Posted on 12/11/2009 6:29:49 AM PST by markomalley
Suspected Jewish settlers today attacked a mosque in the northern West Bank, burning holy books and spraying threatening graffiti in Hebrew on the building, Palestinian officials and Israeli police said.
Extremists broke into the mosque in the village of Yasuf, near the city of Nablus, and burned Muslim holy books and prayers carpets, while sprayed slogans on the floor reading “Price tag – greetings from Effi.”
The so-called price tag is the Jewish settlers’ policy of attacking Palestinians and their property in retribution for any Israeli government curb on settlement expansion. Effi is a Jewish name.
The dawn attack appeared to be the work of hardline settlers furious that the right-wing government of Binyamin Netanyahu has given in to US pressure to try and enforce a temporary freeze on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, where some 300,000 settlers live.
While the attackers escaped, the Israeli government was quick to condemn the attack. "This is an extremist act geared toward harming the government's efforts to advance the political process for the sake of Israel's future," said Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, whose department is overseeing the freeze.
When they discovered the desecration of their mosque, Palestinian villagers started throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, whom they often accuse of complicity with settlers when they carry out such attacks on them and their olive orchards. Two Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were hurt in the clashes.
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Thousands of angry settlers gathered for a demonstration close to the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem this week, vowing to continue building and condemning Mr Natanyahu’s decision to bow to pressure from Barack Obama, the US president. They carried banners that said “Obama wants us frozen, God wants us chosen,” and “God’s Bible gave us this land.”
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April fools day in Dec?
Good for them. An eye for an eye.
The media will now declare that there is equal violence on both sides.
I don’t believe a word of this. Spray painting a Jewish name on the wall doesn’t mean the Jews did it.
Muslim holy books...would that be “Dreams from my Father” or “The Audacity of Hope”?
“Suspected Jewish settlers”
implying that being a Jewish settler is itself a crime.
I hate the antisemitic British media so much.
or Mein Kampf, or Carter’s anti-jew diatribe, also very popular for them
Good News for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Headline says Settlers. Article says suspected settlers. In other words, they could have done it themselves and are blaming it on settlers.
The rate of self-hate-crimes-for-publicity is so high, I’ll wait for actual evidence of who did this.
50% / 50% odds right now that the Palies did it for the PR.
I am sure there is already a resolution against Israel making its way through the UN expressing unbridled outrage about this unforgivable act.
These were holy books! It’s not like dozens of jews got blown up at a nightclub or anything.
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“Article says suspected settlers”
“It is suspected that settlers..” might have been reasonable. “suspected settlers” is the usual antisemitic nastiness we’ve come to expect from the antisemitic leftist media
THAT was soooo perfect. Well done!
Regardless of whether this true or not, it has now been reported, and it could be the match that sets off the whole region, IMO.
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