News
Weekend of stabbings in Tel Aviv
Avi Cohen
Published: 25.02.06, 20:51
Comment Comment
Print comment Print comment
Back to article
17 Talkbacks for this article
1. More and more Israel resembles the U.S.
Marcel ,   Florida   (02.25.06)
When I first visited Israel in 77' there were no drugs and crime as we see today. Israel sinks deeper and deeper into the sewage as it imitates the god it serves and bows before and worships. The U.S. has it's 51 state and it's perverse ways and coruption flood this once clean land. The next step Israel will take to follow the American way is to build more prisons and allow the overflow of criminals out on parole to seal, rape and molest children,sell drugs,steal and murder again and again. Thats the America of 2006 which Israel imitates so religiously.
2. tel aviv youth vs. yesha youth
mar ,   nyc   (02.25.06)
the future of the jewish state lies with people proud of who they are and of what belongs to them, not wannabe americanized gangstas robbing and stabbing fellow jews on the "good" side of the security fence
3. Marcel
Michelle   (02.25.06)
Move out of the United States if it's so horrible for you. While you're bad mouthing my country...many are wanting to get in and become citizens!
4. to marcel....
ed ,   usa   (02.25.06)
you remind me, with your uber negative comments of the little boy ,who was never happy , no matter what he got for his birthday..... sure ,does america have deep rooted problems? is its society ,and culture(?) sinking lower and lower? yes, indeed. and is israel following suit after that decay? yes again . but you have a choice--- either stay here in the states , and deal eith that , or make aliya and try to change things. either way ,my dear ,we don't give a damm!
5. To: 3 & 4; 1 & 2 are right
(02.25.06)
Israel IS beginning to resemble the bad aspects of the U.S. It wasn't like this when I came here 25 yrs ago. It is because the education system no longer teaches morality based on the Tanach. Among the religious public you will not find this happening nearly as much. We had better do something about this very soon.
6. Forgot to write my name
Chaya ,   Israel   (02.25.06)
I'm the one who wrote that 1 and 2 are right.
7. I didn't realize that stabbing someone was 'american'?
Efi   (02.25.06)
Crime and youth violence are not exclusively American, these problems exist around the world.
8. American culture is a contagious poison
(02.25.06)
From over a dozen thousand gun murders a year to a nationwide collection of gangs who murder people over the colour they wear. From nauseating rap culture to the endless accumulation of porn. The tattoos, the piercings, the 'punk' culture, where little kids cut themselves and wear black. Drugs, crack cocaine. The McDonald's and KFC. Violence. Movies like 'Scary Movie,' and 'American Pie.' America's valueless, immoral culture is destroying the West, and the world. Little kids from Britain, Germany, Israel watch filthy 50 Cent 'music' videos - because the media (and monstrous MTV plays it) says that that's the 'cool' thing to do. They hear him brag about being shot and stabbed as a drug dealer. They want to imitate that behaviour. This cultural disaster is happening all over the west, thanks to America's greed and depravity. How the hell can the US talk about being a great, moral, Christian nation when the #1 song on their popular charts is one in which a black man gloats about smoking crack, being shot, and raping a white woman? Those sure are moral Christian values. And the best argument the blind, radical rightist American warped-minded patriots will say, 'millions of people want to move here.' Yes, millions do - but, not for the way of life, or values. They want American deniro to send back to the familia in Meheeko. Most of them don't even bother to learn English and they move to ghettoes which are transforming much of America into a third world nation, rapidly resembling its southern neighbours. American culture is malignant, and destructive. And we can see that everywhere it is spewed it has grave consequences, like the stabbings in Israel amongst youngsters. What a shame. I will boycott as much American culture as I possibly can.
9. America had nothing to do with it MORONS
Robert Goldman ,   cooper city Florida   (02.25.06)
Most of the attackers were either ARAB or Russian , stabbings are normal for those 2 cultures, the knife is not so often used in the US..... that road rage shooting is totally a Cali deal... elsewhere in the US shootings over traffic are Rare so please take your moronic attitudes elsewhere and find the real blame
10. #8 you need to get out more
Robert Goldman ,   cooper city Florida   (02.25.06)
American Pie violent? ROFLMFAO where do you get your info? did you ever see the film? it was a RIP OFF of Eskamo Lemon in it's teen sex content As for the rest of your rant. you have some points but you garble the context of it all with a lot of nothing,,,,,,,, There are more tat too parlors in Israel then in all of South Florida even with tthe renewed interest in it here. As for the drugs you mention . Israel is sending tons of X to the states and Europe.....
11. Usa + Israel
Jolene ,   USA   (02.25.06)
The U.S.A is flawed and greatly so, but then again it wasn't created to fix sin problems. This is responsibility of each individual person to get to know G-d and to allow him to work in their lives.
12. Keep them out
jason white ,   afula,israel   (02.25.06)
When I first moved to Israel over thirty years ago there was a lot less crime. We had youth who wanted to go to the combat units in the army,study,work start families.Then came the immigration from the F.S.U. of people not motivated to move here to contribute to a Jewish state. There were so many who are not even Jews. Then instead of the arabs staying in their villages they have to lry to get our women. Let them try that in their villages. If a Jewish man tried to pick up an arab woman in her village,they would kill him on the spot..
13. israeli 'culture'
Yisraeli   (02.26.06)
theres no doubting 'israeli culture' as againt 'jewish culture' have been going down the tubes a long while now and irrespective of america. And one does not have to be a genius to see why - its called post zionism as taught by the 'sages' of the left like Yossi Sarid and Shulamit Aloni etc. when he was education minister. The values of the youth of the 50's 60's 70's and even 80's have crumbled. Its inevitable when the upper echelons and leaders have crumbled too starting from the 90's. You wont find this behaviour happening to the youth of Judea Samaria and once Gush Katif, why? Because theyre values are intact. They have much love for a fellow Jew and much love for the Land of Israel. Israel was never meant to be like 'any other nation' but when it gives up its roots and Jewish heritage slowly it begins to resemble 'like any other nation'. Herewith endeth the lesson.
14. What brought out the weirdos?
Jeff ,   Herzliya   (02.26.06)
What a jerk Marcel is... criticizing the U.S. from his home in Florida. How did an article on stabbings become one on the U.S.? Israel has plenty of problems of its own -- are there really morons out there that think that the 4 stabbers thought, "Well, normally I'd throw a felafel at them, but in America they stab, so here I go"? How about all the problems Israel would be having without the tens of billions of dollars the American taxpayer has given it over the years? Oh, and before you get TOO smug, it's not just the Arabs and Russians who sin...
15. Michelle ed
Marcel ,   Florida   (02.26.06)
The truth is not what you want to hear michelle? I know about the flood of criminal and terrorists who come in at our borders especially the Mexican border and how our law breaking president does nothing about it. I know that the U.S has more citizens in prison than any other nation on the earth and how the flood of perversion from Hollywood poisons the planet and how the god of America $ corrupts mens souls and how the U.S. haS betrayed Israel under the Bush Road Map for the love of arab $ & oil. It's horrible here and getting worse but like Avraham I look for a city whose bulider is G-d. Where no liars dwell ,that leavs out the moslems and the politicians.
16. yes, the USA has problems
boy george ,   USA   (02.26.06)
but we admit them- unlike you Israelis- who may I remind you - you are WELFARED by USA tax dollars- we are tired of your ungrateful whining and TAKING fom the USA- meanwhile being more loyal to Israel- though you LIVE here? isnt that treason? and Israel is disgusting to us anyway- with its RACIST laws. YOU had better cahnge- We americans Fought for equal rights for all-
17. To Marcel -
Edan ,   Beer Sheva   (02.26.06)
I don't get you ... You are a jesus freak yet in all your messages you preach of hatred and intolerance. Go have a long stare at your crucifix and ask yourself how jesus , your main man, would behave. I'm no expert in Christianity but I do believe that Jesus preached tolerance for all...(which includes muslims, mexicans, etc.) You do a great injustice to your religion with your messages of hate....Just a thought
Back to article