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Article #492Re: Jordaninan behaviour in Jerusalem (was Re: Want facts?...)
From: Jim Eggert x6127 g41
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:20
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:20
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In article <dfs.703344175@ro> dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes: > In <JIME.92Apr14171250@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> > jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes: > > >Next, perhaps someone should post some comments on the religious > >restrictions placed on Jews in East Jerusalem during the Jordanian > >tenure. I would find this an interesting topic. > > Well, Jim, I'm sure you would. > > In 1948, the Jordanians kicked every last Jew out of East Jerusalem and > the Old City. They blew up the four major synagogues in the Old City. > They used gravestones from the Mount of Olives as paving stones. And they > forbade any Jew from returning to the Old City. Finally, they imposed the > death penalty on any Arab who sold land in Judea/Samaria/WB to a Jew. > > Does that answer your question? Well, it is certainly a start. I shall have to augment this with more reading. I presume that these atrocities continued until the 1967 war, whereupon full religious freedom for all religions was reinstated. -- =Jim jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines,soc.misc,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.misc,alt.revisionism Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!jime From: jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) Subject: Re: Jordaninan behaviour in Jerusalem (was Re: Want facts?...) In-Reply-To: dfs@doe.carleton.ca's message of 15 Apr 92 13:22:55 GMT Message-ID: <JIME.92Apr15122007@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@xn.ll.mit.edu Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab - Group 41 References: <JIME.92Apr13012616@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> <1992Apr14.054637.25386@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <JIME.92Apr14122236@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> <1992Apr14.185225.23291@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <JIME.92Apr14171250@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> <dfs.703344175@ro> Date: 15 Apr 92 12:20:07 Lines: 23