re israeli destruction of mosque s in jerusalem in article bec a news service uci edu tclock orion oac uci edu tim clock writes this issue has been going on for a while and your presentation here of just one reference probably won t resolve this issue to those that oppose your insistence that mosques were destroyed even in your location of this one reference you spend most of your quote dealing with an incidence that while abhorrant has nothing to do with the issue at hand here then at the end of the quote there is an almost off hand comment that two mosques were destroyed to support a claim of this nature what other authors support this incident if identifiable mosques were destroyed they are certainly identifiable they have names and addresses steet location the comment by one reporter does make us wonder if this happened but by no means proves it there is no doubt that israeli authorities ordered the destruction of mosques in the vicinity of the wailing wall that does not mean however that once can generalize from this to any other points the entire plaza mosques and all was cleared to make it possible for jews to have a place to worship in the place that was holiest to many of them and which had been denied to them for millenia on the other hand throughout the rest of jerusalem and israel to the best of my knowledge israeli authorities have scrupulously avoided damage to any islamic religious sites this contrasts with the policies of previous regimes which destroyed jewish synagogues out of hate and bigotry jack f love opinions expressed are mine alone unless you happen to agree
