Sunday, July 22, 2012

Israeli Police Mimic Stupidity of TSA

It's maddening when government organizations which are supposed to protect the public against terrorism and crime trade logic and proficiency for appeasement and political correctness.  Think TSA officials searching a 95-year-old woman.  Unfortunately, Israeli officials seem to have taken a page out of the TSA handbook on how to humiliate the country's own citizens while placating its enemy.
Muslim clerics in Israel are notorious for crying "wolf" (i.e., "Jew"), causing the Israeli police to spring into action.  For example, whenever a Jewish holiday approaches, Islamic clerics work their followers into a frenzy over the possibility of Jews visiting the Temple Mount.  Recently, before Jerusalem Day, the day that marks the reunification of Jerusalem and the liberation of the Temple Mount, a leading Muslim cleric, Sheikh Yousef Ideis, made such claims.  He warned Arabs to "be alert for possible infiltration of fanatic Jews" on the Temple Mount.  Instead of ignoring the obviously staged incitement, the Israeli police validated the cleric's claims.
According to the Israeli police, "fanatical" Jews did infiltrate the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day.  Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was one such "fanatical" Jew.  His actions were so fanatical that he has been barred indefinitely from ascending the Temple Mount and is under criminal investigation by the Israeli police.

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