Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The Palestinian Arabs' reckless disregard for Jewish heritage

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=853
 
 
Jewish synagogues and holy sites in Jericho, Nablus and Gush Katif
were torched to the ground while Palestinian police looked on.
 
In 1996, Palestinian mobs assaulted Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, and
Palestinian policemen on the scene shot and wounded the Israeli
soldiers guarding the tomb. Ever since, the site has been sheathed in
high concrete barriers, turning it into a Fort Knox-like encampment.
Then a Palestinian mob led by Palestinian policemen assaulted Joseph’s
Tomb in Nablus, torched the synagogue inside, and opened fire on
Israeli troops at the site, killing six Israeli soldiers.
 
In 2000, Palestinian mobs once again attacked. They killed one Israeli
soldier and destroyed the building. Palestinian forces again took
part. The Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho with its unique
Byzantine-era mosaic floor was also torched. Today, Israelis have only
sporadic access to the site.
 
As for Gush Katif, the wild Palestinian mob destruction of all the
synagogues there is just too fresh and painful a wound to talk
about ...
 
Under Palestinian rule, Tulul Abu el Alayiq, near Wadi Qelt and
Jericho, has been left to decay. This is an important archaeological
site where Hasmonian kings and Herod built their winter palaces. The
nearby Naaran synagogue -- perhaps the earliest synagogue in Israel --
is threatened by Palestinian real estate developers who are building
practically atop the site. Israeli archaeologists who have managed to
visit there say that the Palestinian Authority has let the place rot.
 
 
The authority has also allowed villagers to encroach upon the
important synagogue remains in Eshtemoa in the southern Mount Hebron
area. Neither Israeli archaeologists nor Israeli worshippers and
tourists have access to the site (which is located in Area B), despite
the fact that the Oslo Accords supposedly guaranteed this.
Mosaic at Na'aran synagogue
 
It is important to note that these three sites are specified by name
in the appendices to the Oslo Accords, and defined as historical and
religious sites which the Palestinian Authority is supposed to
preserve, and to which they are supposed to provide access for
Israelis.
 
The greatest crime of all -- an antiquities crime of historic
proportions -- has been committed over recent years by the Palestinian
Wakf on the Temple Mount. In 1999, the Wakf dug out hundreds of
truckloads of dirt from caverns known as Solomon’s Stables beneath the
upper plaza (more than 1,600 square meters in area and 15 meters deep)
without any archaeological supervision or records. Thousands of tons
of earth rich in archaeological remains, from all periods of the
Temple Mount, were haphazardly dumped into the Kidron Valley and the
city garbage dump at El-Azaria. The Wakf also destroyed stonework done
by Jewish artisans 2,000 years ago in the underground “double
passageway.”
 
Thousands of years of layered history -- Jewish history, of course --
were gouged out the ground with heavy machinery and shoveled out of
sight. UNESCO didn’t even burp.
 
Israeli archaeological students are still sifting through this
precious rubble, and have found numerous antiquities from the First
and Second Temple periods, including stone weights for weighing
silver, and a First Temple period bulla (seal impression) containing
ancient Hebrew writing which may have belonged to a well-known family
of priests mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah. Other findings are from
the late period of the Kings of Judea (7th and 8th centuries BCE),
including about 1,000 ancient coins, jewelry made of various
materials, stone and glass squares from floor and wall mosaics, and
many other items.

 wrote:
 
qui c'era il post di un alcolista che ritiene che il vandalismo contro
i luoghi di culto ebraici sia la strada per la pace. Gente come lui ha
preso frustate dall'Irgun. Giustamente.

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Qui ci stava il post di uno convinto che i profeti non fossero ebrei.
Dice anche di essere buddhista, per cui non si capisce che cosa gliene
importi.

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Qui ci stava il post di un poveraccio, che cerca di farsi notare.