Tiberias – Two Israelis Charged In Arson Attack On Church Of Loaves And Fishes

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    Yinon Reubeni and Yehuda Assaraf, two of the suspects of vandalizing the church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee last month speaks to their lawyers at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court on July 29, 2015. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90 Tiberias – Two Israeli men, described by authorities as Jewish extremists, were charged on Wednesday with torching part of a church at the site where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

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    The June 18 arson attack followed more than 40 suspected hate crimes committed against churches, mosques and monasteries in Israel and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since 2009, with only a handful of indictments handed down.

    In a statement, Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, identified the two suspects, aged 19 and 20 and wearing Jewish skullcaps in court, as followers of an “extremist ideology” that believes that “only someone who fights Christianity … can call himself a Jew”.

    No pleas were entered during the court hearing in Nazareth.

    The limestone Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, was constructed in the 1980s and is overseen by the Benedictine Order.

    It was built on the site of 4th and 5th century churches that commemorated what Christian faithful revere as Jesus’ miraculous feeding of 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish.

    The fire damaged the church’s roof, and a verse from a Hebrew prayer denouncing the worship of “false gods” was spraypainted in red on a wall.


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    commonsense99
    commonsense99
    8 years ago

    The goyim rule over us, we are not out of golus ………yet.
    These nuts should be fed to the fish

    Rafuel
    Rafuel
    8 years ago

    The church of loaves and fishes? Not bad, I suppose… But if they are taking such a drastic step, torching, couldn’t they find a church of steaks and ribs?