HadassahSukkot
20th November 2006, 03:55 PM
Last Friday's Gay Pride festivities passed uneventfully and with military precision, to the great relief of Jerusalem police chief Ilan Franco, who declared that "sanity has returned to Jerusalem."
After weeks of apocalyptic warnings of a catastrophic confrontation marked by unruly yeshiva students and haredi Jews protesting the "abomination parade" by burning municipal cars and garbage bins, the march along Jaffa Road was reduced to a rally at the Grossberg Stadium at Givat Ram and mercifully passed almost without incident.
There, the event's very existence triggered a violent reaction that further widened the gap between non-haredi and haredi Jerusalemites
In the lead-up to the parade, Eda Haredit members tried to stop haredi youth who were pelting police with rocks, cinder blocks, bottles, angle irons and wood planks, telling them that the Torah forbids taking actions that endanger lives.
The Eda is vehemently anti-Zionist and does not recognize the existence or authority of the State of Israel
--see link for more -- http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378413756&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
After weeks of apocalyptic warnings of a catastrophic confrontation marked by unruly yeshiva students and haredi Jews protesting the "abomination parade" by burning municipal cars and garbage bins, the march along Jaffa Road was reduced to a rally at the Grossberg Stadium at Givat Ram and mercifully passed almost without incident.
There, the event's very existence triggered a violent reaction that further widened the gap between non-haredi and haredi Jerusalemites
In the lead-up to the parade, Eda Haredit members tried to stop haredi youth who were pelting police with rocks, cinder blocks, bottles, angle irons and wood planks, telling them that the Torah forbids taking actions that endanger lives.
The Eda is vehemently anti-Zionist and does not recognize the existence or authority of the State of Israel
--see link for more -- http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378413756&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull