World is silent as Palestinian rioters torch Joseph’s Tomb

[SugarDaddy1]

Palestinian rioters on Saturday night vandalized Joseph’s Tomb, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, setting it on fire and smashing the gravestone.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett expressed his “shock” over the incident that occurred near the West Bank city of Nablus.

“During the night Palestinians destroyed Joseph’s Tomb. Dozens of Palestinian rioters in a campaign of destruction simply violated a holy place for us, the Jews,” Bennett said at the start of the cabinet meeting.

“We will not stand by such an assault on a place that is holy to us — on the eve of Passover — and we will get to the rioters,” he said. “And of course we will make sure to reconstruct what they destroyed, as we always do.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...nt-as-palestinian-rioters-torch-josephs-tomb/

 

[KeithD]

It just happened. There hasn't been time to see what the news coverage on it is going to be. "Vandalizing" and "torching" aren't the same things, but, no, it's not a good thing to have happen.

 

[ll74]

Joseph was a step dad...nobody cares about step dads

 

[phrodeau]

Silence? There’s a thread on the Lit PB about it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The reality is that a lot of us don't really care. There was a time when you could argue Israel had the moral high ground but that time is long, long past. Rioting is what happens when you don't fucking listen for too long and I have a hard time pitying people in general on that front.

Somehow I live in a nation founded by what could only be called terrorists cus they weren't rebels at first. That came later. Who entrenched the idea (at least in the eyes of too many) that if government gets shifty its okay to shoot people. This was over taxes. Make it make sense how various oppressed people across the globe aren't doing and for much worse sins?

 

[SugarDaddy1]

Two Jews were shot and wounded enroute to Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday morning.

The Hassidic men entered the city through an unmanned checkpoint. Jewish Israelis are not allowed in the Palestinian territories, and worshipers to the Jewish holy site need an armed escort to pray there.

The site was vandalized a second time on Monday. Footage shows Palestinian vandals hurling blocks at the wall above the destroyed tomb.

The incident comes a day after Palestinians first vandalized and torched the shrine. One hundred Palestinians broke into the site, smashed the gravestone and set the room on fire.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...palestinians-vandalized-site-for-second-time/

 

[ll74]

I've been told fairly recently that Jared made peace in the middle east, so this is fake news

 

[KeithD]

I've been told fairly recently that Jared made peace in the middle east, so this is fake news

I think he has managed to make more pieces of eight for the Kushner family from his Middle East endeavors.

 

[pecksniff]

I hope nobody really believes that is Joseph's tomb.

 

[oggbashan]

I hope nobody really believes that is Joseph's tomb.

Most people don't. The archaeological evidence is that it was made centuries before Joseph. If it is his, it was reused.

But an attack on it is an affront, not necessarily to Jews, but to Christians.

 

[Jerseydave86]

Most people don't. The archaeological evidence is that it was made centuries before Joseph. If it is his, it was reused.

But an attack on it is an affront, not necessarily to Jews, but to Christians.

Joseph, son of Jacob. Not the father of Jesus.

 

[oggbashan]

Joseph, son of Jacob. Not the father of Jesus.

It still isn't authenticated for that either.

But people believe it is. That is why it matters and why it was attacked.

 

[ll74]

It still isn't authenticated for that either.

But people believe it is. That is why it matters and why it was attacked.

I heard that there was a piece of toast auctioned online for thousands of dollars because Jesus was burned into it.

 

[Jerseydave86]

It still isn't authenticated for that either.

But people believe it is. That is why it matters and why it was attacked.

I wasn't intending to suggest anything to the contrary.

 

[rockcasbah]

It still isn't authenticated for that either.

But people believe it is. That is why it matters and why it was attacked.

That sounds about right for the Middle East… and Lit.

 

[oggbashan]

Many Christian, Muslim and other holy places or artefacts are dubious.

What matters is belief.

For examples:

1. St Winifred's Well at Holywell in Wales is supposed to have a miraculous spring that heals people who bathe in the waters. But it dried up before 1914, so they diverted another spring into it. It still produces miracles for those who believe in it. Is it the water, or the belief and the prayers to St Winfred?

2. In Kandy, Sri Lanka, there is The Temple of the Tooth. Its holy relic is one of Buddha's teeth. For Buddhists, a pilgrimage to it is considered like a Muslim's pilgrimage to Mecca. On specific days it is available for pilgrims to see - for about twenty seconds each. But there are many other Temples of the Tooth throughout the Indian sub-continent. If they are all genuine he had over 200. But the Kandy one is considered to be the real thing.

I visited it in 1960 as part of a small coach load of First Class passengers on the way to Australia. The Abbot had been paid in US dollars. For that, we were shown the Tooth, given an explanation by an English-speaking monk and spent half an hour in the room, compared to twenty seconds for a Buddhist pilgrim. We were so impressed we had a whip-round and gave the Abbot another 200 dollars. For that, we were blessed and promised an easy trip to the Buddhist heaven... The power of the almighty dollar...