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Israel archaeologists fear damage at Jerusalem dig
Reuters
Published: 29.08.07, 16:01
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1. Jerusalem dig
Wout Strijkbout ,   Lutjebroek   (08.29.07)
You can trust mr. Salhab, he represents the "religion of piece". Muslims will never ever damage or destroy things. I'm sure they will set up a webcam near the site, so everybody can see it with his/her own eyes . . .
2. Pictures of the Destruction
Sasson ,   Israel   (08.29.07)
Here http://www.har-habayt.org/ !!!!!!
3. Stop Muslim VANDALISM & DESTRUCTION of Jewish Temple Mount!
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (08.29.07)
There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine. Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible, not once in the Koran. At the time of Muhammad's death (founder of Islam) there was not a single mosque in Jerusalem. Intensely hating G-D and Judaism, Israeli leaders gave control of the Temple Mount to Muslims. Pro-Islam Israeli leaders bow low to Islam's god and ARREST Jews if they pray on the Temple Mount. Religious freedom and human rights for Jews now! RETURN CONTROL of TEMPLE MOUNT to JEWS NOW!
4. the squeaky wheel gets the oil?
yahn goodey   (08.29.07)
if your a wild ass of a man and have a temper tantrum the neighbours are more inclined to appease you-but if your a jew oh yeah well your harmless-we can put you on hold since you wont go burning up cars and vandalizing property in europe.
5. Jews, let's see worldwide demos against this desecration
Jo Jo ,   UK   (08.29.07)
6. Who's the boss?
Aron Safran ,   Formerly of J-M   (08.30.07)
The status-quo with the Muslim Waqf borders on insanity. Jerusalem is under Israeli control and it's about time that control, bought at the cost of many lives, was applied. We are losing precious parts of our history every day this work goes on. Who knows what's now gone forever? The Muslims have proven time and again how disrespectful and destructive they are towards any other religion or set of beliefs. They are not responsible enough or worthy to be in the position they are at the holiest site for Judaism. This is all the more true when you consider that the site is "only" the third holiest to them. There are times when I think Israel as a country has suicidal tendencies or a compulsion to inflict damage on herself. How sad that our history is suffering because our leaders don't have what it takes to lead!
7. 1. Jerusalem Dig: A brief response
Aron Safran ,   Formerly of J-M   (08.30.07)
Wout - Shalom. Do you mean like we trusted the Muslims with Joseph's Tomb? The same Muslims who holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and took priests and nuns as hostages? Or maybe you mean the Muslims like those in Iraq who have no problem blowing up mosques? Oh! You must mean those who turned the Western Wall into a municipal garbage dump! Sure, I'll trust them.
8. temple site destruction
dominique ,   Pineallas Park. USA   (08.30.07)
Mr. Woud from lutjebroek; what can we expect from you to truly understand the true purposeful planned destruction of any evidence of the old temple. Dutch are known to mostly never read the bible, in matter of fact not long ago destroyed huges pieces of it by that destroying historical and moral parts of the Jewish lives.. For years muslims have dug on the temple site and purposefully destroy anything with jewish wording on it to the point the walls were in danger of collapse and Jordan and UN had to come in to try to stabalize the one wall. Oh yeh don't get anti semite..I'm not Jewish but was dutch.
9. in a barbaric way, they are digging the Egyptian pyramids
(08.30.07)
and Taj Mahal. They should follow the example of Israel to demolish holy sites.
10. What do you expect?
Kathleen ,   Sacramento, CA   (08.30.07)
Muslims will do anything to try and prove that they were first in Jerusalem. That includes destroying Jewish artifacts. They have no problem with this. Destruction and lies are all they have to work with because the TRUTH is against them!
11. To end it, destroy it.
Jack ,   NYC   (08.31.07)
This is allowed because the power behind the thrown has always been the left wing secularists. Even when they were not in the majority, their technocrats run much of the day to day things. So to understand what is happening you need to understand the game plan. To these people the experiment to construct a new people, where religion and bible was to be ignored and replaced with something called Israeli, has not worked. Instead ancient religion has taken root and grown. What do you do to stop the monster? You uproot the entire entity. The plan is simple, end the experiment. But, wait, wouldn't the people protest? Yes, so you spin webs of misinformation while tightening the noose. No real point in protesting the destruction of the temple findings since that has to be erased too.
12. To #9 Taj Mahal was Raj Mahal before Muslim invaders.
MED ,   USA   (08.31.07)
You see a similar Rajput palace in Udaipur, India. They were all built by Rajput kings before the Muslim invaders ransacked the place. They desecrated the Raj Mahal in Agra by burying the dead woman who died at the birth of her 17th child, and called it Taj Mahal.
13. #3 Not to worry. Jesus's soon return will restore all, and
destroy that stupid ,   mosque!!!!   (08.31.07)
14. TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION
JEW   (08.31.07)
WHY DOESN'T ANYONE HOLD OLMERT RESPONSIBLE ?
15. #12 History Erased; a moral Zionist? take the test!
(08.31.07)
Erasing history, a moral Zionist? take the test According to a book by Dr. Meron Benvenisti, of the 160 mosques in the Palestinian villages incorporated into Israel under the armistice agreements, fewer than 40 are still standing. What is unusual about the case of Mash'had Nabi Hussein is that the demolition is documented, and direct responsibility was taken by none other than the GOC Southern Command at the time, an officer named Moshe Dayan. The documentation shows that the holy site was blown up deliberately, as part of a broader operation that included at least two additional mosques, one in Yavneh and the other in Ashdod. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878851.html Are you a moral Zionist. Answer these questions! 1) As part of your education about Israel (youth group, synagogue, Hebrew school, Hillel, etc.), you were told that the Jordanians desecrated Jewish holy sites and cemetaries between 1948 and 1967, but that Israel respected Arab holy sites. Now you learn that the Israeli government had a deliberate policy of destroying Arab towns and villages (around 500 of them), including sixty mosques, many of great archaeological value, over the objections of Israeli archaeologists. Your reaction is: A. To feel outrage that you were lied to, and to acknowledge that Israel lost the moral high ground on this issue. B. To accept responsibility for the actions of Israel, to discuss ways of commemorating the towns and mosques, to issue an apology to the Palestinians and Muslims. C. To say, "Look, all emerging nations try to obliterate the past of their enemies; we are no different from anybody else. So maybe wiping out the towns was not nice, but that's the way the world works." D. To say, "Those ghost towns and empty mosques posed a serious security threat to the State of Israel, and we were perfectly justified to wipe them out. Anyway, if the Arabs hadn't attacked us, they wouldn't be ghost towns" If you answered A or B to all three, then you are an adult and moral Zionist. Pat yourself on the back, and feel bad about being a bleeding-heart. If you answered C, then you are an amoral Zionist; or to use the jargon, you believe in realpolitik. We won; they lost; let's eat. You may use the language of morality (C), but that's just for outward consumption and inward self-justification. The bottom line for you is that even if Jews act immorally, the only thing that really matters is that are alive to act at all. If "being moral" entails national suicide, then forget about morality. If you generally answered D, then you are an immoral Zionist. Or you are a moral Zionist, whose conception of morality is that of Tony Soprano or Meir Kahane. In the professional jargon, it's called "Mafia Morality." This usually means that you do an enormous amount of hesed work, that you always have guests for shabbat, that you give a lot charity to Jewish causes, and that you would do anything, anything for anybody who is a member of the tribe. But that if somebody is not a member of the tribe, then he or she has worth only in so far as she is good for the tribe. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878851.html
16. #15 correction of the last link
(08.31.07)
http://themagneszionist.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-you-moral-zionist-take-test.html
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