Various Palestinian and Arab spokespersons have rejected the fact that the 1st and 2nd Temples ever existed in Jerusalem.  They avoid the historical fact that the Arabs started calling Jerusalem in Arabic by its Hebrew/Jewish(*) name 54 years before building the Dome of the Rock Mosque and 63 years before building El Aksa Mosque.      See below.

The following is cited from: Jerusalem and Its Surroundings, Handbook for Travellers, edited by K. Baedeker, London, 1876.

A few years later an Arabian army under Abu Ubeida marched against Jerusalem, which was  garrisoned by 12,000 GreeksеOmar himself came to the aid of his general  and captured the city in 637е The town was named by the Arabs Bet el-Makdis (the house of the Sanctuary)(*)  or simply El-Kuds (the Sancturary)(*)ф   (p.32-33)

We are informed by Arabian authors that Omar requested the Christian Patriarch to conduct him to the spot, where the ancient temple of Solomon had once stood, and that he found it covered with heaps of rubbish which the Christians had thrown there in derision of the Jews. ф  (p. 42)

Two Mosques were built on the holy site of the Temple Mount ц Dome of the Rock (691AD) and El Aksa (700AD ц the reconstructed Christian- Byzantine Church of St. Mary).

(*)  The Hebrew name for the 1st and 2nd Temples is Bet Ha-Mikdash (the house of the Sanctuary) 

So actually, today, when the Arabs call Jerusalem, El-Kuds, it is in recognition of the Jewish Temple.
 
 

David Elazar  Rishon LeZion, Israel
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