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1melissa3 said:"However, according to the ones who vandalized the site, he may have represented something other than what we know him to, or they even have their own understanding about the tomb, which isn't verified."
You made the assumption that it could very well be decorative but are unwilling to look at the other side of the assumption.
You are one sided in your assumptions.
I apologize, it just seems the other side is so well handled by others. *hearts* I will make an attempt to do better in connecting with what matters to you when I am responding to you.
You still need to see both sides regardless of connecting to me. If all you do is negate one side and show the other side, you are still as one sided as the other side if they are not looking at your side.
I look at your side, but I just don't see a lot of love coming from those who painted swastikas.
The tomb is a place of pilgrimage for religious Jews, who believe it to be the final resting place of the biblical figure Joseph. Muslims believe that an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Yussef (Joseph) Dawiqat, was buried there two centuries ago.
Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, the site was to remain under Israeli control. But the Israeli army evacuated the premises in October 2000 shortly after the start of the second intifada, or uprising, and it was immediately destroyed and burnt by the Palestinians.
The restoration of the tomb was completed recently, and following improved security co-operation with the Palestinian Authority, the army allows Jewish worshippers to make monthly nocturnal pilgrimages to the site.
But as long as you see it.