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If you only choose to follow online news, you might get a tad confuse about the facts of what is really happening right now in Jerusalem.
It may also extremely depend of your news-source, since all the information coming out of the city is dvided into manyschools of belief and opinion.
While getting real facts is easy, as easy as looking at an image, or watching a video, the context of the viewed material will make much of the difference, and this will eventually influence your opinion.

Opinions are easy, since any one can get or give ove. When biased opinions are presented as news and facts – prepear for chaos.

To say that it all started with the “starving mother” incident will be ignorant. It all started when the Israelites departed Ancient Egypt, but that’s going too far back.
Let’s pretend that the current dispute started over the Malcha parking lot, which was schedueld to re-open for use on Saturdays, thus allowing the secular residents of Jerualem to park ther cars. The Haredim (AKA Jewish Orthodox in plural) took the streets by storm.
It’s common that the Haredi crowd protests. In fact, they protest everything, starting with plain old secular way of life. There’s no reason resenting their way of life, or personal choises; let each one of us act on their own believes.
The Haredim felt that their way of life is threatened, and their territry is being penetratedby sacriligion. They protested for a long whle, and the storm quited dow after a certain time.

Right about the time when the people of Jerusalem got back to teir daly roitunes, the Israeli news sources reported about a Haredi mother, that supposedly starved her three year old child. She was held for questioning,afterthe hospital inwchich her child was held reported their to social services, and there the case was forwarded to Israeli police.
When the news of the case broke out, the Haredim reacted badly, accusing every one in their path of conspiracy.
The Haredi media reported that it’s not at all a case of child abuse, and that the mother is a saint for taking care of the ill child all those long years, and that the reason for the child’s illness is a mysterious type of cancer, which has no treatment, driving the staff of Hadasa Ein-Carem hospital to experimenting with uncoventional treatments on the sick child.
For a while, the Haredim even ignored security video tapes featuring the mother forcefully disconnecting the child’s feeding tubes; but I’ll return to the tapes later.

The Haredi Community has a term for news flyers, they’re called Pushkevilim, and what they do is inform the crowds about vital current events, incourage them to do things, or call them to arms.
The pushkevilim come as flyers, posters, leaflets, and sometimes even in the form of tiny newspapers. In our case, the pushkevillim arrived on an already inflaed crowd, still raw with the events of previous weeks, still feeling misstreated and looking out for the next danger.
These flyers told the orthodox crowds how the secular forces are plotting to deface them, and harm an innocent woman, one of their own, imprisoning her, and trying to convict her in a crme that she at all did not commit. The crowds innocently felt for the mother, which had to be innocent, since the religious news (which are religiously biased) told so. In ther sympathy, the crowds started setting fire to dumpsters, tires, and practically anything flamable. That was the first day.

On the second day of the riots, the streets still reeked of smoke. The riots continued, this time even with more people being stoned and beaten, innocent by passers attacked, traffic lights demolished, and road signs torn out of their concrete homes.
The big surprise came in the form of masses gathering around municipal buildings, and showering them with rocks. A smaller surprise occured when municipal employees tried to clear the charred remains of th street, and fix what was broken, they were attacked, and hospitalized.
Many religious leaders pleaded for the mothers release (keep in mind she was arrested, not imprisoned, altough that’s what was reported on Haredi media), whie no authority of any kind contacted Mayor Nir Barkat, offering him assitance of some sort, or contacting the same religious leaders, asking them to cotrol ther crowds. Lithuanian Haredi leaders asked their followers to retain temselves, and to try and avoid hurting people and property.

While the riots went on, Mayor Barkat ordered the closure of most municipal offices, to prevent harm to the employees. Israel’s Electric Company refused to send employees to Jerusalem, not untill the riots end, fearing for employees well being. Some capitol streets were left without power.

As I write this, on june 21st, the mother war released, and placed in custody in the hands of a certian Rabbi Avraham Freulich.
Freulich is a lobbyist and works together with the Haredi sector and mayor Nir Barkat.
It was Freulich that started replying to the accusations, the same accusations involving the video tapes. Here are but a few quotes of te good man: “The child’s health condition was caused by the hospital, and not the mother’s actions. The hospital now claims the child has no cancer, yet hes on a chemical treatment, and he was fed orally for the last four months, to shrink his stomach”. About the videos, he said “I watched some of the footage, there’s nothing there! I assure you that if you place a camera next to five other hospital beds, you’d get the exact same results”. And finally, regarding the medical staff, he said “The mother informed te doctors that she wishes to go to an other hospital, and they declined. Ever since, tey claimed she was mentally ill. I do not understand why the Hadasa doctors fear to show the child to another med-staff”.

The mother is reported to suffer from MBPS, Munchausen by proxy syndrome, an uncommon condition that involves the exaggeration or fabrication of illnesses or symptoms by a caretaker. One of the most harmful forms of child abuse, MBPS was named after Baron von Munchausen, an 18th-century German dignitary known for telling outlandish stories. In MBPS, an individual — usually a mother — deliberately makes another person (most often his or her own preschool child) sick or convinces others that the person is sick. The parent or caregiver tricks others into thinking that the child has medical problems by lying and reporting fictitious episodes. In the case of MBPS, the perpetrator gets satisfaction when attention and symapthy are gained, usually from doctors, nurses, and others who come into contact with the care taker or the child.

My point, or personal opinion if you will, is that one needs to try and search for as much facts as possible, even if it’s “just” news. the internet is boiling over this story, and most of what people pen down is made of hearsay, rumors, and people’s half baked opinions, mixed with arguments, and attempts to convince others.
The news are multi-lyaered, and every story has more that one side. so please, read your news well.