Moroccan Jews condemn Israel over Gaza
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:18:13 GMT
Director of the Foundation of Judeo-Moroccan Cultural Heritage Simon Levy
Jewish communities in Morocco have condemned Israel's deadly military campaign
in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the violence.
For more than two weeks the residents of Gaza, sitting targets, are suffering
under the bombs, the widespread destruction, the lack of food and water… The
pictures of Palestinian children torn from life are unbearable, the Council of
Jewish Communities in Morocco (CCIM) said in a Thursday statement sent to AFP.
We, Moroccan Jews, are in solidarity with the innocent victims who are
suffering, in Gaza and elsewhere… No just and viable solution can be found
through force, the council added.
The director of the Foundation of Judeo-Moroccan Cultural Heritage Simon Levy
also said that the unjustified slaughter going on the Palestinian region was
'more than deplorable.'
It's horrible and it is not like that that I see Judaism, he added, urging
international organizations to intervene and resolve the crisis.
The condemnation from a community of over 5000 Jews came just a day after
hundreds of Jewish Americans surrounded the entrance of the Israeli consulate
in Los Angeles to protest Israel's offensive in Gaza.
On Monday, many other Jews communities staged similar protests around the
world calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Jewish groups in Turkey, Britain, Australia, and Canada organized
demonstrations in favor of peace in the Gaza Strip.
Reports indicate that Israeli Jews in Jerusalem (al-Quds) and Tel Aviv have
also staged several protests in the past few days, calling for an end to the
offensive against Gaza.
The Jewish demonstrators, who were demanding an end to 'Israeli apartheid' in
the Palestinian coastal strip, chained themselves to the entrance of the
Consulate and blocked the driveway to the parking area.
In another protest in Manhattan, New York, Rabbi Yisroel Weiss of the orthodox
Neturei Karta movement also attacked Israel for its operation in Gaza.
“We want the world to know that Zionism is stealing the identity of the Torah
and of the Jewish people,” said the well-known Rabbi.
The Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, however, has responded to world-wide
protests against the regime's military onslaught in Gaza by expressing concern
over what she has called 'a wave of anti-Semitism'.
This is while a third week of Israeli attacks come to an end in Gaza with over
6000 Palestinian casualties, including 1100 lost lives.
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