Posted on 11/12/2016 12:03:20 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
The Palestinian Authority has determined that the famous Dead Sea Scrolls belong to the Palestinian people, according to Israeli media reports.
The PA laid claim to the ancient scrolls, saying they were found in Qumran, an area of the West Bank that Palestinians want for a future Palestinian state. Reportedly, the PA stated that Israel illegally appropriated the scrolls since Qumran lies beyond the “Green Line,” a demarcation line drawn in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan after Israel’s War of Independence, the Arab-Israeli War, of 1948.
The scrolls are now housed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Found inside caves in Qumran between 1947 to 1956, the scrolls include the third oldest known manuscripts of texts found in the Hebrew Bible. Most of the Qumran scrolls are written in Hebrew.
The PA reportedly plans to formally ask the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation, to decide that Israel be required to “return” the scrolls to the Palestinian people. The committee is an advisory body to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Center.
The Palestinians informally raised the matter with the committee in September this year. It is reported that both the Israel Antiquities Authority and Shama-Hacohen, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, announced the PA plans to make a formal claim to the scrolls when the committee meets again in 2017.
Some 40 percent of the scrolls contain biblical texts including Isaiah, Deuteronomy and Psalms. Another 30 percent is made of non-canonical texts from the Second Temple period, such as the Book of Enoch and prophecies by Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah that are not included in the Bible. A further 30 percent comprises texts that document the beliefs and rules of ancient Jewish groups. The scrolls are considered powerful proof of a Jewish presence in the area since ancient times.
Even so, the Palestinians state the scrolls belong to them, pointing to the fact that Qumran is now part of Section C in the West Bank – an area the Palestinians claim for their state. “Section C” is an area of the West Bank that is controlled by Israel and has some 150,000 Palestinians and more than 389,000 Israelis living there. The division of the West Bank into the administrative sections A, B and C was the result of the 1995 Oslo II Accords. Area A is exclusively governed by the PA, area B is run by both the PA and Israel and area C is run only by Israel. Sections A and B were marked out to in such a way as to have only Palestinians living within them.
The Palestinian claim has angered Israelis as this announcement comes on the heels of UNESCO resolutions that ignore Jewish claims to the Temple Mount. The claim would also appear to be a step backward after PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s surprise attendance at the funeral of Shimon Peres last month, when no other Arab state leaders attended.
I can claim that half the stuff in the Smithsonian is mine but that don’t make it so.
So they can burn them?
Probably. :-(
(tongue in cheek)
Maybe the Israelis should offer to trade the Christian scrolls to the Muslims, in exchange for getting their Temple Mount back that was taken by the Muslims who built the al-Quds mosque on the Jews holy site.
of course they will claim evidence that proves their religion is 100 percent bullshit as their own, so that they can destroy it.
To which the proper Israeli response is:
“Molon Labe”
Exactly. Just like the ‘proper burial’ of Kennewick Man.
I was about to say the same thing. Not only is it proof that their Koran lies about the text of the Bible being altered, but it’s also proof of the continuity of the Jewish people in the land God gave them.
House the Scrolls in the Vault at Ft Knox & tell the PA to go get stump broke.
Jordanians had them first.
they should photocopy the scrolls and give the copies to the palestinians and ask “Happy now?”:
The northern most specimen of Spanish Moss is in the Smithsonian and I gave it to them to keep
[Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation]
Only the United Nations, or the DNC, can come up with a name like this.
Good one!
They’re really iching to start a war, aren’t they?
The world witnessed the destruction of antiquities by Muslims in the middle east in 2016.
There is no way the DSS should be in the hands of the Palestinians.
I saw the DSS (including the 10 commandments) at a museum a few years ago. It was a breathtaking experience. And interesting to find they are smaller in size than you would think.
Destroying them would be the ONLY objective the Palestinian Authority would want to get their hands on these priceless historic relics. In their minds, NO religion existed before the crazed old sand hermit Mohammed Ali simply created one out of whole cloth, wrote it all down in a book he called the Koran, and dubbed this book to be the “ultimate authority” on all matters dealing with the deity he identified as “Allah”, a creation that has little to do with either Jehovah or Christ, and lacks a considerable amount of insight that had been built up for some 5,000 years before Mohammed ever came along.
Once this book and all its various addenda and interpretations were in distribution, its passages were used to rationalize and justify the most atrocious aggressive abuses and draconian rule of others the world has ever seen. The Shari’ah law code, if it may be graced by that definition, is more harsh than anything in the Old Testament, with the possible exception of Moloch, and is less considerate of human sensibilities than the Bushido Code of the Samurai.
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