Raed Salah at the Temple Mount

Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch was arrested in Wadi Joz for incitement and sedition.  This guy has 7 impending police investigations against him and the best the courts can do is send him home and tell him not to go to Jerusalem for 30 days.

Why the Israeli court system thinks this is a smart idea I’ll never know.  But, sadly, this goes along with the current ‘kid gloves’ approach the Israeli government takes with any Arab of any note who has a beef with Israel.  You can read more crap like this from Ahmed Tibi, an MK who for some reason, Israel chooses to allow to stay in the Knesset when he should be turned out of the country or at least in jail.  The sad part is, he is representing the point of view of his constituency.  He must be, as he keeps getting re-elected.  Oh well, at least we know what the people who keep putting him in office are thinking.

Now you even have Fatah members saying, “Yup, if Israel doesn’t back off, there will be a third Intifada’.  Great….the whole chorus is singing.  Why no one internationally is trying to help Israel get the Arabs to back off is beyond me, but as mentioned previously, if they want to start another Intifada, Israel should defend itself and it’s citizens accordingly with all due force.

Flyers went up around Mea Sharim that were highly critical of the stores selling these devices. Instead of working with the manufacturers or the sellers to remove this ‘offending’ content or with community leaders toi find a solution like normal level-headed people might do, it evidently made more sense to rampage around town and break the windows and burn the shops of those who had the audacity to sell these ’soul-robbing’ devices. The nerve.

If these Haredim, who are supposed to be ‘frummer than thou’ are trying to set a good example for everyone to follow, it’s lost on me and any other sane person who hears about this. Creating a ‘chillul Hashem’ in addition to breaking the law is not really the way to go. I’m all for people getting closer to G-d, but hearing stuff like this is enough to make someone disgusted with religion.