In Jerusalem, Who controls the past, controls the future

Mira writes it so well:

In Israel’s simple proportional representation system, far right religious groups can muster a lot of influence. This may be part of the reason the Israeli National Parks Authority gave the settler group El’Ad (meaning ‘eternal God’) so much control over archeological excavations in the village of Silwan, the site of Jerusalem’s old City of David.

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But wait! don’t just shake your head and sigh. Sing the alt-arch petition, or better yet let Benjamin Kedar, Tsipi Livni, Mike Turner and their friends know what you think.