Tzfas – Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Suggests Shin Bet Behind Wedding Celebrating Duma Murders

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    FILE - Chief Rabbi candidate Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu (R) seen at the elections for the new chief rabbis of Israel,  in Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Tzfas – Controversial national religious leader and municipal chief rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu has said that the wedding in which Jewish extremists were seen glorifying terrorism against Palestinians could have been staged by the Shin Bet. 

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    Eliyahu was referring to the video broadcast last week in which national-religious men are seen dancing at a wedding and glorifying violence against Palestinians, in particular the July murder of three members of the Dawabshe family who were killed in a fire bomb-attack in their village of Duma by suspected Jewish terrorists.

    Eliyahu, one of the most influential figures in the conservative wing of the national religious sector, said that he had never seen such celebrations before and found the scenes shown of the wedding hard to believe. 

    “It’s simply absurd, I’ve been at dozens of weddings and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Eliyahu on the Galei Yisrael radio station. 

    “I do not rule out the possibility that Avishai Raviv concocted this,” the rabbi continued, in reference to the Shin Bet agent who was involved in investigating national-religious extremists during the years leading up to the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. 

    “Such things have already happened,” continued the rabbi. “Reports have been written by jurists about similar incidents which the Shin Bet has created, so why shouldn’t I think this for what’s happened here. Someone has an interest here, someone is enjoying it.”

    Eliyahu also criticized the heavy media attention on the Duma attack saying that it was out of proportion when compared to coverage of Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks, saying that “the murderers are the victims and the victims are the murderers.”

    Eliyahu is himself a deeply controversial figure and has a history of rhetorical attacks against the Arab population in Israel. In 2006, he was indicted for racial incitement, but the charge was conditionally dropped when the rabbi apologized for his comments, retracted them and pledged not to make similar comments in the future.

    A poll conducted for Army Radio and published on Monday showed that 78 percent of the national religious sector feel the Duma murders are being used to attack their community, while 36 percent believed “Arabs” to be behind the attack on the Dawabshe family and 79% believed the media has focused disproportionately on the issue in comparison with Palestinian terrorism.


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    thegreatone
    thegreatone
    8 years ago

    Extreme right wing Zionist,leftist socialist Zionism both goes against the basic foundation of Judaism.

    albroker
    albroker
    8 years ago

    Daas Torah is again right. These Hellenists at the helm of the Shin Bet had Yahadus.

    berylyoseph
    berylyoseph
    8 years ago

    What else is new? The families of the groom and bride don’t know who are the young men who stuck the knife in the picture,

    LebidikYankel
    LebidikYankel
    8 years ago

    Truth is that he does have a point. I would not put it past them.

    Logical_Abe
    Logical_Abe
    8 years ago

    Of course the Shabak is behind the wedding terrorism when they came as undercover agents much before the wedding guest and family. What for and why did they hide behind a hood? Only those who do not have True Ahavas Yisrael would think otherwise and would condemn the boys on groundless accusations that they were somehow involved in the Duma torching which the Shabak concocted for political reasons.

    commonsense99
    commonsense99
    8 years ago

    that’s right and dont you it was mossad who planned 9/11, and there a vast military industrial complex planning new wars. lol, you people are sooooo gullible.

    Texas_Joe
    Texas_Joe
    8 years ago

    Yes! Let’s make a big deal about sticking knives in pictures and nothing much about sticking knives in Jews! Typical press smokescreen to keep world attention off of Arab-nationalist terrorism by blaming and defaming the victims.