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| Israeli chief rabbi: Syria is suffering ‘a small holocaust’ | |
| 2016-10-15 | |
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Thursday said “a small holocaust” was taking place in Syria.
“Every day not far from here, as we sit here, men, women and children are murdered in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo,” Yosef said during the meeting. “Millions of refugees are homeless, hundreds of thousands of others are starved, under siege. They are not our friends, but they are human beings who are suffering a small holocaust.” Yosef said that Jews in particular, who endured the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million people as “the world looked on and remained silent,” must not do so now. “As Jews we must not stay silent. The call must be heard from here: A genocide will not be allowed to go by quietly — not in Syria and not anywhere else, and not against any people.” At the meeting Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders issued a call against religiously inspired violence. Also attending the conclave at the President’s Residence, hailed as the first of its kind, was Sheikh Mahmoud Habbash, the Palestinian Supreme Sharia Court judge and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Islamic affairs adviser. “God created life and commanded life. Therefore, we denounce the killing of innocents or any kind of aggression against the other,” said a joint statement released after the meeting. “We believe the deliberate killing of or attempt to kill innocents is terrorism, whether it is committed by Muslims, Jews or others. In this spirit, we encourage all our people to work for a just peace, mutual respect for human life and for the status quo on the holy sites, and the eradication of religious hatred,” the statement said. The mayor of Aleppo on Thursday also described the intense bombing campaign by the Syrian and Russian militaries as a “holocaust.” He decried the inaction of the international community to stop the killing in the war-torn city. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Don't worry, all the Muslims are finding refuge in America. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-10-15 20:59 |
| #6 I'm a devotee of the Golden Rule, Shipman. And, if Arabs want to kill each other - more power to them. The way I see it, every Syrian killed is one less AK-47 pointed at my son's head. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-15 13:01 |
| #5 Many of those in Syrian Holocaust want to do Israeli, Jew , Christians Holocausts on their own. What happens in Syria is a product of Syria culture. |
| Posted by: Crolunter Wittlesbach4284 2016-10-15 12:25 |
| #4 What of the central thesis G(r)om? I am not baiting you just trying to figure out something out. The weird dichotomy of being a kick-ass Israeli and a Jew simultaneously. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-15 11:52 |
| #3 Yosef said that Jews in particular, who endured the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million people as “the world looked on and remained silent,” must not do so now. That's only if you see Holocaust as something exceptional in human history. That is, if you're an historical illiterate. However, if you are an historical illiterate, IMO, you don't have a right to an opinion. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-15 10:54 |
| #2 OK, don't stay silent, talk all you want. Just realize that there ain't jack $hit you can do about it. All things being equal all the participants hate you and would just as soon inflict on you a large holocaust. Sometimes you just have to sit and watch. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-10-15 10:20 |
| #1 Awesome! Now that's some serious Deep think, I must agree. I really want to hear from G(r)om on this. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-15 07:40 |