Rest assured it will piss off the people it was intended to piss off.

It's an act of terrorism against Palestinian Christians by Israelis.

terrorism? You seriously want to degrade the word to the extent you want to use it for vandalism? And where is the proof it came from Israeli's - Jewish or otherwise?

Many acts far worse than this go on all of the time, committed by or with the tacit approval of the Israeli Government.

Any proof this was done at the behest of or with the approval of the Israeli government? And really, vandalism as terrorism is a fucking joke.

It is the Israeli Government that allows these hyper-racist "settlers" to move into Palestinian territory. It is the Israeli Government that hands out very light or no punishment at all for the "settlers" brutality against the Palestinians. It is the Israeli Government that has been ethnically cleansing the Palestinians for many decades and has set up an Apartheid Government.

The only reparations the Palestinians have received for this many decades of maltreatment are more bulldozers, bombs, bullets and blame.

It's freeing being an atheist.

- including non-atheists. The rest of us can judge you accordingly.

Jesus was a Jew who died a Jew and was a rabbi.

Chill

Insurrection was the big thing that really pissed off the Romans to the extent that they would torture you to death for it by crucifixion.

who told good stories?

Some people should really get a life.

Very tacky thing to do.

Though we do share a common ancestor.

(Primates, really, some common monkey-ape-human ancestor is back there somewhere, but we are being sloppy anyway. We all come from the same biological source, a long, long time ago, and primates are our close cousins in the same way that dogs are cousins to jackals, foxes, and wolves, that's the point.)

To be clear, you are correct.

I can only hope they don't take me down with them.

But he was too busy healin' the sick to put anybody down.

That song will now be stuck in my head all day.

You just paint over it and hope they will grow up. It is a juvenile's idea of how to incite violence. That's why people need to be grown-up about it, paint over it and hold dialogue with all potentially concerned.

Also, provide police surveillance at the monastery door if wished by the monastery.

That's what they do with everything else.

really, it was not stupid. and not particularly bigoted. But then we all have our personal ideas on the sacred and profane.

Gods bless america.

Wow, you are truly easily offended.

You can relate instances where they have declared things miracles and made people pay to be healed by them? Fascinating. I'd love to know more, especially as they do it with "everything else." Dropped your toast on the floor? MIRACLE!!! Took a crap? MIRACLE!!

Hmm.... or maybe you're just a bigot. I eagerly await the results of this study!!

Monkeys have different skeletal structures, especially in the shoulders, and almost always have tails.

Jesus, if he existed at all, was a primate obviously. If you accept the rather banal and rationalized distinction between apes and hominids as that of mostly bipedal locomotion, then he wasn't even an ape, just an anthropoid.

Apes and monkeys though should never be conflated.

You are are of course correct. It will still most likely be forever remembered as the "Scopes Monkey Trial".

Just a pet peeve of mine.

That being said, everyone knows Mohammed was a lemur and Buddha was a bonobo.

the crickets are already warming up.

If it doesn't fit the script, it does not exist.

If someone spray-painted "Mohammed is a monkey" most of you would be condemning it - and rightfully so. This is just as wrong.

The Israeli government cannot stop them without causing a civil war. The nuts have had their own government by the balls since the assassination of Rabin.

People are apes, not monkeys.

Not knowing the difference between apes and monkeys! Honestly, I'm glad you pointed that out - it annoyed me too.

First it was his YouTube vid, and now this.

and he was a good friend of mine.

And he always had some mighty fine wine.

mikey_the_rat

and all its boys and girls.

God damn it all to hell...

Reuters uses 'daubed'.

NBC (OP) refers to 'wire reports' and they credit Reuters at the bottom.

Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and National Post (Canada), using Reuters, use 'daubed'.

CNN uses the verb 'daub' -- Vandals daub anti-Christian graffiti on monastery in Israel

IBT Times UK uses 'daubed' and 'scrawled': 'Jesus is a Monkey' Scrawled by Pro-Settler Extremists on Christian Monastery near Jerusalem

Sky News UK uses 'spray painting'

YNET Isael uses 'spray painted'.

AFP in their own article uses 'scrawled' and 'sprayed'.

The Australian, The National (Aus) and Lebanon News (all using AFP) use 'scrawled'.

I conclude that since 'daub' is less serious than 'spray paint' or 'scrawled', Reuters used it to downplay the seriousness of the crime.

AFP reported it normally.