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"Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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11 Jan 2006 08:39:44 PM |
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Israelis to Pat Robertson: ***** |
Hmm.. I wonder who should be trusted to run Israel- the Israelis
themselves or some Christian lunatics whose vision of Israel consists
of millions of Jews die in a giant fireball of dispensationalist
revenge fantasy?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10802750/
Israel pulls plug on Pat Robertson deal
Officials angry over evangelical leader's comments about Sharon's
stroke
Updated: 8:14 a.m. ET Jan. 11, 2006
JERUSALEM - Israel won't do business with Pat Robertson after the
evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive
stroke was divine punishment, a tourism official said Wednesday,
putting into doubt plans to develop a large Christian tourism center
in northern Israel.
Avi Hartuv, spokesman for Israel's tourism minister, said officials
are furious with Robertson's suggestion that the stroke was
retribution for Sharon's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last summer.
"We can't accept this kind of statement," Hartuv said.
Robertson is leading a group of evangelicals who have pledged to raise
$50 million to build the Christian Heritage Center in Israel's
northern Galilee region, where tradition says Jesus lived and taught.
Under a tentative agreement, Robertson's group was to put up the
funding, while Israel would provide land and infrastructure. Israeli
officials believe the project will generate tens of millions of
tourism dollars.
But the project now is in question in light of Robertson's comments,
said Hartuv.
"We will not do business with him, only with other evangelicals who
don't back these comments," Hartuv said. "We will do business with
other evangelical leaders, friends of Israel, but not with him."
A day after Sharon's stroke on Jan. 4, Robertson suggested the prime
minister was being punished for "dividing God's land," a reference to
the August pullout from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements.
"God considers this land to be his," Robertson said on his TV program
"The 700 Club." "You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and
for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it
up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine."'
Robertson's comments also drew condemnation from other Christian
leaders and even U.S. President George W. Bush.
The ministry's decision was first reported in Wednesday's edition of
The Jerusalem Post.
Christian center planned near Galilee
Robertson's Christian Heritage Center was to be tucked away in 35
acres of rolling Galilee hills, near key Christian sites such as
Capernaum, the Mount of the Beatitudes, where tradition says Jesus
delivered the Sermon of the Mount, and Tabgha -- on the shores of the
Sea of Galilee -- where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle
of the loaves and fish.
The project underlines how ties have strengthened in recent years
between Israel and evangelical Christian groups that support the
Jewish state.
Israel was considering leasing the land to the Christians for free.
Tourism Minister Avraham Hirschson predicted it would annually draw up
to 1 million pilgrims who would spend $1.5 billion in Israel and
support about 40,000 jobs.
Hirschson, however, is one of Sharon's biggest supporters, and a
member of the centrist Kadima party recently founded by the prime
minister.
Hartuv left the door open to continuing the project, but only with
people who don't back Robertson's statements.
"We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's)
statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with
us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are
welcome to do business with us," Hartuv said. "We have to check this
very, very carefully."
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2209 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Now, did I want to go? Hell no."
-duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 63
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge, on why
a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
the Vietnam War.
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke loves to play
with little girls' nipples:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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