Just Past? by Raz Kletter

Author:Raz Kletter [Kletter, Raz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781317491361
Google: _ZjCBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05T05:02:01+00:00

Yeivin refused to leave the matter alone. In January 1951 he met Sukenik, Eytan and Reuben Nal (deputy legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). According to Yeivin, the purpose was to issue guidelines about Israels position on the PAM. Did Israel accept its international status, or did it have demands, such as adding Israeli representatives to the board of trustees (GL44880/13, confidential)? When Ben-Gurion attended the IES annual conference in 1950, the President of the IES, Professor Mayer, asked him to solve the problem of access to the PAM (BIES 15 (1949/50): 119).

In the January 1951 meeting Nal explained that there were different legal opinions about the validity of the Palestine Order-in-Council ordinance (Palestine Official Gazette 1948), and that the governments legal advisor would have to give a binding opinion. Eytan suggested that this should be done before any political action was taken. So Yeivin arranged a larger meeting, inviting also Schwabe and Mayer of the Hebrew University (GL44880/13 no. 4781, 12.2.51). In a letter of 18 February 1951 Yeivin noted that the situation had changed. There were no more talks about an international Jerusalem, or collaboration with Jordan. The PAM should not belong to one side only:

An institution like this has the right to exist only if it can grow and develop. According to (albeit unofficial) information that has reached the IDAM, the Jordanian government has ceased to send antiquities found in its jurisdiction, and even in Cisjordan, to this museum, but transfers them to its central museum at Rabat-Ammon [Amman]. Under these conditions, the former PAM will not be able to survive and develop. It has become a dead and mummified place. The relatively small sum that is received from the Rockefeller fund (10,000 Lira annually), cannot even support this mummified institution with honour and allow it to maintain the necessary body of workers, not to mention allowing the continuation of research and publication ... I believe that there is justification, I do not know whether legal, but in any case moral and practical, to demand the division of the PAM and the fund between the two governments (Israel and Jordan). [Thus] both will give a continuation and future life to their parts of this property, as addition of cultural assets to their Departments of Antiquities.

(GL44S80/13 no. 4867)

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