Rightists: Burn Effigies Of Obama

[Purveyor]

Every year, Israeli children gather around bonfires on the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer and burn the effigies of the enemies of the Jewish people. Perennial favorites in that category include the likes of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

Now, a Jewish rightist group wants to add US President Barack Obama to that list.

Bentzi Gupshtain, a member of the outlawed Kahane Chai (Kach) party, said his organization is distributing hundreds of effigies of the US president for children to set fire to on Lag BaOmer May 2nd.

"The Israeli people's enemy is Barack Hussein Obama," Gupshtain told Israel Radio. "He is an anti-Semite and an Islamist. We received many requests from children all over Israel for the effigies and want to teach children to trust in God, not Obama."

During the interview, Gupshtain drew a parallel between Obama and the late Palestinian leaders Yasser Arafat of Fatah and Ahmed Yassin of Hamas, saying they were all enemies of the Jewish State.

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=173661

[T Wolf]

1. Jews burning people (or their effigies). Guess the ovens were out of commission.

Do they not see their hypocrisy and irony?

[YOY]

2. Hey! These particular Jewish folks are strongly steriotype breaking!

They're breaking the steriotype that all Jewish folks are of above average intelligence!

And they're doing it in spades.

Just sayin'...stupid people everywhere...and they're usually far-right and/or religiously crazy.

[cali]

5. these are members of a terrorist organization

and no, of course they don't see how despicable they are. duh.

[Hestia]

3. What a wonderful way to mend relations between US and Israel. Let's start

burning effigies of their president, shall we? Wow...everything absurd gets ink or bytes dragging all down with them.

[LeftishBrit]

4. They are nuts

They aren't just right-wingers; they are a Jewish terrorist group. They are officially banned in Israel. They, not Obama, are essentially enemies of the Jewish state.