Frömmigkeit vs. Eiferertum

NN, Montag, 17. Mai 2021, 23:36 (vor 1416 Tagen) @ Serious Black

Hier hat sich jemand die Mühe gemacht, die rechtliche Situation in Sheikh Jarrah zu beleuchten:

https://unherd.com/2021/05/why-israel-erupted/

But whatever happens, it would surely be better now for Israeli authorities to defuse the situation and find a creative solution to a tiny legal loophole that should never have become a symbol for anything.

Ergo: Überflüssig.

Netanyahu’s support for the radical extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is also seen as a catalyst for the violence. Israeli media reports that Yaakov Shabtai, the new police commissioner, explicitly warned Netanyahu that “Ben Gvir is responsible for Arab-Jewish riots.”

The crisis has been building up since mid-April, when police set up metal barriers at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, forcing Muslim worshippers to pass through police lines on their way to pray at the Old City’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, which triggered protests by Palestinian youths at the site.

In reaction, several hundred adherents of the KKK-like Jewish extremist group Lehava, which was founded by Ben Gvir, marched through downtown Jerusalem chanting “Death to Arabs.” This was echoed on Thursday, when about two dozen extremist Jewish men strode through Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's central market, yelling out the same phrase.

In another police action which provoked fury, a convoy of busses carrying Muslim worshippers from the Galilee to Jerusalem was blocked ahead of Laylat al Kader, the holiest night of Ramadan, which fell on Friday, May 7. Images of men, women and children striding along the highway, marching the 13 miles to the mosque, blanketed the nation’s media. The police response—which included the use of water cannons, pepper spray, and stun grenades against civilians in the mosque—has been widely panned as disproportionate.

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Police messaging about the barriers that began the upheaval has been baffling. Before withdrawing the contentious Damascus Gate barricades, Shabtai falsely stated that they were installed every year. On Thursday, a senior security official claimed they were put in place “to protect the public after the catastrophic stampede at Mount Meron,” which took place on April 30, more than two weeks after the barriers came down.

A number of factors have inflamed Israeli-Arab relations inside the country, including Netanyahu’s attempt to co-opt the Islamic Movement to his side—before rejecting it. But the images of busses stopped by the side of the highway, and citizens denied access to Al-Aqsa, are “unforgettable,” said Abu Much, who publishes columns in the online magazine Al-Monitor and in the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot.

“We’ve had prime ministers before,” he told The Daily Beast, “and we’ve had Ramadans, but never something like this. Netanyahu was itching for a fight.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-bibi-empowered-the-supremacist-movement-fueling-this-...

Absolut überflüssig.