Israel Matzav

Chicago style voting, 'Palestinian' style

During the days when Richard Daley was the Mayor of Chicago, it used to be popular to say that on election day, one should vote 'early and often.' Chicago was (and is) a town where dead people often vote. The 'Palestinians' have always wanted to emulate it. And now, in their own way, they have found a way to let dead people be political activists and vote (Hat Tip: Gershon D).

In the heart of Jerusalem, dozens of new tombs are being added to an ancient cemetery, but no one is buried beneath them. Jewish observers and sources in the Jerusalem Municipality say the pretend-graves are simply a Muslim project for grabbing land.

The Mamilla Cemetery is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem's Independence Park (Gan HaAtzmaut), between Agron and Hillel streets. It is an ancient Muslim cemetery containing several dozen graves, which has been in a state of severe disrepair for more than a century, despite being under the supervision of the Muslim Waqf.

In recent days, however, there has been much hustle and bustle in the cemetery, and its seems to be growing from day to day, cutting into land that is a part of Independence Park. Trucks, tractors and other heavy machines come and go, dumping building materials, which workers then shape into Muslim-style tombstones with no one buried beneath them. Dozens of these faux-graves are being created on the eastern end of the park, in row after row, where only bare earth and grassy areas existed until now.

Some of the fake tombs have been completed and others are in the process of being built.

Arutz Sheva's Chezki Ezra visited the site following a tip from a local resident and was surprised to see many dozens of new "tombs." He estimated their number as approaching 100.

The 'Palestinians' are doing this because they are convinced that the more of Mamila (which is in the center of town) that is a Muslim cemetery, the less of it Israel can build upon. They are convinced of that because they have managed to hold up construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance for the last seven years.

And the stupid Jews allow it to continue right under our noses, since we'd look bad in the international media if we demolished a 'Muslim cemetery.'

Read the whole thing.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:59 AM