The occupation plants thousands of fake graves around Al-Aqsa

[kobiraaz]

JERUSALEM (PIC)– A Jerusalemite Foundation unveiled a significant escalation in the occupation authorities’ activities in implementing fake Jewish graves around Al Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem, attempting to “forge and Judaize the city’s history.”

Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said, in a report released on Monday that the occupation, through its executive power in the city of Jerusalem, is implanting thousands of fake Jewish graves around Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Old City, under governmental decisions.

It explained that the occupation intends to implement its plan on an area of about 300 dunums extending from the Sinai Mount eastern of Al-Aqsa Mosque, through the Silwan Valley on the south towards Rababa Valley southwest of the Mosque.

The foundation considered that through such operations, the occupation intends to Judaize all the area surrounding Al-Aqsa as well as the Old City, and is trying to impose its control on Palestinian endowment lands in order to implant graves, settlements, Talmudic gardens and Jewish institutions. It added: “The occupation is falsifying the geography, the history and the monuments in order to legitimize the implantation of the Jewish fake graves and Jewish fake holy sites.”

The report pointed out that the empty graves were implanted at the pretext of carrying out repair and maintenance works as well as engineering surveys and statistics. It is noted that the Israeli authorities prohibit the restoration of the Islamic historical graves in the city of Jerusalem and are demolishing and washing away hundreds of them.

The occupation plants thousands of fake graves around Al-Aqsa

 

[Solomon2]

Now the REAL story:

From AP:

A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 graves stretching back three millennia.


The goal is to photograph every grave, map it digitally, record every name, and make the information available online. That is supposed to allow visitors to find their way in the cemetery, long a bewildering jumble of crumbling gravestones and rubble surrounded by Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Beset for many years by neglect, it is among the oldest cemeteries in continuous use in the world.

Around 40,000 graves have been mapped so far by the team, which began work in 2008. They expect to finish recording all of the intact gravestones -- an estimated 100,000 in total -- by the end of next year. The rest are either so old they are unrecognizable or lie underneath later layers of burial.

Mappers look at aerial photographs, consult handwritten burial records dating back to the mid-1800s, walk along the rows of graves and dig through piles of dislocated tombstones, noting names and dates.

"This place has been used for burial since there have been signs of life in Jerusalem," said Moti Shamis, a member of the mapping team. "The cemetery is a mirror of the city -- in wartime, we see more graves. When new groups of Jews reach the city, the names on the graves change."

Like so much in Jerusalem, this project is linked to the city's fraught politics. The mappers are from an organization called Elad, affiliated with the settlement movement, which also works to move Jews into east Jerusalem in an attempt to prevent the city's division in any future peace deal.

Elad has made it its business to develop sites of Jewish importance in east Jerusalem, reinforcing the Israeli presence in the part of the city the Palestinians want as their capital.

Jews began burying their dead on the hill that later became known as the Mount of Olives about three millennia ago. It was a convenient site a short walk from the city walls. Over the centuries, burial here became linked to a prophecy in the Book of Zecharia according to which the Messiah would approach Jerusalem from the mount, splitting it in two. Those interred on the hill, this belief posited, would be the first to be resurrected.

The mount became, and remains, a sought-after place to be buried for Jews in Israel and abroad.

"As a place of burial it differs from almost every other on earth, in being, as no other is, a witness to a faith that is firm, decided and uncompromising until death," wrote Norman Macleod, a missionary, after a visit in 1864. "It is not therefore the vast multitude who sleep here, but the faith which they held in regard to their Messiah, that makes this spectacle so impressive."

The project is mapping only the Jewish cemetery, which includes several burial monuments from the time of the second Jewish Temple, about 2,000 years ago. Among the oldest graves that still bear names is one of a medieval scholar, Ovadia of Bartenura, an Italian who came to Jerusalem and died here around 1500.

The work of the mappers has solved several mysteries, one of them that of the missing grave of Shmuel Ben-Bassat.

Ben-Bassat was a soldier who died in combat in the war that surrounded Israel's creation in 1948. He was buried on Jan. 14 of that year, before Jewish forces lost the cemetery, along with the rest of east Jerusalem, to the Jordanian army.

For the next 19 years Jordan controlled the cemetery, paving over part of it to build a road, using gravestones to pave paths in a nearby military camp and abandoning the rest to disrepair. When Israel recaptured the Mount of Olives in 1967, the soldier's family could find no trace of him.

Going through old burial records as part of the new project, the mapping team discovered a note saying he had been interred "next to Gader Gurjis and in front of Deborah, the widow of Reuven Mirabi." Those graves still existed. Ben-Bassat now has a military gravestone...

And the background:

Arabs Faking Graves to Grab Jerusalem Land

Muslim land-grabbing creativity knows no bounds: in central Jerusalem, Arabs are building a fictitious cemetery where no one is buried.

By Gil Ronen, Chezki Ezra and Shimon Cohen
First Publish: 8/4/2010, 3:47 PM / Last Update: 8/4/2010, 5:20 PM


In the heart of Jerusalem, dozens of new tombs are being added to an ancient cemetery, but no one is buried beneath them. Jewish observers and sources in the Jerusalem Municipality say the pretend-graves are simply a Muslim project for grabbing land.

The Mamilla Cemetery is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem's Independence Park (Gan HaAtzmaut), between Agron and Hillel Streets. It is an ancient Muslim cemetery containing several dozen graves, which has been in a state of severe disrepair for more than a century, despite being under the supervision of the Muslim Waqf.

In recent days, however, there has been much hustle and bustle in the cemetery, and its seems to be growing from day to day, cutting into land that is a part of Independence Park. Trucks, tractors and other heavy machines come and go, dumping building materials, which workers then shape into Muslim-style tombstones with no one buried beneath them. Dozens of these faux-graves are being created on the eastern end of the park, in row after row, where only bare earth and grassy areas existed until now.

Some of the fake tombs have been completed and others are in the process of being built...


Solomon2 note: the behavior of accusing someone of doing bad things that have really been committed by the accuser is called projection. It is "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable—too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous—by attributing them to another."

 

[Skorpian]

Arabs faking graves to grab Jerusalem land that is rightfully theirs!! Interesting... ( East Jerusalem is, by international law, a territory occupied by Israel since six-day war, same goes for West Bank ).
Israel still occupies lands of other countries and not a single damn sanction or embargo was put on them. Why? Because they're protected by mummy America. They can violate international law, do preemptive strikes on whatever nation on Earth they want just because they feel a threat to their security.
Did you know that Israel has a few conditions to accept a Palestinian state? Well, it must be demilitarized. What a joke! So Palestine can't be armed, but Israel can? Are Israelis superior in this matter? Why should they have weaponry while Palestinians shouldn't, even though Israelis are the murderers!
Also, they want complete control over the air space, the entering and outgoing of people, cargo from Palestinian territories, they want control over TV, radio etc. Really, would you call Palestine in such case a " state "? More like absorbed territories into Israel, through what they call " Road map for Peace " but it's truly " Road map for total Israeli control over Palesine ".

 

[kobiraaz]

Solomon2 note: the behavior of accusing someone of doing bad things that have really been committed by the accuser is called projection. It is "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable—too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous—by attributing them to another."

No wonder Zionists are acquainted with the term as they are doing this for ages

 

[Solomon2]

Arabs faking graves to grab Jerusalem land that is rightfully theirs!!

I understand that under your value system you think it is nothing to lie and besmirch other people to get what you want for your own. You have not issued an apology for what you have done. But I don't think Pakistanis should feel compelled to be pulled into your orbit on the basis of fabrications. And since you do have to fabricate that implies you don't really have any honest facts supporting you, doesn't it?

 

[Skorpian]

I understand that under your value system you think it is nothing to lie and besmirch other people to get what you want for your own. You have not issued an apology for what you have done. But I don't think Pakistanis should feel compelled to be pulled into your orbit on the basis of fabrications. And since you do have to fabricate that implies you don't really have any honest facts supporting you, doesn't it?

Lol your post is so weird..
I didn't see a single lie in my previous post. All that was in my previous post is true facts. Legally, and under international law, Gaza and West Bank are rightfully Palestinian. And what I said about the road map for peace was correct, those are the conditions of Israel to create a Palestinian state, I don't know how they'll even consider it a state that way!
Why should I apologize? I said nothing wrong in my previous post. I didn't fabricate as you're claiming.
Instead of telling me that I'm lying and calling me a fabricator, why don't you instead reply with some hard facts?!

 

[Solomon2]

Lol your post is so weird..I didn't see a single lie in my previous post.

But you forgot that tens of thousands of Jews were kicked out under Nasser, some of them after being forced to sign documents vowing that they were giving up their goods and property "voluntarily". link How many synagogues are left in Egypt? By comparison, in Tel Aviv there are over fifty mosques: link

Legally, and under international law, Gaza and West Bank are rightfully Palestinian.

Anybody who makes such a bald claim hasn't much of a clue about international law, let alone the status of the WB & Gaza. Before you try to cut-and-paste somebody else's legal argument in your support, why don't you look how much - how VERY much - international law supports the other side, the side of the Jews? It will save time.

Why should I apologize? I said nothing wrong in my previous post. I didn't fabricate as you're claiming.

Repeating the fabrications of others still counts.

 

[nirreich]

Typical Palestinian lie that due to their lost of any shame they will never apologise or even correct once it will be revealed.