Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod!wuarchive!psuvax1!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Dead Sea Scrolls Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 09:46:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 19 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu The moderator wrote: >government has inherited theorical custodianship of the documents. I >don't think they want to get involved in this issue, but by not doing >anything they are effectively taking a stand, so they may not be able >to avoid it. What's particularly embarrassing to Israel is that one >of the major holdouts has recently been making public statements that >are at least highly anti-Israel if not anti-Semitic. I am not aware of the Professor in question, who is now in a mental hospital, making anti-Israel remarks. I am most certainly aware of his making disparaging remarks about Judaism as a religion and Jews as adherents of that religion. Recent articles of interest on this topic appeared in Scientific American and the Jerusalem Report. -- ``A College degree is a right; not a privilege" [Anti-Israel in the sense that he believes Israel should not have been created in the first place. --clh]