Public Security Ministry to PMO: Rightists will march in East Jerusalem

The courts can't stop them marching for fear of upsetting the local Arabs, the same way the Gay pride parade was aloud to take place even though it it upset the religous. Were are all the pro free speech comments and peopel who had so much to say regarding the gay pride march and now tehy are suddenly silent?

...the rightist vandals are running amok... on whose side will the police now act?...

Israel is a democracy. Any group that wishes to demonstrate peacefully and within reason should be permitted to do so. Let them show the world what they advocate. We can learn much about their intentions from their actions.

Why allow them at all? Let them go to work and not waste time in fruitless, aggressive actions.

To be even handed they should allow a Palestinian march supporting Fatah and Hamas in West Jerusalem or, as already suggested, treat them like Palestinians. These rightist groups are a cancer eating away at Israeli society. Israel has drifted so far from its socialist roots that the world is starting to see it as a rogue state that will need to be controlled. Israel needs to cast the settlers adrift as New Palestinians. They are living in the Holy land so what is their problem? Just means that they have to be nicer to the neighbours. If Israel needs to evict anybody, it is the Chabad. To allow this march during a diplomatic visit will be counterproductive and will lead to tears before bed time.

All that the PM has to do is declare the area a closed military zones and tell the IDF to skunk gas and shoot the extremists with rubber bullets who try to enter it like they routinely do to those who march in protest of the West Bank barrier. If Netanyahu does not have the bollocks to prevent few rightist extremists from inciting violence at this important moment, the Palestinians would be foolish to believe that any will be dropping at any time in the near future if ever.

At least these people will be safe because they are Jewish

"Shoot the with rubber bullets gas them with tear gas...you know treat them like Palestininas" I agree -- but only if they become violent and threaten harm to the security forces and others there -- "like the Palestinians."

"Delay them forever... not only for a `few weeks`!!...." Someone must have delayed your sense of rights. Only the people YOU believe are entitled to demonstrate may do so? What if the demonstrations are peaceful, non-rock-throwing, non-Molotov-cocktail throwing? Still have a problem? Or do your violent honeys have the sole rights to demonstrate?

Of course Bibi wants to be keep East Jerusalem so such "pressure from the right" is actually very welcome to him. But somehow these games don't work as well as they used to, or at least not beyond the blinded Israeli public.

It was insane and stupid for the annual marches by the Orangemen through Catholic areas of Belfast. This march through east Jerusalem by idiotic Jewish extremists is on the same dumb level.

funny it is always a Muslim neighbourhood but and Israeli settlement. Israel make sure how you use your wording, it changes the situation on the ground.

It is admittedly very hard to reign in the really crazy element in any society and I do not blame Netanyahu for failing to do so here. Here in America we allowed the KKK to march and hold rallies all the time. If I hear that Netanyahu has secretly been encouraging them, or pandering to their current march, I will feel differently. But bad as I think Netanyahu is, I will give him a pass on this one--at least for the moment.

Use the Idf same way the Idf stops protests in the west bank.how is it coined ,closed military zone or some thing like that

It would be a good idea to outnumber them in a peaceful demonstration of Jews and Arabs, who oppose racism, war and terror. These Israeli far rightists are tiny minority, probably few dozens of activists and few thousands of supporters. There are much more sane people. It would be right thing to do to oppose them without violence by counter demonstration and to show them their place - at the margins of the society and of the public discourse.

Freedom of speech is only when they agree with the speech.

You allow the settlers to march iN the Arab neighbor hoods to cause more problems.Well Jewish people is this how you make peace?

Its a bit like the old Orange Marches in Northern Ireland - designed to intimidate and to primitively mark out territory: I thought we are capable of better things

If Arabs held a march through West Jerusalem. I bet you they would not be allowed too by the Israeli government. On top of that many Jews would complain that the Arabs are trying to take over Israel and destroy it by doing a march in West Jerusalem. Do the right thing Bibi- shoot the protesters and fire tear gas on them. Prove to us that Israel treats its citizens equally!

For sixty plus years the Arabs have made war against the Jews. No more talk of peace with them ever! Build Israel and make war with Jewkillers forever.

**Remove the need for either side to demonstrate by making it clear that in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, houses will not be demolished, Arabs will not be evicted and new building will not take place until the status of Jerusalem has been determined by the US, Israel and Palestine.** --- sh, You say *P*alestine. What is the currency of this state? What is their capital? Is the language they speak distinct from Arabic as spoken n Cairo or Damascus? What is the gross domestic product of your palestine? Hope you get the message. THERE IS NO pALESTINE!

They have the right to protest just as the Arabs do.

John, this will never happen. Read an article in the New york Times by Yusi alver in which he explains that the Israeli army is now led by religious leaders and if you look at the demographics governments you have Liberman from Israel Bytuna and Ishai from Shas. So how could they confront themselves? Never happens.

It looks like if the Israel terrorists are looking for good locations for there own houses. Think of Bloody Sunday Ireland. They don't have any respect for the Arab people.

He can't call for it to be cancelled because the supreme court after it was delayed earier during the riots said they had the right to march.

This is an issue of the supreme court saying they could march after the march has already been delayed a few times. That is why he can't call for it to be cancelled because the supreme court already said they had the right to march. The supreme court seems to go out of its way to make bibi's life impossible. Politics plays in everything.

It isn't just mitchell and the security for him and not offending him a few weeks ago when there was rioting in jerusalem bibi wanted it to calm down and he got the mayor to delay the march but the supreme court said they had a right to march.

Shoot the with rubber bullets gas them with tear gas...you know treat them like Palestininas

Remove the need for either side to demonstrate by making it clear that in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, houses will not be demolished, Arabs will not be evicted and new building will not take place until the status of Jerusalem has been determined by the US, Israel and Palestine.