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2007-02-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Lebanese Poet: Jews Slaughtered Christian Priest in Damascus in 1840, Used His Blood for Matzos

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-06 11:23|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Btw, this reminds me of that article by D. Pryce-Jones (now made into a full-size book) :

JEWS, ARABS, AND FRENCH DIPLOMACY: A SPECIAL REPORT
by David Pryce-Jones
Commentary
May 22, 2005

"In 1840, a rumor spread in Damascus that an Italian Capuchin friar and his Arab servant had disappeared. The French consul in the city, Comte Ulysse de Ratti-Menton, immediately accused the Jewish community of ritual murder, and persuaded the Ottoman governor to arrest Jewish notables and hold Jewish children hostage. Some of the notables died under torture; others were forcibly converted to Islam.

The scandal rocked Europe, but Ratti-Menton was unrepentant and the Quai d'Orsay defended him. In the National Assembly, Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers complained that Jews were "besieging all the chancelleries with their petitions." When Arab media today depict ritual murder as a fact of Jewish life, they are retailing, whether they know it or not, lessons learned from French teachers long ago."

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-06 11:30|| 2007-02-06 11:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I can not believe it either.

Posted by Thoth 2007-02-06 14:11|| 2007-02-06 14:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, the bleeding matzo balls would be a good band name.

Posted by Bloody Matzo Ball 2007-02-06 14:15|| 2007-02-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Is't there a TV series in Palistine based on the Protocols of Zion which showed (in the one clip I briefly saw) Jewish elders seeking out a 'young christian boy' so that they could take his blood or something.

This is what these people feed their children on a regular basis.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-02-06 15:41|| 2007-02-06 15:41|| Front Page Top

#5 These stories have been making the rounds for for over a thousand years, the background noise in Jewish/Muslim and Jewish/Christian relations. Thank God the Christian world outgrew it. Crazy Fool, I think you're thinking of the Ramadan special put on by the Egyptian government two years ago, and repeated there and elsewhere last Ramadan. Something like a 24-part series, the title had a horse in it, I think.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-06 15:54|| 2007-02-06 15:54|| Front Page Top

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