Palestinians make a play for Dead Sea Scrolls at UNESCO

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4. What a total load.

Not even a pretense of intellectual honesty. You really expect that anyone is going to be just plain stupid enough to believe that that the Dead Sea Scrolls are analogous to the Elgin Marbles? Let's see. The Elgin Marbles were illegally obtained. He used what were essentially forged documents to take them out of the Ottoman Empire. He stole Ottoman property, which the Greeks can lay claim to by virtue of being a successor state. On top of which, the British have absolutely no cultural or historic connection to ancient Greek Statues. In contrast, where is the Palestinian state that could lay claim to the scrolls? It never existed. Not to mention that the cultural and historical connection of the Jewish people to the scrolls is huge. This one isn't even close.