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Rats, urine and no mattress: Israelis detained in Peru return home
Michal Margalit
Published: 11.04.14, 12:47
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1. So, did they lap water from the toilet like cats or was
Rivkah   (04.11.14)
there a faucet and a sink, too? Better to be in a jail cell with males in Peru than in a jail cell in Brazil where females are thrown in with males to be gang raped to get food. Maybe the Israelis didn't understand the rules: submit to rape by other prisoners to get food. Why do Israeli youths go to foreign countries when there are lovely tourist sites in Israel to go to? Don't they understand it too 2,000 years to get back to Israel after the judgment of the diaspora? Why do they want to leave and be persecuted in other nations? Do they need to learn again what their ancestors have experienced for 2,000 year?
2. Misrad hachutzpah
Dennis ,   Nj USA   (04.11.14)
"Childish, irresponsible behavior, whining"... Sounds like the Consulate folks that I recently unfortunately encountered here in Philadelphia during a recent passport renewal attempt.
3. #1
Ariel ,   Israel   (04.11.14)
That is totally asinine, #1. Yes, why ever leave Israel and broaden one's horizons? Why learn anything that's not related to torah? Why participate in the modern world at all when it's so easy to bury face in text day and night? The world is a beautiful place. Explore it. Israelis need to get out and clear head after sherut tsva'i. Perhaps you, #1, and your kin are unaware of this burden? I suggest you get to know this segment of the population before you cast judgment.
4. Young Israelis in Peru travel in large packs, behave badly
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.11.14)
...act as if they are still in Israeli military, in Palestine, lording over the native population, and other foreign tourists. I was harassed twice, by a large number of Jews, while in Peru. Once on a bus by 2 female passengers, screaming at me to close my window for hours, and once on the street by a gang of male Jews, who would not let me pass, until I showed them no fear.
5. #4
Oleg ,   Florida USA   (04.11.14)
I hope you freeze to death in MN. Before you meet your maker Israeli special forces going to ambush you and than deport you to Gaza prefebly to Syria so you could be part of an Arab spring. The cold is hurting your head. Leave Israel alone or die.
6. Such harsh conditions
Herr Adolf ,   New York   (04.11.14)
Many discrepancies in this tale of woe.'No food or water for 12 days' Nonsense .. can't live much beyond 4-5 days w/o water. There is a reason your Foreign Ministry issued that statement about your behaviour. Perhaps now you'll have empathy and sympathy for Palestinians who are unjustly detained and subjected to inhumane treatment and conditions.. Where is your group going next year? May I suggest Cologna Dignidad in Chile.
7. #5 Oleg
Herr Adolf ,   New York   (04.11.14)
Wishing death on a person because they are exercising their right of free speech. Where did you grow up? Your sentiments are a good insight into the arrogance that prevails amongst you people. Is it any wonder that you people are so universally despised in the world. Keep up the good work.
8. #4 You've posted some real winners, Benazi,
A ,   Belgium   (04.11.14)
but this bunch of crap puts even yourself to shame. Don't disappoint us, Benazi, keep up the entertaining posts!
9. 4.you must be very attrative,that Jewish
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (04.11.14)
men and women are after you,have you tried your trade among arabs too ?.
10. Lesson, don't go to Peru
jozek ,   Wroclaw, Poland   (04.11.14)
Young Israelis attracted like a magnet to backward countries so learn a lesson and stay away from Peru and also behave well and don't show the real nature of a hutzpa.
11. 7.look who is talking about free speech ?.
J.K. ,   Brookilyn USA   (04.11.14)
the austrian El vagabonde.
12. #5, Oleg ?, email me, stop hiding behind internet, be a man
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.11.14)
...so I can forward your "terroristic threat", a felony, to the police.
13. #7 I believe the real problem is universal envy
mea   (04.11.14)
14. I'll bet peru bribed Israel to let them go.Why do Jews visit
Moshe ,   Usa   (04.11.14)
stupid backward foreign countries that are so morally & ethically twisted.
15. #3
Oleg ,   Florida USA   (04.11.14)
Rivkah is a religious American Jew. She never served in the army. Israel is a very small country. I understand the youngsters they want to see the rest of the world and clear their heads. Travel and enjoy yourself. Rivkah you still have your American passport? what part of Brooklyn you are from? Keep your opinions to your kind.
16. #6 & 7
Oleg ,   Florida USA   (04.11.14)
To the Nazi pretender. You are watching too much the history channel. My little nazi you are probably unemployed, cannot pay the rent and no future in Obamaland so you are picking on the choosen people. Becareful what you wish for. I think you are jealous of us. Tell your jewish doctor to increase your medication. If you ever end up in NYC criminal court get yourself a jewish lawyer to bail you out. Remember your saver was a Rabbi Yeshu. O I forgot don't forget to pay April's rent on time to your Jewish landlord. Shalom.
17. Well Kol Hakavod to Beit Chabad!
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.11.14)
18. Why is anyone surprised?
David ,   London   (04.11.14)
Israeli are taught hate and racism, they learn to control and dominate another people in the West Bank under Apartheid. All this internalized racism makes them people nobody likes. They are getting really bad reputations in South America, just like in the rest of the world. Africa already hates Israel because of its close alliance with apartheid South Africa. Only Asia is left and we're already seeing countries there turning against it, voting with the Palestinians in the UN. Only AIPAC is left and that last fortress will fall, too.
19. #4
JL   (04.11.14)
i am thrilled at hearing you were harrassed by jews..its too bad you they didnt do any serious damage
20. Israeli youth
Gene ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.14)
Some of the worst tourist ever. Very annoying arrogant dumb simple minded small town jerks that think that tel aviv can be compared to new york.
21. #18
Darren Ben John ,   Townsville Australia   (04.12.14)
Isrealis in Thailand are about as popular as a fart in an elevator. Many hotels and restaurants won't allow entry to Israeli passport holders!
22. To #18 -- David
Herr Adolf ,   New York   (04.12.14)
Excellent thoughts. AIPAC's influence is slowly declining. Neither Obama nor Biden attended their latest convention. One of these years we will hopefully pull the plug on our 2 billion foreign aid to these parasites and spend that money where it is needed, in the USA.
23. To # 16 Oleg
Herr Adolf ,   New York   (04.12.14)
LOL. First of all why not get a GED, going through life dumb and illiterate is not a path to success. I could verbally castrate you, but I prefer to spar with my peers, not someone of your ilk. And, why not stick to the subject rather than trying to denigrate me and threaten others.
24. To #13 Mea
Herr Adolf ,   New York   (04.12.14)
There is some validity in your statement. People tend to be jealous and envy those who have accomplished more and posess more money and symbols of wealth. Yet, this is a contributing element, not a sole determinant. There is a big difference between quiet wealth, which tends not to get the less rich angry, vs. the loud, arrogant in your face ,' I'm of the chosen people, I have more and I'm better than you attitude.' Your Talmud has some interesting philosophies about the Goy and how they should be treated by the Jews. Mea, consider the horrors of the holocaust. Had your people been loved and accepted in Europe, the people would have been on your side. In a lot of countries, the citizens turned against Jews more viciously than the Nazis treated them. There are fundamental reasons for this.
25. 15 Oleg, Florida, USA: I am a US Army veteran dependent
Rivkah   (04.12.14)
child of many years with travels to West Germany, Japan, Europe and many US Army bases in the USA. I am a US Navy veteran dependent wife of many years (decades) and I am a US Navy active duty veteran (3 years) and the US Navy Ready Reserve (4 years) veteran in VTU units (Volunteer Training Units). I have seen the world, so I am qualified to advise the young of Israel although I am not an IDF veteran that there is no place like home which to me is where Elohim created a city with His Name's shape (the very Hebrew letters of His Name are shaped like the mountains and valleys of Yerushalayim). When I have been able to be in Israel, I feel safer and closer to Elohim than in other places of the world I have been. There is no place like Israel for those with Elohim in their hearts. So I create Yerushalayim around me in my home with tapestries (photo throws) of pictures I took of the Kotel and King David's Citadel steps and the sidewalk outside the Tomb of the Kings in the City of David.
26. #18. You spout ignorant babble.
Ira   (04.12.14)
Israelis are more tolerant of different ethnic groups than any European country. As for Apartheid, repeating the phrase doesn't make it so. We live in a wonderful country that is remarkable in its commitment to democratic ideals in the middle of a war environment. This is why Africans pass through Arab lands to live in the Jewish state.
27. #18
joemoer ,   iSrael   (04.12.14)
for someone who sprouts talk about racism..your email seems really racist . in fact we are not surprised ..after all it was your ancestors who started the racist laws in south africa..making laws that all blacks had to carry a pass to move around the country....it was also your ancestors who started the first concentration camps by jailing in appaling conditions the boers in south africa.....it was also your ancestors who made laws in palestine that allowed them to demolish any house of someone suspected of any action against the british. dont worry ...some of your laws are already being changed to incorporate sharia law....so not long for you matey before you will be looking for a new country and we have a long memory so dont come looking here. now lets get to the real point ...why does it not interest you that many thousands of innocent syrians are being killed by their own people and thousands are homeless and with out food ...oops sorry forgot ..no jews involved so the racist in you is not interested. do you know we have arab policemen,judges,lawers,doctors,postmen,waiters....how do you dare to compare us to apartheid south africa.....you do an injustice to millions of blacks and whites who suffered under apartheid..... your racism makes you blind
28. 24 Split The fundamental reason is
Observer   (04.12.14)
that anti-semitism is a contagious incurable disease.
29. #18 self named "david"
Raquel ,   Brazil   (04.13.14)
Generalizations always come from people who either never know the truth or wanna hide it. Talk for yourself not for others. If you hate Jews (which is clear thru your lines) use your own name. Brazilians have Jews at great stand. Since this beautiful country is part of the world (7th biggest economy actually), please do not include my democratic and bigotry free country in your words. I appreciate your attention.
30. #1
Raquel ,   Brazil   (04.13.14)
Rivka, you better learn a lot more before pointing fingers at others. You're right to say a female was jailed in a city court cell among males in the northern state of Para. Happened once. Would be good if you could say why American citizens started needing visa to land in Brazil as well. Gang rape and child abuse plus dropping a commercial flight killing 147 people may help as hint. Fact is that many foreigners show no respect for South American countries. You gotta respect others in order to be respected. Two way path.
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