You obviously don't know anything....Abdullah is arabic for "eved Hashem" in Hebrew Ovadia meaning servant of Hashem. Rav Ovadia didn't say anything wrong, Israel should stop acting like a slave to Obama and the US, and maybe they can get some of their problems solved.

and most of donations to his so call work comes from USA, talking about shooting your own foot.

While I think that Rabbi Ovadia is a bit nuts, and that Shas is morally bankrupt and despicable. However, for once, he is right. Obama's policy is 'you can't build here, you can't build there, you can't do this, you can't do that etc.' We're not Obama's slaves. He has no right to dictate to us what we can and cannot do. This time, Rabbi Ovadia is 100% right. Barack Obama is not our master, we're not little children for him to boss around.

Do you all mean that you are slaves and have to accept whatever America dictates no matter what, has to obeyed by you? It looks to me as a mind slavery. Shows you do not belive that Israel is mature enough to decide what is right or wrong for itself and has to be dictated by the Big Brother. I do not see anything wrong with what Rabbi is oposing to and he is announsing to the world we are mature and free to decide for ourselves. Plus that was an agreement between Bush's adminstration and Sharon before pulling out from Gaza that Israel will build and continue to build in the areas that is building now and Americans know that very well. Now if they do not want to accept this facts that's a different story. Nontheless What Rabbi Ovadis is telling should make everyone more proud of independence of Israel. But still if you feel better to be Slaves go ahead and be Slaves. But I hope NOT.....

From self hating ''Jews" or who think to be and are shamed to be, and the usual antisemitic gentiles always ready to help for another Shoah. Rav Yossef is right, and all of you me included, we do not deserve to kiss even his feet. He has a very deep and important knowledge of Torah and is very respected in Torah world. So you all should be ashamed especially the Jews.

WELL - HMMM ...Abdullah is arabic for "eved Hashem" in Hebrew. JEHOWAH AND ALLAH ARE NOT THE SAME GOD. BESIDES - ALLAH IS NO GOD, ONLY JEHOWAH IS. Orao.

We should listen to Rav Ovadia. He is one of the greatest Torah scholars in the world. Such men speak with a wisdom culled from the depths of Torah knowledge. Those who mock men like Rav Ovadia are intellectual pygmies.

Are built on shared expectations and understanding. If he wants to risk no longer having the assistance of the western world, then by all means ignore what they think. Nobody in the world is free of the consequences of their actions. That's not slavery, that's how groups of entities work. If your friends really don't like it when you do something, you risk losing it when you do it anyhow. These Rabbis have spent their lives studying a particular kind of philosophy. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does not mean we should consider them competent on other matters. Kissing feet and calling them generally wise would be foolhardy.

Please, rabbis -- either have something sensible to say or Ynetnews -- please don't give these bloviators the webspace to embarrass us all.

Have you actually bothered to read the article on Ha'aretz? http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102901.html So it's Guilt By Association nowadays, is it? He knows a few of them, and mostly one of his sons knows a few of them, which is quite predictable considering that foreign donation drives involve getting to know rich US Jews... and now he's somehow corrupt as well? Perhaps you should read up a term - slander.

That's why we made their Whitehouse well.... white.

That's all . Are you so naive to think that ovadia yossef is'nt aware that all of the money that comes in is not "kosher" and/or has a doubdfull origin ?

you have to say it with more conviction, a little special effects will show them who's boss. but he's on the right track. way to go rabbi ovadia, even if I waited two and a half hours to meet you, but was told you don't talk to women. All I wanted to do was say hi.

Was it not their land initially until 1946? So why wouldn't Isreal agree to being peaceful? I'm sure the US isn't trying to make Isreal slaves. Afterall, the US always has Isreal's back don't they? Rabbi Ovadia needs to chill and sit back and think (to himself b4 speaking). Maybe then, he may be able to think of ways that peace could be restored between the Palestines and Isreal and wouldn't even NEED the US to invervene in the FIRST place. You cannot have you cake AND eat it to.

The US has ALWAYS supported Israell. So the one time that the Prez asks Israel for cooperation, the Rabbi wants to go off? Puleez. The only reason why the US Prez. suggested to stop building in the West bank is in hopes that he would jump on board with the US to restore peace between Isreal and the Palestines. The Palestines are not innocent. But neither is Israel. So please kiss and make up already.