The Jews Mean Business

How do the Israelis handle the issue of "religious sensitivity" when recalcitrant settlers who share their own religious beliefs hole themselves up inside of synagogues?:

Israeli riot police with helmets and shields broke open the door of a synagogue in this hard-line settlement and fired water cannons at barricaded protesters, who responded by hurling debris and what police said was acid at the troops.

Contrast that with how certain veal in the blogosphere react when, say, a Koran gets tinkled on (even after numerous American troops have been killed precisely because of our institutional respect for mosques.)

But I suppose the cultural difference is found in what the daily threat of being blown up on a bus or in a pizza shop will do to you.

Comments

[Aatom]

ouch, you better come for Andrew. But I agree. Your religious rights end when you start using them as a political shield.

do you suppose it will give any of the Palestinians who like to throw rocks pause to see the IDF treating their own with the same iron fist that they feel is reserved only for them?

[The Malcontent]

I like Andrew most of the time, which is why I feel it a bit more viscerally when he goes off-reservation, so to speak.