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Since June 2011, 10 mosques in Israel and the West Bank have been set on fire by presumed right-wing Jewish extremists. No charges have been filed.By Chaim Levinson | Nov. 13, 2014 | 8:11 PM
Wednesdays torching of a mosque in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir brings to 10 the number of Muslim houses of worship in Israel and the territories that have been targeted in arson attacks in less than three and a half years. No one has been charged in any of these incidents.
In the first of these incidents, in June 2011, a different mosque in the Ramallah-area village was torched. The words Price Tag Alei Ayin were sprayed in Hebrew at the buildings entrance, suggesting that the attack was prompted by the forcible evacuation in the previous week by the Israeli military of an unauthorized outpost of a nearby Jewish settlement.
Some three months later, in October 2011, the mosque in the Galilee Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangariyye was set on fire in another presumed price tag action. The building was heavily damaged and a large number of religious books were destroyed in the fire.
An apparent arson attack at a mosque in the West Bank village of Burkin in December 2011 damaged the buildings entryway. In that incident, the name of the head of the Jewish division of the Shin Bet security service, a department that investigates the activities of Jewish extremists, was painted at the mosque entrance.
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Later that month a mosque on Strauss Street in downtown Jerusalem was set on fire and hate slogans painted on its walls, including A good Arab is a dead Arab and Kahane lives, the latter a reference to the late right-wing extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane. Also that month, a mosque in the Ramallah-area Palestinian village of Burqa, adjacent to the settlement of Migron, was torched.
In June 2012 the mosque in the Palestinian village of Juba, southeast of Ramallah, was set on fire, sustaining moderate damage. The term price tag and the words The was has begun were painted on the walls of the building.
In January 2014 the door of a mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya, in the northern West Bank, was torched. Slogans painted on the walls Arabs out, Hi from Qusra and Revenge for spilled blood in Qusra were a presumed reference to an incident the previous week in which Palestinian villagers had assaulted a group of local settlers.
In April the main door of a mosque in the Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm was set on fire and Arabs out was sprayed on the wall of the building.
And in October a mosque in the West Bank village of Aqraba, south of Nablus, sustained minor damage in a presumed arson attack. Witnesses reported that Jewish settlers came to the mosque after midnight and sprayed slogans on the walls.
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They're just trying to make the Israelis look bad.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Of course you would also have to ignore the IDF's record from groups
like Breaking the Silence in order to believe them.
There are a few here that do just that.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The settlers do everything they can do to goad the Palestinians and the Israeli forces just turn a blind eye.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)The Illegal Israeli settlers have murderd, beaten and destroyed anything Palestinian.
The IDF helps.
The Palestinians suffer.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)How can you expect anyone to take you seriously with such outlandish hyperbole?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Anybody with a google search can find out the surprizes that Israelis have bestowed upon the Palestinians: crops and groves hacked and burnt to the ground, lands stolen, houses and mosques destroyed, their very lives forfeit to fulfill the cause of Israeli colonialism.
Those are facts, ober. Seriously.
King_David
(14,851 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)against theur own verdion if the KuKluxKlan?
I'm surprized that they haven't received the Bibi chikenshit medal of cowardice.