There are reasons I started borrowing the phrase 'palisimians'; this is a fine example of a couple of them.
Here's another:
The Mount of Olives, an ancient—from biblical times Jews have buried their dead here—and a holy cemetery in Jerusalem, is being used by Muslims as a garbage dump.
Jewish graves have been desecrated and destroyed. Muslims regularly lead their donkeys across the gravestones.
Muslim children play soccer among the dead.
Of course, this is nothing new:
Jewish burials were halted in 1948, and massive vandalism took place from 1948-1967. During the nineteen years of Jordanian rule, 40,000 of the 50,000 graves were desecrated. King Hussein permitted the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel at the summit of the Mount of Olives together with a road that cut through the cemetery which destroyed hundreds of Jewish graves, some from the First Temple Period. After the Six-Day War, restoration work began, and the cemetery was re-opened for burials.
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