Arrests Won't Stop Looting Of Antiquities
Hershel Shanks
It�s not as bad as Afghanistan prosecuting a man and threatening him with the death penalty for converting to Christianity, but it smacks of the same unreality: Israel is threatening to prosecute a distinguished archaeologist for purchasing some Dead Sea Scroll fragments from Bedouins who apparently found them in a Judean desert cave near Ein Gedi. The charge: buying looted antiquities. The archaeologist says he was rescuing them.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
HERSHEL SHANKS editorializes in The Jewish Week against the arrest of Hanan Eshel:
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