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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=306647
Protecting a Holy Site
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Imagine the deafening outcry that would have arisen had Jewish stone-throwers attacked Arab mourners and visitors to a major cemetery. But when, as it happens, the assailants are Arab while the mourners and visitors are Jewish, there is no outcry, no condemnation. No one talks about the regular predations on Jews trying to reach Jerusalem's ancient Mount of Olives Cemetery, regarded by many as the second holiest Jewish site anywhere. The Mount of Olives was consecrated as a grave site for Jerusalem's Jews in pre-First Temple days 3,000 years ago. It still serves that purpose. The Jewish return to an indisputably Jewish site - the final resting place for a veritable pantheon of spiritual, cultural and national paragons - is what world opinion and the Arabs now deem as "occupation." Mourners should not fear for their lives at any cemetery anywhere in Israel, but all the more so at the oldest continuously used burial ground on earth.