Posted on 12/29/2005 8:40:18 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Jews in Rome Light Hanukkah Candles in Front of Iran Embassy in Demonstration
Associated Press
Rome, Dec. 28 - Members of Rome's Jewish community lit Hanukkah candles in front of the Iranian Embassy on Wednesday in what they said was a peaceful response to comments by the Iranian president that the Holocaust was a "myth."
Two of the people who lit the candles were World War II concentration camp survivors, and a third was an Iranian Jew. "We want to bring the light and not fire to the world," said Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni. "The story of Hannukah reminds us of a military victory but the symbol is a spiritual one, it's a peaceful witness to the fact that we exist."
He said the demonstration was a peaceful response to comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said earlier this month that the Holocaust was a "myth" and that if Europeans insist it did occur, then they should give some of their own land for a Jewish state, rather than the one in the Middle East.
The comments came just two months after Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" - comments that prompted Italians from the right and left to demonstrate in front of the Iranian Embassy.
About 50 people took part in the candle lighting, although they were outnumbered by police and journalists. There were no lights on in the embassy at the time.
Hanukkah recalls the victory against all odds of the small Maccabean army against the Syrian king Antiochus in 165 B.C. The eight-day length of the festival is a result of a fable that when the Jews rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been desecrated by the invaders, a single vial of oil, enough for one day, burned miraculously for eight.
Happy Hanukkah.
This deserves a Bump!
Them "ragheads" need to know they don't (and never will) dominate Our GOD's CHosen People.
Freedom is a wonderful thing. And it's exactly what the Iranian mullahs and their puppet President hate.
It happened here in DC. Although it's not officially an embassy, the point was still the same.
Brilliant!!
Happy Hanukkah to all of my Jewish friends...
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You can also e-mail your displeasure to the Iranian govt. at:
info@iranembassy.am
(Chanukkah is really the festival of energy efficiency)
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