Episode 22: The Synagogues of Gaza
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The Israelis decided to leave the synagogues standing in the territories they handed over to the Palestinians. Predictably, the Palestinians vandalized, looted and finally destroyed the synagogues. They did the same thing with other religious sites in the past, so where’s the surprise? In fact, the UN passed a resolution condemning such behavior in 2001, when Muslims destroyed buddhist sites in Afghanistan. It would have made sense to deconsecrate the synagogues and demolish them respectfully, but the Israelis decided not to do that. Why? To seek an occasion against the Palestinians, perhaps? For all their pious complaining, the Israelis didn’t always preserve abandoned mosques in Israel, but put them to other uses. I think it was a deliberate provocation--and all the more unnecessary, since the Palestinians give themselves enough of a bad name.The sole surviving synagogue has been buried in sand at Sa-Nur.
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The Israelis decided to leave the synagogues standing in the territories they handed over to the Palestinians. Predictably, the Palestinians vandalized, looted and finally destroyed the synagogues. They did the same thing with other religious sites in the past, so where’s the surprise? In fact, the UN passed a resolution condemning such behavior in 2001, when Muslims destroyed buddhist sites in Afghanistan. It would have made sense to deconsecrate the synagogues and demolish them respectfully, but the Israelis decided not to do that. Why? To seek an occasion against the Palestinians, perhaps? For all their pious complaining, the Israelis didn’t always preserve abandoned mosques in Israel, but put them to other uses. I think it was a deliberate provocation--and all the more unnecessary, since the Palestinians give themselves enough of a bad name.The sole surviving synagogue has been buried in sand at Sa-Nur.
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posted by Len Budney at 4:05 AM
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Do you think that they thought, that since the synagogues would be torn down either way, that they would just try and save money? I'm not saying that this is a good excuse, but who knows why they did it.
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