Gatemouth (not verified) says:

10:54. At least get it right; Satmar don't hate black people; they primarily live in neighborhood's where blacks are barely a factor. It's the Lubavich who live in black neighborhoods, and have had their problems. In fact, now that Satmar are moving into Bed-Stuy from Billyburg, their black problem is that many of their new neighbors are saying "there goes the neighborhood" and trying to keep them out.

As to Satmar and Arabs, Satmar would be perfectly content to live in an Arab state that would let them exercise their religious rights, might even prefer it to Israel (would never have to worry about a gay pride parade in Jerusalem); but Arabs massacred every Jew in Hebron during the 30's, desecrated Jewish cemetaries, and banned Jews from the Tomb of the Patriarch and the Tomb of Rachel, even anti-Zionist Satmar and Neturi Karta. And when an Arab militant killed the Halberstam kid at the Brooklyn Bridge, he had no idea whether the Hasidim he was shooting at were pro or anti Zionist, and couldn't have cared less. If Satmar are Likudniks in spite of themselves, it's because Arabs have made them so.

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