Am ehad - beJahad:
Beleidigung und Hetze führen in's
Verderben
Hok haSchwuth, das
Rückkehrgesetz, ist die festgeschriebene Verbindung des Staates Israel zum
Volk Israel in der Welt. Nach Ansicht führender Vertreter der
sefardisch-fundamentalistischen SchaS-Partei, die bereits die Rettung
äthiopischer Juden verhindert bzw. verzögert hat, soll dieses Gesetz stark
eingeschränkt werden, um der weiteren Verbreitung von 'Greuel, Perversion,
Prostitution und Verbrechen' durch Einwanderer aus den GUS-Staaten einen
Riegel vorgzuschieben.
Nach Ansicht des
ShaS-Vorsitzenden Yishai, sei das gedeihliche Zusammenleben bedroht, schon
heute seien Stimmen zu vernehmen, die spezielle Städte für Russen fordern.
Natan Sharansky, Vorsitzender der Israel-b'Aliya, drohte die Koalition zu
verlassen, sollte der Vorsitzende der SchaS-Partei (Eli Yishai) nicht alle
Beschuldigungen gegen russische Einwanderer zurücknehmen.
Der Angriff auf die
russische Alijah war nur eine von vielen Attacken der ShaS-Partei gegen
'säkulare Entwicklungen' im Staate Israel. Kurz zuvor war ein Aufruf des
geistigen Mentors der ShaS-Partei ergangen, in dem dieser die Legitimität
der politischen und juristischen Institutionen (Legislative, Judikative,
Exekutive) des Staates Israel verneint hatte.
Die staatlichen
Gedenkfeiern zum 4. Jahrestag der Ermordung des isr. Ministerpräsidenten
Jizhak Rabin, waren von ShaS boykottiert worden. Die in Ehud Baraks
Koalition vertretene ShaS, hatte bei fast allen Abstimmungen gegen die
Regierung gestimmt. Ehud Barak selbst hält sich in seinen Äußerungen eher
zurück, meinte aber: 'Die russische Einwanderung ist das größte Geschenk an
den Staat Israel, seit seiner Gründung'.
Auch von ShaS muss Respekt
für den Staat Israel verlangt werden:
Ein Ruf an die Ultras
Ma'ariv comments
on the escalation in religious tensions in Israel, "which again shows the
thin line between freedom of speech and incitement," regarding the
latest incidents in Beit Shemesh and the education officer as examples.
"Ultra-orthodox leaders must understand that their influence on their
followers is enormous, and therefore carries a heavy responsibility.
They must understand that they cannot ignore the principle of respect for
other individuals and groups in human society."
The sweeping attack on
the Russian community is racist - especially coming from the ultra-orthodox
who complain of being victims of racism themselves. The words of the
IDF education officer who claimed that the Conservative and Reform movements
are worse than the Nazis is even worse. It equals the Holocaust deniers in
its wickedness.
The editors suggest that
the ultra-orthodox themselves ought to examine the significance of these
statements since they reflect a mode of thinking and speaking that is not
acceptable. The ultra-orthodox community is not cut from one cloth and
bitter, legitimate battles are being fought over issues of the IDF draft,
conversion, the Jewishness of immigrants from Russia and kashrut. But
the editors conclude that the ultra-orthodox must learn to fight for their
positions in an acceptable manner, without insult, incitement, racism and
with respect for the other side, while accepting and respecting the State of
Israel, the country's laws and sovereignty.
Am echad - bejahad - Click!
Special Areas for Russians:
Shas leader wants Law of Return to
be changed!
The Law of Return
must be severely tightened to prevent non-Jewish immigrants to enter the
country, so Shas leader Eli Yishai yesterday. The day before Shas activists
(Health Minister Shlomo Benizri's brother David and other rabbis) in Beit
Shemesh publicly accused immigrants from the former Soviet Union of bringing
"diseases" into the country and "flooding Beit Shemesh with uglyness."
Rather than discussing
the threat of closing the state of Israel to many possible immigrants and
their families, the Interior Minister and Yisrael Ba'aliya leader Natan
Sharansky told The Jerusalem Post "on a day like this I would have expected
minister Yishai would not deal with the Law of Return but the real problem
inside his own movement, which threatens the unity of the people in a far
more serious way than one section or another of the Law of Return, which is
a most important tie between the jews in Israel and in the world."
Willfährige
Konvertiten bevorzugt
Yuli Edelstein (Yisrael
Ba'aliya) last night demanded Prime Minister Ehud Barak to instruct
Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein to launch a criminal investigation of
the incidents in Beit Shemesh. His call was backed by Shinui leader Yosef
(Tommy) Lapid, which accused Shas of being politically motivated in its
attacks on the immigrants. The influx of immigrants from the former Soviet
Union acts as a "balance" to the growing electoral support for haredi
parties, said Lapid. Shas turns jews and jewish families away and prefers
converts no matter werefrom they come, as long as they obey to the strict
line of the party and it's leaders.
Zum Zusammenleben
unfähig
Once again Yishai said
that there is no alternative other than tightening immigration laws because
"there's no doubt that hundreds of thousands of additional non-Jews... will
make cooperation between Israelis very difficult." He said Shas aims to
foster peace between Jews and promised an immediate investigation into the
affair - to be conducted by Shlomo Benizri.
Yishai's top priority is
the removal of the clause in the Law of Return which affords grandchildren
of Jews the right to immigrate. Tens of thousands of non-Jews enter the
country on this basis, Yishai said. "The Law of Return should be only for
the child of a Jewish mother or via strictest conversion under suitable
supervision."
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