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Babylonian Talmud They do not show a man a palm tree of gold, nor an elephant going through the eye of a needle
or from Fallujah. "Are you from Pumbedita, where they push an elephant through the eye of a needle?"
Cyril of Alexandria claimed that "camel" is a Greek misspelling; that kamêlos (camel) was written in place of kamilos, meaning "rope" or "cable". More recently, George Lamsa, in his 1933 translation of the Bible into English from the Syriac, claimed this as well.

Taking the accepted biblical interpretation The eye of a needle refers to a postern gate, of which there are a number in the walls of Jerusalem of uncertain antiquity.
A postern gate is a small gate typically used after nightfall when the main gates would be closed. It would be narrow, easily defended, and no doubt be a a challenge even for an unladen camel.