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Rapist's escape a warning sign
Yonatan Yavin
Published: 01.12.06, 12:28
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1. super hero?
Josh ,   Canada   (12.01.06)
is there an actual quote of someone labling the guy as a superhero other then the author, and people escapse from prison all the time in North America, not too long ago they freed a man who resembled a guy who finished serving his sentence here in Quebec, nobody's perfect, so this kind of stuff will happen, u just have to deal with it and start by critisizing a whole nation by something so small.
2. hero ?
charles ,   petach tikva   (12.01.06)
How can you call sela a hero ? a raper who attacked women backwards , is this an hero for you ? That he could escape is probably due to a good preparation , and maybe some aid from....? this will appear later . To catch him is difficult , but now at least they have good photographs of him , this was not the case when arrested the first time . Criminals escapes in every country in the world , and are arrested again . Needs some time , but finally he will not stay in liberty .
3. Everyday that Benny Sela is able to elude
Richard ,   New York, USA   (12.01.06)
the police, in a small country like Israel, shows that he has some positive talents that have never been realized, until now. The public knows him as a midget who beats and rapes women to prove his manhood. Even a midget want's to be respected. And now he has transfered his energies into becoming a great escape artist. Maybe, when this is over, he can get a job working for the Mossad. I'm sure there is room for his positive attributes.
4. What's the big deal about Sela? Watch Olmert instead.
Bennie ,   Jerusalem   (12.01.06)
What's the big deal about Sela? Olmert is getting ready to release a few thousand Islamic terrorists. Sela is small fish compared to the crime against Israel that Olmert is about to commit. Olmert stopped the IDF from defending Israel while the kassams continue to fall on Sderot and Ashkelon. Olmert's crimes are no less then Sela's, but no one is trying to catch Olmert and put him in jail.
5. You are the only one to call him ''hero''...moron !
(12.01.06)
6. What it REALLY means -
Edan ,   Israel   (12.01.06)
Is that the police in this country are just plain INCOMPETENT!!!
7. So true...
Adam Admati ,   Israel   (12.01.06)
"... the entire Israeli public is behaving just as lazily and foolishly, and the security forces' defective performance in the Sela fiasco stems from Israel's overall defective performance." Today's Israel is so NOT the Israel of just a few years ago.
8. sela is hiding out in the harede sociaty
popo   (12.01.06)
and because this sociaty is closed to newspapers tv radio its the safest place for him the police should go around asking for the rabbis help bring all information thay can to this community he sticks out as a stranger probably has a good story that he has been sent from jeruaslem or some or place ask every area if thay have met or have a new member or neighbour in the area thay matching his decription he will be found
9. rapist's escape
joe ,   israel   (12.01.06)
the police were with their pants down. the army was with their pants down in the war. the government.........................don't even wear pants. they shoud all go home.
10. We need more money for the Civil Guard
jason white ,   afula,israel   (12.01.06)
and less for the cops. The cops are not dedicated to fighting crime,but they mostly are a group of apathetic wise asses. I met cops who could barely speak Hebrew.They use their badges to push people around.If a cop thinks you slighted hm then he goes after you.The same with prison guards.They love to give orders outside the prison and tell people they are cops.Also with municipal inspectors.They think a light blue shirt makes them cops. We need to hire people who are competent and train them properly.Or pay Civil Guards two or three days salary each month to patrol and man roadblocks. Finally let the guards and officers involved with this sit in prison with sela,if he is ever caught.
11. Maybe the rapist is in Kazakhstan
Aslan Izmikov ,   NY, USA   (12.01.06)
with Borat?
12. rapist's escape
sas ,   israel   (12.02.06)
TRUE TRUE TRUE and VERY SAD.
13. rapist's escape
sam ,   israel   (12.02.06)
HE IS ALREADY OVER A WEEK OUT OF THE COUNTRY. LET THE POLICE/ARMY ETC. REALIZE THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OT HANDLING ANYTHING. WE NEED A BIG CHANGE. MR. OHLMERT. RESIGN - THE QUICKER THE BETTER. YOU ARE A TOTAL FAILURE. LEAVE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
14. No. 2 Charles
tma   (12.03.06)
What does it mean to "attack a woman backwards", I'm not familiar with the term. BTW, the term is "rapist", not "raper".
15. Where Sela is hiding
No 8 – Popo   (12.03.06)
No one knows where Sela is, so you shouldn't state with such certainty that he is hiding in a haredi community. This could give secular women a false sense of security. He could be anywhere. It was suggested that he could be hiding among the haredim as imitating their dress - hat, coat, false beard, etc. -would provide him with a disguise, and as you mentioned, the haredi community are not as updated to the news as the rest of the population, unfortunately. I agree with you that everything should be done by the haredi media to warn their population of this dangerous pervert. As I do not read haredi newspapers, I don't know whether or not this is done. Are there haredim reading ynet who could let us know?
16. True the cops screwed up big time....
(12.03.06)
but Sela will also screw up again . Israel is not a big country like the states; he'll run out of hiding places soon enough. Right now he's trying to settle back into society, he'll get comfortable and then boom one day he'll be going about and get caught. Now if he goes back to raping he'll be caught sooner.
17. to #4 you're so right !
laurence ,   Givatayim, Israel   (12.03.06)
I have nothing to add. Bravo ! If the policemen who guarded Benny Sela have to face justice for their responsability in his escape, then Olmert should be trialed also in his responsability to release hundereds of barbarians killers !!
18. You call the Israelis Incompetent??
Joey Baruch ,   Los Angeles   (12.10.06)
What in your right mind makes you think anything you wrote is not completely incompetent??? Hero??? I could not even articulate how rediculous and asenine your article is, and it should go in the garbage right next to the Hamas Doctorine.. You are a shame to the Israeli people, and should have been fired yesterday. I hope you are the editor too, because it would be very disappointing to know that there is more then one person that approves of this garbage you wrote.
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