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Cartoon riots in Jerusalem
Efrat Weiss
Published: 11.02.06, 16:21
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1. Police Restraint When Dealing With Arab Mobs
(02.11.06)
Where were the police truncheons attacking the heads of the rioting Arabs in Jerusalem? Do the security forces only save them to bloody the pulps of religious and secular zionists? Just wondering......
2. You really want equal treatment?
Ails ,   Israel   (02.11.06)
So it appears that our right wingers want the same treatment as Palestinian stone throwers - lets remember that and next time, bring firearms - maybe then they will not be so quick to throw concrete blocks and stones on the heads of the soldiers - OUR CHILDREN - who spend parts of the army service protecting these settlers!!
3. Keep Cartoons free from Daft Rioters
richard hitchings ,   methil   (02.11.06)
Cartoon Fans need the Police to keep order... If it means a few sore heads amongst Rioters.. then so be it.
4. Where are Olmert's Black Shirt's on Horseback ?
Marcel ,   Florida   (02.11.06)
The latest Quisling only arrested two ? What a pathetic state israel is in ,always cowtowing to the radical elements whose stated goal is Israel's extermination.Israel treats it's enemies better than it treats it's friends.
5. reply to #2 (Ails)
sk ,   USA   (02.11.06)
You say that "[your] children" (children in Tel Aviv?) "spend parts of the army service protecting these settlers." I think you're a bit confused. You see, these "settlers" participate in the IDF in numbers far greater than their numbers in the population, especially as officers. Meantime, your children have not only NOT volunteered but have dodged the draft. I've already seen calls for a one-year halt in all military service by "settlers" in order to communicate this point. I think maybe 6 months would do. A few rockets into Tel Aviv would help focus your thinking.
6. Arab gratitude
Christopher ,   Boston, MASS USA   (02.11.06)
The Muslims should be grateful they are rioting in an Israeli city. In Muslim states, the authorities have been shooting them on sight: Afghanistan, Iran, Jordan, France, and Russia!
7. arabs, any excuse to riot will do
Yisraeli   (02.11.06)
and these are Israeli citizens, right? given blue cards, right? who voted Hamas in, right? who get Kitzvat Yeladim (child allowance) by the millions, right? who rarely if ever pay any taxes, right? Right, just so long as we understand just who they are. Loyal citizens of the Stae of Israel, right?
8. reply to #5
Ari ,   Tel Aviv   (02.11.06)
i dont know what you been smoking but the settlers constitute a disastrous drain on our resources as well as our soldiers' lives. Why should a normal person from Tel Aviv be forced to protect the psychojews in the settlements who are racists against the Arabs and even against us "seculars"? Better to have you out of our IDF - i say you can stay in the West Bank, just without our protection!!! (then we will see how quickly you run back to Tel Aviv, tail between your legs!) Hypocrites all of you. You create Jewish terrorists and stain the name of the Jews throughout the world.
9. Another example that Islam makes people crazy.
Daisy ,   USA   (02.11.06)
10. Arabs totally cukoo - cartoon was Danish, not Israeli
Dudu ,   Kfar Sava   (02.11.06)
Just goes to show the fanatical irrationality of our fascist neighbors.
11. Reply to # 2-YOu Have Your Facts Twisted
(02.11.06)
I think you have your facts mixed up. In point of fact BOTH of Olmert's sons are draft dodgers! Therefore, the man who ordered the bloody beating of the "settlers", not only himself hasn't served in a combat position in the army, but neither have his sons in any capacity at all. So before you vilify the "settlers" you should look in your own backyard. By the way, I am a secular zionist, but I am not deluded by the facts on the ground. In addition, the reviled "settlers" are protecting Israel more than any other group in Israel. If they opt out of service like your leftist brethren, let's see how secure the coastal cities will be.
12. #10-Yes, but it's always easier to blame the Jews
Arie   (02.11.06)
13. Because it's in the Koran
Ariel ,   Jerusalem, Judaea   (02.11.06)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8442014088728649932
14. Who said it is an Israel city. It has built by Arabians
Palestinian ,   East Jerusalem   (02.11.06)
Arabian Cannanites built this city long before Abraham arrived to the Land of CAnnan. Cannanites came from the Arabian Peninsula long before Jews and Arab Ishmaelites ever existed. This city has, had, and will keep having Arabian and Arabic heritage and folklore. http://www.habtoor.com/thinkingclearly/html/issue37.htm
15. Palestinian, that proof is a joke
ash ,   gush etzion   (02.11.06)
The link goes to a site that has 'evidence' that Palestinian Arabs are actually Canaanites. Apart from all the other nonsense, it proves that Jews were not from there because the word Hebrew comes from 'Heberu'. Well Palestinian that word has never been found in 'Hebrew' because the term is Ivrit or Ivrim. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hebrew In fact the Jews are always called 'Am Yisrael' or 'Bnei Yisrael' by Jewish texts. The term Hebrew is a letter creation not from the Middle East. www.kicisrael.blogspot.com
16. "Palestinian" #14 - Good Joke
Arie   (02.11.06)
Using an anti-Jew anti-Western source in the heart of Al Jazeera coutry like Dubai is hardly a credible source. By the way, I just looked at a map and noticed there is no "Palestine." And if I look at maps dating back to 1948, I see only Israel, Jordan (having annexed what you call your "Palestine" and Egypt having annexed Gaza. http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_Jewish_and_Moslem_Claims_to_the_Holy_City.asp http://archaeology.about.com/cs/neareastern/a/jerusalem.htm
17. several good websites about middle eastern native population
Joshua Neuman ,   Atlanta   (02.12.06)
Here is a summary of several genetic studies which show that the population of the northern Middle East is genetically "Northern-Semitic" (even Kurds and Iranains, who speak Indo-Iranian languages are closer to Aramean/Assyrians, Lebanese, and Jews than they are to Pathans, Tajiks and Northern Indians), and is quite different from the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, whose languages thaey now mostly speak as a result of cultural anihilation/replacement on the part of Islam (i.e. Muhammad's plan to Arabicize the world). http://www.assyrianfoundation.org/genetics.htm I am Jewish, but Israel's presence in the Middle East is not necessary in the world just because God gave us the Land, but also because Israel serves as a beacon of hope to all the anti-Arab resistance movements in the region yearning to express their true national identities. That is why it was a mistake when Israel stopped supporting the Kurds and it was a mistake to pull out of Lebanon, because the SLA took its ideology form Etienne Saqr (Abu Arz) whose Hurraas al-Arz (Guardians of the Cedars) militia was very anti-Arab and represented the only true ethnic self-assertion movement in Lebanon. http://www.gotc.org/ Here is a good Assyrian organization, too. They fought against Saddam's Arab Fascist Ba'ath. www.zowaa.org
18. why cant we have peace and no racism?
a muslim teenager ,   brooklyn, NY, USA   (02.12.06)
things id liek to point out -everyone in the world already has a horrible image of what Islam is all about and it makes me want want to cry at how even more distoted that image has become -it scares me that some people are so narrow-minded that they refuse to try and think of how the person on the other side feels. being a msulim, i always try to think of how a non-muslim might feel, and it makes me feel insecure, even as a very popular girl among non-muslims and muslism alike in my high school -this article (and many other non-muslim news article) was one-sided; all it talked about was how violent the muslims were actign, and gave no REAL isight into why the Muslisms around the world acted the way they did, and obviously this is why almost allof the -im not a perfect Muslim, but i have recently gotten deeper int othe religion - contradict myself wen i say that because Islam is not a relgion...it is a way of life, literally. -yes, any imagery of any kind of ANY person is forbidded, so doing a caracature of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) is blasphemy -it hurts to know that nono-muslims are only tryign to test the limits of muslims just to prove the misconception that we are violent people. -no. Islam is about peace, and it promotes peace. yo uget blessed for eeevery smile, u get blessed for every friend, you get blessed for every time you teach someoen somethign good. you get blessed for greetign some one (Assalamualaikum). those who follow Islam in a destructive manner are not following islam the right way. they misinterpret the scriptures (as any human being is capable of doing ,im sure). -the Qur'an has the "guidelines to life" and the Hadith (the recorded life of the prophet (p.b.u.h)) is the Qur'an put into action. The hadith are usually the ones that get misinterpreted and there is debate among Muslim schoalrs of the interpreattions. interpretations usually account for the difference i nthe way peopel practice their beleifs, no matter what the religion (the reaso nfror different sects of religion) -yes, the Hadith and Qur'an tell us to defend our religion (jihad) if there is a threat to it and to first take action, and if u cant take action, speak against it. and if u can tdo that, feel it in ur heart that it was bad (and this is the worst type of jihad). but even if there is soem sort of war, it is forbidden to kill innocnet civillians, i coudl go on, but these were some thigns on my mind that I really wanted to get thru to soem people. I hope people wil lcome to understand that ISLAM DOES NOT EQUAL TERRORISM. thank you everyone who read all of this.
19. riots over a cartoon
Michael ,   Austin, TX   (02.12.06)
and dancing in the street when their children blow themselves up. What a sick society they are. I hope to see the day when their priorities join the 21st century.
20. Plus Pal & Jordan flags are exactly the same....
Gil ,   Tel Aviv   (02.12.06)
because jordan IS palestine, fillistine or whatever the f*ck you call it.
21. Tp # 14: Jews are native to Israel, Arabs are not
Efi   (02.12.06)
The Canaanites were not Arabs. Hebrew is classed as a Canaanite language, let me spell it out for you, that means its from HERE, Israel. Arabic is not. Judaism is from Israel. Islam is from Arabia. Hebrew is from Israel. Arabic is from Arabia. Muslims turn to Mecca to pray. That's in Arabia. Jews turn to Jerusalem to pray. That's in Israel. Now I ask you, who is the foreign civilization (Arabs), and who is the indigionous native peoples to this land (Jews). Since the first century when Judea was destroyed, until 1948, no seperate kingdom or state existed in Israel. It was just part of someone's empire. Palesitinian Arabs speak the same langugae, practice the same religion, and have the same culture as Arabs in 22 Arab countries. Because they are not native to Israel. Unlike the Jews. Over and out
22. Cartoon riots in Israel
leah amdur ,   Jerusalem Israel   (02.12.06)
Reply to No.14 the G-d of Abraham, Itzak, and Yaakov/Israel will show us very soon who has the claim to Eretz Israel
23. Relativity...
Jan ,   Poland   (02.12.06)
In Arab, especially muslim media you can see each day cartoons insulting jews (drinking blood, eating babies...) or christians (linking the Pope to satan, Jesus being a junkie...). But somehow I did never see Jews or Christians burning any flags, setting fire to embassies or rioting in any way over such issues. Is there maybe a difference in political culture?
24. To #21: Jews are not Native to Israel, but to Egypt.
(02.12.06)
Check your bible dude next time.
25. To#23. You are a liar!Muslims respect Jesus more than you do
(02.12.06)
26. Palestinans and Lebanese are originally Cannanites. Period!!
(02.12.06)
27. To #24
Efi   (02.12.06)
In the bible it says that the Hebrews went down to Egypt from Canaan and returned to Canaan - its you that needs to check the bible dude
28. and the final truth
Yisraeli   (02.12.06)
where do you think the word 'palestine' comes from? I bet you not one single arab or so called palestinian let alone theyre supportes actually understands or even knows the root word of palestine. Besides the fact that the Roman empire names such after defeating the Jews post 72ce. What is the source of its word???? Well I'll tell you so learn! The word palestine/palestinian comes from the Hebrew word Plishtim in the Bible.....and guess what Plishtim means in Hebrew??? INVADERS!!!!! and so it is even unto this day they are nothing but invaders and squatters on land belonging not to them but to Jews/Yehudim/Yahud and Jews/Yehudim/Yahud alone. and why Yehudim? because they came from Yehuda ie Judea (& Samaria) and not from saudi arabia. I rest my case.
29. Reply to #25
(02.12.06)
Why are you insulting me? I was telling facts. If you have arguments with which you think you can reply (to all of them) I would be glad to hear them. But maybe your reaction is part of the political culture I was talking about. If you respect Jesus start behaving according to his teachings.
30. #25-You really should try reading the news
Arie   (02.12.06)
Respect Jesus? Then that would mean respecting those that believe in Jesus. So lets see how the MoHAMedans respect the Christians: Egypt:Coptic Christiansa routinely massacred by MoHAMedans Sudan: Dharfur Christians subject of genocidal assault by Muslim governemnet Turker: MoHAMedans murder Pries outside Church over a cartoon the Prst had no involvement in Iraq: MoHAMedans routinely blow up Christian Churches PA: Christians subjugated by MoHAMedan terrorist regime causing them to flee Holy Land Lebanon: MoHAMedans routinely massacre Christians in the name of National Goals and Allah Phillipines: MoHAMedan terrorists routinely attack and massacre Christians Russia: MoHAMedans massacre 350+ Christian Kids 9/11: MoHAMedans massacre over 2500 Christians The List goes on and On
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