like to set garbage cans on fire, so much ?

From the accompanying picture, it seems a Haredi man hurled his face into a policeman's fist.

Are they with or against us? I think haredim can no longer be trusted for anything, aboslutely ANYTHING. Israel has to fight Iran and now Turkey (that will hand over S-300 to Iran)... And those haredim are playing like spoiled kids with the police and are even receiveing gifts from the states during those particularly difficult times for Israel. DISGUSTING. very DISGUSTING.

They would get the same results with self immoliation. We need to rid our Jewish, Zionist country of this sixth column.

I am sick of jews abusing words like Eichman & Nazis and taking it out of context. Its the same with the Israel bashers take words like apartheid and using it to define Israel because it makes it look worse than it is. If they knew the first thing about real apartheid and wanted to use the word in its correct context they would not be using it to define Israel. Accusing these policemen of being Nazis or looking like Eichman is an insult to Holocaust victims who saw what a real Nazi is like. If the left & right wing politicians are all so keen on dialogue with the palestinians then its time to sit down with the Haredi and listen to each others concerns and try find a middle ground. The likes of Livni doesn't do anybody any favors when she looks for any excuse to carry out a little Haredi bashing because she thinks its a secular vote winner. Forget palestinian problems and start sorting our own problems because we cannot tolerate anymore violence like this.

...but can the police not imbue the water canons with ‘essence of swine’ and soak the area around the construction site (not the graves) before the Haredim turn up to riot?!

If these were arab youth/demonstrators the police would have used gas or rubber bullets against them. It's time to use these against these worthless ingrates. For too long I've seen them ignore the yom hashoah and yom hazikaron sirens, burn their own garbage, demonstrate for no real reason and demand so much from a state that they give not one iota back to. Let us swap these idiots from Imanuel for Gilad Shalit TODAY!

if this is the way you treat your own jew citizens, so i am not surprised on how you deal with others

This is not the God would have wanted it. These people are a cult, not Jews.

This is got to stop. It's getting out of hand. I don't know who is responsible for this mayhem; the Govt or the police. The outcome of it is a disaster, and it's been going on for almost a year non stop. Beating, burning, braking, huge property damage; are you waiting to pick up a few dead bodies before acting in a responsible manner, and use whatever force is required in order to stop these satan worshipers from burning down the city?. How about paying for the damages out of your own pockets? If you are incapable of stopping these savages, get the hell out of the way and lets get some competent professionals to put a stop to this insurrection. Don't you have anything else to do but worry about a few broads with anorexia problems?.It's the parents job, not yours. Don't try to control more than you can chew. Burning events first.

"- And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman... - Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous."

I do not know who is right on this issue but the picture of a policeman punching a jew with sidelocks looks more like a pre-war picture of the sufferings our brothers had to indure under nazi ruling than haredi violence. No wonder they shout "nazi" at the police.

See what your idiotic religion does to you? Judaism is just as ridiculously backward and pointless as Catholicism, or Islam, or any other religious sect. Could you all please enter the new century with logic and leave your stupid superstitious beliefs behind?

Wow, I'm so totally embarrassed how this band of black-clad geeks makes us look internationally. Anyone reading this outside of Israel, please understand that these people are a small minority group here and do not represent the views of the average Israeli.

got me chuckling.

with any research on the subject? There has been a recent genetic breakthrough on the strong similarities between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry. I'm not saying you're wrong but I know of no such genetic evidence. I do understand, however, that the Judaism practiced by Ethiopian Jewry has not changed appreciably in 2,000 years. This is often the case when a body of people reside in isolation from the mainstream. For instance, I've heard a 300 year old form of English spoken in the outports of Newfoundland, a form of the language I had a hard time comprehending.

And while it looks legitimate I wonder if it is something like Israeli archeaological research? You know the kind, always finding something to prove Solomon's Temple and then it turns out to be fake or even worse. Like the ancient synagogues that turn out to be pagan Canaanite religious sites? I might add that having Jewish blood, whatever that entails, doesn't prove that you were descended from the Israelites. If it does then what if the Palestinians were tested for this Israelite DNA and it turns out that they too had it! What would you do? Acknowledge that they were also the rightful inheritors of Palestine? They haven't broken the "Holy Covenant" any worse than the Pharisee / Orthodox Rabbinate Jews of today who make rediculous claims of G_d given ownership!

If you really were a secular democracy I'd agree with you, but Israel exists as a Jewish nation, to the increasingly forceful (cruel) exclusion of all others. Thus these people represent you as part of the spectrum of how you identify yourselves.

Matty,I read an article recently regarding this genetic marker but for the life of me I can't remember where I read it.

who are disturbing the peace, engaging in violent confrontation against the protective services during the conduct of their duties, against hooliganism and damaging property, resisting arrest??? Jail them and throw the book at them. Why treat them different from everybody else just because they belong to a particular sect. Isn't abiding by the law of the land for everybody??? They must keep the peace like everybody. This makes NO SENSE!!

If one looks closely at the archaelogy finds in Israel, one will note that Haredim have nothing to do with ancient Israel and are a religion unto their own. Many or most are not loyal to the state of Israel and it is a wonder they are tolerated.

Our biggest mistake after the 67 war was allowing all these fanatical Haradim, who really have no historical connection to Ancient Israel into the State. They have been an absolute drain on our country, have corrupted our law, way of life, moral, embarrassed this country worlwide and just look at the past few governments, especially the one we have now that the world does not believe or trust. The Haredis have been a disaster for Israel and if we do not do something quickly they will be the end of us.

I agree. What is more is that there is nothing traditionally Jewish about their dress. If they want to be tradionally Jewish then they should dress as the ancient Hebrews dressed. The way they dress shows that they truly are not true Jews but are some odd sect that began with this type of dress and made it their tradition. Let's face it, nowhere is there any record of ancient Hebrews forcing their wives to wear horsehair wigs or having to comply with some of the other disgusting practices that these men subject their women to.

"always finding something to prove Solomon's Temple and then it turns out to be fake or even worse. " I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. What turned out to be fake? The First Temple existed. Walls have been found of the city. It is the Israelis who said the ancient synagogue was really Canaanite. (That's called telling the truth: Palestinians don't know how to.) and as for the DNA...your stretching way too much. Control yourself and get back to reality. Difficult, I know.

No wonder people are turing away from religion just look at these people who claim to represnt Jewdism, well if that is religion for you then thanks but no thanks. Naturally they know they will get away with it, they get arrested taken for questioning then released 2-3 hours later as the state fears more rioting. The time has come to get tough with these people, first step is to give them long jail terms, cut their benefits and draft them to the army as obviously they have to much time and energy on their hands and are not studying Torah all day as the exscuse they use not to work and not to serve in the IDF.

Now you have me chuckling.. I live in Nova Scotia and have been around "newfies" all my life,and let me assure you ,you are not the only one that has a hard time understanding them..I swear they make up their own words,especially after a few drinks of rum..