Posted on 07/30/2007 12:21:14 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
Published: 07/30/07, 5:56 PM
Olmert Government Destroys Synagogue Next to Joseph's Tomb
by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) The Civil Lands Administration destroyed a one-year-old synagogue built on Mount Gerizim near the Samarian city of Shechem on Monday afternoon. The structure was built not far from one of the holiest sites in the Jewish world.
Government officials maintained that the building was erected without a permit, and was not a synagogue.
Dozens of Breslov Chassidim and other rabbis and students worshipped there daily, learning Torah between the services. The rabbinical students vowed not to give up the site without opposition. “If the synagogue is destroyed, it will be re-built,” vowed one student before the house of worship was razed to the ground.
The structure was built by the students in order to study as close as possible to the burial place in Shechem of the biblical Joseph, son of the Jewish matriarch Rachel and Jewish patriarch Jacob, following its capture and destruction by Palestinian Authority Arab hordes in October 2000. There have been many clandestine pilgrimages by Jews – and some not so clandestine – to the tomb since then.
Echoes of the past reverberate in the hills around the grave of the biblical Joseph, whose bones were brought to rest in Samaria by the Children of Israel when they escaped from Egyptian slavery thousands of years ago. "The bones of Joseph which the Children of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that had been purchased by Jacob." (Joshua 24.32)
The Tomb of Joseph, whose sons headed two of the twelve tribes of Israel, was to remain accessible to Jews under the terms of the Oslo Accords signed by Israel with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which represented the PA.
The area around it, including the city of Shechem, was handed over to the PA, then an administrative body whose leaders had promised to protect the site.
But Jewish access to the tomb was blasted away by PLO terrorists in October 2000 a scant few days after the start of the second intifada, which many refer to as the Oslo War.
Israel Border Police officers spent days fending off terrorist attempts to capture and destroy the tomb. Within a week, the government of then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, currently Israel’s Defense Minister, caved in and ordered IDF troops to abandon the site.
Another Joseph was also abandoned that day in 2000 - a Druze Border Policeman named Madhat Yusuf (Joseph, in Arabic) who was left to bleed to death as soldiers waited for the order to rescue him. It took five precious hours for then IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz to negotiate with the PLO for his evacuation to safety, but by then it was too late. The government later told journalists the talks were necessary in order to avoid the risk of killing PA civilians.
The PA promise to preserve Joseph’s Tomb and allow Jewish access was violated within two hours after Yusuf’s body was carried away. A flood of PA Arabs entered the compound and razed the synagogue to the ground, burning furniture and holy books as the PA policemen who had vowed to protect the site stood idly by.
Two days later, the dome of the tomb itself was painted “evil eye green” as some people refer to the color, which in Arabic tradition wards off the evil eye. Bulldozers cleared away the remnants of the orgy of violence that had taken place there, transforming the holy Jewish monument into a Muslim religious site.
Send the a-rabs more money, George!
Olmerde keeps sinking lower and lower and lower - ping!
He treats observant and good Jews like the current US Administration treats those who protest illegal immigration, and treats the anti-Israel elements of Israel and the local Philistines like the Administration treats illegal aliens - with kid gloves.
I swear some of these “leaders” were twins separated at birth!
Early destruction of Joseph's Tomb by Arab terorists.
Then Joseph's Tomb, rerestored by Israel, tolerant of all religions,
Joseph's Tomb, after the Arab and Palestinian terrorists
resavaged the site, in their typical "pieceful" way.
Bloody savages, all they do is destroy, destroy, destroy! I remeber the first time I saw those pictures; FRiend Alouette posted them in a thread. Made me sick, and I’m not even Jewish!
And these savages are the folks GWB and Olmerde keep wanting to engage in a “peace process”, obtain a “two-state peace” (hurl), and end their terms of office with a “legacy.” (gag!)
It’s hard to believe it, but every new story about Vold’Olmert is even more outrageous.
What the hell is wrong with the Israeli Jews that they keep this appeasing lawyer as leader?
This clown would sign on as counsel for Eichman.
Revealing Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Post | Updated Jul. 29, 2007 13:24 | By LEAH ABRAMOWITZ
Posted on 07/30/2007 5:42:23 PM EDT by Squidpup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873856/posts
I think the Islamics have a new secret weapon. They clone Terrorist leaders into pretend Jews and smuggle them into Government positions. Omert is beyond ken. He is forcing Christians and Jews out of the land, and releasing known terrorist free into the land.
How come a Christian needs a visa and a known terrorist does not?!
Really. I read the crazy goings on of Olmerde and his crew and I’ve come to believe that pro-Israel Christians are far more Jewish than Olmerde, his crew, and all the looney lefties in Israel that want to give away the farm for some bogus pie-in-the-sky “peace” with a bunch of murdering Philistine terrorists. At least pro-Israel Christians want a strong, safe, secure Israel and don’t support one-way giveaways to the local P.A. mafiosi.
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