Comments on: Massive Manhunt Underway for 3 Kidnapped Israeli Teens

By: David Gerstman

David Gerstman — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:35:01 +0000

I’m not going to deny that there is a Chareidi/secular divide in Israel. But Chareidim are often portrayed as not caring about the non-Chareidi sector of society. Your experience shows otherwise. Thirty years ago, when I was in Yeshiva I spent several Shabatot in Haifa with cousins. They lived in Neve Shaanan.

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:11:23 +0000

BTW, Mrs. Abbas is now in a private hospital – in Tel-Aviv.

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:54:17 +0000

Thank you.

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:53:09 +0000

“two guys” – sorry

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:52:19 +0000

Thank you; I didn’t know if I portrayed it correctly. I first found out because I heard to guy talking on the street Friday night, and it sounded like trouble within the community. This is how it is being treated. The local Chareidi Yeshiva was already saying Psalms Friday night. I do not, of course, mean that other sectors of society are taking it any less personally.

By: David Gerstman

David Gerstman — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:29:10 +0000

Thanks very much for letting me know about the Chareidi response. In America, as far as I can tell more Yeshivish/Chareidi Shuls have been every bit as involved in promoting praying for their safe return.

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:11:14 +0000

The PA is two-faced; Fatah activists asked merchants to destroy CCTV tapes. And Israeli Leftists started trouble in a town near Hebron, diverting the army from the search – possibly intentionally. “I only set up your enemies from amongst yourselves”.

BTW, one of the boys is American.

By: RuthC

RuthC — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:01:46 +0000

Please let us draw a line under the idea of a “2 state solution”. The second Palestinian state already exists, it is called Jordan. There is no moral, geopolitical or legal reason to create another Arab country. The only impetus to do so to date has been the bullying of the Arab and Islamic countries. A society that openly calls for, facilitate, finances and celebrates the kidnapping of Jewish teenagers does not deserve the respect of the international community as a “partner for peace”.
I hope Americans are not naive enough to image that these are unsolvable conflicts in far away countries that the US should just leave alone. Although it is true that the first target of Iran will be Israel, the second one will be for the United States. Why? These are not “ancient hatreds”. The Jews are ancient and American is a relatively young country. Both countries have individual freedom at their core and it is the mere existence of such freedom is intolerable to totalitarian philosophies.

By: mzk

mzk — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:57:43 +0000

If should be pointed out that both areas where the boys went to school, Gush Etzion and Hebron, had Jews there BEFORE the state, and more specifically until the Arabs committed Massacres there. That is why they were the first areas the Israeli government allowed Jews to return to.

By the way, I’ve noticed, even out here is the sticks of Haifa, how the Chareidi (non-Zionist) Yeshiva world has treated these boys from Religious Zionist Yeshivas as their own, and reacted to the kidnapping as something happening to their family.

On the side, I have a first cousin and Nof Ayalon, and lots of relatives in the Gush, which has a large percentage of Americans.

By: Juba Doobai!

Juba Doobai! — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:53:09 +0000

May God deliver these boys from the hands of their savage enemies.

By: genes

genes — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:22:03 +0000

“Palestinian” intelligence?
I’m sure they’ll work day and night leaving no hovel unsearched and no stone unthrown until these three are returned to their families.
I’m also sure that they could “find” them in the time it took me to type this.