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Israel’s Version of Pat Robertson

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Posted on Feb 21, 2008
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Blame it on the gays: Like American conservative preacher-pundit Pat Robertson, Israel’s Shlomo Benizri links natural disasters to his country’s policies toward those whose sexual orientation doesn’t pass (his idea of) a biblical litmus test.

A member of Israel’s parliament has an unusual explanation for the recent spate of earthquakes in his country: It’s the gays! Specifically, says Orthodox lawmaker Shlomo Benizri, the Israeli government’s acceptance of and tolerance toward homosexuals have incurred God’s wrath in the form of tectonic rumblers.


BBC:

Mr Benizri made his comments while addressing a committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, about the country’s readiness for earthquakes.

He called on lawmakers to stop “passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes”.

Israeli court rulings in recent years have granted inheritance rights to gay couples and recognised same-sex marriages performed abroad.

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By PatrickHenry, March 4 at 3:39 am #

If your posts are evident of what will remain then It would be to the worlds advantage to quarentine all zionist jew cults types such as yourself in Israel.

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By Douglas Chalmers, March 4 at 2:47 am #

Agreed!!!

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By Lefty, February 28 at 11:21 am #

There can be no bigger fool in the world than a right-wing, fascist Jew!  These fools genetic material will be removed from the gene pool soon enough, and the Jews will be stronger, smarter and more dominant for it!

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By Lefty, February 28 at 11:16 am #

So, how does it feel to know that a bastard is f**king your mother, and your father, in the ass?

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By Fadel Abdallah, February 27 at 5:50 pm #

Dear Friends:

I always thought this will be soon coming. And here it comes in a long article from the Jerusalem Post on line, written by Marc Zell, and dated February 21, 2008. Make no mistake this article represents official Israel’s stand on Obama’s candidacy. Israel and its lobby will work hard to defeat Obama. If Obama is defeated despite all his primary victories and popularity, then everyone should know that Israel and its powerful lobby are more powerful than American popular will.

Below are few paragraphs from this article. I hope you can read it fully online.
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Obama and the Jews

Marc Zell , THE JERUSALEM POST

Feb. 21, 2008

Less than two weeks before the critical primary elections in Ohio and Texas, Democratic voters have made it very clear: Barack Hussein Obama is for real.

Leading in the popular votes cast, delegates pledged and total delegates (meaning principally the back-room machers euphemistically referred to as “superdelegates"), Obama has a decent chance to become the 2008 Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Obama has become a rallying point for millions of disgruntled voters who yearn for a new style of politics in the world’s greatest democracy.

First and foremost among the considerations that should trouble friends of Israel is the foreign policy team Obama has selected to advise him. The composition of a candidate’s advisory panel is usually a very good indicator of where the candidate will come out on the issues if elected.

This was the test this writer applied to George W. Bush in 2000 at a time when most pundits in Israel and in the Jewish community predicted that his Middle East policy would be a carbon copy of his father’s, meaning trouble for Israel. But Bush, the son, had selected a blue-ribbon team of pragmatic and conservative advisors whose views on the Middle East were markedly pro-Israel and pro-democracy. Subsequently, the W. Bush Era became among the closest allies of Israel in her 60-year history.

The opposite is the case with the Obama team. Headed up by Jimmy Carter’s ("Israel is an apartheid state") national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama’s team includes such problematic figures as Anthony Lake, Robert O. Malley and Susan Rice.

Brzezinski has been disseminating vitriol about Israel for three decades and recently publicly defended the Walt-Mearsheimer study which concluded that US policy towards Israel was the result of Jewish pressure and inconsistent with American interests. More recently Brzezinski called for the US to initiate dialogue with Hamas, described Israel’s action in the Second Lebanon War as a killing campaign against civilian hostages and earlier this month made a trip to confer with Syria’s President Assad, ostensibly unbeknownst to the Obama campaign.

Robert O. Malley, another former Carter Administration diplomat and President Clinton’s special advisor on Arab-Israeli affairs, is an unabashed advocate for the Palestinians, co-authoring a spate of anti-Israel propaganda with former Arafat advisor, Hussein Agha, including a tract that blames Israel for the failure of the 2000 Camp David talks and another piece which blames the Bush Administration for continuing Israeli-Palestinian strife.

And then there is Susan Rice, foreign policy advisor to the ill-fated John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004, where she concocted the idea of solving the Middle East problem by appointing none other than Jimmy Carter and James Baker as negotiators, an idea which was later repudiated by her own boss as being unbalanced against Israel. Nor are these the only “bad apples” in Obama’s foreign policy binŠ

The writer is Co-Chairman Republicans Abroad in Israel

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By lilmamzer, February 26 at 5:36 pm #

“ Enjoy your new title in your proud kingdom of Bastards; but only for a while!”

You’ve already explicitly wished for my death several posts earlier, and now you use that corny Arab idiomatic metaphor to express your desire for genocide.

What a sad excuse for a human you are.

Do your students at JHU know what evil lurks in your heart? Do your neighbors in Baltimore - the many tens of thousands of Israel-loving Jews - know that a complete asshole you are?

If you feel so strongly about the demise of the world’s one and only place where Jews can have self-determination, why not go to Jerusalem yourself and take out a few domzen Jewish children?

Or are you too afraid to get your hands dirty?

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By Fadel Abdallah, February 25 at 7:16 pm #

OK Proud Bastard! Like the racist Zionist entity you represent, you’re thus crowned as the king and kingdom of Bastards. Enjoy your new title in your proud kingdom of Bastards; but only for a while!

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By lilmamzer, February 24 at 7:01 pm #

“ There are many more Catholic churches than Synagogues (thousands?) in this nation and I don’t see the U.S. sending my tax dollars to support the vatican. ”

False analogy. And patently idiotic as well.
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“ Your overstatements regarding Israels sovereignty make me laugh, considering how dependent they are on the U.S. to bail them out, economically, militarily and politically.”

In reality you are crying and not laughing, because no matter how much you parrot David Duke and the Aryan Nations’ boilerplate Jew-hating screeds, the bond between the US and Israel goes much deeper than the practical details of military or political ties. And yes, Israel is indeed a sovereign nation, your pained exhortations to the contrary notwithstanding.

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By PatrickHenry, February 24 at 6:45 pm #

Actually Lilmamzer you could easily pass for a jewish David Duke yourself or has that position been taken by another weirdo Rabbi Kahane.

There are many more Catholic churches than Synagogues (thousands?) in this nation and I don’t see the U.S. sending my tax dollars to support the vatican. 

Your overstatements regarding Israels sovereignty make me laugh, considering how dependent they are on the U.S. to bail them out, economically, militarily and politically.

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By Lefty, February 24 at 6:26 pm #

Without withdrawing as single word I have said, and will continue to say to the filthy stinking, islamist, pig, Fidel, IMO, there can be no bigger fool in the world than a right-wing, fundamentalist Jew.  Jews are so prosperous and successful whatever country or circumstances they find themselves because of evolution.  The weak and stupid Jews have been systematically murdered on many occasions throughout history leaving only the strong, smart, ambitious, Jews to do with the world what they will.  Of course, Shlomo Benizri is proof that evolution isn’t perfectly efficient.  He and his fundamentalist followers will learn what Zyklon B gas smells like before they die.

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By Lefty, February 24 at 6:18 pm #

Hate is the islamist, fundamentalist, propagandist, arab, troll’s stock in trade.  Without hate, you have no reason to even exist, Fidel.  The good news is that Darwin was right.  You and your weak and stupid kind are doomed to be consumed by evolution!

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By lilmamzer, February 24 at 4:44 pm #

By Potassium, February 23 at 7:45 pm

lilshitzer ........

After bearing your senseless rants blindly in favor of Jizreal I can surely tell your zionistic dumb ears that yes its mostly Jizreal’s fault, they have the money, they have the power, they been killing, and like you, they been lying,

In fact Zionists have probably done everything deceitful and/or treacherous to keep the blame off Jizreal but reality is catching up on the Americans ansd you might want to consider moving to “the little heaven on earth” or get used to the Absolute truth and not the Zionistic Lies.

Wake up lilshitzer.
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David Duke couldn’t have said it any better.

By the way, thousands of synagogues and other places of Jewish communal life across this country are just swarming with Jews who love and support Israel and her struggle against genocidal Arab racist warmongers.

What are you going to do about that?
Stand outside and threaten them?
Create an atmosphere of intolerance and bigotry?
Hmmmm?

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By PatrickHenry, February 24 at 4:12 pm #

“paranoia, misogyny, pandemic conspiracy theories, inferiority complexes, and garnished with Islamic repression and bigotry”

Israel and by extention jews suffer from these self same maladies.  I guess its a semitic thing.  Change “Islamic” to Jewish and I think you got it nailed down.

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By lilmamzer, February 24 at 12:50 pm #

Jeez, Abdallah, where to begin with you?
How about this:

“the illegitimate reality of the chauvinist and crude Zionism you so irrationally try to defend”

As you know, Zionism was, is now, and will continue to be the noble and rightful expression of national self-determination of the Jewish people in their sovereign homeland of Israel. And you call that illegitimate when it is anything but that. That is why the Arabs have been waging a war of annihilation against the Jews in their national homeland of Israel since before independence was declared from the British Mandate. So I say shame on you - you whose Arab brothers have more than 20 independent nation-states within which they can create and live out their destinies as they see fit, yet you deny one tiny sovereign state to the Jews. Again, shame on you.
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“you return with all your hate and propagandist venom”

Hardly, Abdallah. Your nasty reactionary words are those of someone who tries to shout down the legitimate and truthful voice of someone who objects to your genocidal aspirations of destroying the Jewish state. There will only be peace when ugly attitudes of hate and war such as yours will be replaced by tolerance and love. Live and let live, Abdallah. You need to get over your extreme xenophobia.
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“I hope and pray that you will choke yourself to death with your own venom.”

Nice. And you call my posts hateful and venomous? Do have any idea how exposed and ridiculous you look?
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“I bet you hate me so much because I was the one who previously pointed out to others what your name stands for.”

I don’t hate you, Abdallah. I hate the ugly ideas you espouse and the intolerance and bigotry you carry with you. It saddens me because rejectionist, genocidal, intransigent attitudes like yours are the reason why Israel has to fight for her survival against the combined Arabs states. And for that I say shame on you again.

As far as my screen name goes, I AM a bastard when I need to be. And proud of it. smile But today, with you, I can only handle you with firmness and a fair amount of compassion for someone who cannot see the errors in his ways.

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By Fadel Abdallah, February 24 at 9:59 am #

Mamzer! Your adopted name tells it all about your reality and the illegitimate reality of the chauvinist and crude Zionism you so irrationally try to defend. In previous rounds of your rants you were practically chased away from this site by so many who hated your irrational posts. Now you return with all your hate and propagandist venom. I hope and pray that you will choke yourself to death with your own venom. I bet you hate me so much because I was the one who previously pointed out to others what your name stands for.

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By Potassium, February 23 at 7:45 pm #
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After bearing your senseless rants blindly in favor of Jizreal I can surely tell your zionistic dumb ears that yes its mostly Jizreal’s fault, they have the money, they have the power, they been killing, and like you, they been lying,

In fact Zionists have probably done everything deceitful and/or treacherous to keep the blame off Jizreal but reality is catching up on the Americans ansd you might want to consider moving to “the little heaven on earth” or get used to the Absolute truth and not the Zionistic Lies.

Wake up lilshitzer.

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By lilmamzer, February 23 at 7:22 pm #

Dude, you need to get with the TruthCrapDig program:

TruthCrapDig Rule #1: It’s all Israel’s fault.

TruthCrapDig Rule #2: It’s all Israel’s fault.

TruthCrapDig Rule #3: It’s all Israel’s fault.

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By lilmamzer, February 23 at 7:17 pm #

“Jewish Zionists are using the Christian Zionists to achieve the in-gathering of the world Jewry in Palestine and rebuilt the third Temple.”

Yes, the ingathering of the exiles to ISRAEL, not “Palestine”, and it has been a monumentally uplifting story of survival, a restoration and renewal of a great people in their homeland. You know very well, Abdallah, that “Palestine” is just an archaic name for Israel, the land of the Jews, given to Israel by the occupying Romans in a failed attempt to remove the Jewish character of the land and its native people.

The “third temple” you speak of is already a reality: it is a metaphor for Israel itself. It has already been built - the modern Jewish state of Israel, and this year millions of Jews around the world and millions more friends will celebrate her 60th year of independence!

Your moronic, fallacious, and laughably hysterical rhetoric is emblematic of why the Arab world is so backwards in so many ways - paranoia, misogyny, pandemic conspiracy theories, inferiority complexes, and garnished with Islamic repression and bigotry.

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By ed_tru_lib, February 23 at 1:55 pm #
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Gee so even the closest thing to a true democratic government in the middle east, or for the most part, the world, has at least 1 hardcore right-wing nutcase in its legislature. Amazing. Kind of goes with the turf in democracy. And of course here come the lefty nadernuts, anti-semite nazinuts, & just assorted nuts, with their usual garbage comments.
Hmm-wonder what would happen if someone in the Syrian, or Iranian, or “palestinian” parliament made a statement this ridiculous and contrary to the prevailing views of most of his country’s citizens. He’d either be tortured to death, like adulterous (or just allegedly adulterous) women in these benevolent societies big, bad Israel dares to encroach on for its own protection, or perhaps be elected president. O wait-somebody at least that insane already has been in Iran.

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By Jim Yell, February 23 at 11:03 am #
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Trying to tie natural occurances to human morality or lack of such (what ever that is) is beyond stupid. If people live in an earthquake zone, there will be earthquake’s and the frequency will depend upon the amount of pressure exerted by the moving plates of the earth, or secondarily the occurance of volcanic activity.

If you believe in God it would be true to credit the occurance to God’s design, but not to God’s editoral comments about his faulty design (if that is what it is) of his creations. Just give it a rest, idiots.

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By Fadel Abdallah, February 23 at 10:16 am #

Rowdy, nuking Israel is not the solution! There are some good decent Jews, Palestinians, Christians and Muslims in that area and they all will perish if nukes were used.

What we need to do is to find a way to expose and curtail the activities of the Christian Zionists and their unholy alliance with Jewish Zionism. One of these is deadly enough by itself, let alone when they are allied. Christian Zionists are using Jewish Zionists to bring about the Armageddon they dream about. Jewish Zionists are using the Christian Zionists to achieve the in-gathering of the world Jewry in Palestine and rebuilt the third Temple. It is a very complex and strange alliance that is more dangerous than all the weapons of mass destruction that evil humans managed to device. If you’re interested in reading on the subject I would recommend Stephen Sizer’s book “Christian Zionism: Road-Map to Armageddon.”

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By PatrickHenry, February 23 at 7:35 am #

Norm seems to think Israel needs to be bitch slapped to rationality, like what happened to them in Lebanon a couple of years ago.  I’ve always liked to see bullies taken down.

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1676.htm

I don’t think the U.S. should waste the cost of a weapon on the populations over there.  Let them all fight it out without U.S. taxpayers help, let those rich U.S. jews provide the financing with the money fleeced from their banking endevours.

More in line with the article, since the Arab Israelis are required to have “special” license plates on their cars, will Mr Benizri advocate pink stars of david on their gays?

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By lilmamzer, February 22 at 12:18 pm #

By rowdy, February 22 at 11:29 am

i’m not progressive.

No, you’re not progressive. Simplistic, naive, wrong, misinformed, ignorant, anything but nuanced, absolutely.
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i’m insane

No! Really???
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and those motherfuckers have nukes

Yep, and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it, either. And that’s a good thing.

Enjoy your madness.

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By rowdy, February 22 at 11:29 am #

i’m not progressive. i’m insane, just like bush. insane, just like all of isreal’s chosen leaders. and those motherfuckers have nukes, just like bush.

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By lilmamzer, February 22 at 10:57 am #

“nuke isreal”

Sure, let’s murder 7 million people. That’s so “progressive”.

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By rowdy, February 22 at 10:42 am #

nuke isreal. let the end times roll.

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By jatihoon, February 22 at 8:25 am #

How come god only speak through “Idiots.”

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By Bobo, February 22 at 5:09 am #
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I’m so glad we Jews stopped sacrificing animals at the alter of Jehovah. It really was a big step towards maturity. Ugh.

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By Tom Allen, February 21 at 10:52 pm #
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Benizri is a Jewish Pat Robertson and just as irrational and moronic.

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By PatrickHenry, February 21 at 6:22 pm #

Has all the makings of their next film.

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By QuyTran, February 21 at 5:54 pm #

......so he’ll never pay any attention to this ridiculous story. He’d have much more important jobs to do for our living condition. Sorry Mr. Benizri.

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By Douglas Chalmers, February 21 at 5:40 pm #

It wasn’t the Palestinians after all, ha ha!?!?

Not even what they have done to the Palestinians or the Lebanese for the past 60 years???

Looks like they can get their ‘god’ to say whatever they want him to, uhh.........

Perhaps Christians who have been supporting these biblical idiots should have second thoughts?

No, they will now tell you in the USA that “god’s wrath” is in alignment with their homophobic prejudices........

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