Joseph’s posts here –
“Joseph, so what is their legal process? Kangaroo ‘justice’.”
“squeak: Agreed. She shouldn’t. Who is accusing her? Jackbooted zionists and their media enablers. If there are real allegations, we have a system of justice. Its called the Torah. And Beis Din. Throwing a mother in prison, before even being tried, is a crime.”
You obviously have little appreciation for ‘gray’ – the responses here indicate that you live in a black and white world, which it most certainly is not. How can you even entertain the idea that the court system is filled with kangaroo justice. That is possibly the most ignorant, boorish belief that I’ve ever heard. Israel isn’t the USSR, Saddam’s Iraq, Islamic Iran, North Korea, or China. It’s a civilized country with a civilized court system. I’d find it hard to deny that there may be bias, but not in the least enough to label a system as “kangaroo.”
Second, let’s say you do believe that all “zionists” will instinctively seek to villify a chareidi, how does that answer the original poster’s question? How does that justify the massive chillul Hashem being perpetrated by the protesters? Massive chillul Hashem it most certainly is; I’ve found myself fielding questions from incredulous co-workers. How does it justify violent rioting? Why does this always occur in Israel and not in the US? When Satmar chassidim in Williamsburg deem a practice (say, opening a bike lane) offensive to their sensibilities, they go about their business in a CIVILIZED manner, going through legal, effective channels that civilly voice their objections – and that approach has a good record of working.
Third – I take great offense at your description of “zionists” as jackbooted. I think you and the rest of us know very, very well what connotation that word carries, and it is disgusting, just DISGUSTING to refer to any Jew in that manner. It shows what kind of stark black and white world that you live in. I’d take greater care choosing your words very carefully.