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Nov 13, 2011
Who Is Changing The Status Quo in Jerusalem?
As a result of the campaign by the group called "Yerushalmim" to post posters around Jerusalem with images of women, Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat has given instructions to the relevant companies that anybody wishing to advertise around the city with images of women should be allowed to, as was always the case until recently. He also instructed the police to deal with any vandalism that might occur as a result.
The Eida is upset at this decision and wonders why Barkat feels the need to upset the city and return to the days of fighting, after a period of relative quiet. They specifically accuse him of changing the status quo, which will lead to deterioration of relations and violence. The city will burn, they say, and just as Egged already has not been able to operate bus lines through Mea Shearim, because of the violence that occurred, soon they will not be able to operate in any haredi neighborhood (because the pictures of women on buses will cause violence and attacks on the buses).
The Eida is upset at this decision and wonders why Barkat feels the need to upset the city and return to the days of fighting, after a period of relative quiet. They specifically accuse him of changing the status quo, which will lead to deterioration of relations and violence. The city will burn, they say, and just as Egged already has not been able to operate bus lines through Mea Shearim, because of the violence that occurred, soon they will not be able to operate in any haredi neighborhood (because the pictures of women on buses will cause violence and attacks on the buses).
- didn't the Eida just put up pashkevilim condemning violence? Or is it just not ok when others are involved in the violence (in the Eida's neighborhood?), but when the Eida runs it, it is ok?
- Relative quiet? Since Barkat has been mayor the Eida has run hafganot, semi-violent ones, at parking lots, at dance troupes, graves (mostly out of Jerusalem though), regular violence of sikrikim in Mea Shearim, at Intel and probably others I am not remembering offhand.
- status quo? What makes something a status quo? The status quo until the past couple of years is that there were no gender-segregated bus lines and advertisements used images of women? It is the Eida or other haredim who forced a change in the status quo. After a relative short period of time in which advertisers stopped using images of women to avoid vandalism a new status quo has been created and that has to be adhered to?
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Just wait...Bet Shemesh will be next!
ReplyDeleteIsn't stopping the buses from running through your neighborhood hurting yourselves?
ReplyDeletewhat is the peleh? the eida believes that there are rules that they have to abide by and rules that others have to abide by.
ReplyDeleteanyway, they (and the chareidi community in general) are pushing the envelope too much. sooner or later there will be a backlash, just like thee was when the halpert passed the bill to raise child allowances to record highs.
Akiva- I always wondered about that. Stopping Egged from running bus lines and burning your own trash can hurts... only the charedi community. Soo, why would the Yerushalmim party care if the Eida is going to burn their neighborhoods over this.
ReplyDelete1. they might not care. I havent seen a response from them, or from barkat, to the Eida's threat.
ReplyDelete2. there might be concern that they will perpetrate violence in neighborhoods other than their own
3. even if they keep the violence limited to haredi neighborhoods, is it ok for them to fight Barkat by hurting other neighborhoods? for example, Har Nof isnt controlled by the Eida the way Mea Shearim is, but if they create violence in har nof, Ramot, Ramat Shlomo, and many other neighborhoods, and get bus lines canceled, many people will suffer because of the Eida.
Nobody who considers themselves part of the Eidah is going to be reading this article. What are you trying to accomplish? To feed commenters?
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