Police bar youths from torching Acre mosque on Lag Ba'Omer

[Scurrilous]

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"The intervention of police and city officials kept Jewish youths from torching an abandoned mosque in the northern city of Acre late on Monday, as Jews throughout Israel lit bonfires to mark the holiday of Lag Ba'Omer.

A force of police and municipal inspectors called to the mosque prevented the attempted arson and distanced the youths from the site.

Haaretz discovered signs of attempted arson on the mosque's door, and graffiti reading "Death to Arabs" spray painted on adjacent buildings.

The al-Manshiyeh mosque on Borla Street has been the target of a number of vandalism incidents in the past.

On Independence Day earlier this month, unidentified people tried to damage the mosque's dome, and hung an Israeli flag from it. Islamic Movement members and city volunteers joined to clean the area."


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/716605.html

[pelsar]

1. off topic but intersting....

the first topic on haaretz was:
Jihad-fired Katyusha hits Ashkelon-area moshav...

just curious if you missed it...or skipped it on purpose?

[Scurrilous]

2. I saw it...

...the story was in ynet also:

Katyusha kills 30 chickens

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3251453,00.html

Grad-type Katyusha Rocket carrying six kilograms of explosives fired Tuesday morning at western Negev community of Nativ Haasara strikes chicken coop, killing thirty hens, damaging community's greenhouse


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"A Katyusha rocket fired Tuesday morning at the western Negev community of Nativ Haasara struck a chicken coop, killing thirty chickens, and damaging the community's greenhouse.

The rocket fell on a hilltop opposite one of the coops belonging to a resident. Shrapnel struck the coop facing the hilltop and the adjacent greenhouse. A pipe bringing water to the coop was also hit.

IDF sappers arrived at the scene after the rocket fell in order to check the type of rocket. Following an investigation the IDF determined that the rocket fired was a Grad-type Katyusha rocket."


I can't post everything I read pelsar.

[pelsar]

3. dont expect one to...

i just noticed a propensity of yours to post all that shows israel in a negative light....events that in every other country is considered nothing unusual...just the usual problems that any society has (arson, racism, etcs) and post it, giving the impression that only israel has such problems....just something i noticed.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. I agree

Pelsar...one would never believe that Jews are a rock solid base of the Democrats by reading the posts here. The Palestinians are excused of nearly every wrong doing no matter what it is, yet the Jews and Israel are blamed for every problem imaginable.

[Tom Joad]

5. Number of U.S. Jews voting for Democrats is immaterial to the

Israeli oppression of Palestinians.

[Violet_Crumble]

7. You need to go back and read the posts properly...

1. The Palestinians are not excused of nearly every wrong doing no matter what it is...

2. The Jews and Israel are not blamed for every problem imaginable...


Is yr argument supposed to be that as Jews are a rock solid base of the Democrats, Israel should be above any criticism? I sure hope not...

Violet...

[Violet_Crumble]

6. So all those threads about Arabs trying to torch things is my imagination?

Someone had better explain to me why it's considered okay when there's multiple posts in multiple threads by the same people all condemning the exact same sort of thing ONLY when it's being done by Arabs....

Violet...