A Cry for Help With bitter hearts and broken spirits we make known to the
world, the terrible acts that were committed in Jerusalem on March 7, this past
week. The police of the Zionist state made a cruel, horrible pogrom in the Toldos
Aharon Synagogue. In the middle of religious services the police threw tear gas
bombs into the synagogue, and prodded to beat mercilessly the people who were
praying there, including old men and children. Then they desecrated and destroyed
everything they could including many Holy books. This news was brought to us by
eyewitnesses, respected rabbis who were in the middle of the pogrom.
What
Led to This?
Near
the religious neighborhood of Jerusalem is the Ramot Road which leads to the place
where the Mayor of Jerusalem plans to build a huge sports stadium in order to
desecrate the Holy City and transform it from a center of Holiness into a center
for sporting events, frivolity, and immodest behavior.
2) The road was intentionally
built right next to the religious quarter in order to facilitate spiteful desecration
of the Sabbath in front of the eyes of the inhabitants.
3) The religious inhabitants
of Jerusalem stand by this rode every Sabbath and call out "Sabbath, Sabbath"
in fulfillment of their religious duty, as they are commanded in the Bible. And
every Sabbath the police come and beat them, shed their blood, and take them to
jail, for announcing the word of the Creator that it is forbidden to desecrate
the Sabbath, and especially in the Holy City,
4)
Last week the Rabbinical Court of the Orthodox Jewish Community of Jerusalem,
called upon the members of the community to come in large numbers and call out
-Sabbath- by the road.
5)
On the Sabbath, March 6, test week, many people answered the call and stood by
the road peaceful calling out "Sabbath, Sabbath".
6)
As usual the police fell upon them and beat them cruelly with their Abs until
they broke the heads of many of the religious Jews who were there, and sent many
to the hospital and others to jail for doing no more than calling out the words
Sabbath, Sabbath."
7)
One greatly respected Rabbi suffered broken bones.
8) That night (March 7)
at the end of the Sabbath, about four hundred police N1 upon the Toldos Aharon
Synagogue.
9)
They broke the windows and threw tear gas bombs into the synagogue.
10)
This took place in the middle of religious services that were being attended by
about one thousand people, men, children and old men. (Toldos Aharon is one of
the largest synagogues in Jerusalem).
11)
Many man and small children fainted from the gas. The outcries, confusion, and
fainting people many of the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
12) Then the police broke
in the doors, and all four hundred police broke into the synagogue, with heavy
clubs in their hands, and began beating everyone with murderous blows. They had
no mercy on the elderly or the children. They broke open heads and broke people's
bones. Blood flowed like water, and many people passed out from the blows with
broken arms and legs.
13) The police destroyed many Holy books and religious objects. They tried to
break into the Holy Ark where the Torah Scrolls are kept, but it was securely
locked, and they failed.
14)
Who has ever-heard of such acts being done by anyone but the Nazis?
15) These people who call
themselves "Israel" desecrate the Jewish faith more then any other faith
in the world. Even in the Six Day War, they held themselves back from destroying
the houses of worship of other peoples.
16)
In our days we have never heard of such things being done by any nation or people.
– Entering a Holy place, in the middle of religious services, and behaving
with such wondrously cruel violence.- This is just one example of the boundless
Anti-Semitism that is so deeply rooted in the Zionists.
17)
People passing out from gas bombs and beatings. Some are hospitalized, some are
still m comas.
18)
It is not known if four of them, who are in critical condition, will live.
19) They tried to capture
the Grand Rabbi of Toldos Aharon, but he was able to escape.
20) Then they arrested thirty-six
people including several thirteen year old boys, and put them in a ' prison reserved
for the most hardened criminals.
21)
Some of those arrested, the police first dragged down several flights of stairs
(fifty steps) by | their feet fracturing their skulls and breaking limbs, and
then took them off to jail without even first-aid.
22) Later that night, the
police broke into the synagogue again and destroyed everything that remained,
leaving all in total ruins. They then l arrested four more people.
23) They have not allowed
anyone to bring any of the people who were arrested Kosher food. They are given
only forbidden food. All of the people who were arrested, even those with serious
injuries are fasting, because they are not allowed to have any Kosher food.
24)
A boy tried to get some Kosher food in to the prisoners, and they arrested him
too.
25)
One of the prisoners, who is an American citizen, was freed after a great deal
of effort on the part of the American State Department. Even though he had a broken
arm it took two days before the State Department could get the Zionists to allow
him to be taken to a hospital.
26)
The rest are still languishing in jail, suffering from hunger and wounds, without
medical I attention.
27)
They are denied religious objects (Tefillin) that they need for religious observances.
28) The houses surrounding
the synagogue were also filled with tear gas, and there are reports that gas bombs
were thrown into them.
29)
In the synagogue everything is broken; windows, doors, and tables. The curtain
of the Holy Ark is torn m pieces. The Holy books are torn in pieces. Mothers cry
over their sons, languishing in prison, suffering from cruel wounds. Just as in
the days of the Nazis.
30)
Those who did not see this cruelty and destruction with their own eyes cannot
imagine what it was like. The elderly, who experienced the Nazi atrocities, say
this caused them to remember the deeds of the Nazis.31)
Who could imagine that those who call themselves ^Israel" could be guilty
of such cruelty, which has been unheard of except in the days of the Nazis.
32) They also broke into
the private quarters of the Grand Rabbi of Toldos Aharon, destroyed the furniture,
and stole everything they could take of any value.
33)
The day after the Sabbath (March 8) the Rabbinical Court convened a public prayer
gathering at the ruins of the Toldos Aharon Synagogue. Thousands of people gathered
there to pray and to cry.
34)
The entire religious Jewish community of Jerusalem and the Holy Land are aghast
and broken from this latest atrocity and from the past twenty-five years of religious
persecution at the hands of the mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek.
35)
The religious Jews of Jerusalem stretch out their hands for help, they have nobody
to turn to and nobody to cry out to but the Creator. But it is our duty to do
what we can to help them. I 36) The Grand Rabbi of Toldos Aharon remembers all
the religious persecution and atrocities at the hands of the Zionists over the
past forty years, but he cries and says that this Is the worst pogrom the Zionists
have ever made.
37)
We cry out to our fellow Jews and to all decent human beings everywhere. How can
anyone stand idly by, while such atrocities are being perpetrated against defenseless
human beings. Let there by heard a loud and bitter outcry from every decent human
being against these inhuman atrocities.
38)
The Zionist government is doing everything in US power to cover up what they did.
They are filling the newspapers and other media with lies. They are trying to
make it look as if these poor unfortunate people attacked their police.
39) The Mayor of Jerusalem,
Teddy Kolek, stated publicly a few years ago that he wants to burn down the religious
quarters of Jerusalem and break the bones of its inhabitants. And now he publicly
praises the police who performed these atrocities and thanks them for their deeds.
40) This pogrom was not
prompted by sudden anger or a desire to revenge. This is part of an old plan that
they wrote about years ago to destroy the religious community m the Holy Land.
And now, it appears, Teddy Kollek has decided that the time is ripe to carry it
out.
41)
We appeal to all decent people everywhere to do what they can to bring an end
to these atrocities, and free the poor unfortunate victims, who are now languishing
in prison.
