About Those Peace-loving Israelis
The BBC reports on the latest from a powerful Israeli whacko: Israel rabbi calls for ‘plague’ on Mahmoud Abbas
A senior rabbi from a party within Israel’s coalition government has called for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to “vanish from our world”.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Shas, spoke out as Middle East talks are poised to begin in Washington.
…The 89-year-old former chief rabbi of Israel has been at the centre of controversy before, with comments about Arabs, secular Jews, liberals, women and gays.
In 2001, during a Palestinian uprising, he called for the annihilation of Arabs and said it was forbidden to be merciful to them.
He later said he was referring only to “terrorists” who attacked Israelis.
There is a picture with the article that shows he is obviously an important religious leader, because only country singers, drag queens, and religious leaders can dress like that.
In a “Pat Robinson moment” the Rabbi opined that the Holocaust was G-d’s punishment for the sins of the Jews. He later said that he thought that those who died were “saints”. I don’t think that he really meant to cast the Nazis as agents of G-d’s will, but then I’m not a psychologist.
The Shas have 11 seats and 4 ministries in the current government, and are part of the “genocide” cluster, i.e. the “kill the Palestinians and take their land” caucus, as opposed to the Yisrael Beiteinu who want to send all of the Palestinians to the Korean Peninsula and take their land.
They don’t want peace talks of any kind.
