The military police in Israel have been waging sting operations to catch Charedim who taunt solders. This is all to the glee of the Dati Looney. But watching the videos of two recent incidents, one in Ramat Bet of Beit Shemesh and one in Meah Sharim, one sees not police catching law breakers, but police provoking children and shotim basically. The Israeli government is very good at this. They do it with the Arabs all the time. They keep them in stressful conditions and then provoke them. A violent arrest will do. Then comes an unruly protest in response. It all escalates from there until a few people get killed or until there's an all out bombing run. (Note, I'm not exonerating the local Arabs for the many challenges they have created in the peace process and for their shameful violence.)
I'm also not exonerating Charedim for taunting solders. Not that I don't understand it. The Charedim feel threatened by the draft, understandably. It just isn't going to help anything to taunt anybody.
Sometimes we yell to keep our our minds in normal working order. I'm getting to a point where I'm ready to yell at the endless parade of immodestly dressed women that sit in the front of the bus or clog the entrance to buses in religious neighborhoods. One gets pushed to a point where all he has is his yelling.
Obviously there's a world of difference between Arabs who launch home made rockets at civilian neighborhoods and Charedim who hurl words like goy at people they disapprove of. But the Israeli government approaches them both in a fairly similar manner. Provoke then violently arrest.
The two videos I have seen show policeman, perhaps military police, dressed as regular solders. They appear to be parading around Charedi neighborhoods looking to provoke somebody. The Charedim say things. The solders say things. Then either a child or emotionally unstable adult does something, anything physical and that's when the goons jump in and pound them to the floor. Doesn't matter if it's an adult or a child. The pounding is the same. Then they stuff them into police cars like kidnappers. This stuffing isn't done like it is in America where the police are bad enough but ask you to lower your head as you enter the car. The children are dragged screaming into the cars which race away to God knows where as none of us do.
And the DL applaud! It's amazing. It's like watching Hungarians cheering on the invading Germans because they are going to get those nasty Jews. Am I exaggerating? Not so sure that I am in the sense of people revealing who they are by the sides they choose. Obviously, here, genocide is not on the horizon so I'm not making an exact comparison. But you do see who the DL identify with.
This doesn't surprise me. Rabbi Avigdor Miller says that amongst the challenges faced by faithful Jews is dealing with the 50% Jews, the 2% Jews, and the negative percent Jews. The DL are 50%. And one sees which half is the one they really prefer. One starts to think that the frum part is for show. Goyim who keep Shabbos. Well, keep some of the laws of Shabbos. Whether they keep the spirit of it is another matter entirely. For keeping Shabbos means asserting that God owns and runs the world, the God of the Jews who wants us separate from the gentiles. And that is hardly what the DL do.
And now the video.
I'm also not exonerating Charedim for taunting solders. Not that I don't understand it. The Charedim feel threatened by the draft, understandably. It just isn't going to help anything to taunt anybody.
Sometimes we yell to keep our our minds in normal working order. I'm getting to a point where I'm ready to yell at the endless parade of immodestly dressed women that sit in the front of the bus or clog the entrance to buses in religious neighborhoods. One gets pushed to a point where all he has is his yelling.
Obviously there's a world of difference between Arabs who launch home made rockets at civilian neighborhoods and Charedim who hurl words like goy at people they disapprove of. But the Israeli government approaches them both in a fairly similar manner. Provoke then violently arrest.
The two videos I have seen show policeman, perhaps military police, dressed as regular solders. They appear to be parading around Charedi neighborhoods looking to provoke somebody. The Charedim say things. The solders say things. Then either a child or emotionally unstable adult does something, anything physical and that's when the goons jump in and pound them to the floor. Doesn't matter if it's an adult or a child. The pounding is the same. Then they stuff them into police cars like kidnappers. This stuffing isn't done like it is in America where the police are bad enough but ask you to lower your head as you enter the car. The children are dragged screaming into the cars which race away to God knows where as none of us do.
And the DL applaud! It's amazing. It's like watching Hungarians cheering on the invading Germans because they are going to get those nasty Jews. Am I exaggerating? Not so sure that I am in the sense of people revealing who they are by the sides they choose. Obviously, here, genocide is not on the horizon so I'm not making an exact comparison. But you do see who the DL identify with.
This doesn't surprise me. Rabbi Avigdor Miller says that amongst the challenges faced by faithful Jews is dealing with the 50% Jews, the 2% Jews, and the negative percent Jews. The DL are 50%. And one sees which half is the one they really prefer. One starts to think that the frum part is for show. Goyim who keep Shabbos. Well, keep some of the laws of Shabbos. Whether they keep the spirit of it is another matter entirely. For keeping Shabbos means asserting that God owns and runs the world, the God of the Jews who wants us separate from the gentiles. And that is hardly what the DL do.
And now the video.
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