I am now a Black Liberationist Jew-Muz Christian
Posted on 07/24/2008 5:33:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
Barack Obama completed his trip to the Middle East with a pre-dawn visit to the holiest place in Judaism where he received a mixed reaction from Orthodox Jews.
The US presidential nominee was heckled as he visited the Western Wall in the early hours of Thursday morning, bowing his head in prayer and observing traditional custom by placing a folded piece of paper into the crevice of the wall.
Orthodox men interrupted their morning prayers to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator, reaching out to shake his hand as he passed them by. But not all were taken by the Democrat. One yelled out: “Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!” before Mr Obama was whisked away to his waiting plane.
Mr Obama’s visit to the wall ended a packed trip to Israel during which he also stopped at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and visited a house hit by Hamas rockets.
During his week-long tour of the Middle East Mr Obama met Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
He now travels to Europe where he will visit Germany, France and England.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I am now a Black Liberationist Jew-Muz Christian
Whoa there
as a Jew i take offense at the Obama political banners at the Wall. perhaps the Orthodox felt the same way. would Obama put banners in a church service? i don’t think he should be lecturing others on reverence.
Amazing to see a political heckler get press who is NOT a member of Code Pink.
**Once a Moose-limb, always a Moose-limb
My my my... someone else sees through his facade.
Has it been reported in medias somewhere?
CNN only reports nice,very presidential, images!
Does not matter.
The Democrat Jewish vote is a lock for Obama as it always is for the Dims.
Hope there will be also a mess tonight in Germany in Berlin.
The pompous wanabe POTUS/Messiah is making rather too much a show as a CANDIDATE.
This not appropriate,very pretentious.
The guy is confusing Show-business,Hollywood and US presidency...He needs to be sent back to LA where he could play with Clooney,Penn,Sharandon... and M.Moore
I saw elderly rabbis being pushed out of the way so the cameraman could get a clear shot of the messiah.
Sickening.
It’s being reported that after being heckled Obama commented to the effect that he expected more reverence to be shown there.
We’ve always heard about the pushy “Ugly American”. Will the European press be so bold as to brand Obama The Ugliest American?
They may be GLAD to have a cowboy in the White House again someday.
It wasn’t just one heckler at the western wall—there was a news conference called by a coalition of groups against the Obama flip flop: Here’s the news release:
Coalition for a United Jerusalem to tell Obama:
Dividing Jerusalem Will Only Increase Terror Attacks Such as Today’s Horrific Event
July 22, 2008 3:30 PM Jerusalem Time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Coalition for a United Jerusalem, an umbrella group of American/Israeli organizations has expressed its outrage over today’s terrorist attack perpetrated just hours before Senator Barack Obama is to arrive in Israel and steps from where the Senator is to be staying. “The clear ‘welcome’ message sent by the Palestinians is, in our estimation, meant to further advance the agenda of dividing Jerusalem into two capitals” said Harvey Schwartz, Chairman of the American Israeli Action Coalition, one the organizations represented by the Coalition for a United Jerusalem. “The lack of clarity on the indivisibility of Jerusalem as the eternal and exclusive capital of the Jewish State of Israel only encourages such attacks.”
“Today’s shocking terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem will seem small in comparison to what would happen if Palestinians are given free rein in a divided Jerusalem” said Rabbi Aaron Tirschwell, director of Israel operations for the Worldwide Young Israel Movement. “Only a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty and control minimizes the number of attempts to terrorize Jerusalemites.”
Jeff Daube, director of the Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America, added: “We implore Mr. Obama to ask any resident of Sderot or the Western Negev which he will be visiting this week how they feel about gazing across the barrier surrounding Gaza which has served to only increase the number of kassam rockets launched resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of wounded.”
Prior to today’s attack The Coalition, comprised of the American Israeli Action Coalition, the Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel, Emunah Women, the Rabbinical Council of America in Israel, the Worldwide Young Israel Movement, and the Zionist Organization of America, had scheduled a press conference this evening to address the issue of Mr. Obama’s recent flip flop on the issue of Jerusalem. The press conference will take place as scheduled at 7:30 PM at the Eldan Hotel, 24 King David Street, Jerusalem, just a few short blocks from the site of today’s terrorist attack.
For more information:
Jeff Daube, 052.538.0840; jdaube@zoa.org
This is looking more and more like that “Left Behind” movie.
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