Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Rabbi blames Katrina on withdrawal
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Rabbi blames Katrina on withdrawal
A leading Israeli rabbi said Hurricane Katrina was God’s way of punishing President Bush for supporting the Gaza Strip withdrawal.
“Bush was behind the Gush Katif expulsion,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of the powerful religious political movement Shas, said Wednesday in his weekly sermon, referring to the main Gaza settlement bloc. Katrina “was God’s retribution,” Yosef said. Noting that many of the hurricane’s victims were African-American, Yosef suggested they were punished for being irreligious.
“What, Kushites study Torah?” he asked rhetorically, using a derogatory Hebrew term for people of African descent. “The Almighty said, ‘Let´s bring a tsunami and drown them.’ ” Yosef regularly has stirred outrage in Israel for comments targeting Arabs, Muslims, left-wing politicians, and more recently, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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