I don't hate the instigators. I'm angry with them.

Sherry Roth
May 1, 2015   
Politicians, 'spirit' figures and journalists have turned their arrows towards the Haredi public and its 'blackmail' • Almog Lizerowitz takes off the gloves and asks: Wake me up when this nightmare is over
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In recent days, I have been following the uproar over the Haredim in the political and media arena, leading up to and after the signing of the agreements with United Torah Judaism.

Among the attackers is Yair "The Arrogant" Lapid, from whom it seemed we hadn't heard for a while.

Yair, we're done taking orders from you. Who do you think you are? Do you think you can incite every Monday and Thursday against the sector?

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I'm sorry, Lapid, but you did nothing in government. The only thing you and your party did was incite and distort facts against us, deny us rights as much as possible, and exclude us.

Along the way, you also harmed the weak and exploited their innocence.

So Yair, as your former "brother" Bennett says: "Just because you raise your eyebrows doesn't mean what you say is true.".

Although you did such good incitement that you will be remembered for all eternity, at least one thing is pleasing: many people have realized that the money is not in Bnei Brak (although not all of them yet, as can be deduced from the number of mandates that are willing to continue voting for incitement, hatred, and for division in the people. This is my opinion of Lapid voters).

The little bird

And now to you, Mrs. Judy, hello Nir Moses, who chirps to her from time to time like a little, seductive bird.

Minister Silvan Shalom's wife joined the incitement - and caused a stir.

Judy Moses wrote on Twitter: "Read and cry. Cheer up for the members of United Torah Judaism who got what they wanted, at our expense of course." She attached a link to the Globes website, which also published journalist Raviv Drucker's post, in which he revealed the draft agreement being formed between representatives of United Torah Judaism and the Likud negotiating team.

I have something to tell you, Judy: Cry like I want to cry, when I hear these things from you. You just give me chills and shivers. I really didn't expect it from you.

The fact that your husband comes from the Likud movement reinforces my thought that it doesn't matter whether the Haredim side with the right or the left, since we have 'haters' on the right and the left.

What is 'at our expense'? I don't know if you noticed, but we are citizens with equal rights like you (I wish it were true). We work and pay taxes, and it's impossible for all the factions to demand as much as they can, and when the ultra-Orthodox demand - they become blackmailers.

By the way, Kahlon's demands are twice as expensive as those of the Haredim. But is he allowed to do so and we are not allowed to do so?

War on the Haredim Oplatka

And now, my dears, for the cherry on top of the incitement: Professor Yizhar Oflatka calls for turning military weapons against the ultra-Orthodox public.

 In a discussion held on Raviv Drucker's Facebook page regarding the coalition negotiations, Professor Yizhar Oflatka of Tel Aviv University published the following shocking statement: "A day will come when the Zionist youth will repay the debt from the Haredim with the force of the IDF's weapons, and you will pay for the years of incessant plundering from us.

""Continue not to serve in the army and you will remain exposed in the civil war that will be here in another generation. It's a shame that your leaders don't understand this.".

So, pluralistic professor, what did you actually write? That you call for the murder of Haredim. I won't mince your words. Let's just say that if you could, you would murder me with your own hands, in cold blood.

There are no words.

Not penguins

We Haredim are not penguins, parasites, leeches, blood-sucking ticks, parasites.

It's time for you to stop these images. Wake me up when this nightmare is over.

It is impossible for you, public figures and the media, to incite against an entire sector for which they have suffered injustice.

It is impossible that today Jews are doing to their brothers what happened in the darkest periods of history. Forgive me for the strong tone. I am allowed to. Because there is freedom of expression for the ultra-Orthodox as well, but there is no freedom to incite murder.

I am saddened by this shocking hatred. I don't hate those instigators, I am angry with them. 

Media people are supposed to be public examples. I wish you would act like Amnon Levy or Amir Ivgi. Let's stop gratuitous hatred and increase gratuitous love.


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