Swastikas left at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

[King_David]

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
10/07/2011 04:40


Soldiers discovered the swastikas when they went to tomb to prepare for the arrival of worshipers to the tomb in advance of Yom Kippur.

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Vandals painted two swastikas on Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, the IDF reported on Thursday.

Soldiers discovered the swastikas when they went to the tomb on Wednesday night to prepare for the arrival of worshipers to the tomb in advance of Yom Kippur.

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Although the Palestinian Authority controls Nablus, permission has been granted for Jews to visit the tomb once a month, late at night under IDF escort. Around 1,300 worshipers visited the tomb before dawn on Thursday.

The IDF painted over the graffiti before the pilgrims arrived, but the vandalism was still evident and settlers publicized the incident, which comes after an arson attack on a mosque in the Beduin village of Tuba Zanghariya in the Upper Galilee.

In response to the vandalism at Joseph’s Tomb, right-wing politicians, settler leaders and activists called on the government to take back sovereignty in Nablus, which is located on the site of the biblical city of Shechem.

The incident did not illicit the same outrage as the Tuba Zanghariya incident, they noted.

The National Union said the swastika vandalism was an “embarrassment” to the country.

Dani Dayan, who heads the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, said that the vandalism had occurred almost on the same date, 11 years ago, that Israel had withdrawn from the tomb after six Palestinians and one Israeli, the Border Police’s Cpl. Madhat Yusuf, 19, from Beit Jann, were killed in clashes there.

“The Palestinian police can not be relied on.

Only under Israeli rule can the place be kept intact and the freedom to worship be observed,” Dayan said.

The left-wing group Gush Shalom also condemned the vandalism.


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[King_David]

1. Geez nt

[sabbat hunter]

2. stupidity on the part of nutbags

first the burning of a mosque and now this.

When will the stupid end?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. An awful lot of people have died in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Arguably, vandalising one another's sacred places is a step in the right direction from killing people (although, obviously, it's likely to lead to more killings).

[King_David]

4. The Swastika is a favorite of the extreme right Jew haters nt