Settler teens suspected in West Bank mosque arson freed from custody

"There was no and there is no any evidence of them being related to the arson." nothing except the evidence of the advertisement of a revival meeting at the yeshiva calling for and threatening the price tag attacks.

TB enthusiasm for totalitarism notwithstanding.

Arrests made to seem like there is equal justice in Israel--but then insufficient evidence and little or no follow up--unless those arrested in Arabs. They can be held indefinitely 'in the interests of national security."

Wrongful arrests of the Rabbi and Yeshiva students was a provocation meant to discredit the settlers and religious Jews. There was no and there is no any evidence of them beeing related to the arson.

Johai Rubenstein thinks that the most serious crime in the torching of this mosque is the burning of the carpet. He ignores the graffiti spray-painted by the arsonists who said "We will burn all of you." You, meaning Muslims, of course. Is it the remembrance of the Holocaust that prompts such forgetfullness? Jochai, you're rationalization is showing...

Battle of G-ds? I thought there was only one God?

They doctored up the crime scene to frame up Jews. Stupid israeli cops took the bait! Arabs in Balata rolling in laughter.

who killed 2 stranded soldiers in Ramallah, thrown them from window,decapitated and smiling, showed soldiers blood on their hands from window while crowd was dancing and cheering the spectacle. Also,I meant a sniper who shot a newborn baby in the arm of his father,NYC Guy.

"Shapira refused to say which of his students had taken part in the Yasuf mosque arson".( Haaretz report ) Well done Haaretz. Acused and proved guilty before any Justice system. Where is our balanced press ?

israel has a way to let off all the attackers of palestinians get off. the little state that could. choooo choooooo

Your inflammatory statement, "Shapira refused to say which of his students had taken part in the Yasuf mosque arson." is akin to demanding to know from Haaretz, which of their reporters took part in the Yasuf mosque arson. Your assumption that any of the students are guilty is libelous, since they are freed by the police, and have not been charged or found guilty of any crime. Jameel The Muqata Blog

This is no news I predict the people that burn the mosque will be out with no charge, I bet they give them a more tips before let them go how to destroy more , and not to worry the IDF will look the other way!

The rabbi knows whodunnit. He's not cooperating. If he were a Palestinian resident of the West Bank, he'd be in administrative detention. Mohammad Othman got months and months of it just for going home after a visit to a Scandinavian country as part of the Stop the Wall campaign. He never needed to throw the smallest pebble let alone burn a bible or a synagogue or church to qualify. Lock the rabbi up for a while and give him the administrative detention treatment. Even if he doesn't squawk, at least someone will have been slightly punished for this dastardly - and profoundly humiliating to Jews as well as Muslims - deed. The price-tag is just a pretty name for terrorism.

if there's no incriminating evidence they should indeed be freed. But I cannot help wondering why justice in Israel is more fair to settlers than it is to palestinians.

Nobody expects an israeli to be punished when the victims are arabs. Nothing new here. Same old same old ever since 1947/48.

"due to some technicalities? I did not see you whining and criticizing Israeli justice when he walked free or maybe you have a different sort of justice when Jews are tried?To you,they must be condemned by default you say?" Which one Didi? The one that got beat up and anally raped with a gun? Oh yeah I forgot about him *rolls eyes*

... and what evidence does the court expect after all these weeks?... sooty fingers, perhaps?... plain travesy of justice...

... apparently too high "price-tag" on this rabbi...

They should be charged, but only if the arabs who do the equivalent are charged, they rarely are.

to convict palestinians. the "snag" is that there's not enough to convict jewish israelis.

there's little doubt that their "reputation" is what initially implicated them; don't you think? "shapira's yeshiva innovated the "price tag" policy"

But you know what, then you should look out for the real perpetrators, as you would do, if Palestinians would be involved... In a true democracy, you simply can't have a justice system for people with a "Jewish passport", and another one for everybody else (or in other words "the Arabs")..... ....that is as far away from a true democracy, as the earth is from pluto.

do the decendants of two brothers Ishmael and Isaac who came from the same father Abraham, who worshipped just one God, now have two different churches and two different bibles? Do they now have two different Gods? All these land grab arguments are ignoring the true God, who gave it in the first place. Isnt this special piece of land about God? and about Gods temple, or place of worship? Are you, either Arab or Jew so ashamed of your God that you do not want to mention God? In your arguments about who this land belongs to?

Israel deports Russian woman and goes against decision of Mihmoret court to keep her in the country: If you are not an extreme right winger perpetrating crimes you stand no chance . . .

I wonder if it was an Arab if he would be afforded such precedent .....

Lack of evidence is not a "snag". If there is insufficient evidence to convict them in a free and fair trial then they should be released. The rule of law is paramount. We should not expect Israel to lower its standards of civil justice to the farcical level of its military courts in the West Bank. We should insist instead that they apply the same respect for the law and the legal process to those under occupation as they do to their own citizens living on occupied territory.

due to some technicalities? I did not see you whining and criticizing Israeli justice when he walked free or maybe you have a different sort of justice when Jews are tried?To you,they must be condemned by default you say?

It would be nice if they would wait to have enough evidence before arresting someone and trashing their reputation all over the media.

Israel seems to be taking another play from the Bush playbook. Charges against Black Water mercenaries were recently dropped because the prosecutors had deliberately used tainted evidence which need not have been used. The goal was clear. To ensure that the Black Water security men would not be prosecuted for mass murder. When the prosecution and police have no intention of gaining convictions; when their only goal is to cover their ass; then miscarriage of Justice will occur.

More Israeli criminals will be allowed to roam free and grind Israel's repuation into the dust.

Israeli Justice is preferable 1) over Sharia, because it accepts Palestinian complaints (Relocating parts of the separation wall. 2) over the Afghan system, that deals out the death sentence to an Australian soldier for killing a Taliban soldier. 3) because it weighs the seriousness of torching a carpet against public address calls like"etbah el Yahud" = slaughter the Jews.

what you mostly get from israel is lip-service and false promises. time to cut the ties and push the life raft out to sea.

That could well be. It's too bad the card's been played so often before.

Palestinians, including holding them without charges or legal council, etc., etc. Otherwise, the Israeli jutice system is nothing but a SHAM designed against the Palestinians.