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AddReply(369387,"Teens in Israel","Miriam","Ashkelon","12/08/08","halom David - there is a big problem with teens in general. I happened to spend a while in Raanana in a beautiful apt near a park, and had to call the \"service\" that arrive to pick up or warn drunken teenagers against VERY unruly behaviour. At least the teens in Yesha know what they are fighting for bless them.");
AddReply(369286,"David what you suggest is not what Herzog suggests","#2","","12/08/08","Don\'t play into the hands of the government!");
AddReply(369078,"Aryeh, What\'s a knuk? Sounds like something out of Dr. Suess","David Ha\'ivri","Kfar Tapauch","12/07/08","In the Shomron regional council we have a fine staff of youth workers and \"At Risk Teens\" specialists. They are caring overworked  professionals (BTW- many of them live in machazim - outposts themselves). They are funded by the government, but far from enough to fill the needs of the youth spread out in the 30 towns and 12 outpost of the Shomron regional council. If a kid from Tapuach or Itamar takes off to hang out in the streets of Natanya or J\'lem that is out of their range. And kids from elsewhere (like the ones that settlerjoe is referring to) are not officially their responsibility. That means that the Shomron youth worker receive no resources to deal with      with youth from other areas and have left their homes to become \"hilltop youth\". I can think of more then a few kids over the years who have hung out here and been in need of professional help and fallen between the gaps. ");
AddReply(369002,"Thanks, Gary","Larry","","12/07/08","Additional comment - why does common sense get buried in ideologies? I believe in yishuv ha\'aretz from my own vantage point. There was a piece on J Post with the skipper of the Exodus, Ike Aranne. Agreed with most of what he wrote. I don\'t think that religious people have exclusive claim to this spirit, which all of us must reclaim to make a better world. If Jews are to be Or Lagoyim we must first have a viable land to do that in. Herzog is an opponent of that. I don\'t care about him one way or the other. His uncle was a great man, Itzik is a little man. But it is the bigger picture that counts, and Jewish patriots must stop seeking approval from those who believe in....not much.");
AddReply(368989,"Yeah, let\'s hand our children to the goverment ","Great Idea","","12/07/08","How come nobody thought of that before? David Ha\'ivri, sir, you are a genious! ");
AddReply(368969,"good points, Joe!","Leah","Maaleh Adumim","12/07/08","I recommend to everyone to read the article in the link that \"Joe Settler\" posted. ");
AddReply(368930,"Thank you JoeSettler","Just a Mom","Samaria","12/07/08","Thank you JoeSettler for shedding some light on the subject and clarifying the matter for the readers who aren\'t aware of the true situation.");
AddReply(368909,"Leave the government out of it","Aryeh (not the knuk)","Tapuach","12/07/08","Though in some cases I can agree with David, I would be leary to except government help for anything. So far their track record speaks for themselves. As far as using our illustrious social workers, leave them out of it. Develop another type of school system, maybe on the same parallel of Mikva Israel or Kfar Chabad? But do not use the government for it. They are a cancer to society. David, don\'t you remember the number of divorces in Tapuach that were attributed to Revacha. And let\'s not start with those \"halfway houses\" where our you were poisoned.    ");
AddReply(368891,"I asked that question...","JoeSettler","","12/07/08","http://muqata.blogspot.com/2008/12/hilltop-youth.html\n\nGood answer.");
AddReply(368882,"Silly, stupid and deranged article","Nothing Hill","","12/07/08","Hertzog defined a problem - which is opposing his goverment. \n\nHertzog defined a solution - which is re-education camps.\n\nYOu act like the three monkeys and try to pretend he meant good in some distorted form and that OUR response is \"knee jerk\". \n\nThis makes no sense. Perhaps you need some counceling to do, David.");
AddReply(368830,"Ha-ivri    ","Aubrey Wulfsohn","Leamington spa","12/07/08","overdoing his reasonableness, \nsounds very Jewish, as in  the Yesha Committee.");
AddReply(368763,"Siberia","Lea de Lange","Jerusalem","12/06/08","Does Herzog want to send those kids to Siberia? ");
AddReply(368680,"#5 Larry - Great Points!","Gary","Monterey, CA","12/06/08","");
AddReply(368679,"It\'s time for a massive immigration of","Gary","Monterey, CA","12/06/08","Disapora Jews to move into Judea and Samaria by the mult-thousands.  The cow bell is ringing for all Disapora Jews, who are Conservative, for G-d\'s sake, to relocate to Israel and move into Judea and Samaria by the mult-thousands.  May G-d, who has declared His intentions on calling His Remnant to the Holy Land in these last days, burn a fire into the hearts of those He will call.  The time is now Oh Lord!");
AddReply(368610,"if we recognize the need, WE must act","reizel","","12/05/08","Victory for our cause is worthless if we lose our children along the way.Lawlessness and anarchy are antithetical to the restraint and control over our yeitzer hara required by Hashem. Accept the offer with qualifications. Create a program and apply for funding. Keep control in our hands.");
AddReply(368607,"No wonder the settlerfolk are in such trouble ... look at their leaders!","sk","USA","12/05/08","For the author to be right, it must follow that the Israeli Bolsheviks are incompetent at being Bolsheviks, which is one thing they are NOT.  This is a attempt at \"socializing\" the so-called hilltop youth to make them good little lemmings like most of their parents (sorry) and Ha\'ivri (sorry again).  The point is to socialize these youth into believing they are \"Israelis\" and not \"Jews.\"  They are to be convinced that the state is holy, that the rituals and mythology their elders believe in are for them as well.  \n\nSo far, none of the TBers agrees with Ha\'ivri.  If he can\'t convince us, his position is really, really weak.");
AddReply(368542,"Teen pyromanicas in Immanuel","Yosef","Immanuel","12/05/08","I agree with HaIvri.  Here in Immanuel we have a number of teens who are \"at risk\".  In the past week, we have caught two children twice trying to set things on fire.  Bus stations, plant growth, a box under a car.  When we confront they run away, but say nasty, insulting words to us.  This behavior is learned from adults.  I understand that they are bored, etc...but I never did this kind of thing or talk back to older people that way.  My wife and I are one of very adults who confront these miscreats and other adults do not say anything.  Who is at risk here?  The teens or the adults here in Immanuel?  These two teens are pyromaniacs and need to dealt with.  Therapy for them and very heavy fines for the adults/parents who say or do nothing...because by doing that, it only encourages at risk teens.");
AddReply(368499,"Most of the older generation simply doesn\'t get it.  Daniella Weiss DOES get it.","Velvel","silver spring","12/05/08","Those who attack her are likely to be within the ranks of those standing in the way of religious nationalism progressing forward and stemming off its death in the hands of its sworn enemy- those assimilationist antiJewish radicals currently leading the state of Israel who have designed since long ago to make war against this people, and currently are actively pursuing it. \n\n  Those who stand in the way and cannot see clearly are encouraged to either recant their faulty views and drop their inferiority complexes or simply to move aside as your own movement has passed you by, or if it hasn\'t entirely yet, G-d willing it most certainly will, and may it be soon.\n\nThe police brutality at Beit Hashalom will soon be exposed.  The victimized will not be silent.");
AddReply(368498,"Move over.  The time for leadership by Haivri and others has come and gone","Velvel","silver spring","12/05/08","The leadership of those like haivri has come & gone.  It\'s time to move over 4 the youthful vibrance & vigilance to the cause that is not so blinded & much more dedicated than the older generation who still can\'t altogether shed the mizrachi religious-zionist inferiority complex or the mamlachtiut heresy.  \n\nThe 10% minority selfhating secular left is your enemy. That band controls the state in all its upper eschelons of every power structure. The state has become ur enemy.  It openly makes war on the religious right, all the while demonizing you all under the terms of their bogus secular \"morality\" - which principles they themselves violate to persecute their religious foes (you).Only choice is to seize control of state, as the secular left radicals have, take control away & emerge as leaders who feel no need 2 find approval from these vigilante leftists whom YOU will marginalize");
AddReply(368481,"Government Involvement","Ben-Yehudah","K\'far Tapu\'ah","12/05/08","B\"H\n\nDavid, just keep the gov\'t far, far away.  It wasn\'t too long that three of our teen-aged neighbors sitting jail were told by a judge that they needed \"re-education,\" and that it would be \"dangerous\" to allow them to be released, as they might \"talk to other teens.\"\n\nSocial workers trained in Israeli {ie. leftist} universities must be screened thoroughly, and if possible, be residents of Yo\"Sh themselves.\n\nI\'m not disagreeing with you, just emphasizing a point.\n\nOur kids have the opportunity to be \"freer\" of the brainwashing of the government controlled public, \"religious\" education in this country, but not entirely free.\n\nCaution is dictated.");
AddReply(368452,"Nice to hear that someone has the right idea ","Joel Bainerman ","Tekoa ","12/05/08","It is nice to hear rational thinking from one of our leaders in Judea-Samaria. A lobby group needs to be formed so that the residents of Yosh will receive no less than what residents of all regions in Israel receive. ");
AddReply(368423,"Odd","Larry","TA","12/05/08","It was interesting until the last paragraph. Then it comes across as some variation of right-wing self-hatred, or attempting to win approval of the \'establishment.\' This was Sharon\'s problem, and has often been Bibi\'s. It was also Begin\'s. The final paragraph is pure apologia, but the final sentence is the killer. The gov\'t is offering services. Not really. Herzog\'s goal is clear enough, to use the social work program to eliminate the caravans, and thus to make the job of removing real settlements. If Haivri and others feel that the youth need help, that is one thing. If they feel that taking the youth off the hilltops is better for the kids and the settlements, that\'s one thing. This reads, though, like succumbing to the need for acceptance by the establishment. Itzik Herzog and his NGOs helped bring Barak to the PM\'s office...Barak of Beit Shalom. What am I missing?");
AddReply(368354,"\"If the government finances ... in Samaria\" ","Al Burke","Santa Monica","12/05/08","Are you kidding? The only thing the government will finance for Jews in Yesha are security forces, to forcibly remove the Jews from Yesha. The problem facing the Jewish communities of Yesha, including Jewish Youth, is the government of Israel.  ");
AddReply(368310,"our youth","Raz Tel-Chai","Jerusalem","12/05/08","David thank you for bringing to our attention that these children are just that children, with the same needs and problems as many others. If the Government and Media would put as much effort into support for our Pioneers as they do in demonizing them, things could be much more optimistic, for all!   ");
AddReply(368308,"Be careful with requests","","","12/05/08","\"If the government finances a center for at-risk teens in Samaria, it doesn\'t mean that all of our youth are problematic, nor does it mean that our at-risk teens are bad. What it means is that the government acknowledges our needs and offers us services available to other segments of the population.\"\nDavid, you know that the Herzog isn\'t suggesting anything that will help the hill-top youth.");
AddReply(368286,"The problem with the ministers suggestion is","Annie","Adelaide","12/04/08","He wants them AWAY from the family, in camps where their every move is watched and they are \'indoctrinated\'. That is not the same as \'welfare organizations\' that look after the kids while they are still in their own homes. The idea here is to divorce them from parental control so that the state becomes their parent. Remind you of another time - another place ?");

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