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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: epsteinbd who wrote (12850)7/1/2002 9:23:13 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Respond to of 28931
 
3T this...Mr. God hater.



To: epsteinbd who wrote (12850)7/8/2002 7:20:46 AM
From: Giordano Bruno  Respond to of 28931
 
PERSONAS NON GRATA

Jul. 8, 2002
MK Lapid: 'We could do without' ultra-religious US immigrants
By THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Yosef Lapid was quoted Monday as saying that Israel could "do without" ultra-religious Jews who make up a large part of immigration from the US.

"You look at Beit Shemesh and you see all the problems that religion is causing in Israel," Lapid told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, in an article about the town south of Jerusalem, where a third of some 400 American immigrants arriving this week are planning to settle.

"They attack Russians because they want to eat pork, or because some of their husbands happen to be Christians. Then they get upset about a McDonald's being open on Saturdays," added Lapid, the head of the centrist Shinui party.

"Part of the problem is the character of the immigration from the United States: it's more orthodox," Lapid said.

"We get very little support from the conservative or reform Jewish communities in the United States. So what you end up with is a mushrooming native population of ultra-religious, followed by a migration of religious North American Jews who, quite frankly, we could do without."

jpost.com