Israel - a land without scholars?

Palestinian amateur archaeologist Waleed Al-Aqqad's  collection of ancient artifacts

Since the Nakba there has been an almost unbroken history of Israeli buying up or looting archeological artifacts, often, apparently, without knowledge of their true worth and mainly to use them in re-writing the history of their land with a particular bias. Asmaa al-Ghoul writes in AlMonitor, ' The pillaging from the Gaza Strip of thousands of historical artifacts, some dating back to the time of Alexander the Great, at the hands of the Israeli occupation has stripped Gaza of its rich history.'

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/archaeological-pillaging-gaza.html#ixzz2Ku2pJ3vr