Antiquities Authority Rips Netanyahu over Temple MountPreach it, brother.
"Prime ministers and ministers know" about Muslim damage to Temple Mount, Knesset is told.
By Gil Ronen (Arutz Sheva)
First Publish: 3/13/2012, 6:19 PM
The Knesset's Education Committee discussed Tuesday the ongoing damage to the Temple Mount caused by Muslims.
The Chairman of the Antiquities Authority, Shuka Dorfman, told the committee that "the Temple Mount is an antiquities site that is not supervised by me like the other antiquities sites are. There are limitations on the supervision. We work in cooperation with the police. We know what goes on there even without being there – I am not pleased with what goes on in the Temple Mount."
"The authority to approve or prevent [excavation] work [on the Mount] is in our hands and I have received criticism for it. I do not want to criticize, bit prime ministers and ministers know what is going on atop the Temple Mount," Dorfman said, hinting at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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