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Israel: Terrorist Attack on Sea of Galilee Christian Church

The Times of Israel reported on an another “Price Tag” terrorist attack on a Christian Church of the Multiplication in the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus fed 5,000, according to Christian beliefs.  The Times states a “fire broke out at the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, early Thursday in what police suspect was an arson attack.  Firefighting crews successfully doused the blaze and two people who were in the building suffered minor smoke inhalation. In an entrance corridor of the building, which is believed by Christians to be the site of Jesus’s miracle of multiplying two fish and five loaves to feed 5,000 people, Hebrew graffiti was found, reading, ‘the false gods will be eliminated’ — a quote from the Aleinu prayer.”

The church is run by the Catholic Benedictine Order.

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The Times of Israel reports “Right-wing Jewish extremists have in the past carried out numerous arson and graffiti attacks against Christian sites, as as well as against Arab property in the West Bank and Jerusalem under the ‘price tag’ slogan.  The term ‘price tag’ is used by Jewish extremists to describe vandalism or attacks typically carried out against non-Jews or their property, ostensibly as retribution for Palestinian attacks or Israeli government actions deemed contrary to settler interests.”

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The Times of Israel also reported: “Two weeks earlier, ahead of a visit to the country by Pope Francis, suspected Jewish extremists daubed hate graffiti on Vatican-owned offices in Jerusalem.  The Hebrew-language graffiti, reading ‘Death to Arabs and Christians and those who hate Israel,’ was sprayed on the walls of the offices of the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame center, a complex just outside the Old City, the Roman Catholic Church said.”