If the question was, what is the Wailing Wall today ?
Temple Mount
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount
The present site is dominated by three monumental structures from the early Umayyad period:
the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain, as well as four minarets.
Herodian walls and gates with additions dating back to the late Byzantine and early Islamic
periods cut through the flanks of the Mount. Currently it can be reached through eleven gates,
ten reserved for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, with guard posts of Israeli police in the
vicinity of each.
According to the Bible, the Jewish Temples stood on the Temple Mount.
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As Christ wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41), He prophesied that the city would
be completely destroyed.“For the days shall come upon thee [Jerusalem], that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children
within thee; and they shallnot leave in thee one stone upon another …” (v43-44).
In the prophecies of Jesus, not only the stones that made up the temple and its
OUTER walls were to be torn down, but He also included within that destruction
the stones that comprised the totality of the city of Jerusalem.
Since the temple and all its walls were destroyed, what then is the edifice we
call the Temple Mount today? Why are those massive walls still standing?
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Eleazar, the Jewish resistance leader, wrote, “Where is this city that was
believed to have God Himself inhabiting therein? It is now demolished to
the very foundations, and hath nothing left but that monument of it preserved,
I mean the camp of those [Romans] that hath destroyed it, which [camp] still
dwells upon its ruins ….”
Eleazar said the only thing unscathed from the war and still standing was
a facility located just beyond the border of ancient Jerusalem.
“That facility known as the Haram [or what is called the Temple Mount] was
officially reckoned as being beyond and outside the limits of Jewish Jerusalem.
That’s where the Dome of the Rock is today. It was not reckoned as being
part of the municipality of Jerusalem.”
Josephus said the Romans set fire to the whole city, demolishing even the walls.
Much of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem came after the war had ceased.
the Jews themselves helped destroy the temple so that it not be polluted
is reflected in an early Jewish work called Second Baruch.
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f those rectangular walls of the Haram are those which surrounded the
Temple Mount, as we are informed by all authorities today, why did Josephus
and Titus leave out any mention about this magnificent Haram structure?
That is, where the Dome of the Rock is, and the Wailing Wall.
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the dome of the rock now sits on the temple mount.
the Temple Mount today was actually a Roman building located
at the edge, but outside, of ancient Jerusalem.
“the worshipers of the Wailing Wall are directing their present devotions
and venerations to a Roman edifice that their ancestors in Herod’s time
held in utter contempt.” before the 16th century “there was not a Jew in
the world who paid the slightest respect to that western Wailing Wall,”
