BBC vs CNN discovery (or robbery) of King Herod’s tomb

CNN

Wolf blitzer reported that Herodion is in the West bank. Unfortunately, Ben Wederman once again exposed his one sided brain. He can only think in terms of Israel. In this case he mentions the break from tensions that Israeli’s are getting from the discovery and change of subject. It’s the palestinians who are under occupation. It’s the palestinians being killed, arrested, abused, …….

Finally when they impose the current map of the region over the map of Herod’s so called kingdom, the West Bank and Gaza are once again just called Israel

BBC

Interesting that the BBC reported that Herodion is in the “occupied” West Bank. Can you imagine CNN doing something like that???

Another little overlooked detail in these reports was written about by Benny Ziffer in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Basically, the excavation being carried out in occupied territory is robbery.

The discovery of Herod’s tomb, or to be more precise a few fragments of dressed stone that one archaeology professor has concluded are the remains of Herod’s sarcophagus, have preoccupied television news and magazine programs since Tuesday. Amid the general zeal of the Londons and the Kirschenbaums and their talking-heads colleagues for demonstrating their mastery of the history of the Second Temple period, and to revive debates from their youth movement days over whether Herod was good or bad for the Jews, one important detail was forgotten, or almost forgotten: that the excavation of this tomb of Herod was carried out in occupied territory, where Israel has no moral right to dig and certainly not to remove archaeological artifacts. In the enlightened world, what Israel is doing is called robbery. …