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Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” murder four Jews in synagogue; “Palestinians” celebrate the murders

Nov 18, 2014 8:15 am By Robert Spencer

PalestinianscelebratemurderAgain and again we see it: “Palestinian” jihadis murder innocent Israeli civilians, and the reaction among “Palestinians” is to pass out candy and celebrate. But remember: if you call this savagery, you’re a bigoted, racist Islamophobe.

“British-born rabbi slaughtered in Jerusalem synagogue attack: Four worshippers killed at dawn by fanatics screaming ‘God is great’ armed with knives, axes and guns,” by Ted Thornhill, Paul Alster and Inna Lazareva, Daily Mail, November 18, 2014:

A British-born father was one of the four killed by Palestinian terrorists armed with axes and guns in a Jerusalem synagogue.

Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, described as a ‘pillar of the community’, was born in Liverpool and held a dual British-Israeli passport.

The 68-year-old lived in Golders Green in London before moving to Israel and was a regular visitor to the synagogue.

Friend David Osborne told Jewish News: ‘He was the most wonderful person you could meet, a pillar of the community. I was on my way to the synagogue when I heard screams and shots being fired, I knew instantly it was bad.’

A Foreign Office spokesman told MailOnline: ‘We are aware of the death of a dual British-Israeli national in Israel on 18 November 2014.’

After the attack Palestinians celebrated in the streets, throwing sweets and posing with the weapons used in the massacre.

The assailants, named as cousins Uday and Rassan Abu Jamal, both in their 20s, burst in screaming ‘God is great’ as people had their heads bowed in prayer. A rabbi is among the dead and eight people are injured, including two police officers.

But there were scenes of chilling celebration as the blood was being wiped off the floors of the synagogue and pavements outside, with a joyful woman pictured scattering sweets in Gaza and masked Palestinians holding axes and a gun.

Eye witness Ya’akov Amos said: ‘The terrorist moved to within a metre of me then started shooting. One, two, three, bang, bang, bang. I immediately hit the ground and tried to protect myself with a prayer stand. He kept screaming ‘Allah hu’Akbar’.

Dr Joyce Morel, one of the first medics on the scene, spoke of the gruesome scene he encountered. He said: ‘There was an man sitting outside the synagogue – he was severely injured. He told me he’d been shot and stabbed. We opened up his shirts and he had a huge gash in his back where he was stabbed with an axe which went all the way through his ribs.’

According to Times of Israel Rabbi Moshe Twersky, the head of Torat Moshe yeshiva, was one of the Israelis killed in the attack. He will be buried at Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuchot cemetery at 2pm today.

Twersky was the elder son of Rabbi Isadore Twersky of Boston, and a grandson of Modern Orthodox luminary Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

The three other victims have been named as Arieh Kopinsky, 43, from Har Nof, Abraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, a father of nine and rabbi Calman Levine, also from the neighbourhood.

Pictures posted online revealed the horror of the attack, showing a bloodied meat cleaver at the scene, along with heavily blood-stained floors and bodies covered in shawls.

The two attackers are cousins Uday and Rassan Abu Jamal, close relatives of a Hamas terrorist who was released in 2011 as part of the exchange deal for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, according to Israeli radio.

The attack began just before 7am as between 20 and 30 people gathered for prayers.

The assailants used hand guns, axes and cleavers as they rampaged through the building, sending those inside running for their lives.

Ya’akov Amos, who was inside the synagogue and witnessed the attack, described how he saw one of the gunmen at point-blank range: ‘The first thing I recall of the incident is seeing a man close to me bleeding through his prayer shawl. Moments later the terrorist moved to within a metre of me then started shooting in the other direction. One, two, three, bang, bang, bang. I immediately hit the ground and tried to protect myself with a prayer stand. I was completely in shock. It all happened in a matter of moments. He kept screaming ‘Allah hu’Akbar’.

‘I didn’t see his face, but through the gap in the stand I saw him shooting from almost point blank range. I then stood up and threw the stand in his direction and simply ran for my life. The man was working his way round to me, so I just ran.

‘I ran outside with the shooting continuing in the background and screamed at people ‘they’re shooting us… call the police!’ There were 25 to 30 people praying there. What a shock. It would seem that I know one of the men that was murdered.

‘I need to think how God protects us. I got to my house ([nearby] in hysterics. It’s a terrible feeling, but we won’t give in. We will continue to pray. They’re big heroes killing people from behind.’…

In a statement, Hamas praised the synagogue attack as a ‘heroic act’, saying it was a ‘response to continued Israeli crimes, the killing, desecrating al-Aqsa (mosque),’ a reference to a recent incident at the holy site. It also called for a continuation of ‘vendettas’

Hamas leader Mushir al-Masri said that the slaughter of the worshippers was a ‘natural reaction’ to the death of 32-year-old Palestinian bus driver Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni, who was found hanged in his vehicle on Sunday.

Police said there was no evidence of foul play, blaming his death on suicide, with their findings backed up by a post-mortem.

But colleagues and family said there were signs of violence on his body, claiming he was murdered.

And the Palestinian pathologist who attended the post-mortem also ruled out suicide, suggesting he may have been drugged then strangled, the family’s lawyer said.

Thousands attended his funeral late on Monday, some of them calling for revenge….

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  1. King Dave says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 8:27 am

    Liberals are trying to disarm ordinary Americans, whilst simultaneously pushing to arm the Palestinians.

    • AnneM says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 10:22 am

      Would it surprise you that these same Americans that liberals are trying to disarm have VOTED out in droves those who support the gun grabbers a few weeks back? Americans have had it.

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 8:37 am

    The official ‘cultural Marxist’ of American Leftards makes Pallies an ‘official victim group’.

    Whatever atrocities Pallies commit are thereby justified because they are noble savages with less obligation to behave by civilized rules of conduct. And besides, the Leftards are using them as allies to destroy Western civilization.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 8:50 am

      Correction: ‘official cultural Marxist philosophy’

    • AnneM says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 10:24 am

      Um……….the so-called “victim card” had come back DECLINED.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 8:49 am

    The murder of old men attacked from behind is ‘heroic’?

    Hamas, are you that insane? You should be in psychiatric prisons.

  4. twostellas says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:27 am

    Witness the poor starving Palistinians. Especially the lady in the middle.

    • john spielman says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 10:38 am

      maybe she has been eating her children

  5. Lee Hicks says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:02 am

    This is one more view into the real hearts and motives of the Arab peoples, and especially of those who follow Allah. The only “peace” they pursue is the one that includes either the deaths or subjugation of all non-Muslims (and even those Muslims who are considered not “Muslim enough”), and this is not limited to Palestinians. The very nature of Islam itself is Jihad, and any Muslim rejecting the idea of Jihad is either using deception (Taqiyya) to promote Jihad, or would be considered a hypocrite by genuine Muslims, worthy of death. Israel would be well advised to stop trying to trade land for peace with a religious system that will never pursue peace, and this applies to the rest of the non-Muslim world as well.

  6. Rob Crawford says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 12:08 pm

    You know what should be going through a Muslim’s mind as he chants “allahu Akbar”?

    A 5.56mm hollow-point.

  7. Edison says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    The reaction of these Palestinian Muslim’s just doesn’t convince me that Islam is a “religion of peace” but maybe I’m missing something (sarc)

  8. Nicu says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    brain – and heartless idiots !

    Brainwashed and so full of hatred : even if Israel would not exist they would fight ! It’s all they can .

  9. Dave J says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    Instead of screaming “God is Great” as they murder it should be “God is Hate”.

  10. CB says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Satanislam at work!

  11. Auckland says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Lest we forget, a 7th century pedophile is ultimately responsible.

    • Mirren10 says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 4:47 pm

      ”Lest we forget, a 7th century pedophile is ultimately responsible.”

      That is certainly true, Auckland, insofar as mohammed al-meshuga, (if he actually existed) was responsible for manufacturing this foul creed.

      However, let’s not forget, either, that it is people, who choose to follow, and enact, the tenets of this foul creed.

      There would be no horrors like this, if there were not people prepared to murder others in the name of ”making the whole world for allah”, and in the name of destroying the Jews.

      I think too many of us whitewash this, kick it under the carpet, because we are not prepared to acknowledge, or are reluctant to acknowledge, that *no\ideology/cult/evil religion* can gain traction, unless there are people who are prepared to follow it , and attempt to bring its goals to fruition.

  12. Jay Boo says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Muslims in Dearborn Michigan are more discrete than this though.

  13. CogitoErgoSum says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    It looks like a post by someone who is anti-Jewish.

    • Mirren10 says

      Nov 19, 2014 at 1:22 pm

      I wouldn’t click on anything that witless troll posts. God knows what virus you might pick up.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 21, 2014 at 6:46 am

        That’s what duh-swami, one of the people who has been posting at this forum pretty much since its beginning ten years ago, always tells us.

        *Never* click on links offered by a Muslim or an apologist for Islam.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 21, 2014 at 6:45 am

      “Christy’ is a Mohammedan throwing sand, or trying to.

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    The Bible book of Proverbs 17:5 teaches “He that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.” So this Bible verse may apply to glad reaction by the Muslims at those jihad murders of those people at that Jewish place of worship. Furthermore, the Israel police resisted and the killed those Islamic terrorists Nevertheless those lawless Muslim praised them. To such a thing as this the Bible teaches “They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law content with them.” Proverbs 28:4. [K.J.V]

  15. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    The may be that the Muslims who did celebrate the vicious and malice fill murders that took place in that building of worship might very much, because of their religion, have a wicked, warped, sick and deluded view of things. By” deluded” it means that they might think of that murderous jihad attack as something that is “good.” To such a wicked, warped, sick, and deluded the Bible has the Answer. For Isaiah 5:20. reads “Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil…’ [K.J.V.]

  16. sidney penny says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    ““British-born rabbi slaughtered in Jerusalem synagogue attack: Four worshippers killed at dawn by fanatics screaming ‘God is great’ armed with knives, axes and guns,” by Ted Thornhill, Paul Alster and Inna Lazareva, Daily Mail, “”

    Any chance of saying Muslim fanatics or Islamic fanatics ?

    However the heading does say Palestinian fanatics.

    Yes if we did not see support for these murders, we would see less of it.

    • Dennis says

      Nov 19, 2014 at 7:50 pm

      Western Leaders will reduce this Islamic attack as being just the work of terrorists.
      Outside of Israel nobody will condemn the religion of hate. Weak Wimps and treasonous traitors they are subduing us into captivity.

  17. Dennis says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Thou Shalt Not take the name of the lord thy God in vain.

    You will regret it!

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