Majadele calls on PM, Peretz to probe desecration of Muslim graves - Haaretz

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Majadele calls on PM, Peretz to probe desecration of Muslim graves

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport Raleb Majadele called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Sunday to intervene and investigate the desecration by Jewish worshippers of a Muslim cemetery in a village near the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Friday.

The minister wrote in a letter to Olmert and Peretz: "The settlers lost their humanity and destroyed their last remnants of legitimacy in the Israeli public."

"This is a despicable act, entirely targeted at damaging the chances of peace between the peoples," Majadele wrote.

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A group of some 1,300 Jews visited the tomb of Joshua Ben Nun on Thursday night, in full coordination with the Israel Defense Forces.

On Friday morning, after the Jewish worshippers had left, Palestinians informed leftist groups that several tombstones in the local Muslim graveyard had been vandalized. Some were smashed; others were sprayed with slogans reading "death to Arabs."

The Civil Administration filed a complaint with police.

Police and the IDF repaired the damages to the cemetery on Sunday.

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1.	Uncivilized act of a minority	13:20	\|	Ilan	10/06/07

2.	islam defames itself when it resorts to terror & abuses woman!!!!	13:24	\|	Ben Uziel	10/06/07

3.	I almost choked on my coffee...	13:30	\|	Steven	10/06/07

4.	yes it is despicable, but enough with the same old same old	13:35	\|	Marian	10/06/07

5.	The 5th column strikes again!!!!	13:36	\|	Jeremy	10/06/07

6.	GIVING PEACE A CHANCE	13:40	\|	Neutered Observer	10/06/07

7.	"The settlers lost their humanity	13:46	\|	Zev	10/06/07

8.	"death to Arabs."	13:52	\|	Kristina	10/06/07

9.	on the Humanity of the SETTLERS WHO REPAIRED THE GRAVES	16:14	\|	Michelle	10/06/07

10.	must include arab desecration of jewish similar sites	16:27	\|	ralph	10/06/07

11.	The settlers are a disgrace	16:31	\|	Lee	10/06/07

12.	A DIsgrace	16:34	\|	Lee	10/06/07

13.	Reminds me of when the Jordanians used Jewish graves for latrines	17:00	\|	Ben	10/06/07

14.	lee: ignorance breeds bigotry!!!!	17:29	\|	Rajul	10/06/07

15.	Indefensable acts	18:00	\|	Bill	10/06/07

16.	#13 Ben: W	18:01	\|	"	10/06/07

17.	#13 Ben: Which is why	18:24	\|	Bill	10/06/07

18.	Majadele and "humanity"	19:53	\|	Lurker	10/06/07

19.	#9 Michelle You`re right	01:25	\|	T A Sheppard	11/06/07