Jerusalem – Charedim gathered in Jerusalem and tried to block the intersection on Saturday evening in protest of the arrest of two ultra-Orthodox men in Beit Shemesh.
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The two were arrested on suspicion of trying to steal bones from an archeological site close to Beit Shemesh last month.
Police forces dispersed the crowd and arrested three protesters. In response, haredim hurled stones at a police squad car, causing minor damage.
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Hurling stones during a protest is improper, but not altogether surprising, given that emotions ran high.
However, barring new details, stealing desecrated Jewish bones in order to give them a proper reburial can be arguably considered a noble endeavor.
Details here are a little scanty. What were buried bones doing at the surface so easily accessibe? Doesn’t seem like these bones once sitting 6 feet below were resting so peacefuly any more. Who ever dug them up- why would they care if someone else took them to rebury somewhere else?
While I do see this as the fulfillment of the nevuah of Yirmiah (8:1) “‘At that time, declares Hashem, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.”, I’m also a strong believer in archeology and I think that these chareidim are absolutely insane….
This whole charge of “suspected” on stealing bones is only to justify the arrest, nobody stole or attempted to take any bones (although they’re as entitled to the bones at least as the low life archeaologists grave desecrators are) because it’s illegal to arrest someone for prostesting – freedom of speech, so those police thugs always try to create some “fancy” looking terms to be able to charge the demonstartors, this time it’s “suspected of stealing bones..” what a joke..