Posted on 11/15/2014 2:21:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The school in the Western Galilee village of Abu Snan will be closed Sunday for fears of renewed sectarian violence following a brawl that erupted late Friday night between some three dozen youths from the village’s Muslim and Druze communities, in which at least 26 people were injured.
The announcement was made by the two communities’ leaders in the Muslim-majority mixed town, as efforts to calm tensions between the sides were underway Saturday.
At least eight people were hospitalized in Nahariya with moderate to serious injuries after a grenade was thrown during the Friday night scuffle. Some of the injured sustained shrapnel wounds to the head, stomach and chest. A video of the violent incident was published on the popular Arabic-language website Panet, according to which some shots were fired during the fight.
Police sent reinforcements to the town to restore order and maintain calm.
Channel 10 reported that the fight erupted over the security situation, which has seen recent tensions with Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank — in part over Israeli plans to step up building activity in the city’s eastern sector and religious tensions at the Temple Mount — spread to Israeli Arab communities after last Saturday’s police shooting of a 22-year-old man in Kafr Kanna.
Palestinian leaders have used inflammatory language to warn against Israeli plans to change the status quo and allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount — something Israel has denied. Six Israelis have been killed in Palestinian terrorist attacks in recent weeks, including a Druze Border Police officer.
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Heck, the Palins didn’t even use a grenade, some brawl.
Grenades, and the call it a brawl? Why not a kerfuffle?
Safe bet.
No strafings with .50 caliber belt fed automatics, it’s a brawl.
“I put my money on the Druze.”
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
Who are the Druze they refer to?
Who are the Druze they refer to?
Who are the Druze they refer to?
Hey, Muzzies, they are not the Druze you are looking for.
Sorry for the triple post. On smartphone, which acted like it didn’t post, so I clicked on post again, etc...u get the idea.
An ancient sect, doesn’t accept converts, living in the hilly country shared by Israel, Lebanon and Syria since time immemorial. Might be the descendants of Phillistines. Part of their religion is being loyal to the country they live in, so they serve in IDF, police and Magav, often used to destroy targeted Jewish outposts by Bibi and friends, bust up demonstrations by Chareidim, anything Jew on Jew that Jewish troops might balk at.
Druze are non Muslim Arabs that have VERY good relations with Jews. They ALL serve in the IDF and are more Israeli than the Israelis. They trace their religion to Jethro the father in law of Moses.
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