Bored kids throwing rocks at cars of other Jews. They need a better outlet.”
That’s what baseball is for.
This entire business is very sad and upsetting on many levels.The Chilllul Shabbos is the first. The rioting however, in some ways is worse. The problem is that when there is a mob mentality, EVEN Gedolim cannot necessarily control the actions of large groups of people, assuming they know what is going on. Aharon Hakohein learned that lesson the hard way, and we are still paying for the Cheit Ha’Egel, several millennia later. Nobody should be throwing rocks at anyone. There can always be a vocal protest, not riot, and if something merits being protested, it should be. But these riots are not protests. Maybe some are legitimate protestors. But I would imagine that many teenagers involved in throwing rocks at police, are not doing so because they are kanoim. The excitement of the mob action just fuels the fire and frenzy that is already there.