Israeli wedding of Jew, Muslim draws protesters amid war tensions

[NickB79]

Source: Reuters

RISHON LEZION Israel (Reuters) - Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted "death to the Arabs" in a sign of tensions stoked by the Gaza war.

Several dozen police, including members of the force's most elite units, formed human chains to keep the protesters from the wedding hall's gates and chased after many who defied them. Four protesters were arrested, and there were no injuries.

A lawyer for the couple, Maral Malka, 23, and Mahmoud Mansour, 26, both from the Jaffa section of Tel Aviv, had unsuccessfully sought a court order to bar the protest. He obtained backing for police to keep protesters 200 metres (yards) from the wedding hall in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Lezion.

The protest highlighted a rise in tensions between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel in the past two months amid a monthlong Gaza war, the kidnap and slaying of three Israeli teens in June followed by a revenge choking and torching to death of a Palestinian teen in the Jerusalem area.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-wedding-jew-muslim-draws-protesters-amid-war-000304290.html

[L0oniX]

1. Silly racists.

[Scootaloo]

5. They're not silly when they MEAN IT

'Death to Arabs" is coming from people who are, in many cases, very active participants in the killing and brutalization of Arabs, who have learned that not only will their right-wing government NOT hold them responsible for violence they commit, but that the world will not hold that government to account for allowing it.

[Dopers_Greed]

7. B-b-b-b-but Israel should have the right to defend themselves...

"sarcasm"

[sakabatou]

2. The far right disgusts me no matter which country it is.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Charming. n/t

[iandhr]

4. Wow

[Jack Rabbit]

6. People who have a problem with other people's ralationships should get professional help

My best wishes to the happy couple. May their union be blessed by the power of the cosmos. They are a visible symbol of hope.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. And they keep voting these guys into positions of power.

[brooklynite]

9. Just a guess that the Arabs wouldn't have been much happier if it was held in the West Bank.

[NickB79]

11. It does say the bride converted to Islam

So, maybe it would have gone over a tiny bit better there

I wonder if there would have been this outrage in Israel if the groom had converted to Judaism instead?

[Iamthetruth]

10. I have no patience for this

They are no better than the crazy terrorist trying to kill them.