Israelis attack Arabic man for driving (1 Viewer)

[Nebuchanezzar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7660628.stm

Riots have broken out in the mixed city of Acre, reportedly triggered when an Israeli Arab man drove his car during the Yom Kippur religious holiday.
Dozens of cars and shops were damaged as hundreds of people took to the streets, Haaretz newspaper reported.
For Jews, Yom Kippur is a sombre day of fasting, during which it is considered offensive to drive in much of Israel.
The Arab man was reportedly attacked by youths who said he was making noise intentionally, Haaretz said.
The Arab man is reported to have said he was simply driving to a property he owned in the eastern part of the city.

Most of Israel comes to a standstill on Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement - the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Streets are deserted except for a few pedestrians, cyclists and skateboarders, during the 25-hour fast which this year began on Wednesday at 1640 (1440 GMT).
Extensive damage
The unrest erupted around midnight local time (2200 GMT), with hundreds of people pouring onto the streets as news spread of the alleged assault, Haaretz reported.
A crowd gathered on Ben Ami Street, a key commercial street in the city, and caused "extensive damage" to vehicles and property in "large-scale" Jewish-Arab rioting, the report said.
Police used force to disperse the rioters, it added.

"This is a very serious incident that the city of Acre has not seen the likes of in recent years and we will deal with all the rioters and those who take the law into their own hands with an iron fist," the head of the Acre police station, Chief Superintendent Avi Edri, told Haaretz.
About one third of Acre's population of almost 50,000 residents are Israeli Arabs, with the highest concentration in the Old City.
Israeli Arabs are people of Palestinian origin whose forbears remained in Israel after the foundation of the country in 1948.
They number about one million - about one-fifth of the Israeli population - and although they have full rights as Israeli citizens, human rights groups say they face discrimination and exclusion.

Outrageous.

 

[Animals]

Absolutely disgusting. I say we should bring the Holocaust back!

 

[katie tully]

Fucking morons, these countries are populated by morons.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

That country is populated by morons.

GOTTA DEFEND OUR PROMISED LAND LOL

 

[w0rmgod]

Ahhh zealots... will they ever cease?

Poor man.

 

[Omie Jay]

Silly jews

 

[zstar]

Fucking Hitler was right to wipe these fuckers out.

 

[squeenie]

I used to had faith in humanity... I wonder what happened to it...

 

[Zingy]

Religion.

 

[chicky_pie]

I used to had faith in humanity... I wonder what happened to it...

Kevin Rudd destroyed it.

 

[squeenie]

Kevin Rudd destroyed it.

It wasn't just Kevin Rudd...

Edit: I know, everyone's a little bit racist, but come on... where is the love?

 

[jb_nc]

Arabic is a language, not an ethnic group.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Semantics! The key issue is that Israelis are violent scumbags!

 

[em_516]

I like the part where the man was attacked by kids for ruining the peace...

 

[Zingy]

Semantics! The key issue is that Israelis are violent scumbags!

Israelis are violent for a few of them rioting, Arabs are violent for a few of them being terrorists, Africans are violent for a few of them raping babies/women and all the other fucked up shit that happens over there, Italians are violent for a few Sicilians being involved in organized crime, etc.

 

[squeenie]

Israelis are violent for a few of them rioting, Arabs are violent for a few of them being terrorists, Africans are violent for a few of them raping babies/women and all the other fucked up shit that happens over there, Italians are violent for a few Sicilians being involved in organized crime, etc.

True... Let's not blame an entire population for the actions of a minority. Generalisations are often a result of ignorance.

Edit: Oh yay. That was my absolute lack of faith in humanity speaking again. Look, I'm doing the best I can here!

 

[Animals]

Appartently it was the Jews that caused dinosaurs to become extinct.

 

[squeenie]

Appartently it was the Jews that caused dinosaurs to become extinct.

I lol'd. I have to say it Animals, you are my favourite troll.

 

[slickstar_01]

Appartently it was the Jews that caused dinosaurs to become extinct.

lol.

 

[Animals]

I lol'd. I have to say it Animals, you are my favourite troll.

I'm not a troll! Seriously! There are peer-reviewed papers that present evidence that the JEWS are responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. Scum bags.