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In <JIME.92Apr15122007@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu>
jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes:

>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.

That's correct.

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