Cemetery YES; Parking Lot NO!
You may have read reports that opponents of a new Museum of Tolerance being built in Jerusalem, having lost unanimously in the Israel Supreme Court, are now taking their case to the United Nations, accusing the Wiesenthal Center of building a museum on the historic Mamilla Muslim Cemetery. Hypocrisy and liesOpponents would have you believe that bulldozers are preparing to desecrate ancient Muslim tombstones and historic markers. The museum is not being built on the Mamilla Cemetery, but actually on an adjacent 3-acre site where, for a half-century, hundreds of people of all faiths have parked in a three-level underground structure without any protest. Below is a news article from the November 22, 1945 Palestine Post newspaper, culled from the archives of Tel Aviv University, detailing Arab plans for the Mamilla Cemetery. The article substantiates much of what Israel's Supreme Court said in its recent ruling: That the Mamilla Cemetery was regarded…