Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Taking the Dead With You
The LA Times reports that removal of the bodies from Jewish graveyards in Gaza is becoming a problem. On the one hand, it seems easier than removing the roughly 1/3rd of the settlers who won't leave without some application of force; but, on the other hand, it is a delicate procedure.
I'm asking why the bodies have to be removed. There are little cemeteries all over the Eastern US in relatively weird places (at my family's reunion in North Carolina two weeks ago, for example, there was a 20 grave family type plot in the middle of the golf course). Do they have to remove the bodies for fear of the Palestinians digging them up and desecrating the remains? It's a sick thought but, on reflection, probably true.
I'm asking why the bodies have to be removed. There are little cemeteries all over the Eastern US in relatively weird places (at my family's reunion in North Carolina two weeks ago, for example, there was a 20 grave family type plot in the middle of the golf course). Do they have to remove the bodies for fear of the Palestinians digging them up and desecrating the remains? It's a sick thought but, on reflection, probably true.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:22 PM 
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