Jews, Muslims, Christians rally in Jerusalem against price tag attacks

[Jefferson23]

Price tag attacks must be classified as acts of terrorism, said a small group of Israeli Jews and Arabs as they jointly rallied Sunday morning in front of the Prime Minister’s Office during the weekly cabinet meeting in hopes of swaying the government to clamp down on such incidents.

“We are here across from the PM to call for him and the government to stop the price tag attacks. It can’t be that for four years Jewish terror cells have run amuck in the state of Israel without being disturbed,” said Gadi Gvaryahu who heads the grassroots organizations Tag Meir, that combats price tag attacks.

According to informal numbers collected by Tag Meir, there have been at least 176 incidents in which Jewish extremists have targeted Arab or Christian property including mosques and churches on both sides of the pre-1967 lines, and in some cases, executed personal attacks. Migrants have also been targeted, according to Tag Meir.

Gvaryahu added that these numbers are very low, because many incidents are unreported or not formally characterized as price tag attacks.

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Jews-Muslims-Christians-rallied-in-Jerusalem-against-price-tag-attacks-335827

[oberliner]

1. Gadi Gvaryahu helps illustrate the vast diversity among Zionists

Did you know he was an 8th generation Jerusalemite?

[Jefferson23]

4. I have read about him...but I think you should direct your efforts to another DU member.

He is confused about who is a fake Jew/Zionist and who isn't..calls himself, King David.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113454253

[oberliner]

6. Seems like other posters have got that covered

In any case, I am glad we both admire this particular Zionist.

[immoderate]

2. Pardon my ignorance, but where can one find out what a "price tag attack" is?

The link talks about it. Maybe everyone else knows what it is about, but it is never explained, that I can see.

--imm

[azurnoir]

3. perhaps this could help

Price tag policy (Hebrew: מדיניות תג מחיר is the name originally given to "acts of random violence aimed at the Palestinian population, and Israeli security forces" by fundamentalist Israeli settler youths[4] who, according to the New York Times, "exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise". Price tag attacks now extend to acts of vandalism, suspected to be the work of lone individuals, against Christian and Muslim places of worship, and also against leftist institutions.

The price-tag campaign includes attacks on Palestinian villages and property by Israeli settlers as retaliation for attacks on Israeli targets and for government demolition of structures at West Bank settlements and the removal of outposts which are variously described as being either unauthorised or illegal, and in recent years (2012-2013), dozens of such attacks have targeted Christian sites and the Christian community in Jerusalem. They generally follow actions by Israeli authorities that are perceived as harming the settlement enterprise, or follow Palestinian violence against settlers.

B'Tselem has documented many acts of this kind, which have included blocking roads, throwing stones at cars and houses, making incursions into Palestinian villages and land, torching fields, uprooting trees, and other damage to property. or curbs on Israeli construction in the West Bank, where 80% of the attacks take place, while some 10-15% take place in the area of Jerusalem.

This page was last modified on 18 December 2013 at 17:19.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag_policy

[immoderate]

5. Thanks.

I should have thought of that.

--imm