2008 A Victory for Jewish Guilt
posted by on July 28 at 14:30 PM
Remember that Yeshiva student who stole Barack Obama’s prayer out of the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Well, he is trying to make amends:
Identified only by the first initial of his name, Aleph, and with his face obscured, the student went on Channel 2 television Sunday to confess that he took the presidential contender’s note last week and passed it to the press.The resulting coverage of Obama’s private, handwritten musings on hope and sin added to the mystique of his campaign visit to Israel but drew international criticism, including from leading rabbis who said Jewish morality had been compromised by the publication.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic candidate to face off against Republican John McCain in the race to succeed President Bush in November, has not commented on the episode.
“I’m sorry. It was a kind of prank,” Aleph said, his hands shaking as he fingered the tightly wadded-up sheet of King David Hotel letterhead. “I hope he wasn’t hurt. We all believe he will take the presidency.”
Channel 2’s religious affairs correspondent said she had passed the note from the yeshiva student to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which reinserted it - deeply - between the ancient slabs of stone.
Via Ben Smith.
If that fucking Jew costs Obama the election I say let's vaporise Israel once and for all!!!!
Eli, where do all those pieces of paper go? Any idea? Is there a precedent for the prayer notes from other famous people being exposed? I'm surprised I've never heard of this happening before now...
Thanks.
God sees his sin.
Hope he packs for a warm afterlife ...
Fat lot of good it does now. Everyone knows wishes don't come true if you tell.
They take them once a week or once a month or something like that and bury them on some mountain.
What a fuckhead though.
Clearly they need to enact a prayer-slip fee to counteract the evil of this horrible unrecycling.
Damn, I really shouldn't randomly follow links on the internet, on the page Eli linked to, there was a link to: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331112489&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Where I found:
"In response, a Ma'ariv spokesman said that "Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. In any case, since Obama is not a Jew, publishing the note does not constitute an infringement on his right to privacy." [emphasis added]
@2 & @5 while one may see disturbing things following random links, one can also learn various things, also from the link above:
"Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich condemned the removal of the note.
"Notes placed in the Wall are removed twice a year, on the eve of the Jewish New Year and Pessah, and placed in a special repository for religious items, under supervision to keep them hidden from human eyes," he said in a statement."
We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!!!
@8 must try harder, you wont troll anyone like that.
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