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Racist attacks against Arabs increase tenfold - report
Sharon Roffe-Ofir
Published: 21.03.09, 21:59
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1. Has anyone kept track
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (03.21.09)
of anti-Jewish attacks by Arabs? Just askin'.
2. oiveh
Ariel Ben Yochanan ,   Kfar Tapuah   (03.21.09)
B"H Attacking arabs in Israel is not "racist". It is self defence against a hostile minority with nationalistic aspirations. Arabs to Arabia, Jews to Judea!
3. Why is it...
Alex ,   San Diego, CA   (03.21.09)
that every time there is an injustice done to the Palestinians someone tries to deflect the issue by comparing it to Jews? Why can't people either digest it or discuss the issue at hand? I find, for example Sarah's response to simply be a cop-out.
4. Mr. Jafar Farah,
Maxime L'amoureux ,   BEAUTIFUL USA   (03.21.09)
Stop your Arab attacks on Jews and we will stop attacks on Arabs. SIMPLE!.
5. Obvious Arab Coordinated Global Anti Israel Onslaught
GZLives   (03.21.09)
Coming from all sides including the leftist useful idiots as well as many Leftist Israelis like those at Haaretz who have supplied the Leftist media with a handful of current dishonest stories that are presently being run on countless media outlets, English speaking news, blogs, websites ... every liar they can dig up to sell the same lies again and again and again.
6. We are racists? Excuse me while I try to visit Ramallah
Burndown Haaretz   (03.21.09)
Ughh this is just getting downright ridiculous.
7. Bull@#$
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron-Israel   (03.21.09)
This kind of messages I don't understand why are published. This Farah person knows very well where his trouble is coming from, as he says, religious people and the secular right. Strange that those are the people that most fervently declare their love for the Land of Israel. That's his problem! Jews who love Israel!
8. Report
Ariel Ben Yochanan ,   Kfar Tapuah   (03.21.09)
B"H Report itself is racist as it separates Jewish attacks from Arab ones, taking them out of context. Report fails to mention that "Arab citizens" do not recognize Israel Jewish and that entering Arab villages by Jews is considered life-threatening whereas Arabs shop comfortably in Jerusalem malls. Arab buses do not take Jewish passengers.
9. Pot Calling The Kettle Racist....
Adina Kutnicki ,   Israel,new olah   (03.21.09)
Far be it from me to be a spoilsport, but one would think that Arab rampages which purposefully ! bulldoze, shoot, knife and otherwise terrorize Jews is alot more racist than Arabs killed from defensive security actions. When they rampaged and terrorized the ENTIRE country during 2000, what did they expect to happen, that none of them would be harmed, that we would hand them roses?
10. Amusing given latest story of failed Haifa bomb attempt
Nashville Katz   (03.21.09)
Poor downtrodden victim Arabs who started how many wars trying to exterminate us? I feel so sad for them.
11. Attacks on Arabs???
Ilan ,   Haifa   (03.21.09)
Who the hell is the Mossawa Center? And Arabs who are killed by security forces are not "attacked" by "racists". They are killed while or after attacking or engaging in attempted attacks on Israelis/Jews. And how many Arab attacks were foiled or, unfortunately sometimes not foiled, during the year(s)? THousands and thousands. What a bunch of garbage YNet prints !
12. News flash: "Man bites dog!"
sick of cry babies ,   world   (03.21.09)
The "Religion Of Peace" (TM) has so many attacks against Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, other Muslims, etc... that one can not keep track.
13. Not racism. Arabs are Caucasian, like the Jews.
Antonio ,   Haifa   (03.21.09)
It's a result of Arabs being our enemies, not anything that's got anything to do with anyone's race.
14. Now defending yourself is considered attack on arabs?
Yosi M. ,   GiloJerusalem Israel   (03.21.09)
My 15 year old son was at Gan Hapaamon(Bell Garden) with his friends playing basketball when suddenly they were attacked by a group of arabs. What were they supposed to do? They weren't cowards, they fought back and chased the arabs away. Then they called the police and reported it. This has been happening at parks throughout the city, especially Motzi Shabbat. How can these lying arabs even consider these as racist attacks. This is plain old self-defense. I guess that goes along the same lines as when the arabs in Gaza attack us and when we defend ourselves, all the europeans call us the agressors. Absolutely hypocritical.
15. Jews and Arabs are in the same race
bubba ,   nyc   (03.22.09)
Jews and Arabs are in the same race, both semitic branches of the caucasian race. Using the term "racism" for any tribal conflict, just exposes the ignorance of the author. Becoming a "normal" nation doesn't mean using other peoples rhetoric.
16. racist attacks against Arabs
Yonatan ,   Jerusalem   (03.22.09)
the lynchings in ramala wasn't racist no that was self-defence, the greatest weapon the palestinians have is stupidity they have defeated the Israeli government with it
17. #6 why ramallah?
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (03.22.09)
Today 100s of Arabs tried to murder Jewish policemen in Lod. I guess Jafar Farah thinks that is OK
18. Racism?
Arie ,   BaGolan   (03.22.09)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3689908,00.html Speaks for itself
19. Yeah, try having a peaceful Jewish march in Umm el-Fahm
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (03.22.09)
and witness the amount of Arb physical attack racism there and Umm el-Fahm is in Israel within the pre-1967 borders
20. Israel's Burden
Bobertbobert ,   Nathalie,Va.,USA   (03.22.09)
Before all else, Israel: do justice to Palestinian landowners; you received mercy from God, do so to dispossessed Palestinians.
21. Homeless Palestinians & Israel
Bobertbobert ,   Nathalie,Va.,USA   (03.22.09)
Truth & Reconciliation worked in South Africa, it can in Israel-Palestine.
22. arabs have never been loyal to Israel, never will be.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (03.22.09)
23. Soccer mostly causes riots and fights all over the world....
Asher ,   NY,USA   (03.22.09)
24. #17 Didn
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25. To: Alex at No. 3
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (03.22.09)
Well, Alex, if you want to sit and hold hands and "talk" with people who wish to kill you, you just go right ahead. Hope your estate planning is in order, fool.
26. What do these Arabs expect
David Rosenberg ,   New York, USA   (03.22.09)
What do these Arabs expect? Are Jews suppose to sit by and watch the Arab minority engage in riots against the Jewish majority during Rosh Hashanna like what happened in Akko this year? Are Jews suppose to sit by and watch their Arab minority protest in favor of Hezbollah and Hamas, terrorist organizations which call for a Holocaust against Jews? Are Jews also suppose to sit by and allow Israeli Arabs to spy for Hezbollah and Hamas and let Israeli Arab leaders defame the state from the podium of the Knesset without reacting? If Israeli Arabs want to be treated better then they should start showing loyalty to Israel rather than join the most radical elements in the Muslim world which seek her destruction.
27. To Ariel #8. Whole World FOOLED by the Arabs.
Maansingh ,   The Netherlands   (03.22.09)
You say :” Arab buses do not take Jewish passengers.” Just see who the REAL racists are -- the Arabs, of course. Just see who is applying APARTHEID in Israel -- the Arabs of course. What I don’t understand, though, how come the whole world says ‘Jews are racists’ and ‘Israel is apartheid state’. THIS means that the Arabs have succeeded in selling this BIG lie to the world -- and the world bought it. The world bought it -- without placing question marks, without analyzing it diligently. THAT means that the whole world fell in the trap of the Arabs with open, uncritical eyes. THAT means that the whole world has been FOOLED by the Arabs -- without realising it.
28. Coexistence is a myth.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (03.22.09)
Coexistence is one of the great myths that western liberalism has created. There has never been coexistence and there never will be. There is only individual coexistence. Communal coexistence does not exist. The myth of coexistence takes itself from the belief that the opposite of ethnic riots and killing must be that the two communities lived in 'peace'. But this is predicated on the false idea that just because nothing is happening that therefore things are peaceful. Coexistence in the Middle East is one of the greatest myths. And the myth of the Jewish-Arab coexistence is no exception as explained at : http://xrl.us/oxz7f
29. #27
eli ,   jerusalem   (03.22.09)
You're right, that's it. They afraid terror and riots in their countries, they are depending on petrol and a lot of them hates jews at all. E.g. in which european media can you read, that after the end of the war in Gaza rockets land in Israel, every day, not as many as before but there are. Thank's G-D they don't fulfill the wishes of ther sender. But sonner or later all the european countrys will enjoy muslim culture and sharia if they continue this way. UK will be first.
30. 600,000+ Jews in Israel are ARABS
Aaron ,   SF, USA   (03.22.09)
Nothing to do with race, more-so to do with people who believe Israel needs to be destroyed. P.S. The people that believe that Apartheid Crap are the same people that are ignorant to the "Palestinian" fallacy and care more about hating Israel then any other injustice in the world. International bigotry 101.
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