Islamic terrorists with axes slaughter Jewish worshippers at dawn in Jerusalem, deadliest attack in 6 years. Obama says, 'too many Palestinians have died.'

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11/18/14, "'This was a cruel murder of Jews who came to pray': Thousands gather in grief as four rabbis massacred by fanatics in Jerusalem synagogue axe attack are laid to rest," UK Daily Mail Online, Thornhill, Aster, Lazareva, Burleigh

Palestinians with axes celebrate

"Thousands gathered in grief tonight after a British-born father and three American citizens were killed by Palestinian terrorists armed with axes and guns in a Jerusalem synagogue.

They were slaughtered in a dawn attack by two cousins who screamed 'God is great' as they attacked at random."...

[Ed. note: Did the UK Daily Mail mean "Allahu Akbar?" Why didn't they say it?]

(continuing):"This afternoon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to 'respond harshly,' describing the attack as a 'cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.' 

He immediately ordered the demolition of the attackers' homes, as well as homes of Palestinians who carried out several other recent attacks.

Victim Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, described as a 'pillar of the community', was born in Liverpool. The father of six held a dual British-Israeli passport.

The others killed in the attack have been named as Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Arieh Kopinsky, 43, and Rabbi Calman Levine, who were all dual US-Israeli nationals. The two terrorists were shot dead after the attack by police....

In a statement, Hamas praised the synagogue attack as a 'heroic act'....
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Much of the recent violence stems from tensions surrounding the Jerusalem holy site referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount because of the Jewish temples that stood there in biblical times. It is the most sacred place in Judaism.

Muslims refer to it as the Noble Sanctuary, and it is their third holiest site, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia....

The attack, the deadliest in Jerusalem in six years, ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in the city, which is already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site.  

Jerusalem residents have already been fearful of what appeared to be lone wolf attacks using cars or knives against pedestrians. But Tuesday's early morning attack on a synagogue harkens back to the gruesome attacks during the Palestinian uprising of the last decade....

Israeli TV footage showed the synagogue, in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood, surrounded by police and rescue workers following the attack.

Dr Joyce Morel, 56, a physician who lives nearby got an emergency call to run to the scene.

He said: 'I arrived a few minutes after it all started. there was an man sitting outside the synagogue - he was severely injured. He told me he'd been shot and stabbed. We opened up his shirts and he had a huge gash in his back where he was stabbed with an axe which went all the way through his ribs.'...

Witness Sarah Abrams, 38, who lives a five-minute walk from the synagogue, told how one of the attackers stabbed a worshipper as he ran inside.

She said: 'One man was lying on the street, all covered in blood. A neighbour told me afterwards that she saw the terrorist go into the synagogue and on the way he stabbed this man as he approached the synagogue.

'Two people came out with their faces half missing, looking like they'd been attacked with knives.'...

"Hamas leader Mushir al-Masri described the slaughter as a 'heroic act'"...

Top image: "Masked Palestinians hold axes and a gun as they celebrate the massacre of four worshippers," Reuters

Second image: "A worshipper staggers out of the synagogue in shock after the brutal terrorist attack," Wenn.com

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Via Pamela Geller

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Obama says too many Palestinians have died:

11/18/14, "Obama Responds to Jerusalem Synagogue Attack: 'Too Many Palestinians Have Died'," Frances Martel, Breitbart

 
"President Obama has responded to today’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem in which four Israeli Jews attending morning prayers condemning the attack, and stating that “the majority of Palestinians” want peace.

In a statement delivered to the White House press pool, President Obama responded to the attack by declaring that “too many Palestinians have died,” as well as Israelis, in the struggle between the state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas and its affiliates, including the internationally active Muslim Brotherhood.

“At this difficult time,” the President told reports, “I think it’s important for both Palestinians and Israelis to try to work together to lower tensions and reject violence.”"...


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