Baruch Marzel: Bird Flu Outbreak ‘Punishment from God’
ynet reports,
The bird flu outbreak in southern Israel is God’s punishment for the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank disengagement, National Jewish Front Chairman Baruch Marzel says.“You were punished by God and now you’ll have to ask for the forgiveness of Gush Katif residents,” Marzel wrote in a letter to southern residents whose communities were affected by bird flu.
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“The kibbutz was used to house the expulsion headquarters because of greed, and therefore the bird flu outbreak happened there of all places,” the far right leader wrote in his letter to Ein HaShlosha kibbutz.
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whoever casts a ballot for this yutz should have a hand fly out of the ballot box to slap them silly
—Mobius · March 19th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
it’s embarassing that he’s a fellow American
—John Brown · March 19th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Actually, simply no one else to vote for. Actually, maybe Olmert? no, no, uh…Peretz? Nah. Beillin? D’oh. Stay home and slap yourself silly?
It’s really too bad. A poll shows that only 44% of eligible Israeli youth are planning on voting. Total disgust with politicians.
—josh · March 19th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
ale yarok!
—Mobius · March 19th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
In a country where a major Rabbi (Ovadya Yosef) concludes Kathrina was visited upon the US for their support of the Gaza-withrawal , Marzel pipsqueaks are of little surprise and no significance. But the notion itself – G-d punishing humanity in general, and Jews in particular, for behavioral hiccups is not new and a worthy subject for contemplation in religious philosophy. (Here -in the Far-East – it is called Karma, but that is beside the point).
An interesting consideration of the subject here: torahcurrents.org/index.php/article/jewish_responses_to_natural_calamity
—Komai · March 19th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
i’m inclined to agree with a Lubavitcher drash i heard once, that we shouldn’t be so arrogant as to say what’s a punishment and what’s a reward from Hashem, b/c we can’t see the metaphorical “big picture” so we don’t know which is really which, considering all things, so we should just thank Hashem for everything he gives, b/c what might seem like a blessing may be a curse, and vice versa.
So I’m tired of peeps saying stuff like this.
—shmuel · March 20th, 2006 at 10:18 am
so. . .Marzel, and that Gaza Sheikh guy are (half) in agreement. Who’d have thought?
—rebecca · March 20th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
aparently the mekubal david batzri has found the reason for the outbreak of bird flu in israel! he claims that it is because of left wing
parties promotion of gay rights. he also claims that if these parties do not cease their support humans may be affected from the bird flu.
i love seing people making total asses out of themselves! mekubal shmekubal i think this person should have no title whatsoever! here is the article for hebrew readers.
www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/062/770.html
—eytan · March 20th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
eytan, your such a big poster.
I dare you toactually meet a real mekubal before shooting your mouth off. You’d probably pee in your pants.
—josh · March 21st, 2006 at 5:26 pm
thank you for humoring me josh, why do you assume i would pee in my pants if i met a mekubal? should i fear them?
all i was saying is that this kind of stupid remark should not come from a person who has many followers, and it does not matter if he is a mekubal,rav,or priest!
—eytan · March 22nd, 2006 at 12:10 am
josh you might want to also look at what youre great “mekubal” thinks of a mixed jewish-arab school in jerusalem.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395652027&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
—eytan · March 22nd, 2006 at 8:58 pm
[...] National Jewish Front / Hayil:Â A far-right party that supports the “complete Land of Israel”, and supports amending the Law of Return to prevent “non-Jews” from immigrating to Israel. Its leader, Baruch Marzel, was recently featured here on Jewschool for saying that the outbreak of bird flu was punishment for the Gaza withdrawal. [...]
—Jewschool » Blog Archive » Last chance to enter Israeli March Madness · March 26th, 2006 at 5:25 pm