Int'l Media Justify Synagogue Burnings

www.arutzsheva.net ^ | 18:59 Sep 13, '05 / 9 Elul 5765 | By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

[Esther Ruth]

Int'l Media Justify Synagogue Burnings 18:59 Sep 13, '05 / 9 Elul 5765 By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Several major international media outlets have justified Arab burning 19 synagogues remaining on the ruins of Gush Katif. Arab Knesset Knesset supported destroying the Jewish sanctuaries.

Knight-Ridder News agency, a major news source for American dailies, reported, " 'I want to destroy everything here as they did the Al Aqsa mosque,' said Mahmoud Malahi, who told a reporter he had lost a leg to an Israeli tank when he was 15. 'I want to destroy everything here. It's a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam.'"

The news agency did not tell its readers that the Al-Aqsa mosque still stands on the Jewish Temple Mount and enjoys the same protected status as Christian and Jewish places of worship. Israel opened the Christian and Jewish holy places after it survived combined Arab attacks in the 1967 Six-Day War and Jordanian armies fled the eastern part of the city and the rest of Judea and Samaria.

Reporters for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), reporting on the Arab mobs that overwhelmed the Gush Katif ruins, told viewers that Israel "stole" the Gaza region. "Palestinians came streaming to the settlements that caused them so much pain, to sightsee and to loot. Israel stole thirty-eight years from them. Today, many were ready to take back anything they could," BBC reported.

[Esther Ruth]

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The Scotsman news agency reported that the Cabinet decision not to destroy the synagogues "dampened any hopes for a more peaceful era."

The New York Times implied that Israel was at fault for the destruction and told its readers, "Israel had leveled all the other buildings in the settlements in an agreement with the Palestinians but chose, at the last minute, not to destroy the synagogues because a number of Israeli conservatives argued that it was wrong for Jews to destroy synagogues. As a result, settlement synagogues were standing and vulnerable to vandalism."

Similarly, the Associated Press wrote, "The Israeli Cabinet decided at the last minute Sunday to leave 19 synagogue buildings intact, drawing complaints from the Palestinians and criticism from the United States."

The burning of the synagogues and use by at least one of them by a Hamas terrorist for Moslem prayers came at the same time Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar said that Moroccan King Mohamed VI said he would intervene to prevent desecration of the synagogues. Similar assurances were received from Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In Israel's Knesset, Arab MK Ahmed Tibi said he supports demolishing the synagogues, but not the burning. He told the Knesset, "The Palestinian Authority must destroy all symbols of the occupation....The problem is that you are asking the Palestinians to be more Jewish than the Jews."

Arab MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe said, "Synagogues located throughout the entire Arab world are being preserved, but this is a unique case.

Shas Sephardic party leader Eli Yishai stated, "I expect the Arab Knesset members to condemn the barbaric acts that are taking place in the Gush Katif synagogues." MK Uri Ariel (National Union) tore his clothes, one of the Jewish acts of mourning.

The United Nations 1947 armistice agreement provides for preserving holy places in Jerusalem. The armistice was intended to establish Israeli and Jordanian states, but Jordan and other Arab nations immediately tried to destroy Israel in what became Israel's War of Independence.

The U.N. document states, "Holy Places and religious buildings or sites shall be preserved. No act shall be permitted which may in any way impair their sacred character.... Similarly, freedom of worship shall be guaranteed in conformity with existing rights, subject to the maintenance of public order and decorum."

After the War of Independence was concluded in 1949 and Jordan took over Jerusalem's Old City and the eastern part of the capital, Christians and Jews were denied access to holy places until Israel recovered the land in the Six-Day War, in 1967.

Published: 18:53 September 13, 2005 Last Update: 18:59 September 13, 2005

[gondramB]

I thnk the bigger question is why, in an area of poverty, is either side destroying any buildings at all. How wasteful.

[cripplecreek]

Don't suppose Celine Dion can give an encore performance of her sobbing rant about how they are poor people who have never touched anything nice in their lives.

[BenLurkin]

"The news agency did not tell its readers that the Al-Aqsa mosque still stands on the Jewish Temple Mount and enjoys the same protected status as Christian and Jewish places of worship. "

Keep the truth out there. Otherwise, the evil people in the media will attempt to extinguish it forever.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

yahh, they touched the greenhouses, and then proceeded to tear them apart.

[Esther Ruth]

I heard Michael Savage playing that the other night, unbelievable. Last night he was playing clips of some very lib Rabbi and priest saying that stealing is always ok and allowed when someone needs somethings, oh sure, completely acceptable.

[BigFinn]

First of all, never expect the Intl. Media to ever say anything good about Israel, period. And peace with the Palestinians will NEVER happen. They fool themselves. And talk about desecrating the holy places. The Palestinians have been destroying all evidence that the Temple mount, where their Al Aqsa presently stands, was once the holy site of the Temple. here

[sheik yerbouty]

As to the Al Aksa.. "Tear down this mosque!", and get all the adherents of TROP out of Jerusalem.

[lilylangtree]

Not surprising that the media justifies the burning. They've been justifying everything that proceedith out of the mouths of the terrorist palis as the gospel according to the media.

[sheik yerbouty]

Why doesn't she offer to put the palesimians in her Vegas luxury suite?

[cripplecreek]

As someone else pointed out, Dion was one of the very first to use technology to prevent theft of her so called music.

[2banana]

'I want to destroy everything here. It's a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam.'"

True words spoken by a muslim...

[Esther Ruth]

Joel 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

[sheik yerbouty]

Hopefully "speedily, and in our day."

[Itzlzha]

Chris De Brugh's "Crusader"

"What do I do next? said the bishop to the priest,
I have spent my whole life waiting, preparing for the feast,
And now you say jerusalem has fallen and is lost,
The king of heathen saracen has seized the holy cross.

Then the priest said oh my bishop, we must put them to the sword,
For God in all his mercy will find a just reward,
For the noblemen and sinners, and knights of ready hand
Who will be the lord’s crusader, send word throughout all the land,

Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost;

Tell me what to do, said the king upon his throne,
But speak to me in whispers for we are not alone,
They tell me that jerusalem has fallen to the hand
Of some bedevilled eastern heathen who has seized the holy land;

Then the chamberlain said lord, we must call upon our foes
In spain and france and germany to end our bitter wars,
All christian men must be as one and gather for the fight,
You will be their leader, begin the battle cry,

Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost...

Ooh, high on a hill, in the town of jerusalem,
There stood saladin, the king of the saracens,
Whoring and drinking and snoring and sinking, around him his army lay,
Secure in the knowledge that they had won the day;

A messenger came, blood on his feet and a wound in his chest,
The christians are coming! he said, I have seen their cross in the west,
In a rage saladin struck him down with his knife
And he said I know that this man lies,
They quarrel too much, the christians could never unite!

I am invincible, I am the king,
I am invincible, and I will win...

Close they came, the army of richard the lionheart,
Marching by day and night, with soldiers from every part,
And when the crusaders came over the mountain and they saw jerusalem,
They fell to their knees and prayed for her release;

They started the battle at dawn, taking the city by storm,
With horsemen and bowmen and engines of war,
They broke through the city walls,
The heathens were flying and screaming and dying,
And the christian swords were strong,
And saladin ran when he heard their victory song;

We are invincible, God is the king,
We are invincible, and we will win!

What do I do now? said the wiseman to the fool,
I have spent my whole life searching, to find the golden rule,
Though centuries have disappeared, the memory still remains
Of those enemies together, could it be that way again?

Then the fool said oh you wise men, you really make me laugh,
With your talk of vast persuasion and searching through the past,
There is only greed and evil in the men that fight today,
The song of the crusader has long since gone away,

Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost...
Jerusalem."

[Itzlzha]

Damn...it's Chris De Burgh...damn my eyes!

Lol.

[Migraine]

Palesimians... thanks for adding this most appropriate nomenclature to my vocab; it's ingenious, and I'll not forget it.

[dfwgator]

Don't suppose Celine Dion can give an encore performance of her sobbing rant about how they are poor people who have never touched anything nice in their lives.

Isn't she Arabic?

[sheik yerbouty]

Another freeper actually coined the term. i did however, introduce the term, palesites.