Apartheid wall killing people: Rabbi

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A prominent Jewish Rabbi living in a West Bank settlement has castigated the construction of the apartheid wall in the West Bank, saying it contravened the teachings of the Torah and "is killing people."

Speaking during an interview with the Israeli-state run radio "cal Israel" Wednesday, Rabbi Menahem Froeman, of the settlement of Tekou, south of Bethlehem, suggested that the Zionist regime was deceiving the public by claiming that the wall would save l ives.

"The opposite is true," said the 60-year-old Rabbi, adding that the truth of the matter is that this wall "is killing people, not saving lives."

Froeman, who had held several meetings with Muslim religious officials and scholars, argued that the building of the apartheid wall showed "lack of love" to "the land of Israel."

http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=195551

[Jim Sagle]

1. Ahh yess...the Islamic Republic of IRAN website..

Now THERE'S a reliable source.

Haw haw haw.

[Resistance]

3. it's true - the Apartheid Wall is ruining lives

Palestinian lives, that is. Just as it was meant to do.

[sushi]

4. Of course it is

ruining lives. The "peace fence" for one side is an "apartheid fence" for the other side. I'd like to know if this Rabbi exists and if he really said it! It would be awful if they made him up.

[bemildred]

2. The Rabbi seems to be real. You can google him up:

The happy news that General Nasser Yussef has been selected as interior minister in the new Palestinian government being formed by Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) reached the ears of Rabbi Menachem
Froman just a short time after he heard tragic news. His dear pupil, Eyal Yeverbaum, had been killed on Friday night in an attack on the West Bank settlement of Negohot.

The belief that his beloved friend Abu Yussef, as he calls the veteran Palestinian fighter, would do everything he can to end the suffering offered some comfort to the veteran settler.

Froman, rabbi of the settlement of Tekoa and a champion of inter-religious reconciliation, introduced himself to Yussef a short time after the refugee from a small village near Beit She'an in the north
arrived in the Gaza Strip from Tunis, following the signing of the Oslo Accords along with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Froman was surprised to find in the Palestinian military man an eager partner in cultural-religious reconciliation between Muslims and Jews. Ever since, despite the terror attacks and the assassinations,
they and their families have been inseparable. They often prayed together, each man reciting his own prayers. Seven years ago, Yussef served as the go-between in a series of meetings between Froman
and Dr. Mahmoud a-Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza. They signed a peace deal which was essentially, the first hudna (cease-fire). The Al-Aqsa Intifada, however, disrupted the apple cart and turned the
hudna into the Oslo Accords' main competitor in the battle for last place in the rating table of agreements.


http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~marton/GeneralRabbi.html