The Paradox: A Religious Chief Of Police, But the Police Arrest Jews for Praying

[edu]

The guy in the middle of the picture is Religious-Zionist Roni Alshich, Israel's Chief of Police
Yet it's reported http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217130

'The police have hit a new low'
11 Jews arrested for praying outside of Temple Mount
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) lobbied Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) and Israeli Chief of Police Roni Alshich on Tuesday following what he termed the “violation of freedom of worship” of Jews, after the arrest of worshippers outside of the Temple Mount.

On Sunday, Smotrich noted in his letter, two teenage girls were arrested after they prayed near one of the entrances to the Temple Mount.

The female worshippers, wrote Smotrich, had merely prayed and at no point did they attempt to enter the Temple Mount or engage in any provocative behavior. One of the girls, a minor, was freed after several hours, and given a four-day restraining order distancing her from the Old City.

The second girl, who refused to accept the restraining order, was held overnight before being brought before Judge Miriam Kaslesi, who issued a 15-day restraining order barring her from entering the Old City.

Smotrich added that yesterday another nine Jews were arrested while praying outside of one of the entrances to the Temple Mount.

“The police’s conduct [this week] marks a new low in their harsh and discriminatory conduct towards Jews.”

The new prohibition against praying outside of the gates, wrote Smotrich, banning a more than 1,000 year old Jewish tradition, is being enforced in a “discriminatory and racist manner, targeting Jews, and as such constitutes a serious violation of the freedom of movement and freedom of worship on the Temple Mount and its surroundings.”

The Jewish Home MK called upon Erdan and Alshich to immediately halt the “continuing violation of basic human rights of Jews in the heart of Jerusalem.” There are no restrictions on Arab prayer.

[edu]

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/legal-group-challenging-police-on-criminalizing-entry-into-judea-and-samaria-area-b/2016/08/30/

Is entering Area B without coordinating it with the authorities a criminal offense? Israeli police have apparently begun to charge Israeli citizens who enter these (few) parts of Judea and Samaria where, according to the Oslo agreements, the PA enjoys civil control and security is managed jointly by Israeli and PA forces.

On Friday, August 26, the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court agreed to a police request to distance a group of 13 Breslov hasidim from Judea and Samaria for a period of 60 days because on Thursday night they had entered the village of Kifil Haras (Timnat Heres, location of Joshua’s tomb), near Ariel in Samaria, to pray at the tomb. The group was attacked by rock-throwing Arabs. Soldiers and police who arrived at the scene promptly detained the Jews.

Kifil Haras is located in Area B, which Israeli citizens may enter at will, just as they are permitted to drive on sections of Route 60 which cuts through the Area B Arab town of Hawara, as well as on the road from Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Nokdim.

Legal aid society Honenu attorney Chai Haber said in a statement Monday that he finds it difficult to understand the police unprecedented approach, “claiming that entering Area B, which is permitted to Israeli citizens, constitutes the criminal offense of ‘public nuisance,’ due to the fact that Arab terrorists throw rocks and endanger the lives of Israeli citizens.”

As is often the case in these hearings, Judge Smadar Abramovitch-Kollende sided with the police and ordered the restraining of all of 13 detainees from entering any part of Judea and Samaria for 60 days.

Haber complained against Israeli security forces who detained his clients. He said that “instead of protecting the worshippers, the IDF and the police decided to detain them. I was not surprised to hear from the police representative during the deliberation that not one of the rock-throwing Arabs had been detained.”

“This is a slippery slope,” Haber argued, adding: “Tomorrow the IDF could decide that instead of dealing with the individuals throwing rocks on the roads, they will detain the Jewish residents driving on the main roads, some of which are in Area B. We will file an appeal on the scandalous decision to distance the worshippers from all of Judea and Samaria.” He also wondered “why it is that the left-wingers who entered [Area A] Ramallah [in June 2016] and were attacked [by local Arabs], were not detained, while the worshippers who entered Area B were detained.”

The police argued that although entry to the Area B village of Kifil Haras is permitted to Israeli citizens, there are scheduled, guarded entries to the village, and because the Breslov group did not coordinate their arrival with security forces they were charged with being a “public nuisance” and with “disturbing a public servant in the performance of his duty.” Police claim that by riding into the village unaccompanied, the hasidim provoked local Arabs’ anger, endangering their own lives and the lives of the soldiers who were sent into the village to protect them. In court, the police argued that a week earlier Breslov hasidim had entered the city of Shechem (Area A) in order to reach Joseph’s Tomb in Area C — which police believed bolstered their demand to bar them from all of Judea and Samaria, including Area C.

As we mentioned earlier, attorney Haber asked police in court whether the rioting Arabs had been detained and was told that none of them had been picked up, because, according to police testimony, security forces did not want to “create a provocation, but rather acted to save the lives of the suspects.”

But they did much more than save their lives, as Haber noted: the Jewish worshippers, some of them only 14 years of age, were detained for interrogation at 3 AM and brought to court only after 2 PM the next day. This was in violation of Israel’s Youth Law. Another violation: their parents were not invited to the court deliberation. Haber said some of the minors complained of police brutality and one of them said that a policeman threatened him with a Taser gun

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

The essential problem of mamlachtiut hashkafa being taught in some of the schools of those circles.

[Debbie Shafer]

Nations will reap the consequences from pulling away from God.  Its coming.