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 United States condemned the remarks as “deeply offensive”.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from the comments with a statement saying that his government wanted peace with the Palestinians.
The attack on Mr Abbas, delivered in the rabbi’s weekly sermon, also prompted chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat to condemn the remarks as “an incitement to genocide”.
Mr Erakat urged the Israeli government “to do more about peace and stop spreading hatred”, the AFP news agency reported.
‘Regret and condemn’
Rabbi Yosef expressed the wish that “all the nasty people who hate Israel, like Abu Mazen (Abbas), vanish from our world”.
He went on to say: “May God strike them down with the plague along with all the nasty Palestinians who persecute Israel.”…
Will Israel’s God be persuaded to get actively involved against other peoples’ Gods?
In the beginning God created man – and man did likewise?
Will the big one be Jew vs Gentile?
The United Nations, in 1948, created this problem for the world’s people. And the UN’s motto does little to correct the injustice done to Palestine in 1948. And the West made terrorists of the victims of land-theft while “anointing” the land thieves with a “WHITE HAT”. Propaganda, practiced long enough and hard enough, is likely to persuade. The only question is likely to be “how many”.
Getting GOD actively involved in supporting land theft ought not happen in today’s world.
Somebody in Israel lamented a change in a relationship that had worked to Israel’s advantage for thirty-some-odd-years. During those thirty-some-odd years – Israel cluster-bombed Lebanon. Israel used to “turkey shoot” the closed community of Hamas at will. Israel bombed a facility in Syria with impunity. And the United Nations – who is responsible for the creation of Israel in Palestine – never said a mumbling word – not a word – not a word.
The world is still trying to forget religions’ rule of the world. The “Dark Ages” brings bad images to mind.
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