al -Ayyubi For the city of Jerusalem yet Hittin site In 1187 AD, it is difficult for the same author, so it is bad except and he tries to attribute it to Salah al -Din. In Chapter 19, for example, and he talks about the sanitation of the city, he says: “Perhaps the sanitation has been destroyed by Salah al -Din when he ordered the demolition of the supreme church.”
The author notes that the extent to which the Franks efforts in the construction and construction operations have not paid off in the history of the city since the Byzantine era, due to the great success of the pilgrimage from Christian pilgrims under Crusader rule.
In the middle of the 12th century, “Jerusalem” regained its position and perhaps its population expanded and its population increased from what it was before the cruciate rule, and its walls were raised, the castle was expanded, the construction of a new royal palace, the improvement of the water and sanitation network, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem began to enter a new political era since 1774 AD with the beginning of the rule of the young king Baldwin IV, who was infected with leprosy, and in 1815 he became unable to manage Kingdom affairs due to the severity of the disease.
In the conclusion of the book, the author explicitly recognizes the shortcomings in his mention of social, historical and social aspects in Jerusalem under the Crusader rule, due to the infinite amount of archaeological information.
An introductory card in the book
the address: The city of Jerusalem is the time of the Crusades
Written by: Adrian Boss
translation: Ali Mr. Ali
Publishing House: National Center for Translation – Cairo
Edition: First
Date of publishing the book: 2001
Date of publication of translation: 2010
The number of pages of the book: 428.