Comments on: Community shaken after night of arson attacks on African refugees

By: Ausie

Ausie — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:35:48 +0000

I’ve read reports that the crime rate of the Africans in Israel is lower than the Jewish one. Judging by the protestors this is nothing except racism disguised through misinformation.

I’ve heard alot of negative things about jews and always stuck up for them. Really didn’t think Jews were like this…

The world isn’t like it was in the past, lots of things are recorded, do the Jewish people think this will help them in the eyes of everybody else?

By: YIANNI STASINOS

YIANNI STASINOS — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:37:35 +0000

Athens, May 11, 2012
Dear Friends,
Israel is a small state with limited financial possibilities and with many internal and sectarian problems, depending of continuous external aid.
Because of western oil interests, after the deportation of jewish religious omology europeans, Israel is established as a “jewish” state, based on the myths of the tora (bible) and other “jewish” texts. Not all jewish religious omology persons immigrated to Israel were decedents of those left Judea and Samaria at the postroman period, many proselytes to “judaism” immigrated as well.
To this “jewish” “repopulation” of Palestine, accomplices are all the today’s partners, ex enemies after falling to expropiate the russian oil, the “allies” in S.Russia and the “ennemies(?)” in Caucasus, during and after the I W.W. Russians and today’s partners allways tried to penetrate to the Middle East, under any pretext centuries ago. Israel has an excellent geostrategic position.
The conditions of the “depostration” are well known, and I concider not necessary to remind it.
Now days jewish religious omology Israelis are not the majority, and the jewish character of the state, except the oficial hollydays, is under reconcideration.
The state still theocratic, no constitution and civil code was enacted until the year 2006,
when I left the country, after living there four years. Drowing of a civil code was under process.
In now days Israel are living people like in any other country religious, indifferent etc.
and life is very hard for all.
Amongst them are many open minded and really educated persons, but are also people with very different vision, even nazis (see taday’s Economist).
Immigration now days is not economicaly affordable. Israeli army and police are doing their “job” as in any other country, the applied methods are more or less the same everywhere.
Sincerely,
Yianni Stasinos

By: tecle

tecle — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:12:02 +0000

realy realy sad and inhumane!

By: Binyam

Binyam — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:03:44 +0000

How could a horrific historical incident like the Holocaust fail to teach these idiot Israelis to be tolerant and respect immigrants? He who fails to learn from history is condemned to repeat it…

By: anna

anna — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:14:10 +0000

What’s really disturbing -even more than the criminal acts themself, if that’s possible- is how time and time again, there seem to be presumably “average, regular” people who come out in defense of this madness and actually try to justify them. Amazing -in a frightening way. I’ll be reading something that (to me) seems completely and unquestionably unacceptable and unconscionable, asking myself what kind of disturbed punks commit these things. And I’m still just as shocked every time people inevitably start to justify the violence and unashamedly go on to support that kind of anti-social, racist and hateful attitude. And I’m sorry if it angers some of you to be held to higher standards than this kind of racist thuggery but HELLO?!? its especially sickening when its coming from a group of people who not only come from a society that is defined by a fear of this very same hate being directed at them, of being victims of it themselves but also has experienced it. Isn’t the very reason for Israel’s existence to provide a country where all Jews can be safe from persecution and violence they have been victims of in other parts of the world at different times and for the many who found themselves without a place to go to? And that is somehow in line with treating others who find themselves fleeing from their homeland in this despicable manner? Shame on you.

And I don’t care what they do in Egypt, this isn’t about Egypt – its about Israel! A country that claims to be democratic, tolerant, open and humane, so stop trying to deflect the attention by comparing yourself to a country that is NOT democratic, open or humane and that has never claimed to be either!

By: Marcy Fleming

Marcy Fleming — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:13:55 +0000

As an Irish-American Jew (Mom’s side) who lived in Tel Aviv for two years it’s distressing to read this. I have known many Ethiopians here in San Francisco and on the whole they are far more law abiding than most Blacks here in SF and in Oakland (the crime capital of California).
I don’t enough about the Sudanese to have a view.
But I do know the American Jewish community is seeing through the facade of Israeli ‘democracy’as Israel’s well known anti-Arab racism gets more evident every day.
And all you Jewish Archie Bunkers are simply bigots. Bigots. Period.

By: Judah

Judah — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:01:15 +0000

Arielle, thanks for embodying the charity of Torah. Pray tell, how many are mugged? Raped ? Do you know any personally ? What are your obviously thuggish policemen doing about it ?

I suppose firebombing minority homes in return is an apt response, right ? I suppose Shabbat is now a day of rest, a sanctimonius prelude to more violence, right ? An eye for an eye ? Wow. Working wonderfully isn’t it? ..

By: arielle berkowitz

arielle berkowitz — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:34:13 +0000

It’s so unfair that people living in their homes day to day are attacked, raped, mugged and can’t go to the store to buy groceries without being scared of these refugees. I’m sorry that you people feel like the refugees are the poor unfortunate ones, but they make life completely unbearable for the jews who live in the area.
In america this happens every day in areas where there are known refugees from mexico, and I think that everyone should know is that if Egyptians catch them in the desert on the way to Israel, they kill them. So the police get a little tough sometimes. It’s part of organized law in the whole world and all you people who are so anti israel and have to stop condemning.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:16:33 +0000

Caden,
You mean forced ethnic cleansing? Like Soviet, Germany, Yugoslavia?
Whats your beef with blacks? Arent people worth equal to you?

By: Apa

Apa — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:40:36 +0000

‘“Whoever did this is right, but he’s doing it the wrong way,” says the neighbor. “This fire almost burned my car, and also – there is a small girl in that house. He should have waited until nobody was home, and then blown the place up to send them a message”.’

Name and shame! What is the name of the neighbor. If he wants to say things like that, he should be named! He is arguing FOR terror attacks.