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Ultra-orthodox Jews battle Israel police over the draft

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ISRAEL-RELIGION-JUDAISM-MILITARY PROTESTThousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews battled police across Israel on Thursday in a wave of protests against their young men being called up for military service.

Police said that around 3,000 protestors blocked main roads in Jerusalem, the ultra-Orthodox Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak, the southern city of Ashdod and towns in central Israel.

An AFP photographer in Jerusalem said police fired water cannon at demonstrators who danced in the deluge.

They carried placards reading “Stop the ultra-Orthodox draft” and “Only in Israel is Bible study a criminal offence,” she said.

Baton-wielding mounted officers charged stone-throwing protesters, she added.

Police said that at least 30 people were arrested for public disorder offences around the country, but there were no reports of injuries on either side.

ultra orthodox jews - no to armyThe protests were sparked by cuts in government funding to Jewish theological seminaries, or yeshivas, and a crackdown on young ultra-Orthodox men seeking to avoid Israel’s compulsory military draft.

The cabinet last year approved moves to end a practice under which tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox were exempted from military service if they were in full-time yeshiva study.

While new legislation is so far incomplete, the authorities are hardening enforcement of existing law.

Military service is compulsory in Israel, with men serving three years and women two. Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up roughly 10 percent of the country’s population of just over eight million.

Al Arabiya

Top photo: Israeli policemen scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest against their young men being called up for military service on February 6, 2014 in Jerusalem. The protests across Israel were sparked by cuts in government funding to Jewish theological seminaries, or yeshivas, and a crackdown on young ultra-Orthodox men seeking to avoid Israel’s compulsory military draft. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON

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70 responses to “Ultra-orthodox Jews battle Israel police over the draft”

  1. man-o-war Avatar
    man-o-war

    “Baton-wielding mounted officers charged stone-throwing protesters, she added.”, must not have been Palestinian youngsters throwing those stones. Otherwise, the “rubber” bullets and tear gas canisters would have been flying. Lucky them!

    1. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      These traitors ought to be executed immediately

      1. Farq2 Avatar
        Farq2

        Why, because they refuse to join the filth.

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          LOLOLOL. These mobs in their stray jackets are the settler bums who attack palestinians in the West Bank.. now that theyre lazy to join the army you’re suddenly a fan?

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            No, these lived alongside Christians and Moslems Palestinians.
            In Jerusalem, Moslems called them “the People of the Book”..
            Zionists are world’s biggest maffia organisation. Big difference.

          2. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            Oh pleaseeeeeeeeee, these are khazars from Europe. Since when are Ashkenazis Jews indigenous to the middle east?!!

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Your telling mee?

      2. cook2half Avatar
        cook2half

        Oh god, a downvote, this can’t be good

        1. Geo Avatar
          Geo

          Tuesday was my bad day now its your turn to suffer Cookie 🙂 sometimes we get what we deserve in life, here is another arrow 🙂

      3. Geo Avatar
        Geo

        I am a proud traitor!! I will never ever join or fight for any military organization PERIOD!!! where do I surrender?

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          This is not about military. Arab-Israelis dont pay taxes nor do they join the military, but unlike these ultra orthodox thuggss they dont impose their religious garbage on civil affairs.

          And as I just told Farq, these are the same people who attack palestinians in the West Bank with their bare hands. Suddenly you’re a supporter?

          1. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            And suddenly you are offended by Palestinians being slapped with bare hands?

          2. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            Just saying every settler attack in the west bank is caused by the same people you’re suddenly defending. This is not about the army, in civilian life theyre lazy and arrogant

          3. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            don’t know a lot about them Cookie but I have reasons to feel strongly about opting out of being in position where am told where to go and who to kill, I personally interviewed 2 inmates in Lebanon in 2009 for refusing military service on spiritual background, both were tortured in unspeakable ways for not wanting to ever getting blood on their hands, yet I am not aware of anyone being arrested and jailed for any of the killings that took place in the civil war, once again it is not fashionable to be someone who does not want to partake in the glamorous killing for real estate. If I live long enough and finish my book I will leave you an autographed copy 🙂

          4. ...some guy Avatar
            …some guy

            don’t know a lot about them Cookie but I have reasons to feel strongly about opting out of being in position where am told where to go and who to kill, I personally interviewed 2 inmates in Lebanon in 2009 for refusing military service on spiritual background, both were tortured in unspeakable ways for not wanting to ever getting blood on their hands, yet I am not aware of anyone being arrested and jailed for any of the killings that took place in the civil war, once again it is not fashionable to be someone who does not want to partake in the glamorous killing for real estate. If I live long enough and finish my book I will leave you an autographed copy 🙂

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          I just meet with Geo here, glad to see you..”crouki is buzy”.

      4. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Who are you to call them traitors, looks like stupidity goes as far as the Universe…

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          Who are you to call them non-traitors? :S

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I am a Semite..you are Not, haha

          2. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            These are khazars, back to Europe

          3. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            Hey jewish hindsteiner I like it when girls say haha 🙂

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            A girl lookes stupid saiying ha ha ha all the time. I’m in a book, or a pay titeled
            Hah hah….! lt has a badly, and theyr sill saying haha..

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Geo, i love to laugh. I was reffering to cynical laughter (arrogant), demeaning
            to the one who don’t share – the “suprime cause” – crimes in name of Ideology, Patriotism, Sect..(fascism) Nazism) – no ouverture or considearation, it’s “mine
            or the highway”.
            The personage a play is a girl impermeable to the cynism of her friends,
            who decided to live in a cocoon away from society, the girl is too sensitive she posseses a natural barrier inside, it ends badly for her.. a famous play, the tittle
            is “Ha hah….!” from a famous author here.

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            HUGS

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            HUGS..itoo

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            HUGS..itoo

          9. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            Good morning sis, There was a time when haha was as bad as it got as we poked at each others differences and I saw all of us as children with less serious things to process but the reality is that we all have been subjected to the ill effect of what we consume around us and often we are spring loaded and ready to snap with a trigger word or even being mentioned. politics and wars are poison to the heart and soul and sadly rob us of the innocent child in us that laughed more often unaware of the side effects of adult hood. our barriers go up quickly but take adequate time and the right things said to get lowered.
            haha I slept 2 hours more that you did …Back to immaturity 🙂

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ehh..you do understand me it’s true, but you’re wiser geofilo..you sleep better because your conscience is in peace, not mine (no crime commited 🙂

          11. ...some guy Avatar
            …some guy

            Good morning sis, There was a time when haha was as bad as it got as we poked at each others differences and I saw all of us as children with less serious things to process but the reality is that we all have been subjected to the ill effect of what we consume around us and often we are spring loaded and ready to snap with a trigger word or even being mentioned. politics and wars are poison to the heart and soul and sadly rob us of the innocent child in us that laughed more often unaware of the side effects of adult hood. our barriers go up quickly but take adequate time and the right things said to get lowered.
            haha I slept 2 hours more that you did …Back to immaturity 🙂

          12. ...some guy Avatar
            …some guy

            Hey jewish hindsteiner I like it when girls say haha 🙂

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            A girl lookes stupid saiying ha ha all the time..ha ha lol.

    2. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      These traitors ought to be executed immediately

      1. Farq2 Avatar
        Farq2

        Why, because they refuse to join the filth.

  2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    well Hezbollah would like this news so if no israeli youth join the zionist army then there will no one to fight them.

  3. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    well Hezbollah would like this news so if no israeli youth join the zionist army then there will no one to fight them.

  4. cook2half Avatar
    cook2half

    D E P O R T

    1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
      nagy_michael2

      To Libya…

      1. cook2half Avatar
        cook2half

        No to Lebanon 😛 There goes another KFC..

        1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
          nagy_michael2

          no in libya they will fall easily in the trap of Al Qaada.. where they will be mutilated from limb to limb. these Ultra Orthodox jews are nothing but trouble makers and they do not serve the country in any way shape or form. Israel has no use for them and send them better yet to the Sahara desert.

  5. cook2half Avatar
    cook2half

    Ugly fags prefer reading their toilet scrolls of the old testicles instead of integrating into modern society, and use the army as an excuse for their laziness

    1. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
      Maborlz Ez-Hari

      Blasphemous, stop that crook they will put a fatwa on your ass.

  6. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “full-time yeshiva study” … worth at least 2 lifetimes … of course. But yes, no-one should join their army. That would really make ALL the ‘Ultras’ super-happy, right?? :-))) Sounds like other ‘Religious Peoples’ who want others to go do their fighting and blowing-up – for them – without any democracy attached to the concept. It’s simply a Godly thing to be ‘On Top’ of the ‘studies’ all the time – which includes telling women what they may or may not wear. Of course.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      You’re very selective.. if there is real Jews in the holly land Zion the Religion, it’s them.
      Zion hijacked by a Fascist Russian Revisionist, it became the Zionist World Organisation Mouvement, a Fascist Organisation. An with all the ultra things you mention, it’s pure Jewish
      race and religion, they are also non Orthdox Jews .. and mixed rather non religious Zionists
      with an agenda. Also there are non-Orthodox drug dealers, wife beaters, porn film industry and what not..Rigth? :-)))publishers,

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        I was only selecting this story.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Some things you simply need to laugh at because they are so crazy.
        Or really funny – like ‘porn’. :-)))

      3. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Some things you simply need to laugh at because they are so crazy.
        Or really funny – like ‘porn’. :-)))

  7. Reasonableman Avatar
    Reasonableman

    The new israeli finance minister of israel openely states that running a country is just like running a business so if your not making $$$ then see you later your just another number.

    Whilst the internal governments works 4 days a week and gets payed over half a mill a year exceeding the available funds. Ofcourse these people have a right to protest.

  8. cook2half Avatar
    cook2half

    khazdars who dont want to join society (nevermind army) should go back to Europe

  9. cook2half Avatar
    cook2half

    Ok trolls im off to bed, ill be back soon though i promise…

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      There’s a pot calling a kettle ‘black’. :-)))

    2. Geo Avatar
      Geo

      Hurry back I miss you already Honey….good night Cookie 🙂

      1. Farq2 Avatar
        Farq2

        Sorry Geo, but that arrow down was from me. I’m still trying to be nice brother. But I just can’t handle when people talk shit like young Cookie.

        1. Geo Avatar
          Geo

          Farq my dear brother it does not cost anything to be nice! he is young yet intelligent and most of what he sais stems from wanting mischief, I suffer from the same illness 🙁 but he is still young and there will be some events in his life that will land him in a place where he will feel more balance and less attached to one sided solutions. btw one of those arrows is mine lol so don’t be sorry I am not!! 🙂

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Dear Geo pardon me it’s not my opinion he’s old enough to be Nazi..he has noo hearth and that’s enough for me………….

          2. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            Dear hindy, Are you saying he is 100% asscrow crookinuts crooki with no hope? fine sister He is not allowed to cook any more he is only dishwasher 🙂

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Pfhhhwhaha he will deport you with the bird :))

          4. ...some guy Avatar
            …some guy

            Dear hindy, Are you saying he is 100% asscrow crookinuts crooki with no hope? fine sister He is not allowed to cook any more he is only dishwasher 🙂
            Poor guy doesn’t know his bird Kosher is ultra orthodox jew lol SHHH don’t tell him he will deport the bird :)P

          5. Prophettttt Avatar
            Prophettttt

            Just shaking head,geo!!!!!
            He makes many Nazis look good,lol

          6. Geo Avatar
            Geo

            Prophetttt everytime I meet someone they look at me and shake their head…I do have that effect lol

          7. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Colourful as the birds? 😉

          8. ...some guy Avatar
            …some guy

            Prophetttt everytime I meet someone they look at me and shake their head…I do have that effect lol

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Colourful as the birds? 😉

          10. Farq2 Avatar
            Farq2

            I know he’s young bro, however Intelligent. I don’t understand that part. lol. Your right however, being nice cost nothing. I’m trying brother, God knows I’m trying. Well I’m going on holidays next Tuesday with the family for two weeks. Maybe a bit of TLC from the wife will ease my nerves and anger. lol. Or maybe I should start the pot again. lol

          11. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Farq2 … Intelligence and Passion are not synonymous.
            Sometimes, intelligence overcomes the passion … Sometimes, we get married. 🙂
            Sometimes, we just get old ….
            Keep the passion going where it does the best work. 😉

          12. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Farq2 … Intelligence and Passion are not synonymous.
            Sometimes, intelligence overcomes the passion … Sometimes, we get married. 🙂
            Sometimes, we just get old ….
            Keep the passion going where it does the best work. 😉

    3. ...some guy Avatar
      …some guy

      Hurry back I miss you already Honey….good night Cookie 🙂

    4. Farq2 Avatar
      Farq2

      Please, do take your time.

  10. Shirdel2142 Avatar
    Shirdel2142

    Jews fighting jews…next thing we see its tanks going down the street…wait a minute that is already happening!!! sarcasm intended.

    1. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      Welcome back

    2. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      Welcome back

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