Bastards
For years, people have been yelling their heads off about the Muslim Wakf's destruction of Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. This issue is a particularly heated one, since denying the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem is a political issue driven by a strong Islamist ideology with undeniable anti-Jewish undertones. And now Israeli archaeologists have discovered absolute proof that the Wakf has been intentionally destroying ancient Jewish artifacts from the Temple Mount:
A small group of Israeli archaeologists and volunteers sifting through piles of rubble discarded by Islamic Wakf officials from the Temple Mount into a city garbage dump have recently uncovered a series of history-rich artifacts dating back to the First and Second Temple periods...
The November 1999 destruction and removal of the antiquities in the wake of the mosque construction was later called "an unprecedented archaeological crime" by the head of Israel's Antiquities Authority... Straddled by political concerns and in flagrant contravention of the law, Israeli archaeologists from the Antiquities Authority have not been carrying out supervision for five years now at the bitterly contested site due to their concern about renewed Palestinian violence at the compound.
Imagine what would happen if Jews in control of Islamic mosques intentionally and flagrantly destroyed ancient Muslim artifacts. The international press would scream. The UN would investigate. Condemnations would be issued. Sanctions would be considered. But let a high Islamic official openly flaunt the law and destroy thousand year old relics, and the silence remains deafening.
A small group of Israeli archaeologists and volunteers sifting through piles of rubble discarded by Islamic Wakf officials from the Temple Mount into a city garbage dump have recently uncovered a series of history-rich artifacts dating back to the First and Second Temple periods...
The November 1999 destruction and removal of the antiquities in the wake of the mosque construction was later called "an unprecedented archaeological crime" by the head of Israel's Antiquities Authority... Straddled by political concerns and in flagrant contravention of the law, Israeli archaeologists from the Antiquities Authority have not been carrying out supervision for five years now at the bitterly contested site due to their concern about renewed Palestinian violence at the compound.
Imagine what would happen if Jews in control of Islamic mosques intentionally and flagrantly destroyed ancient Muslim artifacts. The international press would scream. The UN would investigate. Condemnations would be issued. Sanctions would be considered. But let a high Islamic official openly flaunt the law and destroy thousand year old relics, and the silence remains deafening.
