We’re keeping an eye on the petition drive to stop the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s plan to turn an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem into a "Museum of Tolerance." Well at left is a photo of the Mamilla cemetery (taken by the Al-Aqsa Association for Waqf and Heritage, Israel).
Dennis Loh of the petitioners says that this photo is near the eastern wall of the cemetery and shows "old stones and internal walls (and possibly tombs) of the excavated cemetery." Other photos show that bulldozers are freely roaming the old cemetery. And you wonder why people object to single religious sovereignty of Jerusalem…
Wow. Amazing they can do this.
This is so offensive to humanity and the dead.
But go ahead and open Pandora’s box.
They’ll be cursed.
This is so offensive to humanity and the dead.
No Chu, it’s only offensive if the dead are actually considered HUMANS, and Israel recently made clear that Muslims don’t fit within their description of humanity, since the discovery of Jewish graves in another development site prompted Netanyahu to relocate the project. Of course, as far as Muslim graves are concerned, full speed ahead with the bulldozers.
I cannot imagine what kind of vile and inhumane people the Israelis have descended into. Those who have no respect for the dead have no respect for the living either. That they plan to make a Museum of Tolerance on the remains of this project speaks volumes of their own apathy towards gentiles.
Apathy! Antipathy!
This project is a vast Fuck You to human decency.
Apathy, that’s the ticket! And it’s deliberate
link to salon.com
Your link is dead. Maybe the Israelis are planning on building the Museum of [In]Tolerance website over it?
Whatever happened to the appeal at the UN against this museum?
Yeah, this is sad. If anyone fails to think the entire Israel project
is completely corrupt, one can just refer them to this.
They’ve gone off the rails, and I doubt many zionist defenders that
post here will defend this Museum of Tolerance.
Actually what this is, is an open confession of their “intent” and desire to wipe Palestinians off of the face of the earth.
“Museum of Tolerance”, what a cynical joke. Like “Arbeit Macht Frei”
US media is covering Israel’s attack on Gaza police stations today claiming it was a “retaliatory” response to rocket fire. The BBC’s reporter in Jerusalem blatantly stated the two Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza were the first casualties since the 2009 attack on Gaza. Of course, all the Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli forces over the last 14 months were not mentioned, nor was the 15 year old Palestinian boy that was shot dead by Israeli forces today mentioned, nor were the Palestinian civilians shot dead this past week by Israeli forces, nor was the bulldozing of farmers’ fields in Gaza mentioned, or the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza this past week.
NBC, CBS and FOX are peddling the same tired lies, and focusing on Israel’s supposedly retaliatory attack on what Israel claims were Hamas “targets”, even though those “targets” were merely police stations.
The US media and hacks like the BBC should be sued in a court of law for blatant lies and propaganda.
This is despicable.
I feel like I’m in a George Orwell novel anytime I analyze coverage of Palestine.
Strange. I already had a problem with the BBC’s last coverage on this
Title:
Rocket fire from Gaza kills man in southern Israel
Further down the article
The man, who is in his 30s, is the first person to be killed by rocket fire in southern Israel since the Israeli campaign in Gaza last year.
Over the same period, 88 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in a mixture of Israeli military operations and border clashes, according to the United Nations.
When is it ok to first make the headline and news article pass when an Israeli dies and mention 88 Gazans dead in the middle of the article (without their own articles).
When is it ok to then pass another article without even this passing mention of 88 dead as in the article Avi points out?
This is so low and humiliating anyone that is a part of this fight.
Perhaps the desecration is a form of performance art, and the museum’s first exhibition; an intolerance installation.
Wow, huh. Witty, yonira and WJ have absolutely nothing to say about this topic, huh?
Yesterday I thought I hit a squirrel with my car. I glanced in the rear view mirror– indeed, the creature lay on the street, twitching but not moving. His companion-squirrel doubled back to see why Squirrel was lying there in the road. Companion hovered over Squirrel for fully a minute, leaning very close. From 50 feet away I sensed the concern, the sadness in Companion’s eyes and body language. I was very sad as well; I parked my car, snipped a small branch of flowers from a tulip poplar tree with my pen knife, moved the Squirrel to the side of the street and placed the flowers on him. I said, I’m sorry.
It was so moving that Companion stayed with Squirrel as he departed life.
I decided I had to visit my parents’ graves, in another town several hours away, to place flowers on their graves, to let them know their lives are not forgotten, not meaningless.
As I was leaving the cemetery where my parents are buried (five years on and I STILL get lost!), I passed a man crouched low over the tombstone of his beloved companion. A photo of a woman was propped against the tombstone, and a small tape recorder was playing a Frank Sinatra tune.
Squirrels acknowledge death, with respect and care.
People of all ages mourn and communicate with their dead loved ones.
Israelis destroy their graves.
That is a very moving post.. It revived very painful memories..It’s certainly about time I go and visit graves of my loved ones….Thank you for the reminder.