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Workers clean graffiti from the compound of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial on Monday.
JERUSALEM - Vandals spray-painted anti-Zionist slogans at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and police said on Monday they suspect radical ultra-Orthodox Jews opposed to Israel's existence were responsible.
"Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust," one slogan read.
Police told The Jerusalem Post that one of the slogans read scrawled on the wall read: "Haredi World Community". Haredi are ultra-Orthodox extremists, some of whom regard modern-day Israel as an abomination, believing the establishment of the Jewish state must await the coming of the Messiah.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said investigators were working on the assumption the vandals were "members of the extreme ultra-religious community."
Some of the graffiti, all written in Hebrew and daubed overnight on exterior walls, accused Israel's founders of secretly encouraging the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II to hasten the creation, in 1948, of the Jewish state.
"The Zionists wanted the Holocaust," one slogan said.
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According to The Jerusalem Post, other slogans read: "Thanks Hitler for the wonderful Holocaust you organized for us! Only because of you we received a state," "Jews, wake up, the evil regime does not protect us, it only endangers us" and "The war of the Zionist regime is not the war of the Jewish people."
'Burning hatred'
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, said he was "shocked and dazed by this callous expression of burning hatred against the Zionists and Zionism."
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Yad Vashem, a museum and memorial, was established on a Jerusalem hilltop in 1953 and is often visited by foreign leaders who place wreaths in its stark Hall of Remembrance.
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I commend the Jewish authorities for keeping a level head and not creating antagonism by blaming this on Arabs. Have to admit, it was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the headline.
im sick off this anti racism leave us alone and get on with life!!
There is an old saying, "for every 2 Jews, there needs to be 3 temples - one for the two of them, and a temple for each." Jews are notorious for eating their own...
So that's where my sister went....
And in all seriousness....
WHAT?
Any vandal is a selfish scumbag... plain and simple.
Remember, half of the world is related to Cain. Just be 'Abel' to understand that.
Too funny!
Leaders Herzl 006
Holocaust was used to dupe Jews to establish a "national homeland." in Palestine. In 1897 the Rothschilds found the Zionist Congress and arranged its first meeting in Munich. This was rearranged for Basle, Switzerland and took place on 29 August. The meeting was chaired by Theodor Herzl, who latter stated in his diaries:
"It is essential that the sufferings of Jews... become worse... this will assist in realization of our plans...
I have an excellent idea... I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth...
The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends."
The guy also had a plan where he would lead all the Jews to convert to Christianity, thus solving the world's hatred towards them, and leaving him the only Jew on the planet.
Despite the admiration Israel has for him, the guy was a kook.
leave the memorial alone-its for the people who lost family memebers of the holocust and what they went through
plus the family members who have survived hitlers toture
how dare they violate that
"If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created."
-- Theodor Herzl, the father and the leader of modern Zionism
If people would actually study the fathers of Zionism , maybe they would understand the problem with the establishment of ISRAEL !!!
"The Jewish Question still exists. It would be useless to deny it ... The Jewish Question exists wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers.
Where it does not exist, it is carried by Jews in the course of their migrations. We naturally move to those places where we are not persecuted, and there our presence produces persecution.
... The unfortunate Jews are now carrying anti-Semitism into England; they have already introduced it into America."
-- Theodore Herzl, "A Jewish State," p. 4.
"We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
-- Theodore Herzl The founder of Zionism, (from Rafael Patai, Ed. The Complete Diaries of Theodore Herzl, Vol I)
You Tea Party people better listen to Skinhead Sam80!
You mean there are Jews out there that hate other Jews! Man, this world is really screwed up!
A careful reading of the New Testament and the Old Testament shows that Joshua-bar-Josep (otherwise known as Jesus son of Joseph was and is the promised Messiah. All of his life and his birth and death were foretold. There is no way anyone could arrange to fulfill over three hundred prophecies. Hitler himself was 25 % per cent jewish, which might have accounted for his vitriolic hate he spewed at the jews. His father was the illegitimate son of an austrian servant and her jewish employer. His mother was an austrian. That union made Hitler one quarter jewish. Of all the attempts to kill Hitler, none succeeded and it was a "good" thing none of them did. He lost the war for germany with his hare brained orders. Had the german military been allowed to conduct the war, germany might have easily won the war.
Have nothing against the Jewish people whatsoever, other than they are not "Gods Chosen". Other than myself--nobody is God's chosen.
Father God hear my prayer. May the people who wrote these things with their hands feel the sting they have caused in the hearts of others in those same hands. May the people who wrote these things taste the bitterness of their words upon the tongues and in their stomachs to equal a week for every letter written. May the people who felt no pity or understanding or remorse for these actions find none when they are caught. And see to it they are caught father God. Let them not hide behind the cowardess. Thank you Father. Amen and Amen.
"Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust," one slogan read. Apparently these idiots dont understand that ww2 and the holocaust was primary catalyst for creating israel, and that if the war and holocaust had never occurred odds would be high that israel would have never been built.
The thank you was meant as sarcasm. It's supposed to be "something Zionists say".
Just more proof that religion does nothing more than polarize society.
Is it in our human nature to hate each other, because of our religion, race, or maybe our appearance might be a little different. It is a sad day when someone can thank Hitler for slaughtering the jews in bunchs, I do not agree with vandalizing a memorial to make a statement, disrespecting all the victims of this brutal time in our history, there has also been many many things in our history that was just as brutal or close to it. There are preety intelligent people in our world, there is also some preety stupid people here to. It only takes a couple of rablerousers to shake these angry people to arms against each other. A call for calm, and forgiveness for each other is in order.
Any religion taken to extremes is bad, everything in life needs a balance. These ultra orthodox Jews probably never allow any outside influence in their lives so of course they have outrageous beliefs because they are never challenged.
America drops bombs on Muslim countries and Money on Israel .
Well thats weird .
Israel is a free, Democratic society. Moslem countries are brutally-repressive, backward dictatorships. If you think that it's 'weird' that America would ally themselves with a free Democratic country while opposing brutally repressive dictatorships, then I suggest the only 'weirdness' involved here is in your own prejudiced thought (and I use that word loosely here) processes.
Israel is NOT a democracy . Theocracy rules at best , but not a democracy .
Israel has elected government, separate from chirch, citizens of all religions have equal rights, including the right to vote and the right to run for office,the government is never permanent and always gets reelected.
That is called democracy.
Just a note to all of you out there who think this is some sort of set up and the Haredi didn't do it:
First of all, this graffiti is actually just one in a line of vandalism attacks over the last couple of months. The previous ones were mostly aimed at defacing archaeological sites in protest against "disturbing the dead".
Secondly... the spelling. Haredi don't really use Hebrew too much. They're mostly a Yiddish based society, since they believe Hebrew is too sacred for day to day use. So, the crappy spelling of the graffiti, though circumstantial, is still a big tell.
Third and finally... representatives of various Haredi factions regularly attend Iran's holocaust denial conferences in an effort to protest "the Zionist usage of the holocaust as an excuse for forming Israel". So, really, if they're not bothered going to Israel's enemies and supporting their anti-holocaust rhetoric, why would the memorial be a problem for them?
And really, no one would bother "framing" them. These guys already do a wonderful job of blackening their own reputation on a semi-regular basis. So, really... why bother?
They did this. Trust me.
I'd bet anything that it was done by members of "The Religion of Peace." After all, they were Hitler's willing pawns during WWII, don't forget...
This is sad. What's worse is that fighting over your view of religion is like fighting over snow in Alaska.
The jews are the new nazis what else is new?They enjoy few things more than flexing their muscles with their jackboots on.They would like nothing more than the complete extermination of their enemies real or percieved just like someone before them.Actually jews killing jews is nothing new at all.Maybe if they would just kill themselves they would finally be happy.
Actually, the Christians are the new Nazis.
Lbig bald
Losing hair on this issue or bing eeating is not good
Correction: the original nazis were christian, namely Lutheran.
Now, it's good muslims who try to pick up where nazis left off, but jews are no longer easy pickings, so some of their supporters get so frustrated they have to run aroung calling jews "nazis" just in hope to hurt them at least a little bit, but all they accomplish is show how pathetic the anti-semites of the world have become.
Wouldn't it be great if religious nuts would leave the sane alone?