Olive grove near Nablus, Palestine, set ablaze by Israeli settlers from near by colonies yesterday. It was known yet whether the settlers were protesting the cease-fire agreement or just celebrating Thursday. (Al-Jazeera)
Chaim Sugerman, KABOBfest's resident theologian explained that the blaze may be a part of the Sabbath preparations. He indicated that Orthodox Jews are not allowed to light flames during the sabbath; therefore that set a fire large nought to burn through the weekend, and when needed, for a barbecue for instance, they "transfer" a flame, but not "start" a new one.
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I don't understand this post. I hope kabobfest watch translates it soon.
Can you please provide a news source in english text?
Thanks.
Hardly any English language outfit covered it, and the Palestinian ones, like Maan, who do, tend to not turn up on google news search.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=29996
There have been forest fires all over Israel in the last few days, so that's why this probably actually caused damage as opposed to just fizzling out.
Ma'an gives the impression that the Israeli forces were siding with the settlers, I find this doubtful simply because
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3557720,00.html
and
(Danger: EXTREME right wing settler propaganda news site) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126557
also I have a friend who was doing two weeks at an Army base a few kilometers away and he was delayed 5 hours coming home because of all of this.
yah the yitzhar people are crazy, but you got the part about Orthodox jews wrong.
On holidays we are allowed to transfer flame, but on the Sabbath you can't even do that.(you can't even put moist food on a pre-lit flame if it wasn't already on the flame before the sabbath and hadn't been removed)
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