Rabbis Call on Rabbis to Lobby US Gov't

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=0&item=132534


Israel’s Chief Rabbi and Israeli rabbis call upon American rabbis to lobby the U.S. government to stop pressuring Israel to stop building in Judea and Samaria.

Rabbi Shlomo Amar, who serves as the Rishon LeTzion, Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi, is signed on the call, together with some 25 rabbis from all over Israel, both hareidi and religious-Zionist.

Rabbi Shalom Gold, one of the initiators of the letter to his former colleagues – and to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations – explained how the letter came about. Speaking with Arutz-7’s Hebrew newsmagazine, Rabbi Gold said, “This past Sabbath, we were at an Ariel Rabbis convention, under the auspices of Haifa’s Chief Rabbi She’ar-Yashuv Cohen. I was asked to deliver a short Dvar Torah during one of the meals, at the end of which I said that it is inconceivable that the Jews of American can build homes wherever they want, while here in our own land, Jews can’t build their homes in Beit El, Shilo, Har Homa and elsewhere. I said that the goal of all Arabs is to build a Palestinian state here without any Jewish presence – unlike any other country in the world – and this is what the princes of democracy around the world want to build… The Land of Israel is being degraded, the situation is wretched, and we must speak out and protest.”

“After the meal,” Rabbi Gold said, “the Rishon Letzion, Rabbi Amar, gave a class, and at the end he turned to me and said, ‘Rabbi Gold, you shocked us with your words, and we have to do something about it.’ We set a meeting for after the Sabbath, and he arrived with pen and paper, and began to write, based on what I had said earlier, and that’s how the letter came about.”

The letter expressed sorrow at the situation currently facing Israel, and calls upon American rabbis to "do their utmost to use their influence with the American administration to remove this terrible and unjust pressure from the government of Israel."
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[sakabatou]

1. Damned fundies...

[LeftishBrit]

2. Good grief...

American rabbis should "do their utmost to use their influence with the American administration..."?

*What* influence???!!!

Either the Israel rabbis have read too many hate-sites about Jewish Control of the World, Not to Mention Mars and Saturn; or more likely they are extrapolating from the influence that small religious parties can have on Israeli governments.

[pooplord420]

3. disgusting

They're angry that a country has asked them to stop building illegal settlements that every single country in the world has condemned and are a violation of international law?