You may now resume standing on both feet.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/10/04/west.bank.mosque.arson/index.html?hpt=T2
Vandals torch West Bank mosque
From Kevin Flower, CNN
October 4, 2010 -- Updated 1719 GMT (0119 HKT)
“Palestinian witnesses said four people tried to set fire to the mosque, burning carpets and 12 Qurans around 3:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. ET Sunday).
The arsonists sprayed "revenge" and "price tag" on the walls, Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said”
Cassi Creek:
When people from two cultures meet, the first things shared are the best and the worst of human existence. Copulation and combat, love and hate, universal constants that are seemingly shared by all humanity in some form.
As populations become more familiar with each other they begin to share other things. They share cuisine, forms of government, languages, monetary systems, methods of manufacturing clothing, and tools. They share technology, exchanging knapped flint for cowrie shells, bronze or iron weaponry for livestock, and building techniques – cathedrals for silver and gold.
Not all exchanges are desirable, not all information comes in a timely manner. One nation will learn about new military tactics and weaponry by being defeated by a more up-to-date nation. Knights in plate armor will learn about laws of ballistics and energy transfer when they encounter crossbows and gunpowder. Desert cultures learn from unhappy experience how rapidly shellfish spoil in hot weather.
And invariably one culture will learn the worst things it can from another. It may learn and adopt a culture based upon being imprisoned. It may adopt the practice of playing music at painful and obnoxious volumes as a means of displaying that it recognizes no need to follow conventions of good manners and courtesy considered suitable behavior by the majority.
Worst of all, cultures learn and adopt hatred.
Vandalism of places of worship is some of the most hateful acts that one culture can commit against another. The vandalism that took place in the West Bank is not justifiable by any tenet of Judaism. It is not justifiable by anything found in the Quran or in the Christian Bible. Yet in an area supposedly revered by all three faiths, the ugly nature of religious fundamentalism appears again.
The most problematic settlements are those built by fundamentalist Jews from the U.S. who are intent upon recreating “biblical Israel.” These fundamentalists expect the Israeli government to support and protect them but in many instances fail to recognize the nation of Israel. To gain some insight into the idiocy that is involved, please read the article linked below.
The right wing theocrats described below are made of the same hateful nature as the Westboro Baptist Church, the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the unlettered, un -schooled opponents of Park 51, Christian Identity militia/churches, and the KKK. Only the label on the book differs.
Israel must deal with these hate mongers and it will be bloody and horrifying. Like any of the groups mentioned above, the theocratic settlers will stage a series of last stands and will force the IDF to harm fellow countrymen in the process. There will be no victory for Israel, only hatred between Jews and the reversal of a process that was begun to provide border security but that failed when the religious fundamentalists subverted the process for their own purposes.
There will be a lot of housing units left behind. I only hope that the West Bank Arabs will demonstrate more intelligence than did the Arabs of Gaza. It is already apparent that this group of settlers has and will not.
“Over the last year and a half, radical settlers seem to have upped the ante. They have defaced Muslim tombstones, set fire to Palestinian olive groves, assaulted Palestinians, slashed tires of IDF vehicles and thrown acid at Israeli soldiers.
It’s all part of a strategy the radicals call “price tag,” which aims to greet every move by the government against illegal settlements with mayhem and violence. Radical youth, encouraged by a small number of veteran settler leaders, are at the forefront of this effort.”
There have been other acts of arson committed by Jewish settlers. There will be more. With every such act of blind hatred and vandalism these settlers move farther and farther from the reasons Israel exists today.
There is a practice of handing down the Torah, customs, traditions, and many good things from generation to generation, L’dor v’Dor in Hebrew. Unfortunately, for some, intolerance is now included in the things handed down.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/24/1005829/behind-the-headlines-radical-jewish-settlers
Some Jewish settlers turning against Israel
By Dina Kraft • June 24, 2009
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