Re: What's the story with the Christian tourists?

Steve Goldfarb wrote:
In <TDepg.42762$W97.41028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "cindys" <cstein1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I hope I'm not violating any copyright laws by posting the following: In the
talkback section of the online Jerusalem post, a gentleman named "Michael"
wrote:

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I was in the area when this all happened, and this is what I saw: 1. These
people were missionaries actively engaged in proseltyzing at the main
intersection of Mea Shaarim. 2. They were asked, respectfully and
peacefully, to please stop what they were doing and to leave the area, (just
as you or I would stop someone in a business or technology park from vocally
promoting the wearing of Tefilin, or begging in and around restaurants.) 3.

We would? There's a "mitzvah tank" parked outside my office at least once
a week, it never occured to me to try and stop someone from vocally
promoting the wearing of tefillin. Is this something I should start doing?

A full 1/2 hour later they were still there being asked to leave. 4. Their
orange shirts said, "Our God is your God", which is not quite the same as
"Love thy neighbor". 5. The Haredi hot-heads (yes every sector has them)
didn't get violent until the police came. Israeli society would be much more
pleasant for everyone if the news media took a more neutral stance, and if
readers would understand that if something sounds outlandish ("Haredim
attack tourists"), there's probably more to the story.

So they did, in fact, get violent then. Hot-heads or not. "Haredim attack
tourists" is, then, the truth.

Don't know about halacha or Israeli civil law, but here in the US that
would be battery. Words of that type - even in-your-face cuss words -are
generally not sufficient cause to trigger self defense.

Also, why would they get violent when the police came? If the
orange-shirters were violating a law, then the police should have handled
it. If not, then the "hotheads" had absolutely no business hitting
anybody.


Unless the law was changed recently, missionizing is illegal in Israel.


The haredim could have simply called the police and had them removed.

Apparently that's not what happened. After the cops arrived, someone
threw the first punch.

Jay

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