Posted on 02/25/2007 7:03:20 AM PST by US admirer
Haredim outraged by El Al 'trick'
The haredi community is up in arms that the El Al airline has apparently desecrated Shabbat, only six weeks after an agreement binding the airline not to fly on Shabbat was signed between the two parties. A new crisis between the airline and the haredim appears imminent.
Everything began when an El Al flight from Toronto to Tel Aviv was forced to land in London on Friday, due to technical difficulties. Despite the late hour, the flight continued as planned.
Because Shabbat was approaching, El Al authorities decided to transfer the flight to their charter company, Sun D'Or Airlines. While the religious passengers were sent to various London hotels, the plane that had "switched companies" for Shabbat landed in Ben Gurion Airport after Friday at sundown.
Members of the 'Committee for the Sanctity of Shabbat' intend to hold an urgent meeting with leading rabbis of the haredi community early in the week, in order to determine how to proceed.
Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf, the group's chairman, told Ynet that "the trick used by the company is not acceptable" and said that he believes the responses from the community this time would be more severe and quicker in coming than during the last crisis between the haredim and the airline.
During the last crisis with El Al, which took place at the end of 2006, the Committee for the Sanctity of Shabbat published official announcements in the haredi media saying that it was "inappropriate to fly El Al."
A week later, following many days of intensive negations which led to dead ends, the rabbis intensified their steps and signed a document calling on the complete boycott of the company.
It should be noted that El Al has been administering Sun D'Or, which flies on Shabbat, since the seventies, a fact that is known in the haredi community. Nonetheless, Sun D'Or does not bear El Al's Jewish-affiliated symbol and therefore, in the past, has been treated differently.
Sources from El Al said that the committee had been asked to wait until the return of company CEO Haim Romano before responding to the alleged desecration of Shabbat. El Al had no formal comment regarding the veracity of this statements.
These idiots are not content to be granted certain accommodations for themselves, they wish to impose their beliefs on everyone else. Just like the bleach throwing zealots or the idiots who beat up old ladies on buses when they refuse to sit in the back.
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WOW, just like the intolerent Moslems. Can a beheading be far off?
These "zealots" must be planning to blow EL AL planes out of the sky. Or at least lie prone on the tarmac to prevent flights from taking off.
No. Wait.
What I'm pretty sure they're saying is that they don't want to do business with FELLOW JEWS who- by their views- sin by desecrating the sabbath.
What an evil bunch of a**holes!!!!
In your constant trolling against the Jews, you do get lucky occasionally and capture an incident of Jews behaving badly. Which is a real shock to me because I am of the opinion that Jews are absolutely perfect without any human foibles. Thank God you're around to both admire the US and to set me straight.
But here, you missed. Although I I'm sure I can count that you'll try again.
And it's not hard. If you look, you'll find a religious Jew littering on Yaffo St. What a Taliban like bastard. Strike that, by your logic if a religious Jew, or two, or three, or a few more, littered, then the entire religious community must be littering degenerates bastards.
But at least the non-Haradi Jews are Ok in your book. Right?
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Thanks for the ping, I hadn't seen this.
Your welcome.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1790396/posts?page=9#9
If they were religious, they wanted to go to those hotels and not to fly. Obviously, whoever stayed on the flight was not that religious. I think it was a decent compromise.
I'm guessing admirer hates Jews more then he admires the US.
Otherwise, he should celebrate that the Haradim won't fly EL AL.
Although some may fly on Israel's other airline, Israir, many will fly on US carriers like Continental and Delta.
Admirer must not admire US businesses.
Exactly.
Otherwise tell them pfffft...!
Agreed.
Use logic much?
'You and your ilk however are frozen in time, or at least "5000 years" worth..You are a vile example of what religion can produce.'
Further vile examples of what the Jewish people has produced:
Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
-- Chemistry (29 prize winners, 19% of world total, 28% of US total)
-- Economics (22 prize winners, 38% of world total, 51% of US total)
--Literature (13 prize winners, 13% of world total, 27% of US total)
--Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world total, 11% of US total)3
--Physics (47 prize winners, 26% of world total, 38% of US total)
--Physiology or Medicine (53 prize winners, 28% of world total, 42% of US total)
Then of course there are all those other vile Jews: the entrepreneurs who founded many of America's greatest corporations, the famous doctors, financiers, academics, public servants, politicians, lawyers, teachers, musicians, writers, composers.
Aside from the obvious, there is a question of how dangerous this poster actually is. To my mind, any person who uses such inflammatory and poisonous language against Jews is exactly the same kind of person who will also actively engage in physical violence against Jews. I haven't got a clue whether he's deranged, but one thing is for certain: he is really very evil.
Except that EL AL recently agreed not to fly on the Sabbath.
If anyone doesn't understand the background, in short.
Religious Jews will not do business with other Jews who violate the Sabbath. For example, there may be a kosher deli in your town. Although kosher, it is open on Saturday. You will never see an strickly Orthodox Jew in that deli.
EL AL used to be owned by the Israeli Government. It is now private, one of the last state owned businesses to go private.
EL AL did not fly on the Sabbath. Now, they want to do so for reasons of profit Many of their passengers are ultra orthodox Jews. They are in a quandary. Those Jews will not fly EL AL if EL AL flies on the Sabbath.
So EL AL made certain promises. The Haradi Jews- as any party to a contract- are pissed that EL AL didn't keep their side of the deal.
"Agreed"
The vast majority of the Orthodox Jews - millions - were murdered by the Nazis and their innumerable gentile allies. No doubt you believe they should have finished the job.
And what part did your family actually play in the Holocaust?
The Haredim throw bleach on the clothes of "immodest" women who have the audacity to not follow their beliefs, just as they seek to punish those who do not share their beliefs about flying of Saturday, by seeking to have a national airline shut down and deny the heretics and/or non-believers passage home.
Personal attacks seem to be a function of who's being attacked.
SA, if I was a Guiliani supporter I'd understand it.
Intersting that an anti-semite could stand to celebrate the wisdom and insight of two Jews on his home page.
In fact the, the words of a Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureat- Imre Kertesz are particulary germaine to the antidemocratic penchant of the ultraorthodx Jews when he said:
"It is not always worthwhile to compromise.... the real fight will not be between nations, but a struggle between fanaticism and democracy."
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