Posted on 09/19/2010 3:36:38 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Although Israeli roads are usually empty on Yom Kippur, there are always some emergencies that demand getting on the road, which inevitably means the risk of having your car pelted with stones. The Al-Huzayil family from the Bedouin city of Rahat, who had to get a 16-year old member of the family to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba Saturday morning, experienced a barrage of stones on their way back from the hospital.
The family followed the Magen David Adom paramedics, who arrived at the house to take the teenage girl to the hospital. "The main highway was actually quiet and no one bothered us," Ahmed Al-Huzayil, the girl's uncle who drove the car, told Ynet. "The staff in the emergency room suggested I take a different route back and keep my flashers on – so I decided to drive through the Ramot neighborhood of Beersheba."
While en route at around 4 am, the family was bombarded by stones thrown at their car that shattered the front windshield. "We were very scared. We stopped at a red light, our flashers on, and just felt like we had entered a trap…I've never experienced anything like it."
Ahmed's brother Hassan feels he was the victim of a lynching. "My brothers are still in shock and are grateful to God that nobody was hurt. The girls just started crying." He added that the family gets along well with its Jewish neighbors. "We did not mean to offend anyone. We were merely returning from the emergency room and encountered a group of crazy people. God cannot forgive them for this."
The family said they intend on filing a complaint with the police.
It’s rabid Catholics mad about their Pope.
This is probably reflexive misdirection away from the demographic that is almost certainly responsible for the attack.
Crimea River.
And who might that be? Do you have any evidence that this was not done by the Jewish residents? There is a notoriously extremist (and sometimes violent) ultra-Orthodox community in the Beersheba area.
Are you suggesting that this was an acceptable attack?
After reading comments from the source I see Israel is a very interesting place to live and I know NOTHING of their laws. My own first thought was that the rock throwers were waiting for the people to return. But what do I know?
I have often wondered what kind of laws the Messhiah will enforce while ruling with a rod of iron, but I never thought of looking into Israel’s laws today! Silly me. One thing that I don’t have to research is their pro-abort laws cause that ain’t gonna happen. Talk about not learning from history.
It was ever thus. My dad visited Israel in the 50s. and his taxi was stoned because it was on the road after sundown on the sabbath.
Of course, if this had happened before 1948, the car wouldn’t have been on the way to a hospital that didn’t yet exist, and this wouldn’t have happened. Ergo, it’s always the Jews’ fault.
Thanks BlackVeil.
I once made the mistake of aiming my camera at something while strolling in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem on a Saturday afternoon. Then I noticed a group of little girls stop playing and start yelling at me in Hebrew. One of them, noticing I had no idea what was being said, came out with a shake of the finger (index, BTW) and "No pictures on Shabbat!" She had a look on her face that said she meant it and if she'd had a rock, and in spite of her being around twelve years old, she'd have probably put one right between my eyes.
I took no offense, it's their country and customs, but this story rings very true.
Israeli laws are extremely harsh when it comes to punishing Jews attacking others for the most part, but especially when the attacks are by some of the crazier ultra-orthodox sects, those attacks aren't always prosecuted, which is a damned shame.
Unfortunately, there are crazy extremists in every religion, including Judaism.
Mark
You see the religious party posters around Israel,
depicting stern Mosaic-looking haredi shaking their
finger like that from the billboard.
Oh come on. First, the stone throwers shouldn’t have been at a stone’s throw of anywhere where a car could pass, they’re supossed to be praying. And second, and that’s for Shabbat too, lifting and throwing a stone is pretty much “carrying” (first) and “work” (later), both things very much not allowed in Yom Tov. All that without taking into notice the “not holding a grudge” nature of the day.
That stone throwing is silly and stupid. Every culture has its share of freaks that will break things with the first excuse, but one’d expect religious Jews to be above that. I hope they know how to deal with them.
Years ago I ran a most of the computer labs for a small university. When Thanksgiving rolled around, I had a group of kids from Israel (this school caters to a lot of different foreign student) make a big stink about the fact that the labs would be closed from Wednesday evening until Sunday afternoon. They kept pestering me, telling me they’d watch the equipment & so on. I tried to explain that if the labs were open we’d have to have custodial and security people working and that this was a Holiday that people wanted to be with their families, not working. The Israeli students just couldn’t understand.
Finally, I asked them how they would feel if a group of American students demanded that the computer labs be open on Yom Kipper. Then, they got the point!!
Throwing rocks is work. What are these Jews thinking?
“Everybody must get stoned” ask those musicians.
they threw stones at soldiers reporting for duty on day of the the’73 yom kippur war until they were told what was happening.
I’m sure the rock throwers thought the motorists were non-religious Jews out for a joy ride, but there’s really no excuse for this abominable behavior. I hope they are prosecuted.
These Jews violate the basic premise of Judaism. Only against an enemy that threatens your life are you allowed to raise your hand on Yom Kippur. Shame on them.
Why is this trivial event “news”? Just an excuse to bash religious Jews?
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