Thursday, September 3, 2009

Bedatz:New Guidelines for Protest




My translaton of the guidelines for the demonstration:

At the instructions of the rabbinical leadership of the Eida Chareidis we are to go through the streets of Meah Shearim only until Rechov Shivtei Yisroel. Unmarried students and children are not to participate in any manner in the demonstrations. There is an absolute prohibition of doing any actions which can bring danger to life. No one is to go into the streets and interfere with traffic and similar activities. Furthermore no one is do any act of violence such as throwing stones or vegetables or similar things. Everyone is responsible to make sure that no one else violates any of these instructions. These prohibited activities are self-defeating and are destructive to the battle to properly honor Shabbos.

13 comments:

  1. Heh.

    Guidelines for a protest? It's Elul, not Adar for crying out loud.

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  2. The Leader, Garnel Ironheart said...

    Heh.

    Guidelines for a protest? It's Elul, not Adar for crying out loud.
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    What bothers you about it?

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  3. BTW, these were the (albeit unwritten) rules all along. It was only reiterated in writing, and perhaps made explicit rather than implicit.

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  4. JOS, rules are only rules if they are followed therefore necessity to hang flyers as reminders.

    BTW why is PEACEFUL the newest genre, what caused the change?

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  5. tzipschum said...

    JOS, rules are only rules if they are followed therefore necessity to hang flyers as reminders.

    BTW why is PEACEFUL the newest genre, what caused the change?
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    Simple answer - the police fired live amunition. It is the first time in Jerusalem history that live amunition and stun grenades were fired at a demonstration.

    A Zakah volunteer who was with the police & the body of the niftar - said the police response was entirely justified.

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  6. DT said: "Simple answer - the police fired live amunition. It is the first time in Jerusalem history that live amunition and stun grenades were fired at a demonstration. A Zakah volunteer who was with the police & the body of the niftar -"

    When was a demonstrator killed (murdered by a police bullet?)?? I haven't seen any such reports.

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  7. SZ said...

    DT said: "Simple answer - the police fired live amunition. It is the first time in Jerusalem history that live amunition and stun grenades were fired at a demonstration. A Zakah volunteer who was with the police & the body of the niftar -"

    When was a demonstrator killed (murdered by a police bullet?)?? I haven't seen any such reports.
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    I didn't say that the police fired at a demonstrator I said live ammunition was fired at a demonstration - into the air.

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  8. But you mentioned a niftar. I hadn't read any demonstrator was killed anywhere. Can you elaborate? Who and when was killed?

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  9. SZ said...

    But you mentioned a niftar. I hadn't read any demonstrator was killed anywhere. Can you elaborate? Who and when was killed?
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    It wasn't a demonstrator. There was a fight between a Palestinian worker and a Jew in a hotel in Geulah. The Jew was killed. Rioting broke out because the police wanted to do an autopsy on the Jew. It was in that rioting that the mob got nasty and the police fired live ammunition and stun grenades.

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  10. SZ said...

    But you mentioned a niftar. I hadn't read any demonstrator was killed anywhere. Can you elaborate? Who and when was killed?
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    It wasn't a demonstrator. There was a fight between a Palestinian worker and a Jew in a hotel in Geulah. The Jew was killed. Rioting broke out because the police wanted to do an autopsy on the Jew. It was in that rioting that the mob got nasty and the police fired live ammunition and stun grenades.

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  11. Interesting point in one of the papers was that the DONATIONS to Meah Shearim mosods, orphanages, soup kitchens, 'hachnos kallahs' have spiraled downwards, since the demonstrations begun!!
    Any truth to that being a factor in curtailing the violence in demos?

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  12. Don't know the accuracy, but even if it is so, with the economy everyone is down on donations.

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