Orthodox kids burning an Israeli flag. Is this from the twilight zone?
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=670a7c9c5bc1ff47f97db015052389dd&mode=details#670a7c9c5bc1ff47f97db015052389dd
21:33 04/20/2010
Youths Indicted for Burning Israeli Flag
Two Orthodox Jewish youths have been indicted for burning the Israeli flag during an anti-Zionist street protest in Jerusalem (al-Quds).
Scores of Neturei Karta members staged a demonstration in the city's Shabbat Square on Sunday evening to coincide with a ceremony held to honor Israel's dead soldiers.
Israeli security forces clashed with the protestors when one of the latter torched an Israeli flag just after the "Memorial Day" siren went off.
The man identified as Yehiel Hazan was immediately arrested by undercover police and indicted the next day in an expedited procedure. Disorderly conduct and "desecration" of the Israeli flag are among the offenses attributed to Hazan.
The police reported that a similar indictment was issued against a 14-year-old boy caught torching the flag during the same demonstration.
Israeli authorities witnessed another embarrassing event on Sunday in which a group of about 20 ultra-Orthodox Jews were attending as birthday celebration in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.
The Neturei Karta sect has been a thorn in Tel Aviv's side for its vocal criticism of Israel's policies and its mistreatment of the Palestinians.
Last January, a number of the sect's members visited the Gaza Strip and spent Shabbat there in a show of support for some 1.5 million Palestinians living there.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Israeli Colonists attacking Israeli Soldiers
Americans for Peace Now has an excellent post about Settlers, more properly referred to as Colonists, attacking Israeli soldiers who were what? Trying to protect Palestinians from colonizing Settler rampage. Didn't we see examples of this sort of violence in New York's Central Park, then referred to as "wilding". There is a huge difference of course; in New York the "wilding" was committed by out of control, drug frenzied teens. In the West Bank, this form of wilding is committed by out of control, religion frenzied adult Israeli's.
Of course, if these attacks were being committed by Palestinians, how long would those soldiers have waited before firing on them with their weapons? Oh, I forgot, they can't fire on the "settlers" because Israel has armed them too.
http://peacenow.org/entries/settlers_again_attack_soldiers_in_the_west_bank
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Look at this Israeli soldier.
He was injured yesterday in the West Bank.
Not by Palestinians but by Israeli setters.
Settlers threw rocks and glass paint canisters at the soldiers. One of these canisters hit this Border Police officer in the face and bloodied his nose. Settlers also punctured IDF vehicles and beat soldiers.
Why did the settlers attack the troops?
Because the Israeli soldiers were attempting to protect West Bank Palestinians from settlers' rampaging, which recently has become routine.
In recent weeks, settlers from Yitzhar repeatedly rampaged in neighboring Palestinian villages, vandalized property, desecrated a mosque and terrorized Palestinian civilians. They also repeatedly attacked Israeli soldiers who tried to protect Palestinians in the neighboring villages.
It's time for Israel's authorities and for the Israeli public to realize who they are dealing with and how far these people are willing to go to undermine any chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Their violence is not mere hooliganism of teenage thugs. It is a calculated strategy - they call it "Price Tag" - to deter the Israeli authorities from enforcing the law to curb illegal settlement construction. Their strategy is aimed at fomenting counter-violence among Palestinians in order to distract the Israeli authorities from the settlers' actions, and to sow the kind of chaos and confusion that would undermine Israeli-Palestinian peace.
It is time for friends of Israel worldwide to condemn the settlers' provocations and to resolve to not let them succeed.
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!
Of course, if these attacks were being committed by Palestinians, how long would those soldiers have waited before firing on them with their weapons? Oh, I forgot, they can't fire on the "settlers" because Israel has armed them too.
http://peacenow.org/entries/settlers_again_attack_soldiers_in_the_west_bank
.jpg)
Look at this Israeli soldier.
He was injured yesterday in the West Bank.
Not by Palestinians but by Israeli setters.
Settlers threw rocks and glass paint canisters at the soldiers. One of these canisters hit this Border Police officer in the face and bloodied his nose. Settlers also punctured IDF vehicles and beat soldiers.
Why did the settlers attack the troops?
Because the Israeli soldiers were attempting to protect West Bank Palestinians from settlers' rampaging, which recently has become routine.
In recent weeks, settlers from Yitzhar repeatedly rampaged in neighboring Palestinian villages, vandalized property, desecrated a mosque and terrorized Palestinian civilians. They also repeatedly attacked Israeli soldiers who tried to protect Palestinians in the neighboring villages.
It's time for Israel's authorities and for the Israeli public to realize who they are dealing with and how far these people are willing to go to undermine any chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Their violence is not mere hooliganism of teenage thugs. It is a calculated strategy - they call it "Price Tag" - to deter the Israeli authorities from enforcing the law to curb illegal settlement construction. Their strategy is aimed at fomenting counter-violence among Palestinians in order to distract the Israeli authorities from the settlers' actions, and to sow the kind of chaos and confusion that would undermine Israeli-Palestinian peace.
It is time for friends of Israel worldwide to condemn the settlers' provocations and to resolve to not let them succeed.
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!
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