Haredi Group Blames “Graves Desecration” For Missile Attacks

A previously unknown group of haredi “extremists” blames the alleged “desecration of graves in Ramle” by archaeologists for the hundreds of missiles fired at Israeli cities and towns by Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza.

Haredi Group Blames “Graves Desecration” For Missile Attacks
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

The Jerusalem Post reports that a previously unknown group of haredi “extremists” blames the alleged “desecration of graves in Ramle” by archaeologists for the hundreds of missiles fired at Israeli cities and towns by Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza.

Committee for Activities for the Rescue of the Graves of the Mishnaic and Talmudic sages of Nesher posted pashkvils (wall posters) in the haredi city of Bnei Brak blaming the attacks on the “desecration” of “Israel’s largest cemetery.”

The posters claim “gedolei yisrael,” senior haredi rabbinic leaders, endorse the group’s message. However, the posters are not signed by any rabbis and none are mentioned by name.

Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim, a former spokesman for Eidah Charedit, the anti-Zionist Mea Shearim-based haredi umbrella organization, discounted the posters.

The gedolim “are not afraid to put their names on proclamations…any poster on which the author is afraid to put his name and on which no names of gedolim are written” should not be taken seriously, and most haredim know that, Pappenheim told the Post.

However, Eidah Charedis and other known “extremist” haredi groups did not condemn the posters or publicly distance themselves from them.

Atra Kadisha, the official haredi organization that seeks to protect “Jewish graves” from “desecration” – but which often ends up rioting over graves of Crusaders or Canaanites – has frequently used violence in bids to stop supposed “desecrations,” including rioting to stop construction of the new bombproof emergency room in Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center hospital.

Atra Kadisha was recently challenged by an upstart haredi group affiliated with some of the gedolim that used to support Atra Kadisha. The split was in part about tactics and in part a reflection of the then ongoing battle for leadership of the haredi community.

The excavations in a Nesher cement company quarry near Ramle began several years ago and are being carried out by archeologists from the University of Haifa.

The university told the Post that a “few dozen burial caves have been revealed” at Nesher’s quarry “so far in what seems to be a Second Temple Period graveyard.”

Archeologists work under the supervision of the Israel Antiquities Authority and follow established protocols.

Despite haredi claims to the contrary, Jewish law allows for graves to be carefully moved if a pressing need arises that justifies it.

Israel is such a small country which has been populated for tens of thousands of years, and graves or grave remnants are found almost everywhere.

Indeed, graves have been moved in the past to allow haredi building projects to go forward.

But when the need to relocate graves is secular rather than religious, haredim almost always fight the relocations and attack the “desecration.”

This is what happened with Ashkelon’s Barzilai hospital hardened emergency room. Haredim protested, rioted and vandalized the site, delaying construction by years.

Ashkelon was under heavy missile fire from Gaza until yesterday’s ceasefire took hold.

[Hat Tip: Burich.]

Comments

[Garnel Ironheart]

Saying "Gedolei Yisrael" is like saying "Baruch HaShem". It's a verbal tic devoid of its original meaning.

[jancsipista]

I thought that its because we dont bentch after eating wow what a surprise,the mindless mutants are babbling again tellingus that they are tottaly out of their minds.

[S]

Haredi Group Blames “Graves Desecration” For Missile Attacks

These people should be identified and brought up on charges. This sort of activity should be stopped and prosecuted to the full extent of the law!

[Alter Kocker]

Lets all blame the missile attacks on dirty black suits, unwashed bodies, smelly black hats, on praying to the spirit of a dead man. All of this makes just as much sense.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I'm getting confused. Is it because of drafting chareidim or desecrating graves. Gedoylim are always correct, but they can't be both right. Who is the real gadol? What's a Jew to do? (sarcasm).

[S M L]

Lets all blame the missile attacks on dirty black suits, unwashed bodies, smelly black hats, on praying to the spirit of a dead man. All of this makes just as much sense.

You're right! It does! It's their smell that does it - it attracts misslies like a pheromone .....

[Bas Melech]

Let us blame the war on seenas cheenam, causeless hatred, of charedim among their own and other shomer torah Jews who think differently.

[seymour]

then hamas deserves a thank you I guess

[jancsibacsi]

I actually blame the rockets on rebbes for shihvas zera levatale, they are wacking of to much killing unborn tzadikim;

[Rebitzman]

If this is true, then why were 3 of the five Israelis killed ultra-Orthodox?

[Eli, what me messiah?]

One if YL's heretical song parodies caused the milk in my fridge to go sour.
It's true. I still have the sour milk to prove it.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Eli, that's not sour milk. It's yogurt.

[David]

I blame the rocket attacks on the Charedim who have helped to weaken Israel militarily (through failure to serve) and economically (through failure to work) and through siding with the enemy.

Whatever they "learn" all day, it is not Torah. If it were they would be prepared to work and fight.

They have turned Torah learning into a farce. I don't even think a lot of the Charedim believe they are truly learning Torah, and in any case, it was never done as a full-time occupation, not even by the sages.

[SkepticalYid]

Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | November 22, 2012 at 02:47 PM
Since you're composing kefirah, it must be kefir.

[Eli, what me messiah?]

Eli, that's not sour milk. It's yogurt.
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | November 22, 2012 at 02:47 PM

Hot dang, you're right!
Divine retribution is yummy.
Thanks, YL!

[Jeff]

I can't keep any of this straight any more.

I suppose if two men had a same-sex marriage ceremony on a desecrated grave with forcibly-conscripted Haredim in attendance - the universe would implode.

[Maskil]

I knew it. I just knew it. I knew it had to be a coverup; I knew the government wasn't telling us everything. It just didn't add up. I'm happy someone had the balls to break the true story behind these malicious attacks.

[Abracadabra]

Divine retribution is yummy.

Eli Messiah, Yochanan, Jeff, Maskil -

You guys provide great laughs!