Thousands protest ‘wave of hate’ in Tel Aviv

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Source: Times of Israel

TEL AVIV — Thousands of people gathered in the square in front of the Habima Theater on Thursday night to protest the “wave of hate” following a difficult week in Israel. The demonstration, organized by Peace Now, was held under the banner “Demonstration for Sanity — No to Revenge, No to Escalation.”

The week began in Tel Aviv with tens of thousands of people in Rabin Square, a tearful plea from the mothers of three kidnapped Israeli teens to stay strong, and a heartfelt thank you from those mothers to the entire nation of Israel, united in the search for the missing youths.

It ended with a hastily organized demonstration held here in response to the killing of 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir from East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning in what some have alleged was a revenge attack for the deaths of the three kidnapped teenagers – Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar, and Eyal Yifrach — whose bodies were discovered on Monday in the West Bank.







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[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. Tel Aviv is a wonderful city.

Very progressive and enlightened. I would like to visit one day.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Good to see.

[Shoonra]

3. Distracts from the original crime

The killing of a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem was - if done by a Jew (which has not been proven, the PLO and other Arab gangs have not been above killing other Arabs) - incredibly stupid and disrupts whatever sympathy Israel got for the deaths of 3 Israeli teens. Here the victim was presumably inoffensive, willing to co-exist with Jews, a good neighbor (or at least not a troublesome one), etc.

It's worth mentioning (altho lots of people may not care) that the 3 Israeli teens were kidnapped presumably to be used as hostages for ransom or exchange (maybe despite the fact that they were quickly killed) - and that multitudes of Palestianian Arabs immediately praised the kidnapping, adopted a 3-finger salute to show their support for the kidnapping, etc. In the Jerusalem case, nearly all Jewish Israelis immediately and unconditionally condemned this wanton killing.

Not to make excuses, but there are other examples of misplaced acts of revenge: For months after Pearl Harbor, Chinese Americans, many of them born here to America-born parents, were the targets of anti-Japanese bashings; as, indeed, were American-born Japanese-Americans who were entirely loyal to the US and unsympathetic to Japanese militarism. After Sept 11th, we had many ugly incidents of Arab-bashings, no matter their nationality, even if they were Christian Arabs - and even if they weren't the slightest bit Arabic (e.g., at least one Sikh was killed that way). Out of a population of about 6 million Jews in Israel, you can probably find someone who's both stupid and violent.

[dougolat]

6. Speaking of unproven perpetrators:

It's a stretch to assume that Hamas, which is pretty much limited to Gaza, could pull off an operation in a part of the occupied territory that even the PLA has little control over, or for that matter that they would want to, given the certainty of extreme retaliation and their newly granted legitimacy.
see Roitov.com/articles/18htm
"3 Boys for the West Bank"

Or Barak Ravid's article in Haaretz, published 06:08 15.06.14

"Misplaced acts of revenge" covers a lot of territory.

[Ash_F]

4. Good for them.

[PatrynXX]

5. actually I considered the killing of the 3

the revenge killing for a Palestinian killed the week before. This usually gets under reported and neither side is right. The USA usually gets in trouble for picking sides. (Bosnia vs Serbia) Shiites vs Sunnis (oh boy that hurts) once the right wing figures they are two items. and not just Muslim after months and months of hey all Muslims are terrorists crap (go Cat Stevens) which indeed I can't tell if he follows Sunnis or Shiites or another one. hence the education gap on Islam here..