Posted on 02/12/2009 3:34:17 PM PST by LibWhacker
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they cannot.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
No, I know there are cranks in every city.
Haaretz finds Haredi cranks and then publishes pre-determined stories, with a slant to inflame passions of those ignorant of the truth.
I’ve lived in the old city. Indeed, I lived there for several years in school. The Haredi in question are ANTI-ZIONIST, hate fellow Jews (especially secular Jews), muslims, and Christians with equal passion, and are basically mean to everyone.
Of course, Haaretz (which also dislikes evangelical Christians, and, indeed, any Christians who support Israel for religious reasons) publishes the anti-Christian stories in order to ferment mutual distrust between Christians and Jews.
Repeating the last line: “publishes the anti-Christian stories in order to ferment mutual distrust between Christians and Jews.”
You are their indeeded target. And they gotcha.
Off-topic, Yehuda. The subject is spitting.
You destroyed any credibility you might have had with your “occupied territories” slip.
Your agenda is clear.
Go back to Jordon or whatever shithole you crawled out of.
Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz.
So what explains the appearance of such stories in other places?
“NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.”
Please get a grip.
I would not characterise the denizens of this neighbourhood as "English".
Rome has similar neighbourhoods.
OK, I'll concede that. Probably the same can be said for some neighborhoods in London and Paris. But we call this outrageous and intolerable, don't we? We don't dismiss it as isolated and unimportant. If contemptuous public assaults on Jews are going to be condemned, the same standard MUST apply in Jerusalem when non-Jews are targeted.
In view of the nastiness on display, I begin to wonder whether certain posters on this thread have a guilty conscience in this respect.
If “occupied territories” is not politically correct terminology, I never received the memo. For the record, what would you have them called? And why is “OT” objectionable?
NO, I didn’t take anything off-topic. Are you suggesting that spitting is somehow related to terrorism and random guerrilla attacks? Perhaps spitting is terrorism too? It’s certainly targeted ethnic intimidation. Is that what you mean?
My post 43 explains this.
The old section Haredi are a very, very, disagreeable lot. Disagreeable to everyone.
And not without reason, the arabs (Christian and Muslim) have repeatedly tried to wipe them out since before the modern state of Israel in a series of attacks. Indeed, the current arab areas of Jerusalem were the Haredi’s homes until the pogroms of the 1920s and 30s where the arabs (again, Christian and Muslim) attacked them -— more of a tribal, than religious thing.
Haaretz (secular) hates them and also hates outside Christians.
I don’t doubt these events happened, but it’s not a Jewish vs. Christian thing.
It’s a non-zionist Haredi vs. eveyone thing.
On the other topic “occupied territories” is the preferred term of Hamas and CNN, in particular, the war-slut Christiana Amanpour. The purpose of that turn of phrase, of course, is to imply that the Jews have no right to the land of Judea and are merely “occupying” it -— like an outside invasion force.
I, G-d, Sarah Palin, and Mark Twain (in no particular order) respectfully disagree with that position.
Occupied territory is what it is, even if some don’t like to be reminded. I don’t consider you a trustworthy interlocutor or a person of good will. In view of your abusive and disgusting last communication to me, I see no reason to maintain a dialogue at all.
If you think Judea is “occupied territory,” then you are correct, there is no reason for you to be here.
We emailed (PDF accepted) our aliyah papers today.
Looks like we’ll leave at the end of the school year.
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