Israelis rampage through mosque and burning it

[Muntasir]

They have also burnt books, one can only assume that was the Quran, but obviously the BBC will try to hide that fact.

Jewish settlers are suspected of launching the attack, burning books and scrawling hate-messages in Hebrew.

The main prayer hall and library of the mosque in the village of Yasuf were badly burnt in the attack on Thursday.

Clashes later broke out between villagers and Israeli troops sent to investigate the incident.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/8410317.stm

[Aktavist]

If any one wants to see a prime example of extermism then they don't have look any further than Jewish settlers.

Here are a few examples of this.

"An elderly shepherd, his wife and a nephew said they were attacked by four masked men for allowing their animals to graze near the settlement of Susia."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7451691.stm

"On Monday midday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Bureen near Nablus city in the northern West Bank. "

http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57256

"A Palestinian farmer in a village on the West Bank says at least 80 of his olive trees have been cut down in an overnight attack by Jewish settlers."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/8357856.stm


There are countless examples of violence and intimidation from these settlers. The very idea of living on occupied land is extreme. Its no good Netanyahu condeming this recent attack on a Mosque when his police and army allow and encourage the settlers. Settlers live on occupied land and have protection all the time, they are only able to commit these offences with the blessings of the soldiers present.

[iraniboy]

The funny thing is how BBC reports it!!

This is another news for today. "Islamists flee Philippines prison after militants' raid" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8410364.stm

When a so-called Muslim do this, they are called 'Islamists' but when it's done by wannabe Jews, it waits untill someone condemns it and then it indirectly report it!! Well done BBC!!! Now you guys wonder why people hate Muslims?!!

[Aktavist]

You can't put any sort of label on extremist Jewish settlers. It will be seen as antisemitic.

Interestingly many of those who were removed from Gaza are camping outside Gaza hoping to return one day.

[europa]

It might also be a good thing to show the response from other Israelis and the healing that comes from shared understanding.

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger on Monday visited the West Bank village of Yasuf, where days earlier a mosque was torched allegedly at the hand of settlers angry over the 10-month construction freeze.

"I came here to expression my revulsion at this wretched act of burning a place holy to the Muslim people," Metzger told the residents after he was escorted into the village under the protection of the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian police. "This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe."

"Our going to the village can bring about a resolution of the conflict," said Froman, of the southern West Bank settlement of Tekoa.

"The people who spread hate in the region are those who invented the method of 'price tag.' They should be cast out of here," Froman said, refering to the term used by right-wing activists for actions opposing anti-settlement moves by the government.

"We want to create new conditions between Jews and Arabs. Arson in a mosque is an attempt to sow hatred between Jews and Arabs. Jewish law also prohibits damaging a holy place." Froman said.

At the end of the meeting, Froman presented a Koran to the village leader, Munir, who thanked the delegation for "coming here to identify with us against violence."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134975.html

[Muntasir]

It might also be a good thing to show the response from other Israelis and the healing that comes from shared understanding. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134975.html

This is the same guy who called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza?
Are we supposed to take his gesture as serious as your post?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948907.html

[Simmons Victory]

It might also be a good thing to show the response from other Israelis and the healing that comes from shared understanding.
"Our going to the village can bring about a resolution of the conflict," said Froman, of the southern West Bank settlement of Tekoa.

"The people who spread hate in the region are those who invented the method of 'price tag.' They should be cast out of here," Froman said, refering to the term used by right-wing activists for actions opposing anti-settlement moves by the government.

"We want to create new conditions between Jews and Arabs. Arson in a mosque is an attempt to sow hatred between Jews and Arabs. Jewish law also prohibits damaging a holy place." Froman said.

At the end of the meeting, Froman presented a Koran to the village leader, Munir, who thanked the delegation for "coming here to identify with us against violence." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134975.html

Mr Froman, your continued presence on illegal, stolen Palestinian land is in itself sowing hatred between Jews & Arabs. Why don't you show a real hand of friendship and oppose the illegal settlements period.

[europa]

My post clearly stated that it was reminder of the value of shared understanding as a tool for healing. No more - no less. But a look at the Rabbi Yona Metzger in the round may well lead to an understanding that things are rarely classifiable as solely black or solely white but frequently shades of grey. One can vehemently disagree with his solutions but they are at a minimum, preferable to standing on the sidelines encouraging the slaughter of people of different faiths.

This rabbi has a history of actively advocating respect between faiths as well as the absorbtion of peaceful Palestinians as fully equitable citizens of Israel. He has suggested , like very many others that two Palestinian statelets without a land connection between them are virtually impossible to establish as a fully functioning state - Gaza especially. Additionally, he has proposed Jerusalem as a UN type administered world Heritage centre for all faiths ( one of Ben Gurion's ideas) a suggestion that has drawn much abuse from both Jewish and Christian zionists, but one I have actually heard being discussed by Palestinians on one of my trips to the West Bank. ( Some people actually do remember that Jews were expressly forbidden to visit the Wall prior to the Six Day war)

As to the suggestion that Palestine have a state in the Sinai - it won't happen but perhaps it's borne out of the same kind of despair that the Southern Irish used to express about wishing NI could be heaved off and dragged out to sea, so those who wish to live together in peace can get on with it.

Following is one of the criticisms as the refer to the Chief Rabbi as an "interfaith fool":

Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yonah Metzger, has met with the Dalai Lama of Tibet (an alleged Buddhist god) and Metzger "suggested that representatives of the world's religions establish a United Nations in Jerusalem, representing religions instead of nations, like the UN currently based in New York.
"Instead of planning for nuclear war and buying tanks and fighter jets, it will invest in peace," Israel National News reports. Apparently a peace apart from the biblical blueprint, without proper repentance, and based upon misguided human efforts easily manipulated for political purposes.
Has the chief rabbi gone mad? Is Metzger now a rabid meshuggah? Has God hardened his heart against Jerusalem and Israel to invite such disaster? Isn't the rabbi aware of the prophecies that warn about the world's evil eye upon Jerusalem, and how they covet the Temple Mount? What next, a rush visit by the Bavarian pope to vie for his attention seeking to gain a better position in the "New Jerusalem"?
Doesn't Yonah Metzger know he should be promoting the Third Temple, a biblical House of Prayer for All Nations interested in learning about the God of Jacob, learning Torah and repenting of idolatrous traditions - not for arriving to teach foreign ideas or bring strange ways to the Holy Land in the perverse spirit of Babylon.
Such nations must humble themselves to come up to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkot (Festival of Tabernacles) -- not to engage in some interfaith orgy! The unacceptable alternative of the proposed religious UN, a modern Tower of Babel, must be condemned and rejected as an entirely unclean idea, a diabolical grand design, that would pollute the Holy City with the arrival of their Grand Master, a sorcerer-magician, a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Has Metzger gone over to the other side, seduced by the Babylonian Catholic Church (with its treacherous agents like David Rosen) that aims on crowing their universal king on Mt. Zion? Isn't he opening up the floodgates of hell by summoning "The World Council of Religious Leaders" to take up wicked residence in Jerusalem, to make the City of the Great King their unholy headquarters, invoking UN Resolution 181? Are they making alliances with alien organizations like United Religions Initiative that appear like light-bringers but hide a spiritual darkness that Nimrod would revel in?
This nightmare in the making brings Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's prediction of January 16, 1962 to mind: "...With the exception of the USSR as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah." (emphasis mine)
Isaiah didn't prophecy of any such godless scheme that is a dangerous counterfeit of the Temple of God -- not a "shrine of the prophets." How humanist, yet undoubtedly appealing as a pretty platitude and harmless plan to interfaith fools.

He did an interview with Der Speigel if anyone wants to know more about his views and efforts to relate to Muslims.