Arabs, Jews CAN co-exist (in Israel) Mutual transplant links Arab and Jewish families

According to Israel HaYom, “Mohammed Eckert received a life-saving kidney donation from Shmuel Ben-Yair, whose father gets a kidney from Mohammed's wife. ‘We bonded both physically and mentally,’ says Jewish patient who got a new lease on life.”

Dr. Rawi Ramadan, the director of the Medical Transplantation Unit in the Department of Nephrology at Rambam hospital, brought the two families together and accompanied them throughout the process, reporter Daniel Siryoti wrote.

All of the personalities are Haifa-area residents.

Due to copyright restrictions, you’ll have to go to


http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9657


to read the entire story.

FOR THE MOST PART, Haifa has been a tolerant community. (I am not forgetting the Check Point dating from the Mandatory period.)

Municipal notices are published in, at least, Arabic and Hebrew; in my time in the city you could see them posted on poles and walls.

Buses run on Shabat in Haifa (yet its many synagogues never miss a minyan).

Jews and Muslims peacefully shared a beach, even as missiles fell on the city; no one harassed anyone.

So while the cross-family transplants were “unusual,” peaceful Arab-Jewish coexistence in the city is not.

I have a sister-in-law who, then living in Haifa, slipped and broke her leg. Lying on the sidewalk with a compound fracture, the first person to stop and help was an Arab.

The bottom line is that, at least within Israel, Arabs and Jews can, and many do, peacefully coexist when politicians and extremists are prevented from interfering; when Yusuf and Yosef pass each other on the street neither provokes the another.

As for Israel and its Muslim-dominated neighbors, it takes two really great individuals to make peace – Begin and Sadat managed it. The late King Hussein of Jordon managed it. It looks like Egypt’s new government will maintain the agreement and Hussein’s son may manage to sustain the agreement.

AN ASIDE: While the Jewish world is justifiably concerned that control of Egypt will fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, so far the Brotherhood has stood solidly with the peace agreement. I am reminded of Lester “Ax Handle” Maddox. Mr. Maddox was an outspoken segregationist in Atlanta, GA. Maddox managed to get elected as Georgia’s 75th governor. Despite his history, his “administration was characterized by economic development and the appointment of African Americans to state executive positions” according to Republican Benjamin B. Blackburn. (Maddox was a Democrat.) See http://tinyurl.com/k55dvly. While I would not suggest that Israel reduce its military readiness along any border, I think there is reason to hope Egypt will keep the peace.

Where’s the pride?

Two Hyundai’s sit in the driveway; a 2005 and a 2008. Both cars are reasonably reliable and reasonably economical. They get us from Point a to Point B in relative comfort.

The problem with Hyundai – and Ford and Chevy and Toyota and … every brand you can name – is with service.

Never mind that the current batch of vehicles make it almost impossible for the vehicle’s owner to do anything. To change a headlight in the Hyundais the battery has to come out. That’s still better than a pre-Ford British Jaguar that required the entire front grill assembly to be removed, but a long way from the simplicity of a 60s-era Ford.

Since I can’t do more than change a bulb - I can remove the battery to access the bulb – I have to depend on “trained” mechanics to do the work. The only question is: For what were the mechanics trained and why don’t they check their work?

Cases – plural – in point.

Ford: I once owned a Ford Diesel. Good car; 40-plus mpg when I was traveling 120 miles-a-day. For its first oil change I took the car to a dealer. The service guy drained the oil and put in 4 quarts of oil and a new oil filter.

Trouble was, the Diesel required 5 ½ quarts of oil and TWO oil filters.

Later, the starter hung up. I pulled into a Ford dealership (a different one) and watched several service people chat while ignoring me and my coughing car. Finally someone came out and told me to raise the hood so the battery could be disconnected. The batter, a monster to crank the Diesel, was housed in the trunk.

Jump ahead to the Hyundais.

The 2005 needed a 4-wheel alignment. Took it to a Rick Case Hyundai service department. The service people aligned the wheels and then told us that the car needed new shocks – excuse me, struts. So what’s wrong with this picture? After new struts are installed, the wheels have to be aligned. To its credit, the Rick Case dealership refunded what we paid for the alignment. The car then went to an independent shop for both struts and alignment.

The 2008 had a recall on an assembly related to the brake lights. Took the car into a different Rick Case Hyundai shop for the work. The car had been working fine; I check the brake lights every morning as I back out of the driveway.(Lights reflect off the across-the-street neighbor’s cars.)

The Rick Case service tech did the job and returned the car to me. I left knowing my vehicle was now better than before.

The next morning I tried to start the car. No battery. Got a jump and returned to the dealer’s shop. “Since you “fixed” the car, it won’t start,” I complained. “Maybe there’s a loose wire or something.” The service consultant assured me a mechanic checked the work and it was OK. The battery, however, needed to be replaced. Never mind, the service consultant said, that the battery showed a 12.61V charge.

OK. The battery was 61 months old. The battery in the 2005 lasted 7-plus years, but maybe Korean batteries from 2004 were made better than those from 2007. I went off on Memorial Day and bought a new battery. The car was parked in the driveway.

That afternoon the Spouse returned from visiting friends and saw the 2008’s brake lights illuminated. She though t I must be in the car. No, the car was empty and the ignition was off.

NOW we knew what was dragging the battery down; brake lights that stayed on.

Next morning the battery again was depleted so I got out the cables and jumped it using the 2005’s battery. Then I made a bee-line for the Risk Case dealership where the car had been “fixed.”

In the end, it took me three trips to the dealership to get a relatively simple procedure correctly performed.

All this could have been avoided if the original mechanic – I guess they are “technicians” now thanks to all the electronics – had done some quality assurance on the work and if the service consultant (service writer) had done any quality control.

Rick Case’s service staff FINALLY got it right and I’m supposed to get a check as a refund for the battery I should not have had to buy.

Maybe it’s not just QA/QC that’s missing. Maybe its caring about the job that’s missing.

This “who cares” attitude permeates almost all industry. Read a newspaper (if you can find one) or listen as tv “news” people read the news; the “journalists’” command of the language is enough to shame a junior high English teacher or even a junior high student who appreciates the language. Management’s laissez-faire attitude must infect the rank and file; “If the boss doesn’t care, why should I?”

I don’t know if I’ll ever take the Hyundais back to a Rick Case dealership; there are a number of other Hyundai dealers within easy travel distances. The question is: Are the other dealers’ service departments any better?

By the way, according to the Service Manager, the cause of all the car’s battery problems was a faulty part installed as part of the recall. But the agony and cost to Risk Case, and Hyundai Motor America, for “technician” time – the job was billed at $100/hour! – could easily have been avoided if someone, anyone, had taken a moment to make sure the end result of the part and the installation process left the vehicle in better condition than when it arrived. In this case, the “fix” was worse than the possible problem.

For want of a nail . . .

Another wall

Why aren’t the liberals wailing?

A Reuters article in The Times of Israel datelined Ankara and heded “Turkey builds wall at Syria border crossing after bombs" claims that “Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long (1.5 mile) twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year.

“Vehicle screening equipment and x-ray machines as well as wire fencing and extra lighting and security cameras will also be installed, the Turkish Customs Ministry said.”

Where are the liberals and bleeding hearts, the ones who take umbrage with the murderous Israelis who have the nerve to put up a fence to slow down the poor Palestinians who only want to come into Israel and slaughter the old, the young, and everyone in between.

Worse, the Turkish wall is going up at the access route most used by Syrians trying to escape from their own civil war.

Shame on Turkey.

But, in the end, blame it on Israel.

‘Course no one can claim fencing out enemies is an Israeli idea.

China’s Great Wall dates back to the 7th Century BCE according to The Great Wall.com ( http://thegreatwall.com.cn/en/goc/goc-1.htm).

The Web site starts off telling visitors that “China is not the only country in history that built wall along its boundary. Athens, the Roman Empire, Denmark, and Korea all did so at certain time in the past. The Hadrian's Wall in northern England, built "to separate the Romans from the barbarians", extended 117 kilometers from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west. All the walls were built for the purpose of military defence. “

Imagine! The Brits and the DANES! OK, the wall in England was built for the Romans who then ruled the land to “ separate the Romans from the barbarians .”

It’s OK for the United States to put up a fence along its border with Mexico to slow down the influx of peons looking for a relatively good paying job doing work in the U.S. that U.S. citizens are “too good” to do. (Sounds like Israel with its indigenous Arab population and its imports from the Philippines and elsewhere.) The fence, and the armed Border Patrol officers also try, alas with apparently minimal success, to keep out drugs and guns from crossing the border – drugs from Mexico and guns from the U.S., courtesy of the U.S. government.

Where are the liberals when a non-Muslim wants to enter Mecca or Medina? How about a non-Muslim having the audacity to appear to mumble a prayer on the Jewish temple mount.

The fence Israel built is, at worst, an inconvenience of the Muslims on the other side. They still can, and do, enter Israel legally to take advantage of Israeli hospitals and shopping. (Not all Muslims come into Israel to murder when the opportunity arises.)

Could the fence come down? Certainly. Just as soon as the Palestinian’s become civilized and cease the random murder of Israelis – Jews and non-Jews alike.

Will that time ever come? Not in my lifetime and I doubt in my children’s lifetimes. There are parts of the United States where “damnyankee” is one word said with venom and other places where “red neck” is applied with the same venom to anyone from a southern state; the American War for Southern Independence, a/k/a Civil War, has been over for more than 100 years, yet – in places – hatreds, passed from generation to generation, remain alive.

Neither Israel nor “Palestine” is a “melting pot” akin to the United States. While Israel has immigration from much of the world, most of that immigration is Jewish. I don’t believe “Palestine” has immigration of any consequence. Because of that, ethic prejudices lack the moderating power of any influence from other ethic groups as in the U.S.

Rabbi’s shooting themselves in the mouth

 

Writ of Refusal won’t work in Israel

An article headed City rabbis ostracize woman who dared petition civilian court in Israel HaYom ( http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9427) may foretell the “beginning of the end” of the rabbinical court system in Israel.

The rabbis, in order to keep us in line, ruled that Jews could only use rabbinical courts in disputes with other Jews. This ruling came at times when Jews lacked their own national government. While the extreme haredim may deny it, we now have a national government – dysfunctional as it may be – in Israel.

There IS a legitimate reason for a Jew to turn to a rabbinical court in a dispute with a fellow Jew; the issue may be covered by Torah or talmudic law.

The Israel HaYom article covered a case that might have been a legitimate case for the rabbis, but knowing the way the rabbinical courts have operated in the past, the plaintiff elected to seek relief from Israel’s civil court.

According to the plaintiff’s legal team, Hiddush for Religious Freedom and Equality, the ordeal began when the petitioner's upstairs neighbors in Elad, near Petach Tikva, began to build a balcony illegally, blocking out the sun and preventing the petitioner from building a sukkah. According to Jewish law, a sukkah cannot be built in the shade. “

The upstairs neighbor turned to the rabbinical court and the rabbis ordered the petitioner to appear in their court, though the court’s order lacks any legal weight. The petitioner refused, and so the rabbis sent her a warning, along with a news piece that relayed a story about a man who failed to follow the beit din's orders and died prematurely

It would seem that the plaintiff probablywould have prevailed in the rabbinical court, but the article obviously failed to provide all the details and the plaintiff’s reasoning.

IN ANY EVENT, the rabbinical court issued a writ of refusal against the petitioner and her family (for failing to appear before the rabbis), ostracizing them from the community. Placards were hung on the streets, and residents were told to treat her as if she had rebelled against the Torah of Moses, because she had opted to turn to the state court system instead of the rabbis, according to Hiddush. A writ of refusal in haredi society can lead to boycotts and sanctions, including on a place of business or on marrying the children of those bearing the brunt of the writ.”

According to the complaint before Israel’s High Court, The rabbinical court illegally acted outside its jurisdiction, in a manner that constitutes an obstruction of justice and extortion by the beit din and the rabbis operating it.

These practices do not only impend on the rights and dignity of the members of these communities but are in direct breach of and threaten the Israeli Rule of Law as well, Hiddush wrote.

The rabbis-in-power seem determined to make life as difficult as possible for the average Israeli, most of whom are heloni or moderately observant. They are losing ground in their control of marriages; they have ired many by revoking legitimate, halachaic conversions; they find themselves for the first time since 1948 in the Knesset opposition. Some of the extreme haredim, at their rabbi’s urging, are harassing and physically attacking haredi men who have the chutzpah to join the army or perform national service.

More than the people turning against the rabbis, the rabbis are turning the people against them.

Israel is not Europe or Iran, and rabbinical rule can only be based on a willingness on the part of the people the rabbis believe they should rule. There are no (forced) mellahs or ghettos in Israel controlled by a rabbi a la Iran and its ayatollahs.

There ARE rabbis who even the heloni respect – R. Israel Meir Lau quickly comes to mind. With perhaps the exclusion of Mea Sharim, R. Lau has the respect of most Israeli Jews – Ashkenazim, Sefardim, and Mizrachim.

We – Jews everywhere – need more religious leaders in R. Lau’s mould.

Rabbis whose sole purpose in life is to protect their turf should retire or be retired if the rabbinate hopes to retain any respect.

Words sans meaning

 

How many of us know

(  ) All

(  ) Most

(  ) Some

of the Hebrew we read in our sidurim?

Understand, there is no problem reading the left hand pages (local language) of bilingual sedurim; certainly it’s one way to self-learn the meaning of the right hand pages. Prayers don’t HAVE to be in Hebrew.

But it helps to know a little Hebrew if only to keep pace with whomever is leading the service.

An aside: In (most) Sefardi/Mizrachi congregations, almost every word is read aloud, unlike our Ashkenazi friends who read the first and last words aloud and everything in the middle is in their heads. When you’re in a hurry, find an Ashkenazi minyan.

ANYWAY, the congregation, to its credit, encourages pre-bar mitzvah boys to take part in Shabat services. The kids read a goodly portion of the service from Hodu (לשם קראו בשמן) to Hodu (לשם השמים). Once bar mitzvah – it’s automatic, by the way and has nothing to do with extravagant parties costing more than a new sefer Torah – the congregation makes sure the young men get their fair share of Torah honors; they are expected to be present and they are not forgotten.

While the rabbi’s sons are bilingual, it seems Hebrew is their first language with English a close second, the other children lack this facility. Not that they can’t converse in another language – typically Spanish or French – and while they can read “sedur Hebrew” – some quite well – they lack an understanding of what they are reading.

The congregational sidurim are, with few exceptions, Hebrew only. If you want to nit pick, Hebrew and Aramaic, but I have no nits to pick. There are a few Hebrew/English or Hebrew/Spanish sidurim; the operative word is “few.”

I asked one of the speed readers, age about 11, if he knows Hebrew. His reply – “no, nada, zip.” In other words, while he READS nicely, he has no clue what he is saying. His father likewise is “Hebrew deficient.”

That bothers me.

If you are going to pray in Hebrew, you should know what you are saying.

According to Merriam-Webster Online ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pray) “pray” is defined as follows:

transitive verb
1:  entreat, implore —often used as a function word in introducing a question, request, or plea
2  : to get or bring by praying

intransitive verb
1:   to make a request in a humble manner
2:   to address God or a god with adoration, confession, supplication, or thanksgiving

I also am bothered by what seems a child’s requirement to see how fast he can read – or, in truth recite since the boys know many of the psalms be heart – the prayers.

It’s Shabat, after all.

Korbanote start at 7:45 with Hodu at 8. We normally head home between 10:30 and 11. To do what? Kiddish, a snack, and a nap followed by lunch. (It works for me.) But if we leave a half hour later and get to the house around noon (rather than 11:15 or so), what’s the big deal. It’s not as if we are going to go shopping or play on the computer – it’s Shabat after all.

Yet most of the boys, as boys do, rush through the psalms as quickly as they can. The rabbi’s sons – who actually understand what they are saying – seem not to be in the rush to get lunch.

(I have seen some grown men race through a Shabat service, even the Torah reading, although that’s usually when the reader is not prepared and it making mistakes; he goes as fast as possible so the congregation can’t correct him. That is not the situation where I find myself on most Shabats.)

We read in Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 4, Para. 20 (פרקי אבותת ד כ)

Elisha ben Abuyah said: “If one learns as a child, what is he like? Like ink written on new paper. He who learns as an old man, what is he like? Like ink written on erased paper.”

אלישע בן אבויה (האחר) אומר: הלומד ילד למה הוא דומה? לדיו כתובה על נייר חדש.

.והלמד זקן למה הוא דומה? לדיו כתובה על נייר מחוק

Translation by Philip Blackman, Judaica Press, ISBN: 0-910818-15-0

Hebrew is not my first language. I struggled to learn it as a 30-something. The boys of the congregation, without exception, go to “Jewish” day schools. So why don’t they at least have a concept of what they are reciting?

They are going to grow up to be like so many other Jews who “know” the words but lack an understanding of those words.

Perhaps I am just a curmudgeon, but it also bothers me to hear the recitations that omit all punctuation. There IS punctuation in the sedur. Periods. Commas. In the Ben Ish Hai used where I go, even question marks!

Consider reading a paragraph in English sans punctuation you wouldn’t know where a sentence starts or stops and it would become difficult to understand the writer’s intent especially when there are no capital letters to give clues it would be like reading the torah from the scroll rather than a terkun after reading this I think you get the idea

On the one hand, I’m delighted the pre-bar mitzvah boys have a role to play in the service. On the other, I am uncomfortable with the recitation races and the lack of understanding. I’m a little concerned that some adults will think the youngsters’ effort will exempt them – the adults – from saying their own prayers. While I am not a rabbi and I don’t play one on tv, I don’t believe a child’s prayers – never mind the child’s comprehension - can exempt an adult.

Still, I suppose to be fair, I should ask the adults who do lead parts of the service if THEY know what they are reading. (I already know these people have Hebrew as a second language, if not their first.)

 

 

** Nits, FYI, are lice eggs, and most parents whose children have spent anytime in school – makes no difference if the school is public or private – probably have encountered a “lice alert” at least once.

Look into a mirror

Suggestion to boards and haredim

 

At one time I was a member of a congregation that was losing members.

At an open-to-members board meeting one of the non-board members asked the board if it knew why people were abandoning the congregation and going elsewhere.

The “bogadim” were not abandoning Judaism, they simply were leaving the congregation.

A couple of the board’s members responded by telling the questioner that the board did not know.

“Wouldn’t it be wise to find out why people are leaving so maybe they could be encouraged to return?” the visitor asked.

One board member replied that “No, we don’t care why they left. They left and we don’t want them back.” Several other board members agreed and the rest remained silent, either agreeing with the speaker or fearing to disagree.

If you look around my extended neighborhood, you will find members of my former congregation in a newly formed “Sefardi” minyan at the Main Ashkenazi synagogue, a several Ben Ish Hai congregations that, according to the shrinking congregation’s rabbi are off-shoots of his Sefardi synagogue (true – but why?), and the ubiquitous Chabad and Chabad-want-to-be congregations.

Membership still is slipping and the board still won’t admit that maybe - just maybe – there is something amiss with their organization.

I was reminded of this as I read an article with the misleading headline “Hareidi Paper Compares Lapid’s Speech to Hitler’s” from the on-line Arutz 7/Israel National News Web site.

The article quotes Chaim Walder, a columnist for the hareidi-religious newspaper Yated Neeman who complains that “they (non-haredim) have wicked plans regarding quality of life, the ability to live a normal life. To strip us of basic rights like payments, tax discounts, welfare, food for our children… there are even those who speak of taking the freedom to vote, or of leaving Israel, which is true dictatorship.”

This allegedly was in response to comments made two years ago in a column penned by Finance Minister Yair Lapid that told the haredim ““Forget ideology, forget that I don’t understand how it doesn’t bother you that you live at my expense. I can’t pay for it anymore. It’s over, there’s nothing left. I don’t just have nothing to give your children, I have nothing for my own. Do you understand how that makes me feel?”

Lapid, according to Arutz 7, ended that column with a warning, “We have to find a way, friend, or this will end badly.“

Walder, who we must assume is writing for the haredi rabbis – the leaders of the communities – in my mind is likened to the synagogue’s board.

He complains that the government wants to “strip us of basic rights like payments, tax discounts, welfare, food for our children.”

Excuse me. WHAT “basic rights?” My son-in law works two jobs to support his family AND the haredim who get payments, tax discounts, welfare, and food for their children. Where are my son-in-law’s “basic rights?” He does get a stipend for my grand-daughter, but no tax discounts, no welfare payments, and no free food or food purchasing assistance. He pays for kupat holim. He pays for my daughter’s education (promised but not provided by the government as a new olah studying to be a high school teacher).

Now, what Mr. Walder is failing to mention is that UNLIKE my son-in-law, the haredim refuse service in the IDF, and refuse national service. My son-in-law did his active duty time and does his reserve time. Inconvenient? Yes. Price of citizenship? Yes. (Israeli Arabs can/should do national service, even if only in Arab-dominated areas.)

The haredim refuse to give back anything to the state in return for all the state provides them.

Like the synagogue board, they haredim don’t want to “look into a mirror” and see themselves as they really are – people who not only take without giving anything back, but people who are – like many on America’s welfare roles – accustomed to living on handouts.

TO BE FAIR, not all “haredim” are takers. There are haredi Jews who fully participate in Israeli life – who serve in the IDF or national service, who have educations beyond the talmuds, who have gainful employment and still find time to study.

Likewise, not all welfare clients in America have the haredi’s “you owe me” mentality.

If the haredim want the non-haredim – observant Jews and helonim – to have any respect for them, they need to consider the complaints of “the rest of Israel” and at least seem to make an effort to integrate with the general population.

As long as the haredim consider themselves – and act – as part of a different society, a society that takes and gives nothing back but self-congratulating words (“We keep Israel safe by our talmud study”), the rest of the population, the population that provides Walder and his ilk with their “basic rights like payments, tax discounts, welfare, food for our children” – often at the expense of their own “basic rights,” - will continue to hold the haredim in contempt.

U.S. Muslims condemn Boston bomb murderers?

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The silence is deafening

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If anyone really wonders if there are “peaceful” Muslims in America, their silence, their lack of condemnation of their fellow Muslims’ bombing murders at the end of the Boston Marathon, and the surviving murderer’s admitted plan to bomb and murder others in New York City’s Times Square belies any suggestion of peacefulness.

Yes, I know there are “good” Muslims, but I also know that Muslim leadership in the U.S. either is absolutely silent or the major national media, always left-leaning and intent on being politically correct, is failing to cover any Muslim outrage against the bombers.

I know, that in addition to imported Muslims, those who entered the U.S. legally or otherwise, are not the only threats to our safety ; we have our own home-grown terrorists, and we get some “happy to murder” visitors from our southern border. – armed with weapons provided by the U.S. government.

But the U.S. government - our government - seems unable to admit that the Muslims in our midst are guilty of cooperation – by their silence if nothing else – with Muslim terrorists within our borders.

It’s OK for the incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to be “politically correct” in the U.S. while “considering” sending American soldiers into harm’s way in Syria. (And he condemned the Bushes for their – in my opinion – stupid incursions into others’ civil wars. That’s the pot calling the kettles black – or is that not “p.c.”?) He’s even got John McCain calling for war, and Sen. McCain should know better. Has he – has the government – already forgotten Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan? If POTUS and his allies really want to invade someone, let them invade North Korea and Iran, both of which actually threaten the U.S. – unlike Syria who is barely able to threaten tiny Lebanon.

We have enough Muslim problems already; the U.S. does not need to add more by sending troops in Syria. The president already has proven he doesn’t know who are the “good guys” and who are the “bad guys.” No, I can’t tell either, but I’m not suggesting we invade to find out – and probably be wrong again.

These people are NOT like the Nisei. They are more like the Cubans in south Florida – here only until the U.S. can depose the island’s the dictator du jour; their loyalties are not with the United States.

As an example

Arab MK Will Not Condemn Terrorist Murder

by Maayana Miskin

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167609

Member of Knesset Jamal Zahalka has refused to condemn the murder Tuesday of a young father-of-five. A terrorist stabbed actor Evyatar “Napo” Borovsky to death as he waited for a ride at the Tapuach Junction.

When asked to condemn Tuesday’s attack, Zahalka instead addressed Israelis living in Judea and Samaria. “Get out of there. You’re thieves and criminals. You come to steal and to take what belongs to us…. The solution is that you leave,” he said.

But then ”40% of Palestinian Muslims see suicide bombing as often or sometimes justified.” http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=8987