there is only one place, the big house of many windows and white coats, DAHUF, you are both a danger and a disgrace to your people and your country.

Play it both ways -- when something bad happens to the settleres it's also the fault of non-settlers -- the Chosen of the Chosen are being puinished by their God, in all his wisdom, for the sins of others. Sacrificial Lambs, and all that.

Baruch Marzel, and anyone who even says these despicable things ,should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. And the people who agree with his remarks. Not the first time so called religious rabbis etc., have said things like this!!

The SIN was expelling Jews from OUR land and giving OUR land to others. The punishment is what results from expelling Jews from OUR land and giving OUR land to others.

Baruch Marzel should be thoroughly ashamed of his disgraceful remarks, and the people who agree with him. It's not the first time that ultra right wing people have made such terrible remarks, and have themselves been punished for doing so.

marzel , you have an affliction, you are in a deep psychotic state of mind, so was hitler, stalin, beria, kahana, baruch goldstein, the joker from Teheran etc., you are just as dangerous as all of them. The big house is the only place for you before it is too late.

7 billion people think the territories are NOT our land and not a court of law on the planet would declare Gaza "our" land.

God doesn't talk to me, so I have no idea why the bird flu hit Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha of all places. However, Marzel was absolutely correct when he criticized the behavior of the residents of that kibbutz. Rather than reach out to their neighbors in their time of need, they chose instead to make money off of their fellow Jews' misfortune. Their cynicism and greed are reprehensible, and they deserve exactly what happened to them. It might not be divine retribution -- but it certainly is poetic justice.

If avian flu is punishment for Israel's political policy regarding settlements then can we conclude the any calamity that happens to Jews is punishment from God? Does that mean that the Holocaust was punishment too? If I remember by Bible teaching, God allows evil to exist in this world. I think that was the deal when we were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Sometimes we are victims of this evil/disease etc... That's life. Shame on those who claim to know God's motivation when disaster strikes.

MR. MARZEL IS CORRECT. THE NEOCONS ENGINEERED THE WITHDRAWAL TO INSURE CONTINUANCE OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN JEWS AND PALESTINIANS AND THUS SECURE FLOW OF MONEY FROM THE U.S. TO ISRAEL AND FROM EUROPE AND MIDEAST TO PALESTINIANS. A POX ON THEIR HOUSES.

Dear Mr. Marzel, there are enough religious screwballs claiming that God is punishing this one or that one for violating some divine will or another. Don't be an embarrassment to a supremely intellectual and rational world minority (the Jews) by claiming to be an interlocutor regarding how God decides to meet out punishment for someone violating what you think is a divine blochie. Feel free to daven and rock back and forth, but whisper your bizarre pronunciamentos into cracks in the Wailing Wall. And please clean your fingernails.

I don't know neither do you why, if, how, or what G-ds ways are so don't even start. Not with the holocaust, Tsunami or Bird FLU.

I don't know neither do you why, if, how, or what G-ds ways are so don't even start. Not with the holocaust, Tsunami or Bird FLU.

While I cannot control other Jews thoughts and speech, these kinds of statements make me want to put my head in the sand. So extreme. Such ignorance...and for what price...for political means. Any educated person, would see the how utterly stupid this remark really is! It is unfortunate that these guys are leaders and have followers. I hope the average joe-smo realizes that these guys are way outside the norm of our Jewish beliefs.

AND WHOSE SINS IS IT THAT CAUSED THE DISINGAGEMENT??

Abu Ammar, May God shower his sould with mercy, might have not been Elvis, but he was the best looking face to ever come on TV as far as we're concerned, at least he's neither one-eyed dayan nor cross-eyed sharon lol yalla rouhi nami now hehe

Only he said that Sharon's stroke was God's punishment for basicall the same thing. Robertson a staunch supporter of Israel was roundly criticized. I think both statements are silly.

The real reason G-d sent the flu is a punishment for all those who violate the holy Shabbos. The gush katif was a punishment for those settlers who did not care about the holiness of Israel.They follow their mixed up quasi orthodox ideas of worshipping land over worshipping G-d. The reason G-d threw them out was because that very day a half million homosexuals were to march in holy Jerusalem. The only rreason it was cancaled was because the Israeli police were needed in gush katif and the gays could not be protected frrom the chareidim. G-d is taking away the land bit by bit because Jews over there are not acting in accordance with the Torah. Not all the settlements were shomer shabbos. Did these religious settlers care that 3 of the settlements were Sabbath violators. NO Its a free country. Let everyone do as they wish. So G-d spit them out as he wrote in the Torah the land will vomit you out. That why their graves had to move too. No shabbos no peace says G-d. The marzel ideas are also not authentic Jewish. Only chareidi ideas is authentic.

David, When Einstein said "god does not play dice" he was referring to the uncertainty in science introduced by the discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is a field of science which works on the principle that on a subatomic level, we can never be certain as to the location of a particle. This uncertainty is what led Einstein to the quote you misused, it applies to hard science - physics and chemistry - and does not have any application in the realm of God meting out punishment on those who have displeased him. And, might I add, I find it rather disquieting that a neurologist would not have sufficient background in the sciences to know this.

One of our big fears with Iran going nuclear is that they are not entirely sane. And yet....we see that nuclear power Israel has its fair share of CraZies.

Where's Palestine again??? Oh yeah, that made up place that the brotherhood of the camel made up for their propaganda war. Pathetic!

Maybe it is punishment for your treatment of the Palestinians...

Religion is for scumbags and stupid people!

Gee. Why does God kill the poor little birds for the actions of stupid humans?

God is punishing the birds because us humans cant get our shit straight? really cool theory. stupid jew

Actually, they still exist because jews still exist. "All religion should be wiped out" - Ziggy Marley

and # 53 could learn from it...or just vote for shas and the whole country could go to hell in a hand basket and live like the jews treat the Palestinians now.