Al-Qaeda would blow up ‘Christ’s burial site’ says Israeli election favourite Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu, the favourite to win next month’s Israeli general election, yesterday predicted al-Qaeda would blow up the purported burial place of Jesus Christ, if the country relinquished control of Jerusalem.

By Damien McElroy in Jerusalem
Last Updated: 3:43PM GMT 28 Jan 2009

Mr Netanyahu, who claimed to have forecast the destruction of the Twin Towers by Islamic extremists in 1995, said terrorists would target the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Christianity’s holiest site.

“Radical Islam is willing and will want to attack the symbolic heart of the Christian religion,” he said. “This will incur a chain reaction we can’t even envision. We will witness an escalation of religious conflict above and beyond the regional conflict we have now.”

The leader of the Right-wing Likud opposition recalled that he had warned Islamic terrorists would detonate a nuclear device in the Manhattan World Trade Centre complex in a 1995 book, six years before the September 11 attacks.

He claimed that the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre would trigger a clash between religions, much greater than the “regional conflict” that currently wracks the Holy Land.

Israel annexed Jerusalem after the 1967 war and has overseen a massive expansion of the city’s Jewish population.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4373478/Al-Qaeda-would-blow-up-Christs-burial-site-says-Israeli-election-favourite-Netanyahu.html

gee, who do you think asshole is trying to appeal to with this steaming pile?

Funny thing is, it will work on the right group of fools.

when he said Catholics would burn down all the Protestant churches if there were ever a united Ireland.

And the same assholes Tokyo Rush appeals to when he wants a president to fail and destroy this country.

Sadly, bigotry sells.

For Paisley ended up sharing power, and a friendly relationship, with Martin McGuiness the Sinn Fein leader; and Belfast is now a popular destination.

Fifteen years ago, this possibility would have seemed as unlikely as it currently would if you substituted 'Netanyahu' for 'Paisley'; 'Haniyeh' for 'McGuiness'; and 'Gaza' for 'Belfast'. So maybe there's some hope...

Admittedly, Rush doesn't seem about to make peace with anyone!

many library books dating back several centuries. I think Arafat approved the mission during the off season before tourists flooded the city.

Come to think of it, extremists did blow up those Buddha statues in Afghanistan that were many centuries old also so the hate is spread around the world not just the middle east.

would he? After all, if he can propel the East Bumfuck Titans to victory over the North Podunk Chieftains on Friday night, couldn't he take care of this in his spare time?

propaganda. And, the sad thing is, there are enough RW so-called "Christians" that would believe it.

I hope Netanyahu loses his ass.

I'm not sure that there's actually that much difference on the vital issues, between Livni and Netanyahu. And he lays it all right out there.

That, to me, is the most problematic issue facing Israel. Considering Bibi won his first PM campaign on a shared platform of showing "tough love" to Palestinians and rejecting the Oslo Accords, are you sure that Livni is equally dogmatic?

and I'm not sure how to articulate what I'm trying to say. I do thnk that Livni is not that different from Netanyahu and that perhaps grappling directly with the kind of intransience that Netanyahu displays, might not be such a bad thing. And no, I don't think things would be much better for the Palestinians under Livni.

It is a choice between two evils, and you aren't sure which is the lesser- of if there is measurable difference at all between them?

Bibi is prone to rhetorical flourishes, but he from what I read of his statements, he comes right out and doesn't sugar-coat his views. He is a neo-con and damn proud, it seems.

yes, it's that Bibi comes right out with his neo-con crap.

Bibi didn't actually reject Oslo once he was PM though. He contributed to it with the Wye agreement.

Bibi tried to pull a fast one on Clinton and get a jailed Israeli spy out of prison, in return for him signing the Wye accord. Clinton said no and Bibi almost axed it.

Whether this is true or not, I have heard it repeated a few times, but it is moot ultimately. The Wye agreement was never implemented because Bibi was allowed to deflect the peace process. Not too long after the Al-Aqsa intifada broke out and he shelved the agreement completely.

You are correct that he did abide to the basis of the accords, but he didn't exactly jump to make things happen. He signed a multitude of agreements that never came to be (see: Hebron Protocol) that were just gestures, without action. We can argue if he was as hawkish as his campaign promises were, but you are aware that he certainly did campaign on not implementing Oslo. Whether he followed through on that action, or got the country distracted enough let him get away with not abiding by the commitments of his predecessor, is another discussion.

successes in using religious bigotry and fear to garner support from the rightwing ignorant base in the states.

They revere Jesus, they don't think he's the Messiah but they consider him to be a prophet.

of the act.

like they blamed the US when the high holy shia mosque in Karballa was bombed killing hundreds over several bombing;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-08-29-mosque-profile_x.htm

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/03/17/2008-03-17_bomb_kills_39_in_iraqi_city_of_karbala_a.htmls

http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/places/karbala.htm


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4583232.stm

Livni said that she would evict illegal settlers from the West Bank in that 60 minutes interview, and if it had to be enforced at gunpoint it would be, in a clear pandering attempt to the far left. In that same span, Bibi has said he would not limit the 'natural growth' of settlements, repeated several hawkish statements about Iran trying to incite everything from a new Holocaust to World War III, and in general ridiculed the current Israeli government as "weak" "soft" on the Palestinians.

But, as another poster stated, filth sells- especially in a culture that is used to having a lot to be fearful of.

Maybe then we could just forget all this xtian nonsense.

Sigh. Probably not.

He's just crazy enough to bring some real change to the world. Sometimes great acts comes from unlikely (thoroughly insane) sources.

Bibi grew up in the US, and picked up the worst aspects of our society, including rightwing hyperbole and mendacity.

sigh.