OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP)
A radical Israeli rabbi said Wednesday night that Olmert should be hanged for considering any territorial concessions to the Palestinians, whom he called Nazis.
"This traitor, Ehud Olmert, collaborates with the Nazis, and if we were a state of law, he ought to be hanged along with (Deputy Prime Minister) Haim Ramon, (Foreign Minister) Tzipi Livni and (Defense Minister) Ehud Barak, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe was quoted by Israeli public television as saying.
The rabbi, president of a group that fiercely opposes any territorial concessions, was speaking at a conference of a gathering of ultra-nationalist rabbis in Tel Aviv.
According to Israel's Jerusalem Post the rabbis comment came after people at the conference received news that one of the people who shot dead two Israelis last Friday was a Palestinian security officer.
The paper also reported that Deputy Prime Minister Ramon issued a statement condemning the comment as "regretful and worrying" and added that this "path of incitement…endangers the foundations of democracy in Israel." |
