Moshe Dayan var også kunst- og antikvitetstyv.
Med sin sentrale rolle overfor de okkuperte palestinerne skaffet han seg antikvariske verdier for millioner.
Dette var en kriminell aktivitet.
Og salg oppga han ikke ... slik unngikk han skatt.
Hans begrunnelse for de omfattende tyveriene var å frata palestinerne deres historie og dermed deres tiknytning til landet.
Nedenfor er en samling overskrifter fra artikler som dokumentasjon:
(Hele artiklene finnes under Kilde).
Skudeneshavn 19. september 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
1986 NY Times:
2007 Israel Antiquities Authority
Israel Antiquities Authority inspectors foiled an attempt to smuggle an ancient statue head to an antiquities collector in the United States (07/08/2007)
Israel Antiquities Authority inspectors foiled an attempt to smuggle an ancient statue head to an antiquities collector in the United States. The statue, which dates to the Byzantine period, is made of very fine quality limestone and was carved by an artist. According to the suspect his father received the statue from former Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan ז"ל.
Kilde:
19. desember 2015
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2015-12-19/ty-article/.premium/the-defense-minister-who-stole-antiquities/0000017f-f882-d044-adff-fbfb52990000
12. februar 2013
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/02/archaeological-pillaging-gaza.html
7. august 2007
https://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1271&hist=1
14. mai 1986
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/14/arts/dayan-legacy-prompts-dispute-on-antiquities.html
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 19. desember 1915 :
The Israeli Defense Minister Who Stole Antiquities
In 1971, Israeli archaeologists petitioned Moshe Dayan to give up his legally questionable hobby: Uncovering ancient artifacts and claiming them as his own.
In 2012, Dr. Asaf Matskin's book "Too Close to the Edge" was published,
telling the story of political corruption since the creation of Israel.
Amid the scandals detailed in the book was the story called "The
Antiquities of Moshe Dayan." Dayan was chief of staff of the Israel
Defense Forces and eventually became defense minister.
According to Matskin, some in Israeli society were rooted in the mentality that "everything is allowed" — at least everything that your name, reputation or position allowed you to get away with. That's how Dayan, who was a sworn lover of archaeology, used his position and authority to dig at any site of his choosing while illegally using equipment and manpower belonging to the IDF.
Opposition to Dayan's digs began years before the publishing of Matskin's book. On December 16, 1971, Haaretz reported that during an archaeology conference at Tel Aviv University, 20 out of 60 archaeologists in attendance signed a petition demanding that Dayan, then serving as defense minister, give up his hobby and stop his archaeological digs.
According to the report, 19 of the signatories were junior archaeologists who expressed worry in the face of Dayan's thievery of antiquities. Their older, more experienced colleagues noted that Dayan was digging at sights that members of the antiquities department had labeled "uninteresting" and that his activities had saved some of those locations from being lost or forgotten.
The director of the conference, Dr. Yigal Yedin, refused to bring up Dayan's digs for official debate but agreed to circulate the petition between those present. The signatories claimed that Dayan managed the digs without a license or scientific oversight, didn't report his discoveries, and prevented the scientific studies of artifacts.
Additionally, Dayan was accused of selling some of his findings and giving them added value by affixing labels bearing his signature as well as the details of the objects. The defense minister, felt the archaeologists, had used artifacts that belonged to the country for his own personal gain.
In an editorial published by Haaretz approximately one year after the Tel Aviv conference, one writer claimed that antiquities in Israel "aren't tempo bottles and pocket flashlights from 2,000 or 3,000 years ago ... of course, they must be displayed in the collections of archaeological museums, but only a thousandth of the number of artifacts that have been discovered to date or are yet to be discovered have made it there."
In the opinion of the author, the craze over Israeli antiquities was born only because Dayan had shown an interest in pottery and glass, which hadn't previously interested anyone. Isn't it a better idea, the editorial asked, to change the law and allow for the collection and sales of antiquities "as long as the items have no special value."
Of course, added the writer, laws must be followed, but sometimes the law itself needs to be adjusted to reality.
Among the responses to the article was a letter to the editor in which Tel Aviv resident Moshe Kramer expressed his consternation: "The opinion expressed in the editorial must be pushed back with two hands. Even to those who are ignorant in legal matters, it's clear that Moshe Dayan broke a number of laws."
"He deals in [antiquities] without a license ... apparently he also deals with foreign currency without a license," alleged Kramer. "Apparently he doesn't pay income tax as required by law ... the tolerance here isn't acceptable, and the 'naughty sabra' in this instance crossed over a long time ago into the realm of criminality."
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