Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Short Sighted Judge: 2

Many thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones for sending me the link to the letter recently sent to President Obama on a Judges recent decision to have tablets found at Persepolis auctioned to pay reparations to Israeli bombing victims.

http://www.shop.isiao.it/SIE/petition.php

Persepolis Fortification Archive Project:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

2 comments:

Charles Ellwood Jones said...
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Charles Ellwood Jones said...

No judgment has yet been made in this case.

Gwenda Blair's article summarizes the situation succinctly:

"Whatever the outcome in Chicago, the lawsuits, now before U.S. District Court judge Blanche M. Manning, are expected to wend their way through the appeals process and, in all likelihood, on to the U.S. Supreme Court. And as they do so, they will continue to raise complex and troubling questions about how to weigh the claims of the blameless victims of terrorism against those of equally blameless scholars and museums."
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2008/Paying-with-the-Past/