Jewish Valentine's in Jerusalem
Stabbing by
ultra-orthodox fanatic of pride parade participants, assault of
demonstrators by private goons, hired by tycoons... and strange
failure of the security forces of the total security state in both
cases...
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Jerusalem, July 30 – tonight was the
Jewish love day. It was marked by two very different events – both
marred by violence, and both raising questions about police and
security forces conduct. Both events started around 6:00 pm about
500 yards from each other in the Mamilla complex in the center of
Jerusalem.
Pride and Tolerance parade
The event was secured by massive Israel
Police forces, given the history of violence against Pride parades in
Jerusalem in past years, including the stabbing of participants in
2005. That was also the reason for the inclusion of “Tolerance”
in the name of the Jerusalem event. The event was clearly different
from its Tel-Aviv counterpart by the participation of various,
organized political groups, mostly left-wing, and its generally much
more conservative nature.
Pics: Launch ares of the Pride and
Tolerance parade. Participants included various organized political,
mostly left-wing groups, and the event was much more conservative
than its Tel-Aviv counterpart. Heavy police forces were on location.
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Pics: Stabbing attack by Schlissel
today (Yediot); Schlissel's arrest after the stabbings of Pride parade
participants on July 30, 2015, and in 2005.
(Haaretz) Late night demonstration after the stabbings, "pride, no fear".
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The event ended with with 6
participants being stabbed by an orthodox Jewish fanatic, Yishai
Schlissel. Two of the victims were seriously wounded.
Schlissel is the same person, who
stabbed Pride parade participants in Jerusalem 10 years ago, and was
only recently released from prison. According to media, immediately
after his release, he started inciting for violence in order to
prevent this year's Jerusalem parade from taking place, including
posting street notes calling for violence, and interview with an
ultra-orthodox radio show. [i]
In a total security state, the fact
that no measures were taken against Schlissel, in view of such open
incitement for violence, must raise serious questions. It
immediately brings to mind the failure, or even collusion of Jewish
division of the Shin-Bet in the case of prime minister Rabin
assassination in 1995. [ii]
The stabbings in the Jerusalem Pride
parade also undermined that pink-washing efforts of the Israeli
government, trying to present Israel as a tolerant, civil society,
through the widely advertised Pride events in Tel-Aviv. [iii]
Pic:
Nighttime demonstration after the stabbings in the Pride and
Tolerance parade.
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Direct action by an anti-banksters
group
The small demonstration was conducted
in front of the nearby Mamilla Hotel – where the families of two
tycoons, Yitzak Tshuva and Zion Keynan were united through the
matrimony of their kids. The event was dubbed by the demonstrators
“The Wedding of Thieves”... The group notes the actions of the
banksters and tycoons against families, which do not spare their
kids, and therefore aims at disrupting the routine lives of tycoons
and their direct family members through demonstrations, wherever they
appear.
Pics: “Wedding
of Thieves” demonstration in Jerusalem by an anti-banksters direct
action group.
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Yitzhak Tshuva is one of a handful of
Israeli tycoons, [iv]
who according to former Israeli Treasury Minister Lapid, control the
economic policies of the Israeli government. Lapid, who was elected
on a reformist agenda on the wave of social protest of 2011-2, made
such statements only after the collapse of the previous government,
in order to justify his failure to perform...
Tshuva gained notoriety with the
Israeli social protest movement, particularly for two main reasons:
- The violent eviction of families of a small Tel-Aviv neighborhood, which was sold to him by the government for the development of high rise luxury apartments. [v]
- Being a key player in the gas monopoly, which in collusion with US-based Noble Energy gained control over Israel's newly discovered, off shore natural gas fields. Regardless of decision by Israel's top anti-trust regulator, Netanyahu and his Neo-liberal team are determined maintain the monopoly. [vi]
Tzion Keynan is the top executive of
Bank HaPoalim, Israel's largest bank, controlled by the Arison tycoon
family. [vii]
Former top executive of the bank, Dan Dankner, served a prison term
for bank fraud. The bank is also notorious for its rampant fraud on
debtors in the courts, similar to the foreclosure fraud crisis in the
United States. [viii]
More recently, Keynan gained notoriety
for a bizarre gag order on the direct action group leader, Attorney
Barak Cohen, issued through a nighttime hearing in the Tel-Aviv bomb
shelter, off the court calendar... [ix]
Likewise, a small news item, pertaining to the planned direct action
event tonight was removed from the internet, according to the group -
after threats on the news outlet by Keynan's operatives. [x]
The demonstrators initially numbered
only about 5 activists, and later no more than 20. There was only one
policeman on location, but about 20 goons, apparently hired by the
tycoons, most of them in security company uniform, but some in plain
clothes. The demonstrators stood on the sidewalk - public space,
carried signs “Wedding of the Thieves”, and yelled, but were
disciplined and deliberately non-violent. Some of the wedding party
guests looked down from time to time from the high-rise rooftop, but
otherwise, there was practically no direct contact or confrontation
between the demonstrators and the event participants.
Regardless, at one point, the goons
decided to bring the demonstration to an end, and assaulted the
demonstrators. One female demonstrator was pushed into the heavy
traffic of the nearby city street by one of the plain-clothed goons.
Luckily she was not hurt. The goons started chasing the
demonstrators through nearby streets, trying to take away their
megaphones.
The lone policeman on location
responded to the situation by claiming that the area was declared
“Security Zone”, and that the demonstrators must leave. The
demonstrators did not leave, though, and additional police van, which
arrived following the assault, did not repeat, what was apparently a
far-fetched fabrication.
The conduct of police, in particular
the lack of police presence, leaving the arena for private goons to
assault demonstrators, was most likely coordinated in advance with
police. After all, Tshuva is known for hiring scores of high level
former government officers, among them senior regulators and 2 former
Israel Police chief commanders... [xi]
And corruption of the top brass of Israel Police has become a
critical issue in recent years... [xii]
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Close to midnight, on the bus back to
Tel-Aviv, two women were arguing. An orthodox Jewish woman said that
the day's events showed that there was no place for the Pride parade
in Jerusalem, since “there are a lot of very sensitive people in
Jerusalem, who are really hurt by it.” She concluded that such
events should be permitted in Tel-Aviv only. The other young woman,
still wearing her parade feather head-dress, asks her: “So
sensitive that they must to go on a stabbing rampage?”
A man was wondering, how it came to be,
that the stabber hadn't been shot to death by the Israel Police swat
team on location. That has been the routine procedure relative to
Palestinians in similar incidents in recent years, and the former
internal security minister even condoned the practice, praising
security, who chased and shot to death a Palestinian "The action
of the Border Police officer who chased after the assailant and
quickly killed him was correct and professional and that is how we
want these incidents to end. “ [xiii]
The day's events
clearly show the failure of the Israeli government to maintain even
the semblance of the rule of law and peace and welfare, regardless of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how far-removed the situation
in Jerusalem is from what was intended in its designation by
international law as Corpus Separatum Jerusalem. [xiv]
LINKS
i2015-06-30
6 stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade by ultra-Orthodox Jewish
assailant
ii2013-10-26
ISRAEL: Nation hijacked by a Shin-Bet Judiciary Gang_OpEdNews.com
iii2015-05-31
Tel-Aviv Gay Pride festival may secure long, lasting,
self-sustaining peace in the middle-east!
iv2013-12-02
Oligarchy in the Holy Land — Tiny Number of Families Dominates
Israel's Economy_Alternet News
v2014-03-27
PHOTOS: Police evacuate families from working-class Tel-Aviv
neighborhood_ +972
vi2015-01-06
How a tycoon turned Israel’s natural-gas industry into a
monopoly_Haaretz
viii
2014-02-27 ISRAEL: War hero Moti Ashkenazi+76 others versus the
medieval debtors' courts
ix2015-06-28
When it comes to the First Amendment - Israel scores an
"F"_OpEdNew.com
x2015-07-29
Wedding of the tycoons... censored!
xi2015-07-30
These are the names of 22 public officials who crossed the lines to
serve Tshuva_The True Economy (Hebrew)
xii2015-07-19
Suicide of commander Efraim Bracha and "collapse" of the
Israel Police
xiii2014-11-05
Jerusalem terror attack leaves 1 dead and 3 critically
wounded_Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.624806
xiv2014-02-05 Corpus Separatum Jerusalem and the middle-east peace
process_OpEdNews.com
