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February 20, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/19/AR2007021900371.html

UN Anti-Racism Panel Questions Israel

[AP/Washington Post] Bradley S. Klapper - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism. Yaron Frost, a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism, said: "Israel doesn't interfere by making declarations about the regulation of holy sites that are not Jewish out of a sensitivity for the religions involved and a concern that declaring a site holy would be seen as interference in the oversight." Israel said several existing statutes protect holy places by requiring excavation and other projects to first seek government permission if they are near religious sites - Jewish or non-Jewish.

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