Thursday, February 16, 2006

UPDATE ON THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE and the Muslim cemetery:
MKs slam Wiesenthal museum site
By ORLY HALPERN (Jerusalem Post)

Jewish MKs slammed the building of a museum for tolerance on a Muslim cemetery in downtown Jerusalem Wednesday, hours after the High Court of Justice held a hearing on whether to stop the construction of the $200 million building.

"Why, for God's sake, does a house of tolerance need to be built on a Muslim cemetery?" asked MK Reuven Rivlin, the Speaker of the Knesset, incredulously. "This goes against logic - there is a contradiction."

Rivlin was invited to join the Knesset Interior Committee hearing about the building of a Museum of Tolerance by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles on a Muslim cemetery. The Jerusalem Post revealed in December that Muslim graves were found on a section of the museum's planned Jerusalem site. The hearing was called for after it came to the attention of Muslim citizens.

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The Supreme Court says it will make a ruling soon.

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times has much more in "Wiesenthal's Jerusalem Excavation Ignites Furor."

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