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Israeli neo-Nazis arrested
Raanan Ben-Zur
Published: 09.09.07, 11:54
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1. Absolutely disgusting actions!
(09.09.07)
How could anything like that happen in a Jewish State? These teenagers should be prosecutd to the full extent of the law. Lock them up, or better yet... send them back to Russia!
2. Neo-Nazi olim
dave   (09.09.07)
The Knesset should, without delay, pass a law permitting the Interior Ministry to revoke the citizenship of these bastards. Israeli citizenship should be contingent upon abstention from such activities. We do not need such scum in our midst.
3. They cant even draw them right - punk rocker kids
andrew ,   miami,fl   (09.09.07)
4. Stop illegal immigration !!!!!!!!!
Sara ,   Israel   (09.09.07)
Let more neo-nazis into Israel! Give them more rights! Thats just what Israel needs! NOT!! How the hell did they get to live here in the first place???? !!! Big mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. This is what happens when you let in goyim immigrants!
Asi ,   Tel Aviv   (09.09.07)
Change the law of return to stop this kind of infiltration by Christian Russians.
6. deport them
(09.09.07)
and their entire families back to russia. now! this is unacceptable in the israeli state. these people and their families have no business being in a jewish homeland. back to russia!
7. it's one-way ticket time
bob ,   potomac md usa   (09.09.07)
8. nazi Eli?
Asher Anzel Duvid ,   NYC   (09.09.07)
nazi Eli needs to get his theraputic dose of Vitamin Cyanide like his nazi heroes.
9. What's complicated?
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (09.09.07)
Complicated and sensitive my a--! Glue kippot onto their heads and drop them off in the middle of Halhul or Jenin. Then deport the parents.
10. You get what you pay for
Shalom   (09.09.07)
Israel pushed and pushed to get anyone with the slightest connection to a Jewish relative to Israel, and look what they get - sh*t. Now Israel wants to persuade the same b**s**ds to convert. Isn't this the secular, left dream? Democracy at it's "finest". It makes me sick. Anyone showing ANY anti-semitic tendencies should immediately be fined all the money they've received and booted back to "Mother Russia" Charles - how do you feel about this - it's on your doorstep?
11. I'm a Russian-speaking Jew, and I say deport these animals..
Avraham ,   NYC   (09.09.07)
12. If you want a Jewish state,
Howard K ,   NYC   (09.09.07)
much as those words may offend the secular and the non-Jewish, you'll have to make some decisions that are going to be unpopular. First of all, Israel must stop allowing non-Jews into the country, whether they are Darfurians or "family reunification Non-Jews" or Christians who may have had a distant Jewish relative. Second, those Russian Nazis may have been born in Israel. You can't deport them. However.... you can make them an offer they can't refuse: either a very long and uncomfortable stay in prison plus a large fine, or a ticket back to Mother Russia. Third, regarding other non-Jewish immigrants who do not feel at home in Israel, offer them a few financial incentives to help them resettle back home in Russia or wherever. Take into account that many of them arrived as children and had no choice in the matter. Today they are alienated and do not feel part of the larger Jewish community. People like that must be encouraged to emigrate. Israel is a refuge for all Jews. It must not be tarnished by the presence of Neo-Nazis or anyone who expresses hatred of Jews. And fourth, stop allowing hate speech in Israel. Make it illegal. It is sickening the way some Jews - be them Haredi or Yesha or whoever - have become a legitimate target for hatred by other Jews. And as far as the ever present critics of Israel, two thousand years of persecution is all that Israel needs to justify both tighter immigration policies and new hate laws. Jews are victims everywhere else in the world. At the very least, they must be protected in Israel.
13. Deport them and those who brought them!
Yosef   (09.09.07)
The anti Jewish left!
14. nazis in Israel
Yisraeli   (09.09.07)
shows you how low Israel has become. Send them to the Labor party headquarters who brought them in or deport them and their family immediately. This is not what Israel is about! And change that pathetic law allowing 1/4 jewish ancestory as suffecient.
15. Admit Sudanese refugees? No. Admit Nazis? Yes.
Noah ,   New York, NY   (09.09.07)
You won't let in Sudanese fleeing genocide, but you will let in Russians celebrating genocide - in fact, your own genocide? Some "law of return."
16. Can't get more pathetic
Korem ,   New York, USA   (09.09.07)
They really entered "the belly of the beast" LOL Going to the only Jewish country and spraying "we hate Jews"...these people have no lives, nothing, just a life of hatred. I guess it must be fun. But it's over now. Send 'em back to Russia.
17. easy
Bartholemew F.D. ,   Fargo ND   (09.09.07)
Obviously, these hateful morons are either psychopaths, drug addicts, mental cases or a combination of the above. In any case, they are very dangerous and should be psychiatrically examined to determine what is wrong with them. Then they should be put in a secure facility and when their sentence is up, deported. This is like KKK members living in Harlem.
18. They just want easy conversions
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (09.09.07)
Yeah right.
19. Nazis in Israel
Jerry Diamond ,   Toronto Canada   (09.09.07)
Something is very wrong here why were they put in jail they should have been congratulated and invited back to Olmerts home for dinner. What a crapper government Israel has. If Begin were in power to day no chance this would have ever happened. These bastards would be long gone. Wake up Israelis you voted for this government!
20. Back to the USSR
(09.09.07)
Unfortunately, quite a few of these Pravoslavnik youth in Israel do not see eye to eye with the Jewish state, just to put it mildly. These youngsters are here unwillingly and they make their very best to show it at every occasion. They belong to new Nazi groups, duck army service, talk in a derogatory way about Israel and its values, yet accept its benefits.They surely do not give a hoot about parents and school education. Believe me, they will never be normal citizens of this country. So, why don't we do them the greatest favour and release them into the European politically correct left-bound life ? Maybe, there, they will have better chances to advance in society ?!
21. Nazis
Fred Douglas ,   Har Halutz   (09.09.07)
I do not recall that the State of Israel was formed for a haven for Nazis whether youth or adult. Send them all back from wherever they came from. If they are minors, then their parents either go back with them or they can stay assuming they are not Natzis either.
22. Neo Nazis in Israel
Marian ,   Israel   (09.09.07)
They should all be sent to work in Yad Vashem, their salaries used to pay their counseling back to becoming human beings. Let's see if they still will salute Hitler after 1 month, and if they do extend their work for as long as it takes.
23. send them to gaza along with the sheik
jack bauer   (09.09.07)
then see if the arabs think they are jewish or not i bet they would be suprised by the answer
24. why the surprise , they are israeli arent they ?
(09.09.07)
25. # 22
Sagi ,   Israel   (09.09.07)
You want to defile a sanctity ?
26. I May Have Met One of These Guys Once
M. Martin ,   NYC/Tel-Aviv   (09.09.07)
Sometimes the neo-Nazis aren't necessarily Russian Immigrants... One night, back when I lived in Tel-Aviv, I stopped at an ATM machine in front of Dizengoff Center and passed a group of punk rockers who struck me as relatively ordinary Israeli kids likely from a place like Herzliya Pituach who were hanging out with their friends. The ringleader looked right at me and shouted "White Power! White Power!" This was in 2000, a couple of weeks before Yom HaShoah. Let's think about this: Jewish kids raised by Jewish parents in a Jewish state talking about "White Power." Clearly this guy does not understand that "White Power" is basically the same as saying "Heil Hitler" and that real white people would fry him up as fast as they would do me (a Black American). If I were a different kind of person, I could have come back to him with all kinds of "soap" and "lampshade" and a couple people (Ashkenazi American Jews) told me I would have been within my rights to do that, but I didn't. I thought it was going a little too far. An idiot like this would be utterly defenseless if confronted by white supremacist militia types from the Northwestern US. He would be in total shock as they beat him up plunged a knife into his chest just for being a Jew. I didn't feel all that threatened by this guy physically because they did not strike me as real skinheads. To Be Continued...
27. I May Have Met One of These Guys - Continued
M. Martin ,   NYC/Tel-Aviv   (09.09.07)
This guy (who I assumed was Israeli and Jewish, as he had NO APPARENT FOREIGN - as in non-Israeli - ACCENT) talking about "White Power" represented a number of dramatic failures that I think are common in the Jewish world today: 1) The failure of this boy's parents to teach him not to hate 2) The failure of this boy's parents to inculcate him with enough of a Jewish identity so that he knows who his enemies are, how they manifest themselves and not to identify with them 3) The failure of the Israeli school system to buttress any parental inculcation of Jewish identity by teaching Jewish history in such a way so that kids will recognize Nazism and anti-semitism in all its forms so that they will know that "White Power" and "Heil Hitler" is about the same. So a week later was Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rememberance Day) and I had no choice but to watch the documentaries about the Holocaust that are on ALL the TV stations (as everything is closed, so you can't go to a movie or cafe). What I saw was more like "Oh, look what they did to poor, old grandpa in Europe." There was NOTHING about the dangers of dehumanizing people and NOTHING about the dangers of letting crazy people take over your government and NOTHING about how groupthink can make otherwise decent people commit the most amoral atrocities. Nothing. It was all so empty. I do have to admit that my esteem for the State of Israel and the Jewish world took a hit because of this "White Power" incident. My thought was that I had never in my life encountered a people so entirely f**ed up. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome. As an aside, I once went to see Rocky Horror acted out by high school kids at the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque and one kid's T-shirt said this: "My grandmother went to Auschwitz and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Disgusting.
28. Deport these scum bags immediately!
Avraham ,   Netivot   (09.09.07)
29. Kick the filth out the country......NOW
(09.09.07)
30. This doesnt make sense
freejay ,   Israel   (09.09.07)
Your article stated: "All but one of the group members are non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who arrived in Israel via the law of return. " If they are not jewish then why are they here? The law of return should not apply to them. Are they really illegal aliens? Deport this chara!
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