Joe Zias on ‘Looting the Holy Land’

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A few days ago I posted here a link to a video "Looting the Holy Land" and some people let me know off-blog that they were concerned (thanks guys) that I may not have spotted that it presented what one can call delicately a "one-sided view" of the issue. Actually, while I am sure that I miss much, in this case I was quite aware of that, which is why I posed the question of the position it places the so-called "internationalist" arguments of antiquity collectors. That of course received no answer (how could it?). So since they are not interested in any discussion, to show the other side, here's a link to a review of the video, from the other (Jerusalem) perspective: Joe Zias on ‘Looting the Holy Land’ from the Zwinglius Redivivus (Bible, Theology, Church History, and Modern Culture) blog (see the coverage of the video there).

These cultural heritage issues are of course a very tangled web of arguments and counter arguments all based in various assumptions and motives. While this is understandable (it is connected with identities and much else) and forgiveable, less tolerable is the way that these arguments are twisted to their own (commercial) convenience by foreign no-questions-asked collectors and dealers uninvolved in the issues directly but exerting their own destructive influence.
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