Israel attempts to destroy Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

NEW YORK/JERUSALEM - June 29 - Working under cover of dark in the early morning hours of June 26, Israeli bulldozers entered an intact part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem’s oldest Muslim resting place, to destroy and dispose of nearly 100 grave markers in the revered site. The covert operation came just three weeks after a Jerusalem Municipal planning committee granted final permission for construction of a so-called “Museum of Tolerance” atop the cemetery to begin within three months. The bulldozers retreated hastily when their operators realized that they were being filmed by local media and activists, as can be seen in the coverage broadcast by Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera. Israeli officials have not commented on this highly provocative action that comes at a moment of high tensions owing to continued Israeli settlement expansion in the heart of Arab Jerusalem.

It's rather ironic that they intended to build a centre for tollerance ontop of a Muslim burial site.

“The systematic desecration of our ancestors’ resting place and destruction of our cultural heritage by Israeli authorities confirms our feelings that Israel has no regard for the human rights of living Palestinians, or the peace of the dead. We are under no illusions that we are anything but third class citizens in the eyes of the Israeli state, which treats us and our history with utter contempt, while the international community stands silently by,” said Dyala Husseini Dajani, a Jerusalemite whose ancestors are buried in the cemetery and who had joined a petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to halt the desecration.

Is this what Zionist ideology is suppose to entail. The disrespect of the Arab dead. Is removing the history of Muslim inhabitance in Jerusalem suppose to aid the peace process? Is desicrating the graves of Palestinians suppose to curb Islamic terrorism, halt the radicalization of Palestinians and discourage the actions of Hamas.

Israel constantly hails the fact that they share Jerusalem with the broader Muslim community. In theory yes, but its actions suggest the opposite:

The continued desecration of the Mamilla Cemetery occurs in the midst of a broader Israeli offensive against Palestinians and their cultural heritage throughout Jerusalem. Assaults on the Palestinian neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, where Palestinians are being kicked out of their homes to make room for Jewish settlers; construction on the privately owned site of the Shepherd’s Hotel; work at the Birket al-Sultan; excavations under ancient Muslim landmarks in the Old City; changing the names of the streets and historical sites in East Jerusalem from Arabic to Hebrew, for example, the Sultan Suleiman Street to King Eliahu Street or the Sultan Suleiman Cave to King Eliahu Cave, are all part of these efforts to erase the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem.

This is from the Centre for Constitutional Rights:
www.commondreams.org...

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It's rather ironic that they intended to build a centre for tollerance ontop of a Muslim burial site.

I'm sure they do these things to actually make a point..

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What's the bet many of the hand wringers who were calling for Muslim heads in the other thread (Christian graveyard) remain suspiciously quiet in this one. I'm sure the anti-Jew brigade will be along shortly to compensate, however.

It's a difficult and emotive subject, nothing is black and white. In this particular case I feel the Israeli authorities have not gone about this in the correct manner, but this would be nothing new.

Please note my post is not criticising the Israeli people as a whole.


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Israel is like a wild cat. They attacked Palestinians lands. They killed lots of local people. May be they have some independence day for themselves .

After they forced out English military , they were independent .

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I'll say it..

The Israeli leadership are absolute scum that will never want peace..

Peace would see an end to their perpetual stealing of land and taking it all is their only aim..

Ah, Israhell at it again. Then they wonder why people fight them Zionists...

Surely this will not make it into the MSM and the whole world will sit back and watch.
Does the Israeli population just sit back and enjoy this? Of course there are people against this... but the majority seems to be totally brainwashed by the idea that they are "the chosen people" and therefor can do what ever they want.

Let's hope righteous Jews will protest against this.

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Does the Israeli population just sit back and enjoy this?

Does the Israeli population even hear about it on MSM??

I have faith in the fact that the majority of citizens are good and would disagree with actions such as this IF they were made aware..

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Yup, good point, as I mentioned it probably won't make it into the MSM, BUT what about the local people there?

"Where the supposed latent anti-Semitism of Gentiles fails to manifest dramatically, and at times when Jews are in the process of assimilating into Gentile society (as they were in pre-Hitler Germany) Zionists provoke, encourage and even directly create anti-Semitic movements and incidents."

www.henrymakow.com...

The above quote can be found in a fabulous article explaining how Zionism manipulates and actually creates anti-Jewish hatred around the world to further their OWN goals. This same method is now being used to further divide societies, including the USA, in relation to the other two large religions , Christianity and Islam. Hey, and it works to create division between races!

A post above mentioned the recent thread regarding the Christian/Muslim cemetery ... There is no difference in this thread. All of this is designed for one purpose- to create and foster the illusion that all religions, EXCEPT the one which will be soon "recommended", are at the heart of mankind's problems. Religion and God, across all religions, has NEVER been the problem. Radicalism, extremism, etc is the problem.