Reply #2: Oh for pete's sake.

[Colorado Blue]

This is so completely ridiculous. This couple - one Christian, one Jew - is mentally ill, have economic problems, and apparently have lost some of their children.

So they act out, which they've done before.

This is now because Israel, the one place in the M.E. where people really do have religious freedom, teaches hatred.

Give me a break.

From Yahoo:

"Police said the man, Haim Eliyahu Habibi, had financial problems, and apparently is not a Jewish extremist. Habibi, his Christian wife, Violet, and their daughter were treated at a hospital before being taken into custody.

Habibi's daughter told investigators her parents intended to create a provocation to draw attention to their economic troubles and protest that two of their children had been taken from them by the Israeli authorities, Yaakov Sigdon, a police commander in northern Israel, told Israel Radio.

Several years ago, the family had sought political asylum in a West Bank town under Palestinian control for similar reasons."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_church_attack