Photograph by Michael Melford
Posted on 11/19/2008 4:33:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The West Bank is a cradle of civilization, of farming and settled towns. It is also a crossroads of empires. Down its spine of low, stony hills marched the armies of ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. And for billions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, it is sacred ground: the land Abraham sojourned in, Moses pressed toward, Joshua claimed, and David and Solomon ruled in glory; the place where God became flesh; the holy center to which the Prophet Muhammad took his mystical nighttime journey. Yet this priceless legacy is swiftly being lost. "Years from now, I don't know what archaeologists will find when they do excavations here," laments Salah Al-Houdalieh, director of the Archaeology Institute at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. "They are destroying a cultural heritage that belongs to every Palestinian, to every human being."
(Excerpt) Read more at ngm.nationalgeographic.com ...
Photograph by Michael Melford
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There was a similar article a year or three ago, consider this an update. Looks like a bunch of dhimmicrats in media have grown a pair since they no longer have to cover for their closet Moslem presidential candidate. |
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That ugly woman scares me.
Yup.
Probably keeps him on a short leash
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