Thursday, September 22, 2005
Why, I think they may not be respecting other people's religion!
YNet: Synagogue to become Hamas museum
The destroyed synagogue in the evacuated Gaza settlement of Netzarim is expected to be converted into a temporary Hamas museum in the next few days.
On Saturday members of Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades , Hamas’ military wing, plan to set up an exhibit of the terror group’s “military industry” in what used to be a synagogue.
The exhibit is set to be on display for three days, and will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The group said in a statement that “all of the tools used by Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades to abolish the Gaza occupation will be on display.”
Hamas promises that visitors will be able to see all of the weapons, “from stones to instruments used in suicide attacks and the ‘tunnel war.’” Missiles and rockets will also be on display, the groups said.
The decision to use the synagogue for the display was not coincidental. Immediately following the IDF’s withdrawal from Gaza senior Hamas members said, “The synagogues are not religious structures, as they were built illegally."...
Maybe it's time to consider retroactively destroying that one. Or perhaps it's better to let the Palestinian Arabs flaunt both their hatred and the PA's impotence simultaneously.
Take lots of pictures.
Also see: NY Sun: Hamas To Convert Synagogue to Weapons Museum
Imagine if the tables were turned and it was a mosque....
Imagine if the tables were turned.
Israel might, for example, take a disused Muslim-era building, say, an old caravanserai, and turn it into a Jewish equivalent of the new Hamas Museum showing how Gaza was "won," - with rockets, automatic weapons, and bombs aimed at civilians. The museum of how Israel was won would show a JNF boxon the windowsill of a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side, where hard-working sweatshop laborers would insert pennies they could ill-afford. It would show halutzim working hard in the fields. It would show youth aliyah camps in Germany in the thirties, where young people expelled from German colleges for being Jewish trained to work the land. It would show Yemenite silversmiths struggling to make a living in Ottoman Jerusalem by producing tourist souveniers with Zionist themes. It would show the organization of the Histadrut, the Hebrew University, Hadassah Hospital and the other institutions that cost such labor to build. It would show the first knesset laboriously working to build a democracy.
It would certainly be a contrast with the Hamas Museum showing hatred, death-dealing, and terror.