Mahmoud Abbas is busy making up lies to justify the destruction of the Gaza synagogues:
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas on Monday defended the decision to demolish the synagogues in the Gaza Strip, saying they did not want to give Jews an excuse to ever think about returning to the area.
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas visited the former settlement of Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip, where he declared that the Israel did not leave behind any synagogues. “There are no synagogues here,” he said.
“Israel left behind some empty buildings which that are likely to collapse. All the public buildings they left are in danger of collapsing,” he said.
Then there’s the Hamas explanation:
Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, said his movement would not allow the synagogues to exist for fear that they would be turned in the future into “Wailing Walls” for Jews. “We won’t allow any Wailing Walls on our blessed land,” he said.
Defending the decision to raze the synagogues, Haniyeh said Israel was trying to keep them to put pressure on the PA to protect them in the future. “These synagogues were built for political, not religious, reasons. They were built illegally and should go away with the occupation.”
Oh. Political purposes, not religious. Because, like, it’s not like Jews worship in synagogues or anything like that.
Shyeah. Respect for other religions. In what universe?
Are there any mosques left over from abaondoned Arab towns to torch? After all, they were just political centers.