JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel destroyed more than 100 mosques in Palestinian villages incorporated into the state, including the site where the head of Imam Hussein was allegedly buried, a daily wrote on Friday.
According to archives quoted by the Haaretz newspaper, Israel's legendary general Moshe Dayan -- himself an avid amateur archaeologist -- gave the order to blow up the mosque while he was a young lieutenant colonel.
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July 6, 2007
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really did we do that?
i never knew that .. can you provide some sources please?
thanks
btw here is another article about israel destroying mosques taken from an israeli newspaper ..
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=878851
not to mention all the times palestinian graves have been desecrated by settlers or israeli extremists .. there's tons of articles about that
Are you serious? You aren't even aware of this? Jews outnumbered Muslims in Jerusalem even from the 1st Ottoman census before 1850.
According to David Guinn,
"Concerning Jewish holy sites, Jordan breached its commitment to appoint a committee to discuss, among other topics, free access of Jews to the holy sites under its jurisdiction, mainly in the Western Wall and the important Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, as provided in the Article 8.2 of the Cease Fire Agreement between it and Israel dated April 3, 1949. Jordan permitted the paving of new roads in the cemetery, and tombstones were used for paving in Jordanian army camps. The Cave of Shimon the Just became a stable.
Protecting Jerusalem's Holy Sites: A Strategy for Negotiating a Sacred Peace by David E. Guinn (Cambridge University Press, 2006) p.35
According to Gerald M. Steinberg, Jordan ransacked 57 ancient synagogues, libraries and centers of religious study in the Old City Of Jerusalem, 12 were totally and deliberately destroyed. Those that remained standing were defaced, used for housing of both people and animals. Appeals were made to the United Nations and in the international community to declare the Old City to be an 'open city' and stop this destruction, but there was no response.
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/conflict/oped/jerufact.htm
Regarding the Hurva synagogue:
During the Israel War of Independence the Jewish fighters avoided using the synagogue, nevertheless it didn't escape the fate of all Jewish buildings, tombs and holy places. When it was captured by the Arab Legion of Jordan during the battle for Old Jerusalem in 1948, its captors dynamited it to show that they controlled the Jewish Quarter. The Jordanian commander on the scene is reported to have told his superiors: "For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793691.html
In the Jewish Quarter all but one of the thirty-five Jewish houses of worship that graced the Old City of Jerusalem were found to have been wantonly destroyed. The synagogues had been razed or pillaged and stripped and their interiors used as hen-houses and stables. In the ancient historic Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives, tens of thousands of tombstones had been torn up, broken into pieces or used as flagstones, steps and building materials in Jordanian military installations and civilian constructions. Large areas of the cemetery had been levelled and converted into parking places and petrol-filling stations. These acts of desecration have been described fully in a document published by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem in November 1967, a copy of which is attached to this letter.
This record of Jordanian conduct in Jerusalem underlines the true character and purpose of the allegations put forward in the letters from the Permanent Representative of Jordan.
...The Jordanian Government deliberately profaned the sacred character of the Wall by erecting adjacent to it structures of secular services, warehouses and toilets, and converting its immediate precincts into a slum.
http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.nsf/85255a0a0010ae82852555340060479d/a8138ad15b0fcac385256b920059debf!OpenDocument
hmm interesting thanks for the sources .. unfortunately this doesn't change my mind about anything .. i still hate zionists .. and ur still an ass
Obviously, cold hard proof means nothing to you. You don't like reality.
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