Friday, April 10, 2009
Considering the utter inability of the Muslims to pay even a passing B-grade movie actor's attempt at pretending to ever respect anything having to do with Jewish history in the Jew's holy land, including but not limited to, literally digging it out of the ground, chopping it into pieces, and throwing it in a garbage dump -- considering all that, the Israeli authorities would have to have their G.D. heads examined to do anything but spit on this: Palestinian PM wants Harper to scrap show, claims violation of international law
A planned Toronto exhibit of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts is threatening to plunge Canada, along with the Royal Ontario Museum, into the thick of the long-running conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Beginning in June, the ROM will host a six-month exhibit of the famed Dead Sea Scrolls, organized in co-operation with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
But top Palestinian officials this week declared the exhibit a violation of international law and called on Canada to cancel the show.
In letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and top executives at the ROM, senior Palestinian officials argue the scrolls - widely regarded as among the great archaeological discoveries of the 20th century - were acquired illegally by Israel when the Jewish state annexed East Jerusalem in 1967.
"The exhibition would entail exhibiting or displaying artifacts removed from the Palestinian territories," said Hamdan Taha, director-general of the archaeological department in the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities...
Update: Meryl makes another good point:
So, basically, the Jordanians, in partnership with the French and Americans, took precious Jewish artifacts away from the Jews to whom they belong. I do believe that Egypt just got back an ancient mummy from a museum in America, and I also believe that museums all over the world are negotiating the return of artifacts taken during the days of colonialism. So the Palestinians can just STFU, because those scrolls don't belong to the people who were on the land at the time of the discovery. They belong to the people who wrote the scrolls.
As with almost every Jewish artifact under Muslim control, these itemns have been purposefully destroyed. The Muslim community will do anything to remove the history of the Jewsih people from th face of the Earth. This policy is also not just limited to Jewish artifacts.
If you can remember back to 1967 when Jordan had control of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jews were completely forbidden to visit the exhibit. Jews were also totally excluded fomr the team examing the scrolls, and the scrolls were Jewish!
The workd cannot allow even a single Jewish artifact to be controlled by any Arabs or Muslims, as this will surely cause the destruction of the artifact itself.
The scrolls were created by Jews, and the Jews deserve complete ownership.
When we're returning ancient artifacts to the descendants of their original owners, how is it that the Jordanians and Palestinians can claim that they are the rightful owners of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Didn't the Palestinian Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan forfeit its ownership of the West Bank as a consequence of its failed attempt to exterminate Israel in 1967? - along with the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Give Kaybar and Medina back to the Jews.
Have the British Museum the Louvre repatriate the artifacts held there to the people they belong to.