Anti-Zionist Orthodox
Jews to Protest Outside the Offices of
Friends Of the Israel Antiquities Authority
51 W 52 Street, NYC
June 17, 2010, 5-7 PM
In recent months we have seen a dramatic increase in the
desecration of graves throughout the Holy Land - the latest
stage in the Zionist regime's long-term plan to uproot Torah
tradition.
On March 9, 2010 in Zippori, hometown of the redactor of
the Mishnah, archaeologists destroyed a burial cave from
the Mishnaic period. On May 16 in Ashkelon, the American
Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority donated $2.5
million for the destruction of a cemetery from the Talmudic
period. On June 6 in Nazareth, three burial caves dating
from the Biblical period were destroyed. And most recently,
on June 13 in Jaffa, three layers of burial caves were removed
from an historic cemetery approximately two thousand years
old.
In all of the above instances, alternative ways were proposed
to accomplish the desired construction, yet the desecration
of the cemeteries went ahead.
At each site, Orthodox Jews, led by their rabbis, gathered
for peaceful prayer vigils. As usual, the Zionist police
did not allow this free expression; they shot tear gas canisters
at the elderly rabbis, used electric tasers and other heavy
riot-control equipment against religious Jews who wielded
nothing more than prayer books.
"These digs are acts of insensitivity to tradition
and history that no government would permit," said Rabbi
Dovid Feldman. "In fact, these graves were guarded for
centuries by the local Palestinians, under the Ottoman Turkish
Empire. It is only the Israeli government, which calls itself
Jewish, that has the audacity to destroy these historic holy
sites. We are certain that our religion would be respected
much more under an Arab government than under the current
Israeli regime.
"According to the Torah, Jews are in exile and are
forbidden to have a state of their own. Therefore, Orthodox
Jews who believe in the Torah never took part in the Zionist
movement. This is the reason for the bitter irony that the
state calling itself Jewish is run by people who deny all
of Judaism's basic principles.
"Their cruel persecution of the rabbis shows that their
state has nothing to do with Judaism, nor was it established
for the benefit of Jews. It is not a state for Jews as opposed
to Arabs; it is a state for Zionists as opposed to anti-Zionists." |
