I am not sure what can be done about it. Israel is so self-loathing and so insane that I'm not sure how the people can be awakened from this crazy double standard. When the three boys and the young woman were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas, Arabs all over Israel celebrated by rioting and firing rockets into Israel and everyone just let them. When one Arab boy was allegedly murdered by "Jewish extremists", all of Israeli Jewry demanded the hanging of the six kids supposedly responsible and groveling Israelis came to show their condolences to the family of the little swine (who made the hand signal celebrating the murders of the Jews). In fact the mother of one of the victims (Mrs. Frenkel I think) officially said she had sympathy for the mother of the dead Fakestinian boy. I made a thread about it and some JTFers said I was being too harsh on her.
If an entire city rose up and paralyzed the country like the leftniks in Tel Aviv and Haifa do every single time Israel pretends to wage a war against Arab terror, I suspect things would change. But we are a law-abiding movement, and no matter how violent leftist mobs are they never get arrested or stopped, whereas all we need to do is say that we disagree with an attempted murder and the Israeli Gestapo comes out in force to haul us away--with the complete approval of the Israeli Jewish public who says "we need to be the good guys no matter what" and other such insane crap.
Maybe if tourists visiting the Temple Mount began raising a big fuss it would make some impact. I don't really know.
BrennanFan, I'm agreeing that the situation is grim. What is the point of constantly talking about how horrible things are in Israel? What I would love to start hearing you and others here talk about is finding some solutions to these problems. I feel people here spend over 99% of the time complaining about the problems and 1% of the time talking about any solutions to them. Waiting for Moshiach to come is not very pro-active approach. Also, until Chaim is in Israel, I am not going to bet my farm on Chaim, alone, saving Israel , either. He's been stuck here for long time and not sure when he is going to become Israel's leader. Until then, we have to be open to other solutions.
Law abiding? What does that mean , anyway? Who here was talking about breaking any laws? Quite the contrary, unlike Israel, we have a Constitution in this country that allows us to stand up for our rights, liberties and freedoms and to promote such rights, freedoms and liberties across the globe.
So, do you have rallies planned? Are you going to send armed JTF Kahanists to Israel to protect more Jewish freedom advocates like Yehuda Glick? Are we going to let the next guy who is speaking out for the freedoms of Jewish people get some bullets put into him too?
How about starting a fundraiser to invest in bullet proof vests/body armor and armed security for such people? A bulletproof vest could have saved Yehuda Glick from incurring as much damage as he had and almost killing him.
Even better, if you guys are a task force, shouldn't you have a militia set up that is heavily armed, trained and ready to defend yourself against violent and criminal perpetrators like these Islamist fanatics that are themselves forming militias and training themselves to murder innocent people, both here in the USA and Israel?
I guess I am all about solutions rather than constantly complaining. The world just sucks.. If we can just make one bit of difference then we are starting to get somewhere.