Middle East Focus: The Extremist Rabbi, his Muslim Counterparts, the 'Angry' Palestinians…..

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The Extremist Rabbi, his Muslim Counterparts, the 'Angry' Palestinians…..

“During his weekly lesson, held at the synagogue near his house in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har-Nof, the rabbi mentioned the blessing said at the Rosh Hashana feast that says, "May our enemies and adversaries be destroyed", and applied it to the current situation. "Abu Mazen (Abbas) and all those evil men – may they perish from this world. May God Almighty strike them and these Palestinians." Arriving at the Prime Minister's Office for a weekly cabinet meeting Sunday morning, Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai of Shas declined to comment when asked by reporters about Yosef's sermon…….” Y net News (Israel)

Honestly, he sounds a lot like some extremist Muslim shaikhs on their Friday sermon pulpits, and they are all public employees of the regimes that provide these pulpits. The rabbi is the spiritual leader of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox party, Shas. Still, the excitement among Palestinians about this statement may be exaggerated here. Palestinian factions, Arab factions, and Muslim factions almost daily call down death and destruction on each other and nobody gets excited about it all.
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