Jerusalem Excavation
The interesting feature story by Mary Curtius on Israel’s archeological dig in Jerusalem (“ ‘Bones and Stones’ War Puts a City in Trenches,” World Report, March 21) should have included, as important background, the city’s status under the original U.N. 1947 partition of Palestine between Jews and Palestinians. That agreement, which Israel signed, treated Jerusalem as an international, open city and not under any exclusive sovereignty, as Israel has now made it.
Also not mentioned was the fact that Christian rights and property are also being violated, that Christianity is being driven out of Jerusalem, as well as Israel.
This dig, and Israel’s heedlessness of adverse international reaction, could add to America’s already heavy Israeli burden. It’s political archeology that for us could be the hole to hell and a bottomless pit of grief and misery.
PATRICK F. FLYNN
Yorba Linda
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