Chief rabbi thanks Bush for ‘war against Iraq’
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Via: The Jerusalem Post - During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked President George W. Bush for the US’s military intervention in Iraq.
“I want to thank you for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a war against Iraq,” Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi’s spokesman.
Bush reportedly answered that the chief rabbi’s words “warmed his heart.”
Metzger’s stand on the Iraqi war, while reflecting the Israeli majority and Orthodox Jewry, is not shared with most US Jews. The American Jewish Committee’s annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, published last year, found that 70 percent of US Jews disapprove of the Iraq war, with 28% backing it.
In a related story, Metzger was chosen as one of the 12 most influential religious figures in the world for a CBS documentary called In God’s Name that appeared at the end of December…Read On!
Thank you for war?!
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4 Comments on “Chief rabbi thanks Bush for ‘war against Iraq’”
Just a side-note: “Metzger” is German for “Butcher”. Of course it’s a coincidence, but go figure..
Sad. When religious leaders of any persuasion are thankful for war it is a sad day. Thanks for pointing out that many American Jews do not approve of the war. The same is true (although it may not seem that way from the news) of many Christians as well.
Salaam.
Firstly, I reckon that there were big problems with the way the war against Iraq was conducted, and the way that civil goverment collapsed; and innocents died etc. But I think the reason that the Rabbi thanked Bush is because Saddam had said many times in the past he wanted to destroy Israel.
Nathan,
So anyone can brace anyone who calls to kill Zionists, since they (Zionist) call (since ages) to Gaz All Arab!