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To: Yehuda

“Have a source showing these Jews stoned ambulances on the Sabbat? You don’t know wth you are whining about. Get your your brain unwashed before your jihadi pals get bored with your help.”

Sabbath is the English word you’re looking for, or Shabbat/Shabbos if you’re aiming for a more phonetic representation of Hebrew or Yiddish respectively, not Sabbat. You should be careful with your insults, when you don’t know what you’re whining about.

Just an FYI, From Merriam-Webster’s dictionary:

Definition of SABBAT
1
: witches’ sabbath
2
: any of eight neo-pagan religious festivals commemorating phases of the changing seasons

As for citations, there are numerous. How about Hareetz, Times of Israel, Associated Press and the like?

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/hundreds-of-jews-hurl-rocks-at-cars-in-jerusalem-1.466873

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/secular-activists-police-ignoring-ultra-orthodox-attacks-on-sabbath-traffic-in-jerusalem-1.372493

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unmodest-women-gets-stoned-in-beit-shemesh/

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Ultra-Orthodox-Jews-Protest-Sabbath-Traffic/id-85915c14d42b9e421efd26fdef971998

“Each time a car passed by, even if it had a sticker saying ‘in hospital service,’ they tossed rocks at it...”

Now, even the strictest accepted interpretations of Rabbinical law accept that Sabbath restrictions do not apply in cases of life-threatening emergencies, and that ambulances and other essential emergency vehicles should be allowed to function to an extent during the Sabbath and during other holy days, however many of the ultra-orthodox Haredi communities in Israel have been clashing with other Israelis over the issue of Sabbath traffic regardless, and in many instances haven’t bothered to exercise that level of basic distinction.

Yes Virginia, there are some ultra-orthodox nutballs that have been known to stone ambulances for having the gall to be out on a holy day, and yes it’s a major source of friction between normal, sane Israelis and some of the fringe elements in Israel. These are also often some of the same ultra-orthodox nutballs that like to set up squatter communities on other people’s land.

Now, kindly take your ignorance and baseless condescension elsewhere... well, at least until you figure out the difference between a sabbat and the Sabbath. Dissembling, spreading ignorance about very real sources of conflict between Israelis and between Israel and her neighbors, and outright lying does NOTHING but further exacerbate the bloodshed and destruction in the Middle East, so I’d ask you in your words to get your “brain unwashed” before you bother lecturing people about topics you’re uninformed about.


55 posted on 01/08/2015 5:19:37 AM PST by jameslalor
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