JESUS WAS BORN A JEW JESUS WAS DIED A JEW HE NEVER STARTED A NEW RELIGION !! MILLIONS OF JEWS EVER SINCE GOT KILLED SIMPLY FOR REFUSING TO BELIEVE JESUS WAS THE TRUE MESSIAH WE REFUSED TO GIVE UP ON OUR FATHERS RELIGIONS! WE WERE SLAUGHTERED AND KILLED, ABUSED AND TODAY IN MODERN SOCIETIES THAT CLAIM TO BE ENRICHED WITH HUMAN LAWS & DEMOCRACY WE ARE STILL NOT IMMUNE FROM THIS OLD HOSTILITY TOWARDS JEWS !! EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE WHAT THEY BELIEVE !! WE JEWS NEVER FORCED ANY MINORITY OR RACE TO ACCEPT OUR RELIGION! WE NEVER KILLED ANYONE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T BECOME JEWISH! NO ONE WAS KILLED FOR NOT ACCEPTING THE LAWS OF MOSES!! LEAVE US ALONE !!

as an American who is reading this story now on American websites, no doubt there is overwhelming "outrage" over this with the usual talks of "cutting Israel off" While I agree with his sentiments, for this idiot to do this shows he is an idiot and just creates hostility for Jews

now this is a top story on yahoo so millions of Americans are going to see it I hope this idiot is happy, because people like him create "anti-semitism" and other people have to clean up the mess he creates and try to swallow all the anti-semites that these stories bring out really hope this idiot is happy

send it back , in little pieces . No need for missionaries here . They can live here , worship as they want , but not becoming missionaries . Don't send your "holy" books to Jews , if you don't want them to be riped .

like this one. You can be religious and not nuts. Unfortunately this is an example of an out-of-control, cant think past his nose religious nut.

Disgusting that a Jew and "religous one " at that can do such a thing . He should be excomunicated and extradited

Let me remind you all that this is a Jewish State. Read my lips: JEWISH STATE. There is no space here for proselitism. Do it in Brazil, America, India, no here. We are fighting for our survival as with a Jewish character and then those freaks come distributing a book like that. Let me be clear: we don't need help of those who does not share our values. We need the love and support of the Jewish people only. Enough of humiliation and servitude. THose who are not happy, just pack and move.

Obviously the man is deranged. He looks like a mad man ,sounds like a mad man and behaves like a mad man. He is the Knesset idiot and seems to be unaware of it so he is a genuine idiot.

Belongs in a coo koo nest

Well, he could have dumped it to the waste paper bin with a little less public attention.Or he could have thrown it over the fence to Abu Mazen.He could have given it to the imprisoned Arab terrorists, so that they have something to read about love, mercy and all the other things, they didn't learn about yet.There is plenty of use for this kind of print-ware.It's a dual use item!If zou know nothing better, it's still thick enough to hit someone!

This is one of the stupidest acts possible, and by our MK. I can already see the international reprisals, as a consequence of this immature act. And, at a time where our image really doesn't nee this kind of stupidity. As an adult, a politician, and a representative of Israel and Israeli's, this kind if act is reprehensible! Shame on you!

However, that does not lessen what he said. Unfortunately what he did say was 100% correct. The only church backing Israel is the Evangelical. The World Council of Churches is 100% anti-Israel and the Jews

Millions of Jews died during the Spanish Inquisition? I am struggling to believe that.

idiot

Ben Ari do not know the new testament. Killing is not allowed in the new testament. Only God will judge his people and others in the end of the world according they deeds. Worst sin according to new testament is to denay Jewish Messiah Jeshua how gave his life and blad that people can repent and can be washed from they sins. And God don´t force anyone to accept him, though He will judge people according that in the end when he comes back to the mount Zion.

The history of the Jews is over the centuries littered with the ashes of thousands of Tora's, religious Jewish books, forbidden Jewish writers......always followed by the ashes of the Jews themselves. All in the name of Christianity & Jesus. If people are so stupid and/or arrogant to send a New Testament to a religious Jew, with an 'arrogant lecture accompanying it, that's what they deserve. This act may not deserve a beauty prize, but they had it coming. Stop being so sensitive.

He has no problem receiving monies from the various proWest Bank Christian lobbies but he takes issue when he receives a copy of the New Testament! Really? What was he thinking when he accepted the Christian money? that it was no strings attached? Someone should remind this MK "Ba'al ha mea who ba'al ha dea" (The owner of the money is the owner of the opinion)

..the evangelicals will be super charged and say it is a sign to send more. that's how they operate--insult, shove it at you and when you cringe with disgust they say it means they hit a nerve and should go further. they're rude and crude and do far more harm than this guy

By ripping up the Holy Bible, Ari is just letting his hate for the Christians who are trying to help Israel show. Had the Jews studied the Holy Bible they could have countered the crusaders, the Vatican, and the replacement theology believers with the contents of the New Testament which provides proof that Messiah forgave the Jews for His crucifixion, which was his own plan from the beginning for He came to be a sacrifice for humanity. The New Testament also points out that יהוה has not forsaken Israel, and keeps His covenant with Israel. Ari is very ignorant of the fact that the real Christians were tortured and murdered during the inquisition. With this kind of belligerent behavior shown by Ari it is no wonder that many Christians have distanced themselves from Israel. It is a shame that Israelis like him dedicate so much time reading the Talmud which was written by ordinary men obviously not inspired by God, for they even curse the name of Messiah and implied He was a bastard. I would like to see if he has the courage to rip up a Quran in public, but I doubt it because he knows that unlike the modern Christians the Muslims would kill him for such an insult.

Obviously ;) This is your real face, Israel ,...

First of all, the Christian group should not send out junk mail. The MK should not have torn this up in public. The right thing to do would have been to send it back, but why do they have to send it in the first place. Let them believe what they want, but do not push your religion on me. That is called respect. When you are not respected, you get angry and that anger can cause you to do things like tear it up. People come into my neighborhood and ask people who are outside to tell them what families are Jewish. Then they bring books and literature and leave it in our mailbox or at the door. I just throw it out. If it happens to be one of their NTs, I would not trow it out in the garbage, but I would return it or drop it off at a church and mention that I do not appreciate the lack of respect.

An atrocious act, destroying one of our sacred texts, is something that we Jews have experienced too many times during the course of our history. For one of our own to ape such barbaric deeds shames me and all of us.

First, there was no mentioning of the SPANISH inquisition. The inquisition is meant to describe the mass murders of millions of non-christian individuals mostly during the Middle Ages. The main purpose was to convert Jews and others to the Christian religion. Read about the torture and murder of Jews during those times and that all Jews had to wear special clothing including weird hats and the compulsory star of David which was revived during Nazi Germany. Entire jewish city populations were mass murdered. So, even that I do not agree with MK Ben Ari's actions, I do certainly agree with his words!

As a Jew living in the Galuth, I am displeased by your shameful posts. Let's see what are the reasons behind my position: we, Argentinian Citizens of Jewish Faith, are living in a largely Christian country and the GOOD thing is that the people here respect the other minorities religions. Fortunately, here never anyone tries to rip, burn or destroy neither our Old Testament (the Tanach) nor the Koran, nor any other Scripture or Holy Books of any other religion. The name of this GOOD behaviour is TOLERANCE & RESPECT to the citizens of other faiths. The angry reaction of the MK Ben Ari is disgusting, because he is disrespectful with the Christian Citizens of Israel. It would have been much more respectful to send back the NT to the sender, or leave it in a library. Moreover, carring out this vexing action in the middle of the Israeli Keneset, does not speak very well of the emotional stability of this MK .

It may not be good politics but all those clueless Jews should know there is a world of difference between the Torah and that farce--

If you dig a little deeper and study the inquisition you will find that the churh even murdered the ordinay people for just owning a New and Old Testament Holy Bible. It was not just Jews that were murdered, that is beside the fact that the first Christias were Jews. The Popes were against the mass printing of The Holy Bible.They did not want ordinary people to study the word of God so that they could keep control of the people and rule in supposedly His behalf. Reminds me of some of the so called rabbis today.

No matter how much Jews reject the nt and how inappropriate the mailing was, it harms Israel's image in the christain world.

So if that hypocrite MK, tears up NT because of the Jesus thing, Jesus is also a prophet in the Quran. The Qur'an also said the jews are greedy, and the hadith said Jews are to be killed in the last days. So if that hypocrite MK has any balls, he should do it with the Qur'an. But he won't do it, because losing neck is not worth it for a cheap PR stunt.