Posted on 10/10/2008 1:29:59 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Jews and Arabs rioted in the mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli city of Akko over Yom Kippur.
The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music.
The ensuing riots between Jewish and Arab youths resulted in extensive damage to property throughout the town in northern Israel.
Some fresh clashes continued on Friday, but the deployment of hundreds of police officers in Akko helpes restore calm. Other mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel, including Jaffa, Jerusalem and Haifa, went on alert for disturbances.
**The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music.**
Had roles been reversed and a JEW did that .. no riots ..they’d have just cut his head of right then! .. Then they’d RIOT
The Hareidi hardliners are often little better than the Sharia fanatics. Real shame. Akko is a lovely place.
For those that maybe interested, Akko was formerly known as Acre during the period of the kingdom of Outremer. The fortress was quite formidible, but when it fell to the Ottoman Turk that spelt the end of the Crusader states in the Holy Land.
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