When confronted, Haredi leaders deny giving any protection or support to Haredi extremists. They will say extremists who attack others should be arrested and they encourage the police to do so. They will say that the extremists are not connected to them and do not listen to them. They will deny any connection, and even take offense at being thought of as being connected and similar and for bearing any semblance of responsibility for their actions.
And then this happens...
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has made a move to come down harsher on stone throwers. Shaked revived an old law proposal, originally proposed by Tzippi Livni, by which a stone thrower can be convicted for his actions with a the full harsh sentence allowed without requiring an impossible level of burden of proof.
MK Yisroel Eichler (UTJ) is the person who opposes this law. And he opposes it because he is concerned that it would be used to put Haredi stone-throwers in jail.
Eichler has in the past stood up for the extremists, working to get violent extremists out of jail, and he does so again. Eichler says this law is too vague, and in truth there is a difference between Haredi stone throwers who have no intent to kill or maim and are only expressing their pain and sorrow about Land issues (for example) and betwene people looking to destroy the State.
So once again a mainstream Haredi leader is out defending and protecting the people the Haredi leaders claim to have no connection to and no interest in protecting.
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