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After fifth attack at home, a Dutch chief rabbi says he’d leave if not for job
JTA ^ | 8/5/14 | Cnaan Liphshiz

Posted on 08/06/2014 7:30:04 AM PDT by Nachum

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands (JTA) — After the latest attack on his home, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs sat down on his couch, picked up the phone and made three calls.

A chief rabbi of the Netherlands, Jacobs first phoned police and a Jewish community leader to tell them that late on the night of July 17, just over a week after the onset of the latest round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, four bricks were hurled through a window of his home. It was the fifth time in recent years that Jacobs’ residence had been attacked.

Then Jacobs called his friend Roger van Oordt, director of the Netherlands-based Christians for Israel organization. Within an hour, van Oordt, his wife and two of their children were at the rabbi’s door, with its prominent mezuzah and Hebrew sign bearing the name of the Chabad Hasidic sect to which Jacobs belongs.

“They didn’t allow Bluma, my wife, and me to touch anything, they cleaned up all the mess,” Jacobs told JTA in an interview at his home 25 miles southeast of Amsterdam. “The attacks do not inspire much hope. The response by Christians, Muslims and other friends do.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dutch; leave; rabbi

1 posted on 08/06/2014 7:30:04 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

ya, well .. the common denominator is islamists ... plain and simple.


2 posted on 08/06/2014 7:31:36 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Nachum

Perhaps we’ll get the message that it’s long past time for Muzzies to start feeling the heat.

Real heat.


3 posted on 08/06/2014 7:32:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

Muslim immigration and maybe the occasionaly native European anti-Semites, and the incidents of anti-Semitic acts and the general situation for Jews will only get worse in Europe. Totally predictable.


4 posted on 08/06/2014 7:35:33 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Nachum
In The Netherlands, gun ownership is restricted to law enforcement, hunters, and target shooters. Self-defense is not a valid reason to own guns.

To obtain a hunting license one must pass a hunters safety course. To get one for target shooting, one must be a member of a shooting club for a year. People with felonies, drug addictions, and mental illnesses may not possess any firearms.

Once obtained, firearms must be stored in a safe. Firearms may only be used in self-defense as "equal force". Police will come once a year to inspect your guns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#The_Netherlands

5 posted on 08/06/2014 7:38:35 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Da Coyote; Nachum

If you don’t take the risk of being “beheaded” in the future by the muzzies, there’s ONLY one thing they understand, - their OWN tactics, - learned from their stupid Koran.

Mecca and Medina need to received the same as Germany 1944-45, bombing the Hell out of them. A little later President Truman sent a little stern message to the Japs. And you see the result from that how these two countries are doing today after these “messages.” No other ways will save us, mark my words.

Our huge problem is that we, unfortunately, have an Islamic administration out of Kenya!!!!!!


6 posted on 08/06/2014 7:57:09 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Nachum

So much for “Never Again!”


7 posted on 08/06/2014 8:49:59 AM PDT by TheDon (Californians are losing their right to keep and bear firearms one firearm at a time.)
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To: Nachum

Holland has a king these days, doesn’t it?

Why does he not say something in defense of Jews after all that has happened in WWII?

It would be a decent thing to do for him.


8 posted on 08/06/2014 9:30:03 AM PDT by 353FMG
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