Palestinian rioters torch Joseph's Tomb Jewish holy site

BBC News ^ | October 16, 2015

[Brad from Tennessee]

Palestinians have torched a Jewish holy site in the West Bank city of Nablus, amid soaring tensions with Israel.

Rioters set fire to a tomb revered as that of the biblical figure Joseph. The site, where Jews go to pray, was badly damaged.

It came hours after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinian leadership to stop a wave of attacks.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the arson and said the site would be repaired.

Violence between the two sides has spiralled, with near-daily stabbings by Palestinians of Israelis this month.

Seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in the stabbings and some gun attacks. At least 30 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have also been killed in the growing unrest. . .

[cripplecreek]

So burn the Al Aqsa mosque to the ground and call it a proportional response.

[MARKUSPRIME]

These people need to be put in the ground permanently.

[Joe Boucher]

Come on you weenie Jews,
Go kick hell out some palestinians and bunr to the ground some of their “holy” places much like they’ve been doing to you.

[ilovesarah2012]

I hope Israel isn’t waiting for the U.S. to come to their rescue. They need to just go all out and eliminate as many rodents as possible as soon as possible.

[bert]

asshole Obama’s fault

[JudyinCanada]

Obama....what a dangerous world he has ushered in.

The oceans may be receding, but everything on land is blowing up because of him.

[JimRed]

Is that Joseph, stepfather of Jesus, or Joseph of the Coat of Many Colors?

[DCBryan1]

Is that Joseph, stepfather of Jesus, or Joseph of the Coat of Many Colors?

Scene 34:

MAYNARD: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of uuggggggh'.
ARTHUR: What?
MAYNARD: '... the Castle of uuggggggh'.
BEDEMIR: What is that?
MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.

[Pollster1]

FYI. I’m not sure it’s GGG ping-worthy, but I wanted to make sure you saw this unfortunate story.

[SkyPilot]

"Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? Will ye render me a recompence? And if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head."

Joel 3:4

[Cronos]

i agree

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pollster1. This has been a problem for a long while; there's a 2002 topic regarding a thwarted attempt by a homicide bomber to erase the facts on the ground of the tomb itself, and anyone visiting it at the time. Good weekly digest ping as well.

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KEYWORDS: factsontheground; josephstomb; ; tombofjoseph

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[SunkenCiv]

• Ambassador: (Despite Obama's Requests) Israel Will Not Turn Over Christian Holy Sites to Islam [2015]
• Palestinian rioters torch Jewish holy site Joseph's Tomb [Messiah Ben Joseph] [2015]
• Palestinians Set Fire to Joseph's Tomb Ahead of 'Day of Rage' [2015]
• Construction project leads to discovery of ancient Jewish ritual bath with mysterious writing [2015]
• 'Ancient Hebrew inscriptions' baffle Israeli archaeologists [2015]
• Jerusalem family finds 2,000-year old mikveh underneath living room [2015]
• Report: 2 Terrorists Shot While Attacking Jews at Joseph's Tomb (Shechem, Israel) [2015]
• 1,500 Jews Find Vandalism at Joseph's Tomb for Hanukkah (Nablus, Israel) [2014]
• The Self-Inflicted Palestinian Victimhood [2014]
• PA Officers Arrested for Murder of Ben Yosef Livnat [2013]
• Fundamentally Freund: Jewish unity and Joseph's Tomb [2012]
• Four US Jews Arrested at Joseph's Tomb [2012]
• Islamic Palestine -- 1915: indoctrinating 'Anti non-Muslim' Bigotry [2011]
• IDF Refused Entry of MKs and Leading Rabbis to Kever Yosef [2011]
• Confrontations at Tomb of Joseph [2011]
• Delegitimizing the Jewish State [2010]
• Joshua's Tomb vandalized with Arabic graffiti [2010]
• Midnight At Rachel's Tomb: Kind Of A Hush About Islamic Claim That Kever Rachel, Kotel Are Mosques [2010]
• US condemns Palestinian claim on Western Wall [2010]
• Israel angered by Palestinian report on Western Wall [2010]
• Palestinians claim ownership of Western Wall [2010]
• Israel approves millions of dollars for Western Wall [2010]
• Jews have no right to Western Wall, PA 'study' says [2010]
• David and Solomon [2010]
• Rachel's Tomb, a Jewish Holy Place, Was Never a Mosque [2010]
• Joseph's Tomb Gets a Paint Job After 9 Years of Arab Desecration [2008]
• Holy site closed to 'punish' settlers [Jews banned from Joseph's Tomb] [2008]
• Olmert Government Destroys Synagogue Next to Joseph's Tomb [2007]
• Hassidim illegally enter Nablus to pray [Joseph's Tomb Not Forgotten] [2006]
• Wanton Destruction in Gaza Bodes Ill for the Future [2005]
• Biblical Pool Uncovered in Jerusalem [2005]
• IDF rescues 7 Breslav Hasidim at Joseph's Tomb [2005]
• SCHLUSSEL: Will the Real News Fabricator Please Stand Up?! [2005]
• Seven Wounded, Two Seriously, in Joseph´s Tomb Shooting Attack [2003]
• Palestinians set fire to Joseph's Tomb [2003]
• On Joseph´s tomb and the Temple Mount (Palestinian desecration of Jewish holy sites) [2003]
• Silence about Joseph´s Tomb Desecration [2003]
• Take back Joseph's Tomb [2002]
• Joseph s Tomb Booby-Trapped by PLO Forces [2002]

[LibWhacker]

That’s exactly the correct response. Will Israel do it? I don’t know. I wish they would.

[left that other site]

The Patriarch Joseph (of the Coat of many colors)

[Wilhelm Tell]

One view the Islamists and the left share is an iconoclastic, anti-historical desire to obliberate history, to reduce history and culture to rubble and ashes. Only upon a rubble heap can the eternal now of a totalitarian paradise be built. A few little reminders of history are allowed to remain. Anything that incites the mob over real or imagined affronts from the past is allowed, even enshrined. And some historical artifacts might be looted for their economic value. But usually, history is an obstacle to Progress or Paradise and must be ruthlessly swept away.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[One view the Islamists and the left share is an iconoclastic, anti-historical desire to obliberate history, to reduce history and culture to rubble and ashes.]

This applies to establishment journalism as practiced for decades. News media archives are an important historical record. The journalist writes for his contemporaries as well as researchers and historians not yet born. Today’s news media not only cheats you and me in delivering an objective, accurate record of events but also cheats the future.