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Title: Muslim and Christian graves desecrated in Israeli city of Jaffa
Source:
guardian.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... es-desecrated-jaffa-yom-kippur
Published: Oct 9, 2011
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2011-10-09 21:46:18 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 3430
Comments: 18
Militant Jewish settlers smash tombs and spray stones with graffiti on Yom Kippur and firebomb is thrown at synagogue Dozens of gravestones have been desecrated at Muslim and Christian cemeteries and a firebomb thrown at a synagogue in Jaffa, Israel, on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. At least five tombs were smashed and around 20 others sprayed with Hebrew graffiti, including 'Death to Arabs' and 'Price Tag' – a slogan used by militant Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and their supporters. The "price-taggers" have vowed to avenge any move by Israel to uproot West Bank settlement outposts built without Israeli government permission, and have set fire to mosques and vandalised both Israeli and Palestinian property. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a firebomb thrown on to the roof of a synagogue in the Jaffa area caused no damage or casualties. He said an investigation had been launched and that patrols had been stepped up. A few dozen Israelis and Palestinians turned out in a show of protest against the attacks and a local councillor blamed settlers. Jaffa is the ancient part of Tel Aviv, with a mixed Jewish and Arab population, including Christians and Muslims. "All these extreme settlers are doing different activities and they are not paying a price for anything," said Sami Abu-Shehadi, a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality council. "Settlers have been saying that they want to bring the conflict inside [Israel] and this is exactly what they are doing now," he said. Rosenfeld said there was no initial indication the suspects were settlers or settler supporters, and that there was also a possibility that they might be football hooligans. Israeli president Shimon Peres condemned the vandalism. "The desecration of graves is a forbidden and criminal act that defames our honour and is contrary to the moral values of Israeli society," he said. On Monday, a mosque in a Bedouin village in northern Israel was set on fire and graffiti sprayed on its walls in an attack authorities have blamed on hardline Jewish settlers. The attacks have drawn broad condemnation from Peres and other Israeli leaders, and the country's chief rabbis visited the scene in a bid to calm tensions. In 2005 a Jewish couple were charged for throwing a pig's head into a Tel Aviv mosque in an attempt to derail Israel's pullout from Gaza, which went ahead in August of that year. In 2008 riots erupted in the coastal city of Acre in northern Israel when Jews accosted an Arab man who drove his car into a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur when all traffic halts and the country shuts down for 24 hours.
Jaffa, south of central Tel Aviv, where graves were desecrated on Yom Kippur. Photograph: Gil Cohen Magen / Reuters/Reuters
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#1. To: All, Murron, mcgowanjm (#0)
The problem isn't with Jews, it's with what Zionism does to them and Christians who engage in this policy of suppression and apartheid that denies Arabs living in Palistine the right to even something as simple as a livelihood and a future for themselves and their children.
Palestine? Where's that.
You deny knowledge of the existance of the land your savior was born and raised in. Do you ask, "Who's Jesus" too?
Jesus was born in Israel dumb ass.
show me the body. Habeus Corpus has been the bone in the craw of religion since the Holocene began.
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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
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#6. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Jesus was born in Israel dumb ass.
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