patrickcaturday
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Seems like even in Israeli Libraries the 10 Commandments have a hard time,
Keeping the above in mind anyone care to explain the following ...
I thought the Commandments and the Torah were the heart of Jewish Culture.
8.
Thou shalt not steal.
10.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's
Ten Commandments - Listed
Keeping the above in mind anyone care to explain the following ...
What I found out was that around 30,000 books were taken from Palestinians, mostly from private homes," he told AFP.
"They took every book that was found, then they started to catalogue. The whole process took something like 10 to 15 years."...
..."It was not a secret," he said. "Everybody knew about it."
Amit, who is writing a book on the subject, says documents including letters from the then-library director show that Israeli researchers "considered these books to be very valuable, and they really wanted them."
"They said we are saving these books, but at the same time they said we want these books, we need these books, we will look after them better than the Palestinians... so it has a lot to do with colonial attitudes," he said.
He acknowledges that the library catalogued the books carefully and kept them separate from the general collection, but questions why no efforts were made to return them.
"War is an ugly thing, but what's important is what happened in the decades afterwards," he said.
Palestinian books sit in Israeli library - Israel Culture, Ynetnews
I thought the Commandments and the Torah were the heart of Jewish Culture.