ISRAEL AND ARCHAEOLOGY PING LISTS PLEASE COPY.
This professor at Barnard accuses Israeli archaeologists of forging research she claims is used to justify Biblical claims of Jews on “Palestinian” territories.
“Dr. Abu El-Haj says Israeli archaeologists searched for an ancient Jewish presence to help build the case for a Jewish state. In their quest, she writes, they sometimes used bulldozers, destroying remains of other cultures, including those of Arabs.
She concludes her book by saying the ransacking by thousands of Palestinians in 2000 of Joseph’s tomb, a Jewish holy site in the West Bank, “needs to be understood in relation to a colonial-national history” of Israel and the symbolic resonance of artifacts.”
You have really hit the nail on the head with those quotes.
They say all anyone needs to know about her.
What a lie, the Israelis are the most meticulous of archeologists, the only thing they bulldoze is orchards providing cover for Arab terrorists and the homes of Palestinian homicidal bombers. The Israelis know their country has quite an historical past, which includes other ancient tribes. Unlike the Arabs recklessly excavating under Al Asqa, they're not trying to destroy the past, they're trying to make a cohesive whole picture of the regional history.
Why would Arabs ransack Joseph's tomb if he was a Palestinian and not a Jew?
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.