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Hundreds of Jews, Arabs clash with police in Akko
Ayiha Raved
Published: 09.10.08, 21:39
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1. Will they use the pogrom word?
Ilan ,   Ariel   (10.09.08)
Let's see. Hundreds of Arabs go on a rampage, destroying property and screaming "kill the Jews". Will the media call this a pogrom also or is that only reserved when castigating Jews in Itzhar?
2. Arbs need to be forever forbidden to practice Ramadan
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (10.09.08)
both in Acre, and Jerusalem Temple Mount. Thus is the time when they plot attacks against Jews and other infidels.
3. akko arab rioting
bear ,   zefat   (10.09.08)
Keep on kssing the arabs behinds and maybe we can have civil war!
4. Unfortunate
Talula ,   Israel   (10.09.08)
So, did they kill him or not? It's a pity. Everyone got along so nicely in Akko. I can't help but think the Arab driver was provoking the Jews in the town. He KNOWS Yom Kippur is a holy day - he should have thought twice before disregarding the sanctity of Yom Kippur. I don't think he should have been supposedly killed for it though. There is no law that forbids driving on Yom Kippur, we don't do it out of respect for others. It's a pity he didn't show the same tolerance and respect for his neighbours.
5. Arabs are a cancer in our midst
Dov   (10.09.08)
6. akko
adi ,   nes ziona   (10.09.08)
time to kick the arabs out....finallly
7. Meshigge
Shulem   (10.09.08)
8. The arab community of akko should pay money
AVROM ,   BET SHEMESH   (10.09.08)
equivalent to twice the damage they caused if not the five times the damage should be taken from their bank accounts
9. Arab driver provoked the attack
Millie ,   Israel   (10.09.08)
He drove into a religious Jewish area on Yom Kippur. This is a deliberate brovoation. He was from Acco's old city where there are potentially incendiary quotes from the Koran posted all over the place. I was there recently. I have seen those signs.
10. #1-5 = antisemitism
observer   (10.09.08)
11. Akko was assigned to Arabs in the 1947 partition of Palestin
observer   (10.09.08)
12. Nonsense
Ronny ,   Germany   (10.09.08)
Police Chief: "The Arab's relatives came to his rescue. " Sure: Hundreds... What nonsense
13. do they have a red "begin riot" light in their homes?
Haifai   (10.09.08)
only arabs can form a riot that quickly. gotta give them props.
14. These Arabs simply HAD to provoke the Jews on their holiest
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (10.09.08)
...day! Their wedding arrangements couldn't have been discussed less than 24 hour later, eh? But if anybody dares to even speak badly about their pagan prophet, they burn embassies! I say that they deserve what they got, and if they wanted just to spit in the face of their Jewish neighbors on their holiest holiday, then it was only natural to be spat back. NEVER AGAIN we will be spat upon and claim that it is raining. Any provocation will be met with equal or superior force and intolerance. Israeli Arabs should decide quickly if they want to live WITH us or without us. If it is the latter, then they should not moan for more rights or perk and they should not be surprised when they are politely invited to seek their happiness and more "rights" in one of the Arab heavens around Israel. Oh - and my decision NOT to eat in an Arab or Arab-owned restaurant, or do business with any Arab-related business still stands! No money for traitors.
15. It's enough
(10.09.08)
fuck the arabs, why do you tolerate them in your country?
16. Olmert and his clone Tzipi will expel the Jews of Akko now
Yonatan ,   Nahariya   (10.09.08)
I have had my car stoned when I inadvertently drove into an arab neighborhood. I didn’t go back with my clan and start trouble. If we Kow Tow to arabs at every turn instead of destroying the homes of their terrorists and leaders we promote this problem not cure it. It is time to change our reaction to arabs and their riots. It is OK if they throw stones but not Jews? Olmert will blame the Jews again!
17. Yom Kippur rioters!
(10.09.08)
the way to avenge Yom Kippur passes either south or north; the core is not the issue.
18. this is just to show...
oded   (10.09.08)
we cannot live side by side... never could and never will... like mixing water and oil... the arabs have no respect for our holidays , traditions and way of life.... the soluton? compensated, organised and orderly seperation/transfer! shan tova!
19. Ask peace now to help...
left wing realist   (10.09.08)
Maybe Jewish people should just move out of Arab areas like Akko as well as the West Bank. Its obvious that Jewish presence only causes more Arab discontent. I think that Peace Now should be asked to settle the dispute, quickly.
20. Contilnuing assults by arabs against Jews
Y ,   Nitzan, Israel   (10.09.08)
The arabs of Acco have been harrassing/ assulting the Jews there, particularly religious Jews for many years. Ynet readers would know this except the "secular" press has ignored these incidents in an attempt to cover it up. These incidents are heavily reported on arutz 7 -
21. #14 how many embassies are there in Akko?
(10.09.08)
don't see a point of not punishing Jews for not fasting in Ramadan. At least they shouldn't eat or drink or wage wars on the holiest day.
22. changing paradigm after 73
(10.09.08)
it is symbol of defeat rather than holiness.
23. No! Jewish fundamentalists murdered driver in civilized way
(10.09.08)
24. more appeasment & surrender
Marcel ,   Florida   (10.09.08)
Only if you surrender more land and your homes will the moslems love you .if you leave Israel and march into hte sea they will love you even more. Or you can say enough and remind them what they have forgotten about Jews from the pre-fake peace oslo,road map era of capitulation and retrrat
25. #11 Akko assigned to Arabs in 1947 partition - didnt accept
Rebecca ,   Modiin   (10.09.08)
Pity the Arabs didn't accept that plan, or any others for that matter. Now they have nothing but hostility.
26. Jews should be armed and use force
jason white ,   afula,israel   (10.09.08)
when it is required. The arabs attacked Israel on the holiest day in the year in '73. Now they have a pogrom on this Yom Kippur. The solution is to close every mosque in Akko and the surrounding communities for six months. Close all arab schools for the year. Prevent any observance of their holidays for a year. No hajj for five years. Close all moslem bookstores. Make the arabs pay a fine of ten times the cost of the riot. Finally we need to get a police force in this country that can deal with this type of problem and anything else that a good police force must do.
27. How long can Israel survive?
Moshe ,   telaviv   (10.09.08)
With a civil war on the inside and a barrage of rockets from north and south of the border. Add Iran to the mix, and we've got a serious problem. Europe, here I come!
28. Re:27
Thundercloud65 ,   Oklahoma City USA   (10.10.08)
Well, I hope Israel survives forever, but unless people change the way they behave, I just don't know. Israel is looking more like a Jewish Theocracy and less like a Democracy, so not sure. You can't occupy an entire people and not expect them to fight back. When they do it seems Israelis scream terrorism!
29. Throwing stones on Yom Kippur is forbidden - period
Karen R ,   USA   (10.10.08)
It is forbidden to pick stones up off the street. Stones which have not been designated for use before Shabbat or Yom Tov are mukhtzeh and cannot be moved. And if there's no eruv they for sure can't be thrown. (Check with your local posek or Rav Gewirtz's Shmirat Shabbat K'Hil'khatah.) What's the point of observing Yom Kippur if you don't also observe the Torah? Then, there's the small matter of Hillul HaShem - seems these pious guys have never heard of if. Maybe they just like throwing rocks and were looking for an excuse? Being Jewish, they shouldn't have been throwing rocks - or anything else - at anybody on the holiest day of the year. Shame on them!
30. Really, Everybody Harrasses Everybody.
Jack ,   Richmond, va, us   (10.10.08)
Women are attacked for showing their knees. Arabs and Jews are attacked for driving cars at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Religous Jews are harrassed by secular Jews, who say the most inappropriate things. Secular Jews are harrassed by the Religous Jews, who can be quite extreme. Palestinains are harrassed for being Palestinians and Jews are harrassed for being Jews. Muslims harrass the Christians, and so forth and so on... etc., etc., etc. Please! intolerance is rampant, but not only in Israel. In the US, of all places, People at McCaine rallies have been yelling threats at Obama and the Democrats. Emotions are very high, but the election is likely to go off without violence in no small part because the police will not overreact, and will act a peace keepers instead of inflamming the violence. In the past, riots would have broken out and heads would have been busted. People would have gone to jail. But not any more, we have learned our lessons. Our police dampen violence instead of inflamming it by taking one side against the other. Hopefully, Israel has learned this lesson.
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