 | By moshetzarfati2
March 4, 2010 | Share |
It appears that settlers are now apeing Hamas in celebrating their martyrs.
A video obtained by Ynet depicts Jewish residents of east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood during their Purim celebrations singing songs of praise for Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish terrorist who murdered 29 Palestinians 16 years ago at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
One of the leaders of the leftist campaign in the neighborhood, Assaf Sharon, described to Ynet: "The settlers are allowed to hold political activities and aggravating and offensive as could possibly be, and the neighborhood's original residents, who are still a majority there, are not allowed to do a thing. We saw them enter a house, have a party, and play very loud music."
Ynet asked the Jewish residents themselves for a response to the songs of praise for Goldstein, but they preferred not to respond.
Any condemnation from the Israeli government? Board? ZF? Nada.
JLCohen
4 March, 2010 - 09:27
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Sadly, Purim seems to be becoming almost as much of an excuse for drunken anti-social behaviour among some people as the secular New Year is in towns and cities around the world. People do stupid things when they're drunk (which I don't intend to be justification for celebrating Baruch Goldstein - what he did was morally wrong, as is celebrating him) but Jews need to be especially careful, because there's a lot of truth in Ann Frank's statement that "what one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."