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  • Jordan, PA Claim Dead Sea Scrolls

    01/02/2010 4:59:27 PM PST · by sofaman · 59 replies · 1,938+ views
    Arutz Sheva, Israel National News ^ | Published: 01/02/10, 11:49 PM / Last Update: 01/02/10, 10:55 PM | Hillel Fendel
    The London-based Globe and Mail reports that Jordan has asked Canada to seize Israel's 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls that are currently on display in Toronto. The scrolls are on display until until Sunday at the Royal Ontario Museum. Jordan claims that the scrolls were found in "disputed territory" that Israel captured from Jordanian control in 1967, and asks Canada to hold them until the question of their ownership is settled. Jordan's control of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley - which it called the "West Bank" - from 1948 until 1967, was recognized internationally by only two countries: Great Britain...
  • This is why people hate Toronto (AKA: 'San Francisco - North' ... go figure, eh?)

    06/09/2007 5:17:18 PM PDT · by GMMAC · 46 replies · 1,753+ views
    National Post - Canada ^ | Saturday, June 09, 2007 | Robert Fulford
    This is why people hate Toronto No, not the new ROM - but the pretentious, self-parodic ceremony that launched it Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, June 09, 2007 TORONTO -The temporary bleachers have long since been cleared away but Torontonians who attended the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) new addition last Saturday night are still trying to forget. It was an occasion to delight those who despise the pretensions of Toronto. No doubt they will savour, till their dying days, how dreadful it was. But we who love Toronto hope we can (as mourners are advised...