[SunkenCiv]

This is hypothetical -- there was no such find. Shanks is making a point here.

[Uncle Slayton]

From this map of Biblical Israel, the discovery was clearly within the borders of Israel and these are the borders that Israel must return.

[Chode]

give them something they don't believe in and that never belonged to the in the first place??? please...

[Rocky]

A horribly written article, in the fact that he doesn’t let on that it’s hypothetical until you have read about halfway through the article, and then he says it in passing.

Thanks for putting “hypothetical” in the title of your post.

Still, it’s an interesting subject. The irony of Turkey demanding the return of artifacts, while holding artifacts from other countries, demonstrates what a thorny issue this is.

[Rabin]

Sunk, “Tablets of the Law”?

Box fulla rox, not a tablet in the bunch (corners included).

R.

[BlueDragon]

as it says;

"...This hypothetical case would surely be one of them."

Oh well. I wasn't "in" soon enough to have been the first to say

"Moses' fault"

anyway.

Freerepublic can be disappointing that way.

[publius911]

Is Israel obligated to return them under international law if found in an excavation in the Sinai?

Depends.
On whether all the fragments were found before the "land for peace" agreement that returned the Sinai to Egypt. And, if all the fragments had not been found, whether the Israelis were wise enought to condition the completion of their dig under the old status quo ante pacem.

The Sinai was sovereign territory of Israel, after the 6 day war. As was the Suez Canal.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

No. They would simply destroy them.

Just like they’re destroying everything in their museums now.