Synagogues Burning

Eileen F. Toplansky
American Thinker
27 August '10
Posted before Shabbat

On November 9, 1938, nearly 200 synagogues were set afire throughout Germany under the direction of Josef Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister. Known as the "Night of Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht, it was a time of horror as thousand-year old Jewish houses of worship were destroyed and vicious planned acts of violence against Jews ensued.

I was reminded of this period of horror when five years ago this week, the synagogue of the former Jewish community of Netzarim in Gaza was burned by Palestinians after Israel handed over the Gaza Strip in hopes that the Palestinians would form a peaceful country of their own.

Repeatedly, the Israelis have tried to negotiate peace with the Palestinians and all to no avail. And again there is talk of a two-state solution. It cannot work.

Between the winter and spring of 1982, the settlements in the Sinai Peninsula were evacuated as part of the peace treaty with Egypt. Eighteen settlements consisting of about 6,000 inhabitants were evacuated during those months. The climax was the evacuation of Yamit in April 1982, just prior to transferring the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt as part of the agreement. Before that, three settlements were evacuated: the cooperative settlements [moshavim] of Di Zahav and Neviyot on the Red Sea coast, and the city of Ophira in the south of the peninsula. Hopefully, Israelis thought, this would help lessen tensions. It was not to be.

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