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This is very sad. My wife and I were there — on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee — leading a tour group just slightly more than a month ago:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/arson-guts-israeli-church-jesus-fed-5000-150618094349491.html
Jabra Ghneim has kindly brought my attention to a brief YouTube video entitled (in Arabic) “What the church at Tabgha in the Galilee was like before the brazen settler attack on it”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hMkNCsTxY#t=63
Brother Ghneim tells me — I haven’t yet been able to check the print edition, and I can’t find it online — that this morning’s Deseret News article on the topic failed to mention that fact that the arson was evidently the work of Jewish extremists. If true, this is regrettable and unbalanced.