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Title: Jewish extremists attack Catholic monastery in Israel
Source: EWTN
URL Source: http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/World.php?id=8305
Published: Aug 27, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-08-27 11:16:17 by Artisan
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Jewish extremists attack Catholic monastery in Israel

Beit Shemesh, Israel, Aug 22, 2013 / 01:09 am (EWTN News)

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A monastery caught fire in Israel, after Jewish extremists threw a bomb at it and sprayed graffiti on its walls, police revealed today.

“A Molotov cocktail was thrown against the wall of the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh,” Israeli police said in an Aug. 21 statement.

The attack took place between the night of Aug. 19 and the morning of Aug. 20. Police said they are investigating “all leads, including nationalist motives.”

The authorities revealed that graffiti in Hebrew was sprayed on the walls reading ‘death to the gentiles’ and ‘revenge.’

The monastery is home to the Sisters of Bethlehem and is located outside the city of Beit Shemesh, about 20 miles west of Jerusalem.

The sisters were not aware of the attack until visitors arrived and noticed the damage a few hours later.

Footage from security cameras shows a fire burning for several minutes before finally dying out.

The main suspects of attacks against Christian sites in Israel in recent years have been Jewish extremist circles.

The ‘price tag policy’ is used by Israeli right-wing extremists and radical settlers, who seek “revenge” against random Palestinians, Christians, and Israeli security forces through property damage, arson and graffiti.

The extremists make the attacks against Israeli security forces in retaliation for government decisions they consider to go against their interests.

According to an article published Aug. 21 by Jewish media “Haaretz,” the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, condemned the incident upon his arrival at the monastery today.

Dov Lipman, a member of the Israeli parliament, a rabbi, and a resident of Beit Shemesh, visited Beit Jamal Monastery to express dismay at the attack and present flowers to the sisters, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“This act runs counter to the Jewish way,” he said. “It is critical that we live in peace and respect with those who hold different beliefs. I hope the police will catch the perpetrators very soon and that justice will be served.”

The same monastery was attacked by Jewish terrorist Jack Teitel in 2007. Teitel set off a bomb which injured a tractor operator who worked for the Sisters of Bethlehem.

According to Haaretz, over 20 Christian and Muslim places of worship in Israel have been attacked since 2010.

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#2. To: Artisan (#0)

“This act runs counter to the Jewish way,” he said.

Translation: At this time, not good for the Jews.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2013-08-27   12:50:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#3. To: Prefrontal Vortex, jethro tull, esso, x-15 (#2)

Here is an article I found from last year Sept. 2012 about the same thing. I missed this completely at the time, somehow. I guess sites like drudge, glenn beck, world net daily and infowars skipped this one entirely?

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/09/vatican-official-blasts- extremists-in-israel-after-monastery-attack.html

Vatican Official Blasts Extremists in Israel After Monastery Attack

Sep 9, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

Increased hostility from Jewish extremists—even children—has a top Catholic emissary accusing the Netanyahu government of fostering a climate of intolerance toward Christians.

By Adrian Blomfield

The Israeli government’s failure to respond adequately to Jewish extremists’ attacks against churches and monasteries is fostering a climate of intolerance toward Christianity in the country, a senior Vatican official in Jerusalem has warned.

Police inaction and an educational culture that encourages Jewish children to treat Christians with “contempt” has made life increasingly “intolerable” for many, said Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Custodian of the Holy Land.

The Rev. Pizzaballa’s intervention, unusually outspoken for a senior Catholic churchman, came after pro-settler extremists attacked a Trappist monastery in the town of Latroun.

The door of the monastery was set fire to and its walls were covered with graffiti that denounced Jesus Christ as a “monkey.”

The incident is the latest in a series of acts of arson and vandalism this year targeting places of worship, including Jerusalem’s 11th-century Monastery of the Cross, built on the site where the tree used to make Christ’s cross is believed to have been planted.

Slogans reading “Death to Christians” and other offensive graffiti were daubed on its walls.

Rev. Pizzaballa, the head of the Franciscan Order in the Holy Land, and fellow senior clergymen of other denominations have protested the failure of the police to identify the culprits behind any of the incidents.

But the most important issue they say Israel has failed to address is the practice of some ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools that teach children it is a doctrinal obligation to abuse anyone in Holy Orders they encounter in public.

Mideast Israel Monastery Vandalized

A catholic priest looks at anti-Christian graffiti written in Hebrew at the Latrun Trappist Monastery where Israeli police say vandals overnight have spray- painted anti-Christian and pro-settler graffiti and set the monastery's door on fire, in Latrun, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept 4, 2012. (Oded Balilty / AP Photo)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, including children as young as 8, spit at members of the clergy on a daily basis, Rev. Pizzaballa said.

Such a culture of intolerance has resulted in a “scapegoating” of Christians, leading to them becoming the convenient target of extremists fighting political battles that have nothing to do with the community.

“Sadly, what happened in Latroun is only another in a long series of attacks against Christians and their places of worship,” Christian leaders, including Rev. Pizzaballa, said in a statement this week.

“Those who sprayed their hateful slogans expressed their anger at the dismantlement of the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But why do they vent this anger against Christians and Christian places of worship?

What kind of ‘teaching of contempt’ for Christians is being communicated in their schools and in their homes? The time has come for the authorities to act to put an end to this senseless violence and to ensure a ‘teaching of respect’ in schools for all those who call this land home.”

Earlier this year, an Israeli legislator publicly ripped up a copy of the New Testament in the Knesset and threw it into a garbage bin after denouncing it as an “abhorrent” book.

After years of silence by the church, Rev. Pizzaballa, who is charged by the Vatican with responsibility for all Christian sites in the Holy Land, has taken the lead in demanding protection for the faith. Earlier this year he wrote to Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, urging him to take action.

Although the Israeli government has strongly condemned attacks on Christians, Rev. Pizzaballa criticized the authorities for not taking the plight of the community seriously enough.

In an unusually outspoken interview with Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, he denounced the failure of the political system to address blatantly anti- Christian acts, particularly those carried out by prominent radical politicians.

Earlier this year, Michael Ben Ari, an Israeli legislator, publicly ripped up a copy of the New Testament in the country’s parliament, the Knesset, and threw it into a garbage bin after denouncing it as an “abhorrent” book.

A second legislator called for Bibles to be burnt.

Although Ben Ari was criticized by the Knesset’s speaker, he faced no official sanction despite protests from the church.

“Such a serious thing occurs and no one does anything,” Rev. Pizzaballa said. “In practice, it negates our existence here.”

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