The cordoned off construction site of [an Israeli] museum dedicated to tolerance and coexistence, is seen from above, in downtown Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Descendants of Muslims buried at the cemetery said they would petition the U.N. Wednesday against the building of the museum over a part of the cemetery. (AP Photo via Daylife - Top; Bottom)
Looks like the Israeli museum is off to a fitting start, you couldn't make this *irony* up, from the NYTimes:
Excavators clearing ground for a museum in Jerusalem dedicated to tolerance have damaged many remains while exhuming more than 1,000 skeletons from a medieval Muslim cemetery, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Tuesday. Israel’s Antiquities Authority confirmed that skeletons had been removed from the cemetery but denied that the remains were mistreated. Muslim groups have been trying to halt construction of the Museum of Tolerance because it is to be built on top of the cemetery, which dates at least from the 14th century. Haaretz published photographs it said were from the excavations. They showed full human skeletons and fractured human skulls.
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