Of course it was:
A group of Israeli archeologists on Monday renewed their blistering condemnation of the Antiquities Authority for authorizing Muslim officials to carry out a dig on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount with tractors… Israeli archeologists slammed the Antiquities Authority for permitting this trench to be dug… Independent Israeli archeologists said that the work left a 100-meter-long and roughly 1-1.5 meter deep trench.. “This is a barbaric action on the most sensitive place in archeology of the Jewish nation,” said Bar-Ilan University archeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkai, a member of the Committee Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount. Barkai said that work carried out at the site on Monday – which eyewitnesses say was done with an Antiquties Authority official present – was the most damaging to date.
Israeli concessions on cultural rights spur Islamist aggression against Jewish legitimacy. Israeli concessions on cultural rights spur Islamist aggression against Jewish legitimacy. Israeli concessions on cultural rights spur Islamist aggression against Jewish legitimacy.
There are tribes of natives living in the Amazon who have never heard of Judaism, Israel, or the Temple Mount who still understand the current religious and cultural situation better than Israeli concession negotiators.
References:
* Archeologists slam authorities over Muslim dig [JPost]
Previously:
* The LA Times: "Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered." Ummm… Wow
* Wonderful Story Of Jewish-Muslim Cooperation On Temple Mount Destroyed… By Radical Muslims
* Hamas Trying To Infiltrate Temple Mount
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