Israeli Arabs set off fireworks after memorial siren

[Yala]

Arabs set off fireworks after memorial siren
Residents of Haifa and Carmiel participating in Memorial Day ceremonies enraged when they hear fireworks coming from nearby Arab neighborhoods
Ahiye Raved
Published: 04.22.07, 22:56 / Israel News

Northern residents were incensed when they heard the distinct sound of fireworks coming from nearby Arab communities during ceremonies for the commemoration of fallen Israeli soldiers and terror victims in honor of Memorial Day.

Sunday evening at 8 pm, memorial ceremonies started at the memorial site for fallen soldiers in Carmiel. During the ceremony, participants suddenly heard blasts of fireworks, apparently coming from nearby Arab communities.

"We're used to the calls of the muezzin five times a day, including at five in the morning, and we're even used to fireworks being shot off for occasions they celebrate when we're observing Yom Kippur, but to set off fireworks on a day like this is simply a provocation. Even if they don't observe Memorial Day, they must be really insensitive to ignore us and our pain in this manner," said one of the participants in the memorial ceremony.

A spokesperson for the Carmiel municipality, Laviya Fischer, said this incident "can't be defined as good neighborliness." She added that after Independence Day, Carmiel Mayor Adi Eldar planned to approach the local council heads in the neighboring communities to protest the insensitivity.

'Not the day for fireworks'
In Haifa police were investigating who was behind the fireworks and firecrackers heard in the neighborhood of Halisa, not far from Memorial Park where commemoration ceremonies were being held.

"Patrol officers were sent to the scene and discovered that the firecrackers were set off during the henna celebration of members of an ethnic minority group," a police official said.

"We're now searching for the specific suspect responsible for shooting off the fireworks."

"I live on the mountain ridge in Haifa," a witness told Ynet. "A few minutes after the siren marking the opening of Memorial Day was sounded, I heard blasts. I went out to my balcony and saw on my right, in the area of Halisa, fireworks for a full few minutes. At a certain point they stopped, and a few minutes later they started again."

"I have no doubt that they were fireworks. It's rather disturbing. This isn't exactly the day for fireworks, unless the people living there want to express protest. Fireworks on such a night are kind of hard to accept," he said.

Fireworks and firecrackers were also heard in a Ramla neighborhood during Memorial Day ceremonies, according to reports. Police found that the fireworks were set off at a wedding celebration.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...391084,00.html

[farmall]

The thing to do would be to return the offense instead of bleating to government officials for help.

Memorial days are not just days to reflect on the sacrifice of war, but to reflect on the necessity of embracing war.

Israeli soldiers, sailors, and airmen died fighting because for Israel to live it needs people ready, willing, and able to kill its enemies and lay waste their lands. If you would honor your dead and wounded, keep your forces strong, militarize your country, and work together for the perpetual war your survival demands.

[NewsGuy]

Arabs set off fireworks after memorial siren
Residents of Haifa and Carmiel participating in Memorial Day ceremonies enraged when they hear fireworks coming from nearby Arab neighborhoods
Ahiye Raved

"We're used to the calls of the muezzin five times a day, including at five in the morning, and we're even used to fireworks being shot off for occasions they celebrate when we're observing Yom Kippur, but to set off fireworks on a day like this is simply a provocation. Even if they don't observe Memorial Day, they must be really insensitive to ignore us and our pain in this manner," said one of the participants in the memorial ceremony.

The act itself is trivial, but its message is not.

Many of the Arabs who are brutally occupying parts of Israel and are given equal rights as Israeli citizens are simply enemies of the Jewish state. They identify themselves as Palestinians, they wish (and often act) for the destruction of Israel, are deeply involved in terrorism against Israeli citizens, and call for the Islamization of Israel.

There needs to be a new way of thinking in Israel whereby the Arabs are encouraged to leave the Jewish state and go live in peace and dignity in their own countries.

[farmall]

"There needs to be a new way of thinking in Israel whereby the Arabs are encouraged to leave the Jewish state and go live in peace and dignity in their own countries."

Of course, that will not work. The unfortunate problem with ethnic cleansing by forced relocation is that it is not of itself wrong, but because of famously unpopular examples it is unfashionable.

Arabs are Israels enemies, so Israelis should eject them. Anyone trying for peaceful integration of these internal enemies is trying to destroy Israel by demographic war.

[BagelBlogger]

This brings up another point which I haven't really seen debated.

The world is very quick to condemn Israel for any action seen as encouraging Arabs to relocate.

Yet paradoxically look at this example.

Ignore the fact that most Jews would never dream of staying in a 'Palestinian state'.

Why are the settlements so vigorously protested against by the Arabs?

Are they claiming that the settlements will impede the peace process? Are they claiming that the settlements will some how 'infect the land'?

Does not a Israeli living on the 'disputed territories' have just as much right to live in any proposed future Palestinian state, as an Arab now living in Israel?

That ladies and Gentlemen is the real answer to Palestinian claims to a Palestinian state.

They will exclude Israeli's, they will persecute Israeli's saying it mildly, yet they insist on equal rights in all arenas in Israel.

Will Jews have equal rights in the Palestinian territories?
Of course not.

Dead Jews don't have rights, any Palestinian knows that.

Regards Mr Bagel

[Vitnir]

I don't see what you're shocked about. They're celebrating the Nakba day and living under a regime that is not their own and of course, pray that the Arab armies will finally throw us out to sea one day so they could move in our condos. Besides, it's our holiday, not theirs, I don't expect them to respect it just as much as we don't respect theirs.