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The Muslim Cemetary in Mamilla just east of Independence park in Jerusalem, recently suspicious activity by the Waqf has made the cemetary clean(a good thing) but then dozens of new grave stones and headings and inscriptions have been added. This is most likely due to the fact that sic months ago the ADL wanted to build a museum of Tolerance near the site. Unlike in countries like Russia, Germany, Libya, Egypt, Tajikistan and Iran where Jewish graveyards are paved over with highways or airports built over them or preisdential palaces or the graves used to pave roads(as Jordan did in the 1950s) Israel has the sad notoriety of protecting mosques and muslim graveyards that are now in Jewish parts of town, such as the mosques in Westn Jersuaelm or Safed.

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Uploaded on July 25, 2006
Taken on July 25, 2005