Mosque in northern Israel in 'price tag' arson attack

[Gerald]

A mosque in northern Israel has been torched and sprayed with graffiti, in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists.

Hundreds of residents from the village of Tuba-Zangariya marched in protest against the attack, and there were reports of clashes with the police.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he was "outraged" by images from the village.

Police said it appeared to be a "price tag" attack - a reference to a violent campaign by Jewish settlers.

The attack on the mosque happened in the early hours of Monday.

"The whole mosque was burnt - the carpet, the books, the Korans, all burnt," the village imam, Fuad Zangariya, told Israel's Army Radio.

The words "Revenge", "Price Tag" and "Palmer" were reported to have been written in Hebrew on the mosque walls.

The latter was an apparent reference to a car crash on 23 September in which Israeli settler Asher Palmer and his one-year-old son were killed after Palestinians threw stones at their car.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15147840


Note: 3 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT

[mookiemookie]

A tit for tat clash over religion in the Middle East? Why I never...

[soopaman2]

/sarcasm
Hey you all now. Israel is perfect and does nothing wrong, we survive due to the strength of our people (not US money and materiel)

Our hate crimes will be defended by our sugar daddy America. Go ahead, do someting punks! We got a bodyguard!

sarcasm/

[Randomizer]

/sarcasm
Hey you all now. Israel is perfect and does nothing wrong, we survive due to the strength of our people (not US money and materiel)

Our hate crimes will be defended by our sugar daddy America. Go ahead, do someting punks! We got a bodyguard!

sarcasm/
At least Israel allows mosques. Try and find a synagogue in the Arab world. Most were torched long ago.

[MH]

This incident really pissed off everybody here for reason that are sort of hard to explain and probably pointless to explain as well.
The idiots will be doing jail time for sure....


Netanyahu: Galilee mosque arson 'horrifying' and has no place in Israel

Israeli Arab MK Tibo condemns 'Jewish terrorists' suspected to have carried out attack; Kadima MK Schneller calls activists behind so-called price tag attacks 'anarchic groups that are anti-Zionistic'.




Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed fury Monday over the torching of a mosque in an Upper Galilee village the night before and instructed the Shin Bet chief to quickly locate those responsible.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"The prime minister was furious when he saw the pictures, and said that the incident contradicts the values of the State of Israel – such as freedom of religion and freedom of worship," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement. "The pictures are horrifying and have no place in Israel," Netanyahu was quoted as saying.
The mosque arson, in the Israeli Arab village of Tuba-Zangariyee, is suspected to be a 'price tag' attack carried out by Jewish extremists angry over the government's policy with regard to West Bank settlements.
The entire interior of the mosque went up in flames, causing heavy damage, and oly books inside the mosque were burned. Graffiti with the words “price tag” was found on the wall of the mosque. Similar attacks have been carried out in West Bank mosques, but this was the first to occur in an Israeli Arab town.
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni said Monday that the act must be condemned. "Burning mosques contradicts Israel's values as a Jewish state," she said. "Such serious incidents obligate us to conduct a national self-examination."
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am Ta'al) responded furiously to the attack, saying: “whoever did not stop this cancerous growth and burning of mosques in the occupied territories should not be surprised if this cancer spreads to the state of Israel as well.”

Tibi declared that the attack could not be considered part of the "price tag" policy, but should rather be looked at as the work of Jewish terrorists. He called for the perpetrators of the attack to be brought to justice: “We must maintain restrained fury on the one hand and on the other hand rebuild the mosque as quickly as possible.”

Meretz MK Zehava Galon also called for government action: “Steps must be taken against whoever is responsible for setting the mosque on fire," she said. "This is the result of the powerlessness of the enforcement authorities to take rabbis to task.”

Kadima MK Otniel Schneller, a resident of the settlement Ma'ale Michmash, also condemned the perpetrators of the attack: “Price tag activists are like terrorists,” he said, calling on police and security forces to penalize these “anarchic groups that are anti-Zionistic and undermine our right to this land.”

[soopaman2]

At least Israel allows mosques. Try and find a synagogue in the Arab world. Most were torched long ago.

Fair point, but if they want to portray themselves as better than another group then they should act accordingly.

I would rather have a hardline arab hating Israeli as a neighbor than a hardline Zionist hating arab.

You don't have to worry as much when the Jewish fella borrows your lawnmower. At least you know it won't be turned into an improvised explosive device.

[MH]

Fair point, but if they want to portray themselves as better than another group then they should act accordingly.
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What do you mean?

A bunch of idiots burned a mosque in village whose citizens contributed a lot to establishment of state of Israel.
Do you really think is Jewish tradition?

[Fish]

At least Israel allows mosques. Try and find a synagogue in the Arab world. Most were torched long ago.
Tu quoque! :nope:

[soopaman2]

What do you mean?

A bunch of idiots burned a mosque in village whose citizens contributed a lot to establishment of state of Israel.
Do you really think is Jewish tradition?

maybe it's the barbaric godless Yank in me who thinks fighting over an invisible spook in the sky is moronic. I dunno, call me stupid. Both sides are idiots.

[Jimbuna]

Just another day in the region...sadly.