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Students from a religious school in the northern town of Yokne'am were attacked by Israeli Arabs in the Arab village of Sakhnin, after they visited a school in the village. No one was injured, school officials said.
The incident occurred last week, and information about it was published only on Sunday. The incident occurred after students from the Yokne'am school visited their compatriots in Sakhnin, as part of a regular series of inter-school visits.
The visit ended pleasantly, and the Jewish students boarded a bus to take them back to Yokne'am. After they boarded the bus, dozens of Sakhnin residents and students from the local school ran out into the street and began lobbing rocks and bricks at the children. Quick-thinking teachers told the children to duck, and fortunately, no one was hurt by the flying glass.
A report on Army Radio Sunday said that school officials did not report the incident to police or to the Education Ministry. The principal of the Sakhnin school reportedly sent a letter of apology to the principal of his Yokne'am counterpart. Two of the Sakhnin students have been suspended, the principal said.
Both Sakhnin and Yokne'am are located in the foothills of the lower Galilee. Sakhnin, well within the 1949 Armistice lines, is not generally considered a hostile village, although it was the site of the first Land Day march in 1976, and was the site of major rioting during the second Intifada in 2000.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166062#.UTz5TKVAtvc
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)"After they boarded the bus" "No one was injured"
oberliner
(58,724 posts)A group of young students from a school in the Western Galilee city of Sakhnin threw stones at a bus full of students from an elementary school in Yokneam, after the two groups concluded a co-existence project in Sakhnin aimed at encouraging Arabs and Jews to live harmoniously.
No one was injured in the unfortunate incident, but a number of Yokneam parents told channel 10 News that they did not intend to allow their children to take part in the project again anytime soon.
Following the incident, the principal of the Sakhnin school sent an apology letter to his Yokneam counterpart, telling her that the stone throwers were suspended from school for a week and would be required to deliver a presentation on co-existence to their fellow students.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/co-existence-workshop-ends-with-rock-hurling/
Arutz Sheva (the source in the OP) tends to sensationalize. I think the above article captures the incident more aptly.
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What exactly is your point with this post ?
Are you aware that this kind of thing is anything but one-sided here ?
Let me give you this as an example :
The racism in our midst
by Naomi Chazan
Five vicious cases of hate crimes were recorded during the past two weeks alone. Hana Amtir, a pregnant Palestinian-Jerusalemite, was attacked by young girls while waiting for her husband at the light-rail station in town just because she wore a hijab. Not far away, two teachers Suha Abu-Zmiru and Revital Wolkov were assaulted as they came to pay a shiva call at the home of their principal. Hassan Osroof, a municipal worker, was battered by a gang of drunken youth while cleaning the streets of Tel-Aviv when he admitted that he was an Arab. And the Sharqawi couple met the same fate on the shores of the Kinneret. Violence against the other is fast becoming a plague which, like the hoards of locusts that are invading the fields of the Negev, threatens to consume every fertile corner of Israeli society unless aggressively eradicated....
continue reading @
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-racism-in-our-midst/
oberliner
(58,724 posts)To share information about what is going on vis-a-vis Israelis and Palestinians.
Where is the lower Galilee ?
In Israel or Palestine ?
Here was I under the impression that we are all Israelis .
Silly me .
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)interesting that you'd post it here
shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)but it is indeed nice to see you give Palestinians no matter what their citizenship maybe equal treatment
shira
(30,109 posts)...but criticism of Israel's Arabs or any other non-Jews is wrong?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)now you are free to spin that in any manner you please
Israeli
(4,151 posts)how about this :
we do manage to co-exist and get along most of the time shira , least some of us do