Opinion  Nahum Barnea
No more condemnations; Jewish terror requires action
Nahum Barnea
Published: 02.08.15, 12:41
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1. Its ABOUT TIME
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (08.02.15)
Just as we demand the Palestinian Political and Religious Leadership STOP incitement and the obscene language of extremism So Israelis the Israeli Political and Religious Leadership and especially Israeli Arab MKs who have a lot to answer for must do the same Because all it does is end up catching up with and hurting those societies who ignore it in the first place Its time that the PA and Israel TAKE THE INITIATIVE FOR ONCE and stood up for what is RIGHT to make a joint Statement that whatever the differences VIOLENCE and TERRORISM ON BOTH SIDES will not be tolerated
2. The rabbis who sent Y. Amir now out to murder Pres. Rivilin
miki ,   tampa   (08.02.15)
3. ALL terror requires action
Scott ,   Ramat Gan   (08.02.15)
Mr. Barnea should be just as outraged when a Jew is killed by Arab terrrism
4. Just wondering
Big Yossi ,   Israel   (08.02.15)
whether Palestinian terror also requires action.
5. Arabs kill Jews with impunity and this author
Al   (08.02.15)
waxes poetic about something that has yet to be proven to be committed by a Jew. Typical Soviet style PC speak from a dope. Nothing and nobody to be heard from.
6. Stop the excuses and "But..."
Mark Jeffery Koch ,   Mount Laurel, NJ USA   (08.02.15)
I am tired of hearing Israelis and their supporters after an innocent Arab is murdered always add "But look what they do to us." That has nothing to do with a Jew burning an Arab baby to death. The Israeli government has stood by as the price tag attacks have escalated. They were warned that the attacks were increasing in their severity from putting graffiti on mosques, to burning down the mosques, to murdering innocent men, women, and children. Evil people, when seeing that they can get away with perpetrating their evil are going to carry out more and more of their evil deeds. What do Israelis expect when the man leading your government was campaigning for Prime Minister twenty years ago and saw people at his rallies waving posters of Yitchak Rabin dressed in a nazi uniform while they yelled "Death to Rabin" and Netanyahu chose to remain silent? What message did that send to the extremists? What message do the extremists hear today when the far right settlers see a government that allows them to take more and more Palestinian land and the leader of the government sends a video, rather than attend, a rally condemning violence against all people that the current and former President's of Israel spoke at as well as the current leader of the opposition? Netanyahu urged Israeli Jews to get to the polls several weeks ago because "the Arabs are coming in busses and in droves to vote." He tried to frighten Jews because Israeli Arabs, who are citizens of the State, were exercising their right to vote. He is a fear monger who references the Holocaust against all of Israel's enemies and a man who calls anyone who does not agree with him an anti semite, and any Jew who does not, a self hater. What you reap you will sow. I urge the Israeli people to choose another leader before he causes a conflagration that will take the lives to too many innocents on both sides. It's not too late to save your wonderful country.
7. Clear action required:arrest all Israelis except Meretz'niks
(08.02.15)
8. What is the author intending here?
WB ,   Be'er Sheba Israel   (08.02.15)
YNet censors: Please allow me to express my thoughts in response to this article. This author doesn't speak for the majority of us who are disgusted with those who commit criminal acts and who cause the deaths of innocents. His voice is an eerie reminder of the not-so-distant past. 70 years ago there were similar diatribes against Jews. Some of us remember this as a real-life experience... but all of us can read about the. Looking back, we can see how they started off as 'criticism of extremism' then escalated to dehumanizing and demonizing, moving to calls for legal action, and of course finally to the horrible events we vowed would never happen again. Every day and night the Arab media is full of content that agrees with this author... that calls for harsh measures against these 'extremists'. But here we have a strange situation, for the author of this specific diatribe against Jews is, himself, a Jew. Never mind that he is not wearing a kippa and maybe he even eats pork. In the eyes and minds of the majority of the world, he is a Jew. So when he calls for harsh action against other Jews and claims (falsely) that the courts protect these Jews, he gets a free pass. He will not be charged with incitement... but this is what his words amount to. He wants to incite others to ignore the law and to take matters into their own hands. This is terribly serious. It is a sign that we are not capable of living under the rule of law, that there are different sets of legal principles for those who agree with the author, and another (harsher) set for those who disagree. This madness has been going on since before 1948... it is the basic difference between the Labor Zionists and those who opposed them (and lost). Although I am personally in agreement with most of the ideas embodied in the Labor movement, I must be honest. History is a grim testament to the fact that the Labor Zionist ideology has brought very little good. Worse, it seems that parts of it (like the ideas in this article) have only added to the suffering of everyone. YNet is correct to allow different points of view to be expresses... even though my view is often not allowed. But calling for the extra-legal action against a group of people whose religious and political views you despise is horribly dangerous.
9. One-sided rage
WB ,   Be'er Sheba Israel   (08.02.15)
Nahum, you are something else! Really! How short your fuse is when it comes to even the report (not yet substantiated) of 'Jewish arson Terrorism'. The knife attack is something else... the crazy Haredi guy didn't hide... but now even those who protested the parade are considered accomplices to the crime. And this whole matter of "Jewish Terrorism' is problematic. Look closely at this subject. It's something that seems to exist mainly in the rhetoric of specific ideological echelons. Make no mistake, I am personally enraged by these acts of violence. They serve only the interests of those who want to silence a specific group (a group with whom I strongly disagree). But it's the prima facia hypocrisy that bothers me now. There was no such rage when the Fogel family and the Biton child were murdered. Of course, they were Jews, and they were living in places you think they shouldn't live... therefore their lives are forfeit to your ideological purity. Right? Two despicable acts elicit such hateful rage and extra-legal revenge (since the courts are in cahoots with the 'Right Wing' devils). I know this is the 'Silly Season' (the Dog Days) but is Nahum really serious about what he says here? He's always got to prove his ideology is superior to those who don't fully agree with him... but calling for the de facto lynching of an entire group of people (the 'Right Wing') is a bit much, don't you think? One troubling fact in all this that's being widely ignored... look at the statistics. There's not a statistically significant upward trend in what's foolishly labeled 'Jewish Terrorism' (as though it were on a par with, say, Hamas terrorism). Apply the law to everyone, equally. That's the only solution. And here let's be clear about what is law and what is the ideology of a specific group. Nahum clearly doesn't believe that 'Right Wing' folks should be counted among those entitled to presumption of innocence. I know (from past articles) that he extends this and many other basic Human rights to everyone who devotes their lives to our (and his) destruction (the radicals in the actual terrorist community). In my youth as a Jew in the most racist and anti-Semitic part of America (the South), I saw first-hand what intolerance does to people. I thought we'd be able to 'live and let live' in Israel. But I'm mistaken. Those who hate outnumber those who tolerate. Right now, Nahum, you are only adding fuel to the hate. Where will it lead, do you think? It might not be where you believe. It might end up being too close to home. But it doesn't need to be that way.
10. The stabbing was 100% the fault of the gov
BenJosef   (08.02.15)
who have no tolerance for religious Jews and G-d and expect Jews to have tolerance towards them. Why are you blaming Jews for the Arson when it was another Arab violence or even secular Israelis?
11. Get rid of the Jew hating gov and everything'll be solved
(08.02.15)
12. No more condemnations. Stop condemning innocent Jews
Nachum ,   TA   (08.02.15)
without proof in order to appease Arabs and quell their rioting.
13. Glenda P on FB Secular intolerance causes violence. Period!
Anonymous   (08.02.15)
You cannot expect others to be tolerant towards you if you are intolerant towards them. This march was nothing but secular provocation against G-d and religious Jews. The woman who was stabbed is unfortunate. The only prayer for her and the rest of the marchers is to do tshuva and behave like Jews.
14. How about stopping to condemn Jews before proving
(08.02.15)
they're guilty. Shame on you.
15. Was the arson attack A FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
Tracy W ,     (08.02.15)
There has been a rush to condemn the "settlers" for the arson attack on an Arab home. But how do we know it was really the settlers who did it? There have been many false flag operations blaming right wing Jews for all kinds of things. Cameras have captured leftists and Arabs destroying Arab trees to blame Jews, for example. Police have also dressed as Arabs trespassing on settlement towns in order to entrap Jews into committing acts of violence. And so on. There are foreign government-sponsored activist groups promoting insurgence that operate LEGALLY.in Israel. They would love to blame settlers for this act. Anyone could have worn a mask and set fire to an Arab home. The graffiti the perpetrators painted on a wall read "long live the messiah" - Would religious Jews write that? What living messiah? As far as we know they are still waiting for him. Can we at least wait for an investigation and show a little more suspicion until we have the evidence of who was behind it?
16. Any excuse will do! Face reality there are
JRS   (08.03.15)
many evil jews too.
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