We Need Moshiach FAST

Watch this film clip.

A dear friend whom I trust and who lives in Israel explains that the observant Jews you see in the clip, the Charedim, were protesting construction of the new Highway 6 because the roadwork has revealed the existence of a group of ancient Jewish burial sites. The Charedim demanded that the work be stopped and the highway be made to detour the area of the burial caves. Ignored by Sharon's government and the Transport Commission, the Charedim staged a demonstration.

The secular Jews you see in the clip are goons hired by Israeli police to help break up demonstrations such as this, ostensibly in preparation for the Expulsion. (I assume that with hired bullies doing the dirty work, the police in uniform will be able to avoid "looking bad" on camera.) And yes, if you think you see them using stun guns or "cattle prods" in the clip, that's correct.

As my friend said, "We need the mercy of Heaven, and may Hashem help us in Gush Katif."

AMEN. AMEN.

UPDATE: Another Israeli sees it differently. She says that every year when the yeshivot get out for summer vacation, the Charedim find "some burning 'cause' to conveniently keep their boys occupied so they don't wind up in discos." She sides with the soldiers and policemen. This lady opposes the Expulsion on the grounds that it has no possibility for bringing peace, but quite the opposite, and her own son is a new army recruit who, like all the new ones, will have to participate in the Expulsion.

BTW, the film clip comes via Prodly, which is a very good blog.

Comments

[LET ISRAEL WIN]

This is so sad... so pathetic. There is no justification for the protestors to be treated this way. Things like this make me wonder if we deserve to live in eretz yisrael. Maybe we don't... hence the Sharon withdrawal plan.

[gr]

I have photos showing much worse than this - a "security" goon stabbed one of the protestors, beat up kids. Then, in that raid in the Satmar synagogue more of the same happened. The police reported to the media that they did the Satmar raid because they were defending themselves. However, MDA and local emergency rooms confirmed that there were NO injured police officers and plenty of injured Haredim. The police then apologized to Rabbi Porush for saying that there were injured officers, saying the report was "erroneous" - but did not make this apology public. In that attack on the synagogue, a seven-year-old boy had his arm and leg broken by the police. It took six hours of surgery to piece together the fragmented bones. It is easy to blame the victims, it has been done time and time again. Whoever that woman was who blamed the Haredim for being in the line of a billyclub, a knife and the ruthless hands of these police ought to join ranks with those who blame Holocaust and pogrom victims for their deaths. If these hands of the police could inflict such horrible wounds on mere children, we can only infer that at this point, HaYadayim Yedei Eisav."