Posted on 05/04/2006 7:30:52 AM PDT by Alouette
Walls, arc, Torah book at city’s Great Synagogue sprayed with swastikas; ‘Hitler’ sprayed on front door. ‘It's insane,’ says one worshiper
VIDEO - Worshippers who arrived on Thursday morning to pray in the Great Synagogue in Petah Tikva were shocked to discover that the synagogue was broken into and the walls, arc and even a Torah book were spayed with swastikas. The worshipers called the police who initiated an investigation and dispatched the Forensics Division to help and possibly identify the perpetrators. Back in March another synagogue in Petah Tikva was desecrated.
Yaakov Pelhaimer, who prays in the synagogue and is also a member of the city council, said: "What they have done is no longer an act of hatred, but insanity. Several people broke into the synagogue and desecrated the place with swastikas and wrote 'Hitler'. I'm not talking about one caption but a lot of graffiti. There is even one writing we can't decipher and it seems that it has to do with Satan's cult."
Pelhaimer added that the synagogue exists for over 100 years and it's a central place, open to everyone. "My uncle worships there. He and his family arrived from Germany after he lost part of his family in the Holocaust. How can a man who lost his family in the Holocaust face this synagogue with swastikas? And it's only been 10 days since the Holocaust Memorial Day.
"This scene is beyond horrifying; desecrated Torah books, swastikas sprayed on the arc, on the stage where people pray on, dozens of swastikas. I hate to think what the perpetrators could do to other people. What has been done to the synagogue is a dark day, not only to residents of Petah Tikva, but also to the county and for all Jews", added Pelhaimer.
At beginning of March a similar incident took place in the Rambam Synagogue in Petah Tikva, where the perpetrators sprayed swastikas and wrote "Death to the Jews" on the synagogue's walls. Similar writings were found also on the walls of a nearby yeshiva and a kindergarten.
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said that "Desecration of the synagogue is reminiscent of darker days when synagogues in Europe were desecrated and we hope that the perpetrators will be caught soon and be judged to the maximum sentence."
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These criminals were so dumb they couldn't even draw the swastika properly...........
The symbol itself has been used by many cultures across the world from ancient times. Even the Indian cultures of the great southwest used it in pottery and basket weaving over a thousand years ago. It is simple and easy to make, except by hate filled dummies that are more concerned with gettin caught than artistic value.........
Yes, the are all reversed like the non-Nazi swastikas.
Maybe they were Dsylexic Nazis.......
Where is Petah Tikvah?.......
The symbol itself has been used by many cultures across the world from ancient times. Even the Indian cultures of the great southwest used it in pottery and basket weaving over a thousand years ago. It is simple and easy to make, except by hate filled dummies that are more concerned with gettin caught than artistic value.........
5 posted on 05/04/2006 8:39:25 AM MDT by Red Badger
It symbolizes a broken cross, a sign denying the redemptive power of Y'shua. There are many who believe that is a sign from haSatan.
It was just a simple artistic design not unlike the greek key design.........
Would those be "Zanis"?
-Eric
I still find it hard to believe or comprehend that such things could happen in Israel! Whoever the perpetrators are, they are some kind of sick puppies. They should be forced to clean up everything and than have a few IDF types take them out back for a long session with a very big hickory switch!
Our Catholic Church was smeared with swastikas and other hateful graffiti about a month and a half ago. A local synagogue sent a card of sympathy and a check to help with the clean-up. We usually don't see much of this stuff happening where I live, but I think it is on the increase and probably being generated by the network of hate groups on the net.
This original patch came from the Amerindian tradition and was of additional significance in that the original compliment of the 45th came from 4 states (Arizona went elsewhere before WW2 service). FYI: This was the original home of the famous "Joe & Willie" GI Cartoonist, Bill Mauldin, whom my father knew then and after the war.
I know what we have to do. Let's go burn some embassies!
*spins the roulette wheel*
See you in hell....*squints at the wheel* East Timor!
/sarc
Many non-Jews came from Russia. Some of them are bloody antisemytes.
What are you writing about?? It was probably the pallies!!
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