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Brawl breaks out in Silwan, haredi teen hit in the head with baseball bat
Noam (Dabul) Dvir
Published: 11.06.14, 18:26
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1. he got what he deserved
arne ,   chicago usa   (06.11.14)
you play with fire you get burned--it's a lesson to be learned, goes for arab and jew.
2. get a grip Arne
keren ,   tzafon, israel   (06.11.14)
Assault is assault - where ever it happens and whatever the race of the assaulter and the assaulted. Is it OK to hit a stranger with a baseball bat in your neighborhood? Black, white or brindle?
3. Price tag?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.11.14)
Urinating against a tree is now a "price-tag" attack? There aren't enough prisons in Israel to hold all the Arabs, Bedouins and Druze who don't bother to secrete themselves unobtrusively near a tree. Some -- devout Moslems, perhaps? -- frequent public places in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where they are loud and obnoxious. Worse is when they park their cars nearby, and blast their horrible, ululating noise from their car stereos at ear-splitting volumes. Then, they shout at each other in order to be heard above the noise from the car stereo. Should nature call, they'll go between two parked cars. Good to know that such antisocial behavior is considered "price tagging." I hope the Israeli police vigorously enforce the law. The indictment on this Arab should be attempted murder. If you take a baseball bat to someone's head, that's the presumed charge.
4. Don't worry I'm negotiating
Expresident Peres   (06.11.14)
In the background, I am negotiating with my dear Arab friends, they have assured me they have our best interests at heart, so please, just relax Jews and enjoy the ride, no need for special defense measures all will be well.
5. I knew there must be something more to the headline
Secular anti-semitic ,   racists   (06.11.14)
than Arabs hitting haredi teen with a bat. Arabs have been attacking Jews almost on a daily basis but ynet almost never ever reports it. Today Ynet must have found something that'll give the Arabs right to attack the Jew, in order to report it for a change. Typical secular hatred of haredim.
6. if I had a shekel for each Arab urinating on private propert
yoni the jew ,   jewish homeland   (06.11.14)
I'd be a rich man. I guess this Arab wants to show us timid Jews how to stop Arabs from urinating on your property
7. harideem went there to provoke
Ami   (06.11.14)
Get what they deserve
8. Mama...
Laizist ,   IL   (06.11.14)
will take care of him. Oh wait, she has another 15 kids to take care of in the meantime... Well, this very lack of attention might be the reason why this kid didn't get any education of what it means to respect someone else's private property, how to behave in public and act like a civilized memember of society. But since he just studies torah he is excused.
9. Silwan an arab village?
Raphael ,   Netanya   (06.12.14)
This neighbourhood was home of poor yemenite jewish refugees fleeing forced conversion by the Saudis, until they were chased by the 1936 pogroms. The present Arabs are squatters with no property rights.
10. time for change
Shmuel. L. Jackson ,   Bnei Blak   (06.12.14)
This is a case of an Arab pogrom. The teenager was not attacking the man. The arab would not have attacked a dog if it urinated. It is time for the rabbis to open their eyes. The Arabs do not love hareidim. The enemies of the jews are not the Zionists. Do you think this arab terrorist would have attacked the hareidim if they had been to the army?
11. To #8
Shmulik ,   Israel   (06.12.14)
Your anti-Semitic drivel would be more suited on some neo-nazi website. Just imagine if the roles were reversed. "Haredi smashed Arab teen with baseball bat." How would yNet report such as incident. I think we all know the answer to that. And #8-laizist could use the identical profound remarks he posted here, just replace "studies torah" with "studies islam/koran." Why don't all the closet anti-Semites just come clean, and repeat after me: "the Jews. . . I mean the haredim, are our misfortune!"
12. #9, Raphael
Chutia ,   New Delhi, India   (06.12.14)
On the same note, most Israelis too are squatters with no property rights. Don't forget, you turned up in Palestine quite late in the day - and kindly do not raise the 2000 year old BS.
13. To number 8
Barney ,   USA   (06.12.14)
All 15 Haredim kids have proper education and moral compass compared to brood of 15 wannabe suicide terrorist martyrs.
14. silwan
Larry ,   LA (formerly)   (06.12.14)
Silwan used to be a Yemenite settlement before the '48 war. the Arabs took it over and confiscated the buildings and property. The Israeli government never wanted to start proceedings against the Arabs who live there in order to avoid Arab riots. Urinating on a tree is not the best, but since a person sometimes 'really gotta go really bad' he has no choice and seeing that there are no public rest rooms in the area, it would seem that his action should not constitute violent response.
15. @9
Gabriel ,   Haifa   (06.12.14)
instead of claiming stories like a fairy tale teller, give the sources please. and having problems in yemen or poland dont make the locals of silwan "foreigners" there is no god, ghosts and wonders. get over it
16. To #14: Gabriel
Tzvika ,   Jerusalem   (06.12.14)
So what are you doing in fairy-tale land altogether? You are also probably squatting on property that used to belong to Arabs, especially in Haifa . . .
17. If the Israeli military are not going
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.12.14)
to protect the indigenous population. Then we should not be surprised if the indigenous population take measures to protect themselves.
18. Our whole County is treated as one big toilet
Debbie ,   Israel   (06.12.14)
Standing on my porch I see many many men - even many Jewish men go into the bushes to pee. There are side streets in all our cities that stink from all the men that relive themselves. That I find myself praying for rain to get rid of the stench. We should have more respect for our beautiful country than that. Hitting with the baseball bat was very wrong, but had the brawl not of started I'm sure these price tag youths would of done a lot worse then just peeing on a tree. How can we expect peace and ask our Arab brothers and sisters to respect us when we produce garbage like this group of Haredi teens
19. #15 are you serious?
(06.12.14)
Instead of claiming stories like a fairy tale teller, prove to me that Mexico exists, that Newton was right about physics or even that you don't have a sister. Learn some history and then do some research. You can start with the censuses done, first by the Turks and later by the British. Study the British testimony (there are thousands of pages) and aerial photographs made by the British around World War I. There was no permanent settlement or population outside Jerusalem's walls for some centuries. Jews escaping oppression in Yemen reestablished Shiloach in 1885. The British occupation that started in 1920 brought with it a massive influx of Arab settlers, some who came to live next to the Jews in Shiloach. In the 1936 riots, British colonial police refused to protect the Jews who were ethnically cleansed by the Arab rioters. After 1948, the Jordanian army under British command illegally captured the area and settled Arab civilians in the abandoned Jewish homes.
20. That rascal should´ve been to school!
Dilbert ,   in the office   (06.12.14)
And no one would´ve gotten hurt.
21. No Harm Done
Darren Ben John ,   Townsville Australia   (06.13.14)
He is obviously OK, and like a dog, he will live to pee on another tree another day. Besides, his pigtails appear undamged.
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