1,000 rightistsprotesting demand to halt settlement construction march towards USConsulate, call for Special Mideast envoy Mitchell to ‘go home’;yeshiva head: Era when Jews were banned from living in different placeshas ended
“(US President Barack) Obama is a racist,” said Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, the head of the “Nir” yeshiva in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba.
Waldman was speaking during a mass rally held Monday evening at Jerusalem’s Paris Square in protest of the American demand that Israel halt all construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
About 1,000 settlers and right-wing activists, including Knesset members Uri Ariel, Michael Ben-Ari (both from the National Union party) and David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu), marched towards the US Consulate, carrying torches and calling for US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell to “go home.”
“How dare he (Obama) tell the Jews wherethey can or can’t live? The era when Jews were banned from living indifferent places has ended,” said Rabbi Waldman.
“Obama beware. This insolence (! — Ed.) will bring about the downfall ofthe American leadership,” he said. “Anyone who dares give an order toprevent Israeli life in Jerusalem or anywhere else in the Land ofIsrael is destined to fall.”