Jerusalem – Former Israeli Police Maj.- Gen. Arieh Amit said Thursday that security forces should have “no mercy” on ultra-Orthodox protestors involved in civil unrest and attacking Israeli soldiers.
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“The time has come to deal with those involved in civil unrest and attacking soldiers in Mea She’arim and Beit Shemesh with rubber and artificial bullets. NO MERCY,” wrote Amit in a Facebook post in Hebrew.
Amit, who served in the Israeli police for over 20 years, holding senior positions including Head of Operations and Commander Chief of the Jerusalem District, made the comments in response to the ongoing campaign carried out by extremists in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel against the enlistment of haredi men into the IDF.
The campaign has garnered considerable press coverage with scenes of soldiers being subject to both verbal and physical harassment in the streets of ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.
Earlier this month, photos emerged of an IDF soldier, the son of former Yesh Atid lawmaker Dov Lipman, being escorted away from an angry mob of ultra-Orthodox protestors in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea She’arim.
In a statement, Israel Police promised “to fight against all elements who are violent toward those in uniform at any time and in any place, and will not allow extremist elements to take the law into their own hands and to harm people who chose to serve the state.”
In May 2017, for the second time in less than two months, haredi (ultra-Orthodox) extremists in the radical Mea She’arim neighborhood of Jerusalem burned a haredi IDF soldier in effigy, during bonfires set to mark the Lag Ba’omer holiday.
In March 2016, an effigy of an IDF soldier was found hanging in Mea She’arim. Alongside the effigy was a large sign warning soldiers not to enter the neighborhood.
Forget “Rubber Bullets” just send them to live with the Palestinians and then you will see how quickly they come back (and even join the army)…..
no that’s not good enough to penetrate their thick skull!
Throw typewriters!!!
Live ammo would stop the protests once and for all….if you shoot them in the legs they won’t be able to interrupt their learning in the future to act like animals.
These comments sound like theyre coming from Arab animals. While I absolutelu dont condone anything other than peaceful protests which sadly turns uncivil, this language is vile and of pure hatred. What r we difrnt than our neighbors if we rubber bullet or condone violence? The IDF has their share of violence on their hands bigtime! These Israelis just dont know how to live normally and stay out of harms way. This os probbly what Herzel enviosioned when he “created” the Jewish land. Violence violence & again. Despicable place to liv today. Yidden! Act like yidden or you make a chilil Hashem and Jews around the globe suffer.
Until recently.These demonstrations accomplished only one thing
NON FRUM TO HATE THE FRUM
By now they accomplished a second thing
EVEN THE FRUM HATE THE FRUM
and all is לשם שמים
I dont really agree with attacking physically anyone that of course includes the IDF or a policeman
The Zionists gangsters tactics against frum Jews is known since its founding.
They are capable of killing frum Jews. The only thing holding them back is the fear of the world finding out.
Tens of thousands of Torah observing Jews worldwide are standing fully behind our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel who are against Medinas Yisroel.
R’ Elchonon Wasserman writes that his Rebbe the great tzadik the Chofetz Chaim said “Zionist are Amalekites”.
The Briska Rav said: the goal of the Zionists is not really to have a state.Their goal is to forcefully make observant Jews as Goyim and in order to achieve it they must have a state to do whatever they wish.
The Satmar Rebbe writes: that after the Holocaust we all hoped for Moshiach to come.And the golden calf the Medina came to existence this big sin held back the coming of Moshicah.
There is a translation of a Yiddish transcript of a taped interview made years ago with the late Rabbi Boruch Kaplan, who was a principal of the Beis Yaakov Girls School in Brooklyn, and who was a student in the Hebron yeshiva in 1929 at the time of the killing of Jews by Arabs. Rabbi Kaplan explains how events unfolded, and how it was the arrogant and cowardly Zionists who perpetrated the events by provoking the Arabs.