“According to what I read, the man drove into a Jewish neighborhood, was playing music loudly and smoking cigerettes.”
This report turned out to be overblown. Read this:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3607142,00.html
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3607204,00.html (Hebrew)
“THis was a provacative act.”
And anyway, even if an act of provocation, it was wrong of the Jews to mob and stone the car. It is insupportable in a state of law and order that residents should undertake such an initiative, because something “is not done”. Is there a law forbidding people to travel on Yom Kippur? No. It’s a tradition which most people honour. But it someone does not wish to honour a tradition which means nothing to him, then he should not be punished for it by mob rule.
Is this any different from the way Muslims responded to the insult to their prophet in the Danish cartoon fiasco?
Why would anyone want to justify stupid young people who react with outrage for something that does not endanger anybody? Why give Israeli Arab Muslims the opportunity to claim, with some verity, that the Jews tried to lynch them? Livni should crack down on these seeds of insubordination quickly and summarily.
As Ami Isseroff was saying only recently something that applies just as well to this situation:
“This is not a turf war to be solved by gang brawls between rival groups of hoodlums. The war for Israel’s existence requires unity, organization, planning, self control, bravery and sacrifice, not random acts of hooliganism”
http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000601.html
