In Jerusalem archaeology is politics
…Here history, religion and politics meet. Nothing in Jerusalem can be understood without all three.
The very stones of Jerusalem are political weapons in the age-old struggle for possession of the Holy Land.
And nowhere is more sensitive than the great platform built by King Herod, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to the Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary.
To understand the current row over excavation and repair work just outside one of the gates onto the compound, it is important to know that here history, religion and politics meet. Nothing in Jerusalem can be understood without all three.
Fonte: BBC News – Friday, 9 February 2007.
