Saturday, September 06, 2025

Mount Sinai being turned into a luxury mega-resort

For years, visitors would venture up Mount Sinai with a Bedouin guide to watch the sunrise over the pristine, rocky landscape or go on other Bedouin-led hikes. Now one of Egypt's most sacred places - revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims - is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to turn it into a new tourism mega-project.

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Known locally as Jabal Musa, Mount Sinai is where Moses is said to have been given the Ten Commandments. Many also believe that this is the place where, according to the Bible and the Quran, God spoke to the prophet from the burning bush. It is also home to a traditional Bedouin community, the Jebeleya tribe. Already the tribe, known as the Guardians of St Catherine, have had their homes and tourist eco-camps demolished with little or no compensation. They have even been forced to take bodies out of their graves in the local cemetery to make way for a new car park.

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"They have even been forced to take bodies out of their graves in the local cemetery to make way for a new car park"

MAGA!

Trumpism roves to be contagious.

When will the first five star hotel be built in Gaza?

And will they really excavate all human remains for starting work?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-08 10:23 AM

Is there where everybody but that one guy running for NY Mayor are headed for their future vacations?

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-09 08:23 AM

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