Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs.
"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable," he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered on Monday to mark the Jewish festival of Passover.
I wonder how many news hours this would have got if Ahmadinejad had said this about Jews...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1270038.stm
2007-02-03 02:40:00 · 5 answers · asked by Peace F 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You forgot to mention the following:
* This sermon was held 6 years ago and has been denounced by every Israeli leader (in politics as well as in the religious circles) since then.
* Even the leaders of his own party, Shas, objected his sayings.
* Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is considered a lunatic in the eyes of the huge majority of Israelis.
2007-02-04 08:21:18 · answer #1 · answered by yotg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you'll also find that Ovadia Yosef is not the Prime Minister of Israel and is in no position to actually say start a war or launch any missiles, unlike Ahmadinejad...
2007-02-06 05:26:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this type of statement has been said about the jews many times by many people,This rabbi may just be shootin of at the mouth to inflict the same feelings of what it feels like to the arab world, to see if it might make a peaceful difference. to the argument. any thing said like this by a raabi i would want to see the ancient prophesy that gives him the authority to carry out the threat. If no such prophesy exists he should not say it, he is not a prophet
as far as i know, he is a religous leader, but is he true religeon
or false.
2007-02-03 07:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by trucker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure you meant the Zionist, as the majority of the Jews in Israel are fighting these Zionist who came out of Russia, and don't really have any Jewish blood in them, but you are right if that had been someone who encouraged others to kill the Zionist that would be at least 2 months worth of front line news of how sorry they are and more bad words than a sailor could dream up,
But, then you have got to remember who owns our presses and our T,V, stations, there fore we only hear what they want to tell you after it is doctored
2007-02-03 03:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, that's religion for you. Kills folk dead!
2007-02-03 02:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋