Friday, August 19, 2005

A Synagogue is not a Church

The scenes we observed at the Kfar Darom synagogue, a community that was abandoned in 1938 due to the Arab riots at the time; that was overrun and destroyed in the 1948 war after a heroic stand against the invading Egyptian army and now, in 2005, scheduled to be eradicated were difficult.

One comment made by the officers in command was that "we didn't desecrate the synagogue; you kids decided to select that site, not us".

Well, technically, that's true.

Nevertheless, as the Yesha Council spokesperson pointed out, this same Israel Defense Forces army refused, in 2002, to go into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. And I am talking about the period when several terrorists were holed up inside, crimes far worse than the acts these youngsters did.

Makes you think, no?

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