UTJ MK Yitzchak Pindrus delivered a heated speech in the Knesset plenum on Monday evening in the wake of the riots in Bnei Brak on Sunday, accusing the justice system of marking the entire Chareidi sector as illegitimate.
“I come up here because of what some of the Knesset members have said, and I simply stand here astonished,” Pindrus began. “What were you thinking when you took a million, a million and a half citizens, and turned them into illegitimate and criminal? What did you think would happen?! What did you think when you took 100,000 people and made them criminals? What did you think would happen?”
“There’s no doubt we now face a challenge we never had before—to teach our children not to be violent and not to be cruel, even though they are being beaten, even though they are being chased in the streets, even though they have been declared illegitimate, even though they have been turned into criminals. This is a difficult educational challenge, and I don’t envy the educators who must deal with it.”
“What happened yesterday in Bnei Brak was a terrible act that must not happen. But to see those same people who caused this—’have you murdered and also inherited?’—you took 100,000 people and made them illegitimate. What did you think would happen—that they’d say to you, ‘Thank you very much, you saved us. What did you think would happen when you came to harm what is most precious to us? Yes, most precious. It was precious to us for thousands of years before the State of Israel was founded, and we were moser nefesh for it.”
“If you think the issue of yeshivos and conscription is new—it existed in Europe and many other places. We stood firm and will continue to stand firm. And stop getting excited and quoting this one or that one. Not a single yeshiva bochur should enlist in the IDF. Not a single yeshiva bochur. Do you hear? Yes, none. That doesn’t mean Chareidim who are not yeshiva students should not enlist—that is what the law is meant to regulate.”
“But what did you think would happen? Continue doing this—making 1.3 million people illegitimate—and then shouting about how people reached such a low point of violence—which I think is terrible and must be stopped at all costs. But the blame? The blame is on you—on [Supreme Court Justice Noam] Sohlberg, on Gali Baharav-Miara, on those who petitioned the Supreme Court, on Aharon Barak—on those people. We will get through this period, but they will be remembered for eternal disgrace.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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>>>Pindrus began. “What were you thinking when you took a million, a million and a half citizens, and turned them into illegitimate and criminal? What did you think would happen?! What did you think when you took 100,000 people and made them criminals? What did you think would happen?
The irony of Pindrus saying and YWM posting this is staggering.
Here on YWN saying that people are illegitimate and criminal is almost polite by comparison to what I see written about the “Zionists” on a daily basis. The vitriol some elements in the Charieidi world pour out on non-chariedi Israelis (or even Chariedim who don’t share their views) is far more inciteful that anything Pindrus is complaining about.
BUT his point that such talk leads to terrible behavior is something I agree with him on 100%.
The only honest politician is Ben Gevir
Goilem he was talking about people in the political echelon enacting decrees that delegitimize the chareidi tzibur, he was not talking about ppl on ywn who may delegitimize the chareidi tzibbur
So why the h are you bringing up keyboard warriors on ywn that may disparage non chareidi Jews
At least the Arabs are still receiving their benefits and nobody’s coming to wake them up in the middle of the night for not reporting for recruitment. What a cancer in society. I don’t see them contributing but they seem to be blood sucking the government more than the few cents the charedim used to get
Chareidim who are not learning should not enlist rav mhh said that in the current climate at least, no frum man should enlist
I’m retracting my comment because I misunderstood what Pindrus was saying. I actually agree with what he said
where is the moderator
how many times do I have to refresh the page
smerel:
“The vitriol some elements in the Charieidi world pour out on non-chariedi Israelis (or even Chariedim who don’t share their views) is far more inciteful that anything Pindrus is complaining about.”
The “vitriol” is against those who seek to harm the Jews and the Torah, not against some random victim of Zionist shmad.
This whole Civil War was caused by the Attorney General and the terrorists of the Supreme Court who should be murdered where they sit for all the damage they’ve done to the Jewish people
How about making an honest cheshbon hanefesh how tziyonim and secular are described on our side? Over all the years when the money flowed for yeshivas was there basic hakoras hatov? Its time to take achrayus and stop excusing away every behavior and blaming everyone else.
We can not have mods disappearing before noon on important days there are people here waiting to set the record straight on events of the day so ppl know what is real and the mods disappear for the whole day
Unfortunately, it goes both way. How do you expect the state to treat you when you demand that they support you both financially and militarily but are perfectly fine letting other make all of those terrible sacrifice that you refuse to make? How do you expect the state to treat you that when they try and resolve the inequalities they are called Nazis and have rocks and garbage thrown at them? When you sow violence and hate, then you reap violence and hate.
@crazy..@ “ver all the years when the money flowed for yeshivas was there basic hakoras hatov?” No we have no Hakoras Hatov, we just demand EQUAL treatment to secular institutions and value for money for the millions of shkolim we pay in taxes and generate through chareidy tourism.
Reb Emes:
I like your first comment.