From: eggertj@moses.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41)
Subject: Re: Israeli destruction of mosque(s) in Jerusalem
In-Reply-To: "D. C. Sessions"'s message of Tue, 11 May 1993 09:30:09 MST
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Reply-To: eggertj@ll.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab - Group 41
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In article <93y05m11d509@witsend.uucp> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
>     Or, for that matter, with the USA.  Around here, nobody reroutes
>     freeways to avoid churches, synagogues, and so forth.  They just
>     get condemned, paid off, and the road goes through.  The same is
>     standard policy for any number of other public projects: schools
>     and sports arenas being only two examples.
>
>     Anticipating the objection that the cases aren't comparable: how
>     not?  The Wall has to count as the #1 tourist attraction in that
>     part of the world; making room for the traffic would be a twenty
>     second decision for any city council I ever heard of.

The cases aren't really comparable.  A project like a freeway requires
public hearings, court action, appeals, advance determination of
restitution, and so on.  The razing of the Moghrabi district in East
Jerusalem happened within hours of the end of the hostilities of the 6
Day War.  The residents were given only two or three hours' notice to
pack up and find accomodations elsewhere.  They had no chance of
public hearing, debate, appeal, negotiation or anything.  It was get
out or die in the rubble.

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=Jim  eggertj@ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)