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Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu (at right in this file photo)
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| By israelinsider staff and partners December 6, 2006 |
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A group of prominent rabbinic leaders in Israel and abroad yesterday issued a call for Israeli citizens to launch a democratic uprising to bring down the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Aaron Klein, Jerusalem correspondent of World Net Daily reported.
"Out of love for each and every Jew, we call on the people of Israel and its leaders to begin a democratic uprising to immediately replace this government, which constitutes an ominous threat to the nation of Israel," the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1,200 rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis, said in a statement.
Former chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Abraham Shapira were among the signatories, as well as Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of Israel's Tunisian Jewish community and one of the country's most well-respected rabbis.
The rabbinical conference was responding to a national address by PM Ehud Olmert last week commemorating the death of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in which Olmert stated that he was willing to give up most of Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") in exchange for "real peace" and promised that he would release "many, many" Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal.
The Rabbinical Congress for Peace called Olmert's address a "crime."
"In his deplorable speech, Olmert in essence announced a 'liquidation sale' and collective suicide of the people in Israel including the release of thousands of the most dangerous terrorists from Israeli jails. Israeli citizens must launch a democratic uprising and protest to bring down the government immediately," the rabbis said.
Their statement continued: "Olmert adheres to the advice of false left-wing 'prophets' instead of adhering to the true prophets as expressed in the Jewish Code of Law that any territorial concession to the enemy will only lead to bloodshed. It will not contribute to calm nor will it promote peace."
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