Artikkel fra 29. juli 2019:
På okkupert område på Vestbredden foretas arkelogiske utgravinger.
Israels Høyesterett har vedtatt at dette arbeide ikke tåler dagens lys.
Retten konkluderer at dette må være hemmelig.
Ellers kan det bli uønsket oppmerksomhet om HVA som foregår og HVEM som er involvert:
Haaretz 19. mai 2019:
"Israeli West Bank Archaeological Digs Must Not Be Made Public, Top Court Rules"
"Supreme Court rejects NGOs petition, arguing that publishing information publicly could expose archaeologists to academic boycott and undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations."
En ekstraordinær situasjon.
Tydeligvis er arkelogi blitt en del av Israel/Palestina-konflikten.
Hva betyr det?
TILLEGG 4. april 2022
Haaretz 4. april 2022
"From West Bank Debris to Evangelical Hands: The Shady Journey of a Bible-era Curse"
"Researchers
recently claimed a groundbreaking find in biblical archaeology: the
oldest Israelite inscription, dating from the 13th century B.C.E. In
addition to doubts about whether it’s ‘kosher,’ the manner in which it
was obtained in the West Bank is also arousing suspicion."
Det er gjort funn på ulovlig vis.
Ingen ansvarlige vil vedstå seg sakens behandling.
Hva funnet innebærer diskuteres ... men vil aktørene bak funnet og publiseringen bistå?
Er disse aktørene ... "messianske evangelister" ... som noen anfører:
"In terms of the why, it’s a group of evangelicals that are not
interested in findings and science, they are looking only for things
designed to confirm and illustrate known history, that is part of a
missionary process of messianic prophecies." (Haaretz 4. april 2022).
Hva skal man tro når arkeologi blir utført slik?
Skudeneshavn 19. mai 2019 / 4. april 2022
Jan Marton jensen
Kilde:
4. april 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-curse-inscription-from-the-west-bank-ended-up-in-israeli-and-american-hands-1.10718635
29. juli 2019
https://www.klassekampen.no/article/20190729/ARTICLE/190729968
19. mai 2109
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-west-bank-archaeological-digs-must-not-be-made-public-israel-s-top-court-rules-1.7255369
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 19. mai 2019:
Iraeli West Bank Archaeologiscal Digs Must Not Be Made Public, Top Court Rules
Supreme Court rejects NGOs petition, arguing that publishing
information publicly could expose archaeologists to academic boycott and
undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations
Israel is not obligated to release information about archaeological digs in the
West Bank, the Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting an appeal by two nongovernmental organizations.
The
decision upholds both the state’s position and a lower court ruling.
The state had argued that releasing the names of the archaeologists
carrying out the digs would make them
vulnerable to academic boycotts.
It also argued that releasing the location of the digs could undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations.
The original petition was
filed with the Jerusalem District Court by two left-wing organizations,
Yesh Din and Emek Shaveh. After the
court rejected the petition, the organizations appealed to the Supreme Court.
The petition sought to make public information
about digs carried out under the auspices of Israel’s Civil
Administration in the West Bank, including their location, the names of
the archaeologists conducting them and details of any findings loaned to
museums, research institutes or exhibits.
Under the 1954 Hague Convention, an occupying power is forbidden to remove archaeological findings from occupied territory.
But justices Yosef Elron and Noam Sohlberg accepted the state’s position in full, with Justice Anat Baron dissenting.
“There’s a clear and genuine fear that
publishing the names of the archaeologists … could cause concrete damage
to their professional and financial interests, as well as those of the
institutions with which they are affiliated,” Elron wrote. “Publishing
the archaeologists’ names exposes them to academic boycotts in a manner
that could genuinely damage their research work and their academic
futures.”
He stated that publishing their names could limit
their ability to publish their research in international journals, give
lectures, participate in academic conferences, cooperate with
colleagues and volunteers from other countries, obtain stipends and
research grants, and participate in programs at academic institutions
overseas.
“In addition, I’ve been convinced that
publishing the archaeologists’ identities could even undermine their
ability to complete the specific digs about which information has been
requested and to make their future results known through academic
publications,” he said.
Elron also accepted the state’s argument
that revealing the site of the digs would undermine Israel’s foreign
relations in various ways, including “undermining its interests in the
framework of future negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and
could even serve as a tool of attack for parties that seek to harm
Israel in the international arena.”
The one concession made to the appellants in the
ruling was that the state should give them the names of any
archaeologists who didn’t explicitly object to this.
Baron, in her dissent, argued that fear of boycotts didn’t justify keeping information from the public.
“Nondisclosure has the power to silence
public debate over the legitimacy of archaeological digs in Judea and
Samaria,” she wrote, using the Hebrew term for the West Bank. “And as
noted, this is a controversial issue.
“Public debate could indeed invite
criticism of the archaeologists, and perhaps even a boycott, as argued
by the respondents,” she continued. “But silencing the debate by
concealing the information is no cure for these fears.
“There is no democracy without a vibrant free
market of ideas and opinions, and preventing public debate for fear of
criticism, or even of boycotts, poses a real danger to the democratic
values Israel espouses. The fear of a slippery slope on this issue is
also tangible.”
Emek Shaveh said it had wanted the court
to order the state “to apply the academic standards accepted in Israel
and worldwide to the West Bank as well,” and was disappointed that the
court didn’t do so.
“As Justice Baron said in her dissent, it’s impossible to apply one law
within Israel, under which archaeological research and findings are
available to the public, and at the same time treat archaeological digs
and artifacts discovered in the West Bank as a state secret,” its
statement continued. “Ultimately, this decision says that under current
circumstances, even basic academic standards are superfluous, and
continued Israeli rule over the West Bank requires maintaining two
different legal systems under the same government, even in academia.”
