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Tue Feb 28, 2023, 12:45 PM Feb 2023

Thousands of Israelis donate to Palestinian victims of settler riots

In less than 24 hours, Israelis gave more than $272,750 to help Palestinians whose homes and businesses were destroyed by dozens of rioting settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday.

A 37-year-old Palestinian man was killed, 300 were wounded - four of them seriously - and dozens of buildings and vehicles were set on fire in the mass riot that followed the killing of two Israeli brothers in a terror shooting in the same town.

Labor party member Yaya Fink started an online crowd-funding campaign the morning following the attack. Fink set a $27,275 initial goal for the project. But, by around 6 a.m. on Tuesday, some 7,283 people had contributed $291,015. Fink told The Times of Israel in a Monday interview: “It’s only a small deed, but as the Jewish proverb goes, ‘A little bit of light can dispel a lot of darkness.’”

“As a religious Jew myself… I felt that I could not be silent under such circumstances,” Fink said. “They’re creating a warped new Judaism and bearing the name of the true one in vain. I came to the conclusion that I needed to raise a different Jewish, Zionist, Israeli voice.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyipkvscs

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Sound familiar? Biophilic Feb 2023 #1

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Tue Feb 28, 2023, 01:05 PM
Feb 2023

Quote from last paragraph - "They're creating a warped new Judaism and bearing the name of the true one in vain" I'm not a Christian but it sure sounds like what is happening in this country with a segment of Evangelicals and Christian Nationalists.

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