{"id":4594,"date":"2008-07-22T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:08:27","slug":"epalestine-blogspot-com-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2008\/07\/epalestine-blogspot-com-74\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] JPOST: Haredim attack, wound two Arabs in J’lem neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the other event in Jerusalem today that your media will most likely ignore.  Guess how this would be covered if the roles were reversed.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Times are tense.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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This madness is man-made,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Jul 22, 2008 23:12<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Haredim attack, wound two Arabs in J’lem neighborhood  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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By JPOST.COM STAFF  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Several hours after the terror attack in Jerusalem, ultra-orthodox Jews attempted to lynch two Palestinians, Army Radio reported.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The incident occurred in the Makor Baruch neighborhood, known for its unlikely mix of religious study institutions and orthodox residents, and stores selling construction materials and power tools, carpentries, and other such outlets which draw many Arab shoppers and employees.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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According to eye witnesses, two battered and bleeding Palestinians barged into the yard of a family sitting Shiva [the Jewish week of mourning], followed by a raging mob.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The family in the house protected the Palestinians and repelled the mob, which was comprised of furious yeshiva students.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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A member of the family said yeshiva students yelled at him from the balcony of the yeshiva, overlooking the house, calling to "kill Jews who protect Arabs."  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The two east Jerusalem residents were taken to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The family that protected them remained mostly unscathed but one of its members was also attacked. "They would have killed me if they could," he said. The two men had told him the altercation began after an argument they had with a store owner drew some bystanders who within minutes intervened and started beating the Arabs.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Waiting for the fury to subside, the man and his son led the Arabs to an alleyway so that they could escape.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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But then, the man recounted, hundreds of yeshiva students stormed after the two, beating them "to a pulp," the man said. Protecting them with his own body, he was confronted by two haredi men, one of whom was brandishing a 20 centimeter-long knife.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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He was wounded in his abdomen, at which point the crowd began to disperse and large police forces arrived.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"All hell broke loose. After the terror attack, the public’s blood boiled, and people became hot- headed, insane. These people that call themselves religious almost killed me and the two Palestinians. I was raised to defend any person. Luckily for me, I’m strong, but [if I would be stabbed] one centimeter above or below, and this would become a murder," the man said.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Rabbi Yitzhak Bazri, of the David Bazri yeshiva nearby, said the mob did not come from his yeshiva. "We only have older students, and the attackers were young," he said.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"This is a grave incident; no one should hurt innocents, Arabs or Jews. It’s against halacha [Jewish law]. I hope they find the assailants and put them to trial," he said in condemnation of the incident.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends, Here is the other event in Jerusalem today that your media will most likely ignore.  Guess how this would be covered if the roles were reversed. Times are tense. This madness is man-made, Sam — Jul 22, 2008 23:12 Haredim attack, wound two Arabs in J’lem neighborhood  By JPOST.COM STAFF  Several hours after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}