They Tried to Hide It.

They told us about a “prayer rally,” a show of solidarity “for the Torah.”
They tried to tell us it was against “the judicial system” and the Attorney General.
Well, they tried.

But when the dust settled, and the streets of Jerusalem were revealed under the piles of trash  left behind by the demonstrators, we saw once again the same dismal picture we’ve been facing for years.

The massive ultra-Orthodox demonstration in Jerusalem yesterday was nothing less than a siege on Israel’s capital—an agonized gevalt cry from a public dancing on the blood of its fighting brothers, ruled by thuggish, immoral, and greedy political fixers.

The bottles thrown at Channel 12 reporter Inbar Twizer, the stones hurled at the Kan 11 news crew (including the network’s Jerusalem correspondent, Haim Goldich, who discovered that his hundreds of reserve days and his injury in battle in Lebanon were not enough to spare him from the demonstrators’ rage), and the injury to the channel’s cameraman, Mati Stein—all were just a drop in a sea of alienation, a display of hostility toward Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

Israeli flags burned, police officers and random passersby were called “Nazis,” and a giant banner reading “Israel is an enemy state” was raised high. It was a spectacle that exposed, more than anything, the chasm between the Zionist and the ultra-Orthodox........

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