Sharon cursed as son faces jail time

[IChing]

ISN SECURITY WATCH (27/07/05) - Israeli Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz is considering filing criminal charges against a group of extremist settlers for invoking a mystical curse on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in an effort to halt the Gaza disengagement.

In a ritual held in the northern town of Rosh Pina, 20 rabbis and activists from hard-right movements invoked the kabbalistic pulsa denura (“lashes of fire”) curse, calling on supernatural forces to kill the prime minister. The ritual was held at the gravesite of a right-wing militant hung by the British in 1938 for shooting at an Arab bus.

One of the participants, prominent right-wing activist Michael Ben-Horin, told the Israeli Ha’aretz daily newspaper that the ritual “called on the angels of destruction to kill Ariel Sharon”. He expressed his frustration that the tight security surrounding the prime minister prevented his assassination.>>>>snip

Rabbi Yosef Dagan, who was involved in the invocation of the “lashes of fire” against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 weeks before his assassination, also participated in the ceremony, which is meant to lead to the death of the person cursed within 30 days. If those performing the ritual are impure the curse is thought to kill those who took part.

Sharon’s son indicted for corruption

In the meantime, Sharon’s political machine faces another potentially devastating blow with corruption charges against the prime minister’s son, Omri Sharon.
Attorney-General Mazuz announced on Tuesday night that he would be bringing an indictment against Omri Sharon on charges of forgery, perjury, and the violation of campaign funding laws during the organization of his father’s campaigns for the Likud party leadership and the office of the prime minister.
Between late 1999 and early 2000, Omri Sharon is alleged to have raised over 6.5 million shekels (US$1.43 million) for his father’s campaigns, more than seven times the sum allowed by Israel's strict Political Parties Law. Most of the money is thought to have come from wealthy benefactors in the US.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12298

[NYC]

1. How can you file criminal charges against someone for invoking a curse?

...considering filing criminal charges against a group of extremist settlers for invoking a mystical curse...

[IChing]

5. I don't know I thought the story was bizarre also

But some take the kabbala very seriously and I don't mean Madonna.

I think it has more to do with the death threat and not the curse.(who knows)
Anyway, I thought it was worth the posting because of the two articles tied together.

[eyl]

9. I think it's legally considered

incitement to murder - especially since last time this happened, it was part of the incitement campaign which culminated in Rabin's murder.

[JNelson6563]

2. What millenium is this?

Sometimes I feel like I've stepped back in time. And not to happier times, no.

Julie

[IbeaBonehead]

3. Does this qualify as a WMD?

just askin..

[NNN0LHI]

4. Looks like them settlers are throwing some bad mojo around over there n/t

[mrdmk]

6. The cruse is crap, Omri Sharon has been the focus of corruption

charges for 3 years now. Ariel Sharon was also part of the case but the evidence was to circumstantial to file charges. Election fraud is simply averted with a shredding machine such as was the case.

[Scurrilous]

7. 'A barbaric pagan ceremony'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3118408,00.html

Condemnations of the Pulsa Dinura death prayer against Prime Minister Sharon, conducted by radical rabbis and right-wing activists, have come flooding in from across the political spectrum

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"The incitement against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reached alarming new levels on Tuesday, following claims by radical right-wing activsts that a Pulsa Dinura (death curse) was placed on Sharon, and that rabbis have prayed for his demise.

The events were widely condemned by politicians across the political spectrum.

“This phenomenon not only crosses all the red lines, but also violates what is permissible in a democratic country,” said Knesset Member Ehud Yatom, a Likud rebel who is opposed to the disengagement.

“I expect the police to investigate these rabbis and whoever else was responsible for this, to try them, and to imprison them. The fact that the prime minister’s life was threatened like this is unacceptable, irrespective of where one stands on the pullout,” he added.

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"Knesset Member Yosef Paritzky, an ex-Shinui party minister, said the incident was “a barbaric ceremony conducted by pagans. The hallucinatory right is busy with ceremonies and the sane center is busy with disengagement. From my perspective, that can go on. I hope that the Shin Bet, whose job it is to protect the prime minister, learned from its mistakes from the murder of Rabin.”

[pelsar]

8. its ok...

i sent sharon a cross to protect himself..and some wood spikes.... at least i think thats how it works...

[dArKeR]

10. Gaza: death curse put on Sharon

Tensions rose on Tuesday as the crucial date neared for Israel's first-ever evacuation of veteran settlements from Gaza and the West Bank. Jewish extremists held an ancient curse ceremony to call for the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon while the military tightened restrictions on entering Gaza to keep more pullout opponents from infiltrating.
On Tuesday a well-known Jewish extremist, Michael Ben Chorin, said he and about 20 others carried out an ancient curse ceremony called pulsa denura, calling death down upon Sharon, author of the pullout plan. The mystical ceremony was conducted in a cemetery in Rosh Pinah in Israel's north, he said.

"We called on God and angels of destruction to kill Sharon as soon as possible," he told Israel Radio.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/28/2003265372



I'm completely sure. If the world is ever destroyed and/or turned into a Road Warrior state, it's going to be done at the hands of 'religious' people.