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Three Americans among four rabbis murdered by Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” at Jerusalem synagogue

Nov 18, 2014 9:29 am By Robert Spencer

Jerusalem synagogueWhat will be the response of the American government? Since the Obama Administration thinks that “Palestinian” jihad attacks are responses to Israeli actions, it will probably step up pressure on the Israelis to make more concessions to the “Palestinians”: stop the construction of “settlements,” give up part or all of Jerusalem, etc. And if the Israelis react strongly to this, the U.S. government will immediately start telling them to stop and to conclude a “truce” with the “Palestinians.”

“Three Americans Among Four Rabbis ‘Slaughtered’ in Jerusalem Synagogue,” by Paul Goldman and Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, November 18, 2014:

TEL AVIV, Israel — Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue, opening fire and using knives and axes to attack Jews praying inside, officials said Tuesday. Four rabbis were killed — including three dual U.S.-Israeli nationals — and six other people wounded.

The attackers were later killed in a shootout with police. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Iraeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld Rosenfeld said: “Everybody was praying peacefully without any disruptions whatsoever and then all of a sudden the terrorists go into a place of worship and peace and turn it into a killing nightmare.”

Israeli police told NBC News that three of the dead were dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed the death of a dual U.K.-Israeli national. Police said the slain included Rabbi Moshe Twersky. He is the son of Boston-born Isadore Twersky, who founded Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies. Rabbi Kelman Levin, Rabbi Avraham Goldberg and Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky were also killed, according to an announcement made by the synagogue.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, the first time he has done so since a recent spike in deadly violence against Israelis. He also called for an end to Israeli “provocations” surrounding a contested holy site. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised it and called for more bloodshed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers.” Netanyahu blamed the violence on incitement by Hamas and Abbas.

Secretary of State John Kerry described the incident as an “act of senseless brutality” and an “atrocity.” He added: “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this. This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”

The rampage took place in the ultra-Orthodox western Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof. Witness Akiva Polock was one of the first to arrive at the scene. “I arrived to the synagogue and saw a wounded man outside, I started to treat him and suddenly shots were fired at me from inside the synagogue,” he told Israel’s Channel 2. “I jumped away while trying to pull away the wounded.”…

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  1. tpellow says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:31 am

    “Muslims Celebrate Murder of Four Rabbis”

    By Daniel Greenfield.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslims-celebrate-murder-of-four-rabbis/

  2. tpellow says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:35 am

    “British Jew killed in synagogue terror attack”

    http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/125666/british-jew-killed-synagogue-terror-attack

  3. Jay Boo says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:41 am

    Islam
    Too much Allah
    Way too little akbar

  4. Jay Boo says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:47 am

    “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, the first time he has done so since a recent spike in deadly violence against Israelis.”
    ——————–

    just a SELF-SERVING Muslim tactic when unable to BS out of it.

    Will Obama call for JUSTICE against his Hamas / Muslim Brotherhood friends?

    • Salah says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 2:55 pm

      “Will Obama call for JUSTICE against his Hamas / Muslim Brotherhood friends?”

      You mean:
      “Will Obama call for JUSTICE against his Hamas / Muslim Brotherhood MASTERS? … don’t you?

      The answer is more than obvious!

  5. Beagle says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:50 am

    Obama will blame some Jews in apartment buildings and push for Israeli concessions, of course. It’s a one play playbook.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:05 am

    Maybe liberal Jews will now stop giving money to NPR to fund their own suicides.

  7. Charli Main says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:10 am

    I hope the Israelis castrate these Muslim vermin and then bury them, covered in pig trotters.

  8. CogitoErgoSum says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Interfaith dialogue? Actions speak louder than words ….. and so do messages written in blood.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Muslims entering a building with meat cleaver and a gun yelling out “Allah u Akbar” and murdering people are engaging in the instruction of Islam “holy book” the Koran. As in 9:11. 47:4. This religion teaches violence and killings because it is part of the essence of Islam. Nevertheless, there are still the apologists for Islam who still call Islam a “peaceful religion.” This they claim in spite of all the facts. That some strange kind of “peaceful religion.” These apologist for Islam need to wake up to the reality of the truth and come out of denial. Which is Islam is a cult of murderous violence.

  10. duh_swami says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 10:53 am

    Islam has no shortage of the pious willing to do this kind of dirty work. Those who cheer would do it themselves if they had the opportunity, and the bravado. Israel needs to be a little more ruthless and take out the bleachers where the cheering section hang out. It won’t be popular but at some point it needs to be done.

  11. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 11:03 am

    SANCTIONS AND FINANCIAL PENALITIES for PALLIES who condone the terrorism.

    The Western governments have to REVOKE the OFFICIAL VICTIM STATUS OF PALLIES.

    It looks like Jews are the victims of the Pally government policy of promoting VIGILANTE MURDERS against any Jew.

    Tabari 7:97 “The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.'”

    Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad’s men because he insulted Islam. In this hadith, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being Jewish. Mohammed was pleased.

    Senseless, genocidal murder is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

  12. voegelinian says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    One of the slain, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, so the article tells us, was “the son of Boston-born Isadore Twersky, who founded Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies.”

    I looked up that Center for signs & symptoms of “inter-faith” quasi-dhimmitude (I would be surprised not to find such signs & symptoms; and (of course) would fall off my chair to find any signs of robust criticism of Islam).

    Featured prominently among the “Fall Upcoming Events” was a screening (Oct. 22) of Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story.

    http://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/events/events.html

    Ms. Khan was a cosmopolitan Muslima (born in Moscow, raised in England, American mother, Sufi Indian father) who during WW2 went to work for England as a spy (and radio operator) in Nazi-occupied France, after a few months captured and executed by the Nazis in 1944. Therefore, one reasonably assumes is the pregnant subtext being anxiously promoted the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, most Muslims are good people who would risk their lives to fight the enemies of the Jews, and the only problem is the tiny minority of extremists among them (and hey, “all religions have their extremists”, right? et fucking cetera).

    (Incidentally, her American mother was a cousin of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science. O, the tangled web PC MC weaves!)

    Meanwhile, one of Ms. Khan’s brothers was Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004), himself a Sufi teacher continuing the tradition of his and his sister’s father, a grand old Sufi master of India. Brother Vilayat was also a cosmopolitan Muslim, holding Sufi seminars in the Berkshires and the French alps among other far-flung places. He seems to have been a tireless purveyor of such New Age nonsense as this:

    “The universe as a being is trying to reveal its software through its hardware, and we’re not listening.”

    http://remembrance.sufipaths.net/?page_id=191

    We also learn that as a young man he was a journalist reporting on the “atrocities” committed by the French in North Africa (against Muslims, of course) but apparently his journalistic integrity didn’t extend to reporting on the infinitely worse atrocities of his fellow Muslims.

  13. Sense says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    This crime was just that, the disgusting murder of 4 civilians. The reaction is just as disgusting, including that of the US State Dept. The Muslims are celebrating this crime, the US is predictably shedding all the usual crocodile tears with the predictable call for restraint.
    3 US Civilians have just been murdered in cold blood, brutally hacked to death by medieval style terrorists. The US president should be expressing outrage. I will let others suggest as to why President B Hussein Obama is NOT expressing outrage about the murder of American Civilians.

    This also reminds me a bit of an incident so 30 or 40 years ago. Marxist terrorists shot down a civilian airliner in Rhodesia, there were survivors but they were promptly HACKED to death, including women and children as they left the wreckage. Of course the world said nothing back then, likewise I don’t expect much real condemnation of this act of primitive brutality in Jerusalem.

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    Things that every one of us (I address here, particularly all Islamosavvy non-Jews) who is enraged by this act, can do.

    1/ Put on a Star of David and wear it today in solidarity with the victims (the Star of David being today at least as much a simple symbol of the Jewish ethnos, as of the religion; therefore it is appropriate for non-Jews). In fact, wearing a Star of David everywhere we go for the next seven days might be a good thing to do. If someone asks why, say: “I am remembering four peaceful rabbis who were murdered by allahu akbaring Muslims who desecrated a synagogue in Jerusalem”.

    2/ Write to the Israeli embassy in our respective countries, and express heartfelt condolences. Email first; then go and buy a good-quality condolence card, and send it in the post.

    When doing so, call the attack exactly what it was: a Muslim jihad terror raid. Do not call the butchers “Palestinians” – refer to them simply as “Muslims”; they chanted the Muslim ritual threat and invocation, ‘allahu akhbar” as they attacked unarmed middle-aged men from behind, by surprise. Express your total and unconditional support for all actions that Israel undertakes in self-defence against genocidal jihadis.

    3/ Copy the letter you sent to the Israelis, to your *own* government, demanding that they NOT engage in any moral equivalencing between the Jewish state of Israel and those who are engaged in a would-be genocidal jihad against it which is a subset of the Muslim jihad against everything not-Islam. Tell them not to believe Mahmoud Abbas when he pretends to be shocked! shocked! – remind them of the barrage of incitement that the Palestinian Authority media have been churning out against Jews and Israel.

    4/ One could also – if outside the UK and USA – write to the British and American ambassadors and express condolences over 1/ the recent Islamic State beheadings of citizens of those two countries and 2/ the recent Muslim jihad butchery, in Jerusalem, of four peaceful Jews who were for a significant part of their lives, peaceful productive citizens of the US and of the UK.

    Take the opportunity to represent these ritual murders for what they are: attacks driven by the Jihad imperative at the core of Islam; atrocities carried out as part of the Muslim campaign to terrorise the whole non-Muslim world and ultimately subject it to the rule of Muslims, and Islam. Use the terms “death cult” and “human sacrifice”. They are strong terms, and may shock; they are intended to shock; they are also strictly true. This *is* what is happening.

    These Jews, like the persons whom Islamic State has been gleefully beheading, also to the tune of “allahu akbar” – were *human sacrifices*.

    Demand that your government cease ALL official “aid” to the “poor ‘Palestinians’ ” henceforward, because despite Mahmoud Abbas’s crocodile tears, the PA has been actively inciting hatred and violence in its officially-controlled Arabic-language media, for *years*.

    4/ If you have a bit of money available: make a donation to the New Israeli Guardsmen (who are setting an example that needs to be carefully considered by, for example, many non-Muslims in *other* Islam-infested non-Muslim nations; I think especially of Ethiopians, Nigerians, Kenyans, Ugandans, but also of French and British and Swedes and Dutch). More about *them*, here.

    http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/03/the-new-guardians-of-israel.php

    The New Guardians of Israel

    http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/05/update-on-the-new-israeli-guar-1.php

    Update on the New Israeli Guardsmen

    http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/05/how-to-support-the-new-israeli.php

    How to support the New Israeli Guardsmen

    What they are doing at the moment – guarding Jewish farms against Muslim thieves and robbers who are busy imitating Mohammed the Bandit:

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187433

    “Arab Extremists Step Up Attacks on Jewish Farmers”

    The HaShomer Hachadash FB page is here [in Hebrew]

    https://www.facebook.com/shomerisrael

    Donations could also be made to Magen David Adom, and to the Jewish charitable body ZAKA, who – as a religious duty, a final act of piety toward the deceased and toward humanity and toward the Holy One, the creator of life – will have been engaging in a very careful cleanup of the synagogue, gently and thoroughly removing every trace of blood and human remains, so that everything can be reverently interred. (I assume that they do this in conjunction with the police and military-intelligence forensics investigators).

    There is, also, the JNF, the Jewish National Fund. Plant trees in Israel. Help the Jews build their sovereign state; this is a great way to spit in the eye of the Jihadis.

  15. dumbledoresarmy says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    To all Jewish persons posting or lurking here, whether you are resident in Israel or in lands outside of Israel: ::hugs::

    And: be assured of my fervent prayers for the swift recovery of those who were wounded in the attack but not killed, and my prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.

    I, and many many others here, understand what you are up against. Even if this enemy – the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, the Allah Gang – were not also attacking us – but of course it *is* – we would be enraged and disgusted by the spectacle of a cowardly ambush and butchery of unarmed innocent people and gross defilement of a house of worship.

    Today I will put on the Star of David and wear it in solidarity with you.

    Which Psalms are appropriate to read or recite on a terrible occasion such as this? Tell me, and I will read them.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 18, 2014 at 9:22 pm

      All excellent suggestions, DDA. One of the important things is letting Israelis know that they *are not alone*, and that we are making our governments aware of that.

  16. gravenimage says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    I can remember when I was a child that there would be widespread outrage in both the government and the general populace if an American were so much as injured abroad—now our own president is whinging about the “suffering” of the bloody perpetrators. Good God…

  17. Paul says

    Nov 21, 2014 at 12:10 am

    These poor people were only murdered because the Jews are trying to get the rights to pray at the temple mount.

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