A number of Christian tombs were vandalized this week by Israeli youths in the city of Jerusalem. Hate crimes against Christians has become game for just about everyone these days, or so it seems.
The four young men, aged 17 to 26, were caught in the act. The cemetery where the hate crime took place is on Mount Sion. There, a few tombstones, as the one pictured above, were smashed and vandalized.
Israel too, like many other countries is seeing a spate of 'nationalistic' crime, a euphemism used often to mask right wing extremism.
The hate crimes against Christians is not limited to the dead. A Trappist monastery was set afire in July by Israeli extremists.
A decade of hard line governance in Israel has stoked the fears and fostered the hatred that is being observed against Christian, Muslims and even moderate or liberal Jews in Israel.
Such crimes derive from far right groups that have been a scourge in Israel since the time of the formation of the state of Israel. They have killed scores of their own, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. But increasingly they are turning their hatred against anyone who does not share their extreme point of view.
Most of their attacks usually follow government rules or decisions that they do not like. For example when a settlement is halted or evacuated or any other action which they deem against their own interest.
Source : France 24/ 9.30.13
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