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US: Rabbi Yosef remarks deeply offensive
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Published: 30.08.10, 08:00
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61. He is known for his anti semitic remarks, even against jews
Rami of Nazareth ,   Israel   (08.30.10)
62. 42 Mark and free speech
Christian ,   Sweden   (08.30.10)
Please feel completely free to criticize the content of rabbi Ovadias sermon. For it must be the content and not the language as such or otherwise it would have been wrong to wish a plague on Hitler and the Nazis. Now if you think that the good rabbi has completely misjudged Abbas and the political situation in the ME, the rabbi should obviously be criticized. And if Abbas and his cohort are nothing but decent, honorable and peaceful men who have done nothing but good to Israel and the Jewish people the rabbi has done them very wrong and deserves to be condemned for that. But the State Department and other US government offices have no business with what a rabbi says in his sermon as long as there is no criminal incitement to violence.
63. rabbi's comment
elyas benelyahoo ,   great neck, NY, USA   (08.30.10)
Rabbi says if you are enemy of jews this must happen to you but if you are not -- you should not be worried. thank you ---- ely
64. You are as offensive as each other
Robert ,   Brisbane, Australia   (08.30.10)
You people who attempt to justify these offensive remarks purely because similar remarks have been said about Israel are no better than your adversaries. It is quite common for posters here to justify their offensive remarks and actions because others have made them. In reality you people are as uncivilised as others.
65. Rabbi's comments
Ezra ,   Florida   (08.30.10)
yeshar koah and kol hacavod Rabbi Yosef. I have nerver ever supported Shas, but in this case the rabbi gets my backing. They are not holding monopoly on threatening jews constantly.
66. #61, Rav Ovadia is known for speaking the truth.
Yehuda   (08.30.10)
67. How dare they condemn Rav Ovadia Yosef..
safta of 12 ,   Israel   (08.30.10)
68. Deeply offensive?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.30.10)
For the record, I am deeply offended that the United States Department of State has yet to comment on the daily barrage of grievously offensive and threatening remarks emerging from assorted Islamofascist flotsam and jetsam masquerading as men of religion. That doesn't seem to matter enough to the U.S. State Department to elicit a response. Well, what did we expect, with the Moslem-in-Chief occupying the White House?
69. R Ovadya right; US Goal: assimilate Israel like other goyim
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (08.30.10)
Then, Obama insanely reasons, Arabs & Muslims would accept Judaic-rein, Torah-less "Israel" in Middle East. Rav Ovadya conveys & reflects Torah! Would that--consistently--all rabbis were doing so! Kol ha-kavod! How much more forcefully Torah declares it of all goyim who refuse His Torah!!! Those who teach the apostasy of "Benei Noakh" are the product of centuries of Church persecution when to suggest that Torah was valid or Christianity invalid was a capital offense. As a result, "No proselytization" and "Benei Noakh have a portion in olam ha-ba" became internalized despite contradicting innumerable passages of Tanakh. Demand that such adherents cite solid (not interpretationally far-out) Scriptural basis for "Benei Noakh". You'll find that Talmud regards "Benei Noakh" a synonym of ALL goyim. Paqid Yirmeyahu Paqid 16, The Netzarim, Ra'anana, Israel Israeli Torah-reverer: Teimani, Baladi, Dor Dai Jew Advocate for Logic as Hermeneutic Halakhic Authority www.netzarim.co.il Welcoming All Torah-reverers (Jews & non-Jew geirim)
70. To: No. 64
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.30.10)
Uncivilized, you say? That's pretty rich, coming from someone with the blood of millions upon millions of slaughtered aborigines on his conscience. I remind you that Palestinian terror -- and Abbas is a terrorist with the blood of hundreds of Jews on his hands and thousands on his conscience (were he to have one, that is; history has amply demonstrated that he doesn't) -- has been a very real thing to both Israeli Jews and Jews in the Diaspora. It is well over sixty years old. The Jewish people have every right to despise Abbas and everything he represents, and to wish him ill. Would you wish Adolf Hitler (may his name be cursed throughout eternity) long life and good health? Do you think that Abbas represents something different to us? He doesn't. He isn't. The only difference between Hitler (may his name be cursed throughout eternity) and Abbas is that the Jewish people have our state and can defend ourselves. The ONLY difference.
71. Ovadia Yosef
pdw ,   maine USA   (08.30.10)
Whether these remarks are unfortunate is not at issue. What is more important is that in many places (including most which are near Israel) there could be little or no discussion about how unfortunate, and in many places principled people would speak out at their peril. In Israel, as in the USA, we have the ability to say NO....and to demand debate.
72. To many here..JUST SEE ALL THE TROLLS LEFT HAARETZ NOT >>
James T. ,   USA   (08.30.10)
Not satisfied come here to spew their venom about eh Rav Yusef. I too am secular but it does not mean I am not patriotic and agree with evey word that the Rav said..IF truth saying is a sin than how come the Americans accept the Reverend Wrights of the US and the multitude of Black preachers who utter hate? How about Lous Farakhan ? The RAV has the guts to tell it lie it is in TRUTH and if some do not like it? than tough on them.How about the many Islamic hateful websites too numerous to mention,One easy one comes to mind...i.e Memri.Plus the Islamic Jihad Websites galore uttering hateful speeches against Israel not only the grown ups,but they brainwash the tiny tots frrom a tender agae and put them on TV for all to see and hear their JIHAD SPEECHES against Israel in a most guesome way coming out of the mouths of babes.And here come the Israeli bashers criticising the RAV fo being honest in his condemnation..Even if the language did not in reality reflect his true meaning.Even it it has ..I say kudos to him.Time jhas come for the truth be told.
73. Sarah #70
Resistor   (08.30.10)
You keep proving that you exagerate, and you are indeed an idiot. For the umpteenth time, there has never been a population, at ANY TIME, of more than 750,000 aboriginees in Australia. Don't talk, just bite your tongue hard, and try to absorb my information to you.
74. Sarah running off at the mouth again
Robert ,   Brisbane, Australia   (08.31.10)
#70 "That's pretty rich, coming from someone with the blood of millions upon millions of slaughtered aborigines on his conscience". It is laughable how you run off at the mouth. How on earth would you know if I have had millions of aborigines slaughtered? How would you know if I am aboriginal or not? Your kind are typical of short tempered people who are a danger to civilised humanity. Why don't you enlist in the most moral army in the world and do your bit to slaughter Palestinian women and children? I'm sure you would fit in very well.
75. To: No. 73
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.31.10)
Wrong again. Please do not challenge me on history until you have at least successfully passed the fifth grade. Probably not your fault ... you in all likelihood went to a school that did not bother to include the State of Israel on the map. No wonder you are so desperately uneducated. Good luck. Hope you have a nice future setting tile or pumping gas -- given the quality of your education, you should view those as REALLY good jobs. REALLY. Idiot! Have you ever been to Australia? I have. Have you ever spoken to a native aborigine? I have. No, the extent of your knowledge is bound by the confines of a "Palestinian" history book. LOL. Sorry -- I didn't mean to say "fifth grade education." Third grade is much more like it. And you people wonder why you have achieved nothing, ever? LOL! Ask me. I will tell you.
76. Ovadia
Tess Emdin ,   Bat Yam   (08.31.10)
How can we ever expect peace if this is the way our "religious" leaders talk. I am glad that I am a secular Jew, otherwise I would have to bury my head in shame at these remarks. We do not have to follow the path of the Anti Israeli Muslems.
77. To: No. 74
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.31.10)
You are correct. You may or may not be aboriginal. Does't change the fact that either way, I invite you to account for Australia's history. So? Give it up. If you cannot -- get lost. I served -- proudly and with distinction -- in the IDF. You, on the other hand, do what? Hoist beers? Sorry. You just don't rate. You're a fraud. Cheers, mate. Try Al Jazeera -- this forum is way too smart for the likes of you. You've been outed. Now get lost.
78. #77
Robert ,   Brisbane, Australia   (08.31.10)
#77 "I invite you to account for Australia's history". "If you cannot -- get lost". Thanks for the invitation but I'll decline and I won't get lost either. You and others here of your temperament should learn to limit your assumptions and merely respond to posts on their content. I, for your information, being the fraud I am, lost a number of family members during the D-day assault of Europe resulting in the eventual freeing of people of your ilk. Obviously those lost of lives were wasted.
79. To: No. 78
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.31.10)
"Thanks for the invitation but I'll decline and I won't get lost either." 'nuff said. Robert of Brisbane, congratulations! You have been officially outed. You are nothing but a despicable fraud. Given your bloody past, who the hell are you to criticize Israel? Who? Do you REALLY think anyone believes that the Allies fought World War II for the sake of Jews? Besides your pathetic bleating to the contrary .... we are Jews. We are smart. We know EXACTLY where the Anzacs fought, and it wasn't Europe. Whom do you think you're dealing with, here? Arabs? Oh, no. Not hardly. Pack it up and go away. No one will take you seriously now. You and your ilk are known commodities. My posts -- you know, what you say you respond to -- were highly specific. Yet, you decline to respond. Go away, stupid; like I said -- you've been outed!
80. To the man with two monikers in OZ>>One is Roberts the >>
KATE ,   ISRAEL   (08.31.10)
The other we now learn is Resistor. Wonder what you are resisting about? I noticed it in the passed but made no comment. Methinks you are a bit lost here mate.Sarah B is quite right in the assumption of you and your character.What puzzles me is people like you come to THE JEWISH WEBSITES to accuse and spill the bile/venom against THE Jewish country with impunity.Who the hell are you to judge and why COME HERE AND NOT GO TO Al-Jezerra and see if you'd last for a nano second. They would summarily throw you off a cliff OR PERHAPS you may even have your head chopped off. I think time has come for all the Jewish news outlets to minimize the hate filled responders who's only pleasure is to demonize Israel and Jews.Enough is enough.
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