The Simon Wiesenthal Center may be going too far by trying to build a museum on a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, designed by Frank Gehry. Last week, Israel's High Court of Justice ordered Wiesenthal Center and the municipality of Jerusalem to explain why they should be allowed to construct a new Museum of Tolerance on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery. LaTimes and previously reported.
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There is also a semi-secret detail to this, where things get slightly nebulous and must be attached to the project. But whether or not it will is depends on Israeli High Court's integrity.
It was unbeknowst to me. Apparently attacks to Islamic relics are much more easly justified. You offend a Muslim, they in turn respond with 10, 100, 1000 kilogram bombs, and the crime seen must be erased. Muslim cemeteries erased all the time. An ugly morning at CNN news, few dead, but at the end the crime seen goes into developers hands and benefactors replace few graves with dolled out dollars. At that point everyone accepts the tolerated peace train.
Here is a detail that is mind blowing in this case and its' delicacy is worthy of a biblical proportions.
This job site is also called Mamilla Pool.
In his Mar. 2, 2006 Jeruselem Post article, writer Gil Zohar revisits the site and the history where the Massacre at Mamilla took place.
This is a slightly different story than the Muslim cemeteries being removed, or covered up with the construction of Museum of Tolerance, that The Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles wants to remove from the memory. It is a piece of Jewish past that doesn't add up and rather be covered up with concrete slabs in various thickness. There must be no dispute between the ruling religions of the operational alliance, Islam is the clear and present danger that can't be tolerated, but other bones in the closet must be permenantly sealed.
One eyewitness, Strategius of St. Sabas, wrote: "Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the Persian soldiers for good money, and slaughtered them with great joy at Mamilla Pool, and it ran with blood." 60,000 massacered in 614 AD. Where were the Muslim cemeteries then? Well they simply didn't exist and Muhammad was still plotting the future of his own solo gig somewhere south east of Jerusalem, just few years before he took the center stage.
Today, the scandalous details keep coming as the architect and their clients tackle the token justice in due time.
Let's see if the cleansing of the bad memories will succeed and the history will be re-written over the dead bodies and marble carved Islamic epitaphs.
'Hodie mihi, cras tibi'
— Famous Latin epitaph: 'mine today, yours tomorrow'
With special thanks to my behind the scenes instigator.
with histories like this and the present as it is, peace in the mideast may never be possible. Why, oh why, do we have to suffer for our ancestors wars?
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