The following is from David Hosey's blog City of…
[This] photo was taken by my Sabeel coworker Lydia on a trip we took last
fall to what is today northern Israel–northern Palestine in 1948. We
were visited villages that were depopulated and/or destroyed during
1948, including the village of Al Bassa (near the Mediterranean coast
and the Lebanon border), where this photo was taken. (I wrote an account of the trip in September if you are interested).
Al Bassa was a mixed Christian and Muslim village before it was
destroyed by Zionist militias in 1948. Two churches and a mosque are
still visible, although they are in ruins. The Christian and Muslim
cemeteries are also in ruins, and some of the graves were desecrated to
the point that we could see exposed bones–this picture is a piece of a
family grave marker in the Christian cemetery, with a memorial poem
written in Arabic still visible.
The nearby Jewish cemetery was perfectly maintained and protected–as all cemeteries should be.
Imagine for a second if this situation was switched, and it was a
desecrated Jewish cemetery with a nearby Christian cemetery perfectly
kept. It would make me sick. This made me sick, too.
Our guide told us that the Islamic Movement, the strongest Islamist
party in Israel (remember that 20% of Israeli citizens are not Jewish),
had come to Al Bassa not long ago and had tried as best they could to
clean up the Muslim and Christian cemeteries before being asked to
leave.
The cemeteries now lie in the middle of an industrial park.
"May God damn my soul to hell if I ever treat a Jew as Israel has treated Arabs."
RE: "…The Christian and Muslim cemeteries are also in ruins, and some of the graves were desecrated to the point that we could see exposed bone…" A RELATED POST: "JERUSALEM MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE TO DESECRATE MUSLIM CEMETERY" by Richard Silverstein – Nov 10th, 2008 (EXCERPT)…But the city of Jerusalem has given the Wiesenthal Center the green light to destroy an ancient Muslim cemetery in the Mamilla neighborhood of West Jerusalem in order to build a new “musuem of tolerance” there. Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist and environmental crusader, has brought the issue to the fore within the Jewish community, while Israel’s Islamic Movement has championed the cause in the Muslim community. Just as Baskin wasn’t aware of the issue until the museum had actually broken ground and begun uncovering Muslim skeletons (while having made no provisions for what to do with them once they were found), I wasn’t aware of this until reader Linda Mamoun brought Baskin’s comments in the Jerusalem Post to my attention. This has to be one of the few times when I’ll acknowledge that the Post has actually done something constructive regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…. ENTIRE POST – http://www.ipcri.org/files/cityoftolerance.html "JERUSALEM POST" ARTICLE – http://www.ipcri.org/files/cityoftolerance.html
Desecrating Jewish graves is anti-Semetic. Desecration of Muslim and Christian graves is a lie made up by Islamo-facsits.
Jesus, you assholes lost that war 60 years ago. No one cares.
Mirror: Moses, you assholes suffered the Holocaust over 70 years ago. No one cares. So stop building the damn museums.
"Jim Haygood"–NOT. It's Chris Berel.
Weiss will be right there with you.
Nothing like a little misdirect4ed information to stir up anti-semitism. The cemetary was destroyed years earlier when a parking lot was placed over it. In fact not one Islamic Arab gave a shit about the cemetary until Jews were involved.
Everyone cares. You claim not to care as hatred seals your heart.
Doubtful. Neither of us has ever shot a child in the head a la IDF style.
Not "until Jews were involved." Until a "Museum of Tolerance" was to be built on the site. There are so many destroyed villages and graveyards, with so much infrastructure–like the industrial park of Al Bassa or the hotels of Tiberias–built over the ruins that it's impossible to protest them all. But when somebody decides to build a "Museum of Tolerance" over a cemetery and beings exhuming bodies, the irony gets to be a bit much.
The museum is being built over an old parking lot. That the Arabs decided to pave over a cemetary is not ironic to you? That the Jews are removinbg the bones to a safer area of respect, rather than the Arab way of exposing them to car oil leaks, is disrespectful to you? Perhaps you don't only hate all of the jews for the actions of a few in a time of war, Perhaps you hate all of the Jews regardless of their actions. Regardless, you remain thick.
If your only means of engaging in debate is to accuse people of hating Jews, I'm really not interested in talking to you.
This must be another phony, not Saleema. If this were my blog, I would be especially ruthless with impersonators who use other commenters' names or nicknames. It's highly destructive, which is why they do it.
lol…you obviously didn't understand that
Hatred seals her heart? Damn, Zionists are corny.
Photos from 2006 showing the site where the Museum of Tolerance is being built: http://tinyurl.com/r2wlnv Everyone can look for themselves and decide whether this is a cemetery or a parking lot.
Your speaking about another's prayers, and I consider your tone despicable. Go spit elsewhere.
They aren't people like us, they don't love their dead. They aren't human beings.
Criminently, you tough guys are taking all my tools away from me: no corn, no "We Rock!" You're still doing a good job, though.
We do care; the hatred passes as the memories grew distant. But Israel keeps reminding us, does such a good job of reminding us what there is to hate. Dead police; dead children; dead people.
Yet you condone Palestinians murdering children.
You have to show a picture before any actual work took place. What you've done is post a lie.
Your reply is incoherent. These photos show the site of the Museum, and it is clearly a cemetery, not a parking lot as you claimed. David told you it was a cemetery, and you called him a Jew hater. I showed you photos proving it clearly was a cemetery, and you call me a liar. You are caught out making false claims, and you have nothing to offer except ad hominems. David is right, there is simply no possibility of honest debate with you.
He/she does?
The project, which a spokesman said had been conceived in partnership with the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli government, was launched at a ceremony in 2004 by a cast of dignitaries ranging from Ehud Olmert, who is currently the acting Prime Minister, to the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under Israel's "absentee property" law the cemetery was taken over by the Custodian of Absentee Property after the 1948 war. Mr Saif said the Custodian had no right to sell the cemetery to the Jerusalem municipality in 1992. While parties to the work are resting part of their case on what they say was an 1894 ruling by the then Sharia court that the sanctity of a cemetery could be lifted, Mr Sabri said that ruling meant that only a Muslim could make such a decision. Show pictures of the site from 2004 before any work was done. It was a parking lot.<b/>
Jacobwolfen- Are you in the IDF? I ask because it appears that a nerve was struck. If you are in the IDF, I can understand the struck nerve. If you're not in the IDF, why the struck nerve?
Appearences must be deceiving, or you are easily deceived, or, based on your other posts, you are attempting to be deceptive.
"In fact not one Islamic Arab gave a shit about the cemetary until Jews were involved." sounds to me like: They aren't people like us, they don't love their dead. They aren't human beings.
That is your opinion. Pretty stupid one if you ask me.
Sounds to me like not one Islamic Arab gave a shit about the cemetary until Jews were involved. They let it be a parking lot.