Fear Of Deadly Religious War Between Jews & Muslims Raised After Synagogue Attack

[Webster]

Washington Post: Fear of deadly ‘religious war’ between Jews and Muslims raised after synagogue attack

JERUSALEM —Israelis and Palestinians expressed fear Wednesday that their decades-old conflict was moving beyond the traditional nationalist struggle between two peoples fighting for their homelands and spiraling into a raw and far-reaching religious confrontation between Jews and Muslims.

The threat — perhaps more accurately the dread — of an incipient but deadly “religious war” was expressed by Muslim clerics, Christian leaders and Jewish Israelis one day after a pair of Palestinian assailants, wielding meat cleavers and a gun, killed five Israelis, including a prominent American Israeli rabbi, in a Jerusalem synagogue. “All of us are scared that there will be a religious war, that extremists from both sides will start fighting each other,” said Oded Wiener, an Israeli Jew from the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land.

For weeks, Jerusalem has been a center of clashes, protests and deadly attacks that began over one of the city’s major flash points — a contested religious site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Jewish activists have been pressing the Israeli government to insist that Jews be allowed to pray on the raised esplanade, which also harbors the al-Aqsa mosque, the third-most holy site in Islam.

In the first and second Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings, attacks against Israelis were largely propelled by Palestinian political and militant factions and leaders. These days, security officials say most are carried out by so-called lone-wolf terrorists who don’t belong to any organized group. In the past, Palestinian attackers often made clear that they wanted to end the Israeli occupation of what they consider their lands. Today, some relatives of Palestinian assailants suggest that the attacks are motivated only by perceived threats against al-Aqsa.

In a bid for calm Tuesday, Wiener and leaders from across the religious spectrum joined in a prayer meeting Wednesday at the synagogue where Tuesday’s attack took place. Weiner said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pressed for the gathering, which involved figures from each of Israel’s minority sects, including the Druze, Ahmadiyya, Circassian and Christian communities, as well as a leader of the Muslim groups in Israel.

But bitterness was also on display in the city. Sheik Mohammed Kiwan, head of the Union of Imams in Israel, who traveled to Jerusalem from the north of the country, tried to quiet tempers along the street outside the synagogue, whereneighbors and friends of those killed had gathered to pray. Young students of yeshivas — Jewish religious schools — confronted him, accusing him and all Muslims of inciting violence to kill Jews.

“We condemn all acts of violence,” Kiwan told them, remaining calm. “This is a house of worship. It is irrelevant if it was a Muslim or a Jew that was killed here.”

“Did you come to apologize? You are raising savages,” one woman yelled from the balcony of her apartment across the street from the synagogue.

Across Jerusalem in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, which rests in a deep valley at the edge of the Old City, Israeli security forces used sledgehammers and explosives to demolish the apartment belonging to the family of a Palestinian who in October used his vehicle as a battering ram and killed a 3-month-old Israeli in a stroller and a visiting Ecuadoran.

The local imam, Sheik Mussa Odey, predicted that the violence will worsen and said that the seeds of the religious war were sown long ago.

Thoughts?

 

[+paradox]

that's what israel wants, and that's exactly how they made it to be...

the jews want to crush the muslims as much, if not more than the muslims want to crush the jews...

but the difference is that the jews have better military, defenses and allies...

 

[Webster]

that's what israel wants, and that's exactly how they made it to be...

the jews want to crush the muslims as much, if not more than the muslims want to crush the jews...

but the difference is that the jews have better military, defenses and allies...

Ahhh, right...blame Israel for everything.

Why is it that most all the violence and terror is directed towards them?
Why is it that the Israelis' are urged to show restraint yet no one seems to ask the same of the Palestinians?
Why is it that everyone seems to want the Israelis' to go back to the pre-67' lines when, from a historical perspective, they would seem to have (or at least, the Jewish people in specific) a far-longer and stronger claim to that part of the world than the Palestinians do?

I'll repeat what I said over in the ISIS thread: we should get out of the Middle East, build a wall around that part of the world (except around Israel and Egypt, since those two countries seem to get along relatively decently) and just let everyone else have at it....

 

[+paradox]

i'm not blaming israel for everything, just the elites that overtook that state, just like how americans lost america to elites...

you're forgetting that even jews are sick of their own government and the zionists that rule with iron fists...

the zionists jews and the gentiles are two totally different sets of people...

which ones do you believe are the good?

also, war and conflict is not just in that area and not just the jews and the muslims...

it's all humans, the human race are animals, that can't get along and live in peace, been like that for centuries...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

that's what israel wants, and that's exactly how they made it to be...

the jews want to crush the muslims as much, if not more than the muslims want to crush the jews...

but the difference is that the jews have better military, defenses and allies...

Ahhh, right...blame Israel for everything.

Why is it that most all the violence and terror is directed towards them?
Why is it that the Israelis' are urged to show restraint yet no one seems to ask the same of the Palestinians?
Why is it that everyone seems to want the Israelis' to go back to the pre-67' lines when, from a historical perspective, they would seem to have (or at least, the Jewish people in specific) a far-longer and stronger claim to that part of the world than the Palestinians do?

I'll repeat what I said over in the ISIS thread: we should get out of the Middle East, build a wall around that part of the world (except around Israel and Egypt, since those two countries seem to get along relatively decently) and just let everyone else have at it....      

If there is one thing that could possibly unite all the Muslims in that region would be to slaughter every Jew in Israel. They should have kept every inch of land they won in the wars and sent all the refugees to the losers in the war. Leveled everything for miles to create a huge buffer zone kinda like North and South Korea and they would be much safer from the crazies.