Israeli settlers suspected in church arson attack released

[azurnoir]

sraeli police detained and released 16 young Jewish settlers Thursday after an overnight arson attack damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel.

The arson attack struck the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where many Christians believe Jesus fed the 5,000 in the miracle of the five loaves and two fish.

A church adviser blamed Jewish extremists for the incident and police later said they had detained 16 youths from settlements in the occupied West Bank for questioning.

Despite Netanyahu's vow to hold the perpetrators accountable, police spokesperson Samri told AFP that the youths suspected for Thursday's attack were released shortly after being detained without charge, after providing statements to the authorities.

Tabgha was subjected to a previous attack in April 2014 in which church officials said a group of religious Jewish teenagers had damaged crosses and attacked clergy.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766043

[guillaumeb]

1. I inadvertently posted the same item today. My error.

Luckily King David caught it. No harm meant.
As to your post:
This points out the fact that Israeli intolerance is not limited to Muslims and Palestinians, but also extends to Christians.

[King_David]

3. "Israeli Intolerance"? Quite the broadbrush mister,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134107028

[guillaumeb]

4. And if the Druze were not in a gepgraphically sensitive (to Israel) area?

Would "the only Middle East democracy" intervene?

[King_David]

5. The Druze actively partake in the democracy

Druze willingly participate in the IDF
with zeal.

[azurnoir]

8. that's changing

A recent poll conducted by the University of Haifa has revealed that the number of Druze refusing to serve in the Israeli army is increasing. It also showed that a growing number of Israeli youth prefer being jailed instead of military service.

Only 36 per cent of the youth who took part in the poll supported obligatory recruitment, while 47 per cent believed military service should be voluntary. 17 per cent believed the current conscription policy should be revoked.

According to the poll, 47 per cent of Druze said there is no difference between them and other Arabs, while 27 per cent claimed their situation is worse than the Arabs in Israel. Moreover, 83 per cent said that their life is worse than the Jews in Israel despite their military service.

90 per cent of Druze polled said they held negative views towards the Israeli establishment because they suffer land confiscation and geographic siege similar to other Arabs. About 75 per cent of them said their negative feelings were because of high rates of unemployment in their community compared to the relatively low rate of unemployment among Jews in Israel.

This latest poll by the University of Haifa affirms the findings of similar surveys; that the rate of recruitment in the Israeli army has sharply declined. While some placed the rate at less than 50 per cent, other found it to be below 48 per cent.

The issue of recruitment of Palestinian Druze into the Israeli military has become a major public debate after the popular youth musician, Omar Sa'ed, publicly declared that he preferred spending time in prison rather than serving in the Israeli army.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9429-increasing-numbers-of-palestinian-druze-refuse-to-serve-in-israeli-army

[King_David]

10. Depends on who does any poll and what the questions asked.

I don't believe anything is changing.

[King_David]

11. IDF to disband all Druze battalion

Decision comes after 99% of Druze soldiers express desire to integrate into the rest of the armed forces.


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4658993,00.html


Oops sorry - nothing's changing .

[azurnoir]

12. doesn't relate at all those already in IDF vs those that want to be IDF or not

[azurnoir]

7. Druze mob’s rash attack may have doomed Syrian cousins

The brutes who lynched a wounded Syrian in cold blood near the northern Israeli village of Majdal Shams on Monday night almost certainly shot their Druze brothers across the border in the foot

Not only did the perpetrators of the act severely tarnish the image of the Druze community and weaken Jewish Israelis’ feeling of concern for members of the persecuted minority in Syria, the lynchers also likely offered Sunni extremists in the war-torn region an excuse to avenge the killing of a man who was, at least according to the Druze and the Syrian regime, a fellow Sunni fighter.

Thus the same Druze men and women in the Golan Heights and in the rest of the country who have in recent days attempted to mobilize Israeli officials to take action in order to rescue the Syrian Druze from the impending disaster and revenge killings by jihadists may have ended up encouraging the extremists to go off on their own murder sprees, thus signing a death warrant for their cousins in the Syrian Druze village of Hader.

The Syrian regime’s response to the lynching certainly won’t help either. Official publications issued by supporters of President Bashar Assad praised the mob of Golan Heights Druze residents and described their assault on the injured Syrian as “heroic.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/druze-mobs-rash-attack-may-have-doomed-syrian-cousins/

[azurnoir]

9. actually if I had realized sooner I'd simply self deleted my thread

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. And yet non of them are labeled terrorists.

So as I rightly pisted in a different thread.

Palestinians are labeled as terrorists and simetimes shot dead on the spot whereas Israelis are let go after being briefly detained.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. Kick!