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Rabbis call on Bush not to meet with Olmert
Group of right-wing religious leaders say in letter to US president that 'the prime minister is willing to betray his homeland and people in order to evade trial'
Efrat Weiss
A group of rabbis has sent US President George W. Bush a letter urging him not to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
during his upcoming visit to Israel
scheduled to begin Wednesday.
"The prime minister is ready to betray his homeland and people in order to evade law authorities," they said in the letter. The most prominent figure who signed the document was head of the Yesha Rabbinical Council and chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, Rabbi Dov Lior.
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"The experience from Gush Katif
has proved that destruction was imposed on 2,000 families, Hamas
was crowned in Gaza and, our enemies were aided in getting stronger and threatening our existence… If, God forbid, they continue like this, they will cause a civil war and put millions of Jews in mortal danger."
The letter was also signed by Rabbis David Druckman, Yakkov Yosef, Shmuel Eliyahu and Shalom Dov Wolpe.
They went on to say that "it is totally presumptuous that while the US fights terror, it pressures Israel to make concessions to terrorists!
"We are amazed by the insolence of the secretary of state, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, who is holding talks with a prime minister who is under criminal investigations from top to bottom, while his personal situation pushes him to give in to pressure.
"It is unbecoming of a president to hold talks with a person suspected of criminal acts, who is ready to betray his homeland and people in order to evade law authorities."
The rabbis added, "In the name of the people of Israel, the Land of Israel, the Torah of Israel and the God of Israel, we demand that his honor the president cease the pressure on the State to hand lands to the Arabs. We ask the president not to meet with Mr. Olmert to discuss these issues, particularly not at this time."
The rabbis concluded the letter on a historic note: "Honorable president, you must not be remembered in history as Nebuchadnezzar (a Babylonian king from the 6th century B.C.) and Titus (a Roman emporer) who destroyed Jerusalem.
"You must surely remember that America does not benefit from causing damage, Heaven forbid, to the Jewish people and its land. If you help the wholeness of our holy land, we promise you and your country endless blessings."
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