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'Obama is a racist,' settler rabbi tells protestors in Jerusalem
By Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: settlers, Israel News 

The Yesha Council of settlements organized a demonstration in which some 1,500 rightists gathered near the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday to protest the Obama administration's demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

Among the speakers at the demonstration was Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, the head of the Nir yeshiva in the settlement of Kiryat Arba. "Obama is a racist," Waldman told the assembled crowd. "If he continues with his actions, he will bring about the disintegration of the American superpower."

The speeches were accompanied by jeers from the protesters at every mention of U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, who is currently in the region in a bid to reach a deal on settlement construction.
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Right-wing demonstrators are planning a large-scale settlement operation next week - hundreds of youngsters will set up 11 new West Bank outposts, to commemorate the 1946 operation when 11 new settlements were set up overnight in the northern Negev, during the British Mandate.

The move coincides with the arrival of U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who is expected to discuss the evacuation of illegal outposts in the West Bank.

The groups organizing the move include Youth for the Land of Israel and the Land of Israel Faithful, and are associated with settler leaders Rabbi Moshe Levinger, Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf of Hebron, and Daniela Weiss.

They are planning to erect outposts called Havat Haro'im in the southern Hebron hills; Maalot Hebron, between Kiryat Arba and Hebron; Gat Yosef, near Nablus; Mitzpeh Avihai; Sela; Oz Yehonatan; Givat Egoz; Inbalim, next to Michmesh; Tsur-Ya, next to Avnei Hefetz; and Netzer, near Efrat, which was evacuated several times over the past few years.

In addition, a large group is planning to rebuild the Nofei Yarden outpost, which was cleared out last week.

The activists have been planning the operation for three months, and expect hundreds of youngsters help settle the land and thousands of others to show support. Over the weekend, 20,000 pamphlets describing the operation and its ideology were distributed in synagogues.

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      1.   "If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem, 23:37  |  The Teacher/Instruct 27/07/09
      2.   1946 and now 23:47  |  bronxite10 27/07/09
      3.   protest what? 00:04  |  Axel 28/07/09
      4.   Sounds just like the Ayatollahs 00:44  |  Reuven 28/07/09
      5.   Dear Settler Rabbis.... 01:59  |  Yehuda 28/07/09
      6.   Now a real Israeli PM would address against such talk 02:16  |  Smadar 28/07/09
      7.   PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL END FUNDING TO ISRAEL 02:56  |  JOHN BROWN 28/07/09
      8.   Obama a racist? 02:58  |  David R 28/07/09
      9.   Obama Racist 03:05  |  Gary 28/07/09
      10.   obama is a racist 03:05  |  llse pinkus 28/07/09
      11.   really? 03:09  |  Hirz 28/07/09
      12.   Bibi`s failure to openly denounce this will hurt Israel 03:21  |  binny 28/07/09
      13.   Obama is a racist 03:21  |  Steve Gure 28/07/09
      14.   John Brown you are absolutly right 03:27  |  Chet 28/07/09
      15.   Stop sending those checks Obama... 03:32  |  Marc Leb 28/07/09
      16.   Loser rabbi bites the hand that feeds him.... 03:46  |  Josh 28/07/09
      17.   THIS TIME THE RABBI`S RIGHT!!!!!!! 03:50  |  petra 28/07/09
      18.   nothing new here 03:50  |  Stevie 28/07/09
      19.   Gary, London very astute of you. 03:52  |  petra 28/07/09
      20.   Who`s a racist? 03:59  |  EGB 28/07/09
      21.   kosher rabbi 04:24  |  michael 28/07/09
      22.   Obama is a racist 04:25  |  American 28/07/09
      23.   #5 PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOT A RACIST 04:26  |  JOHN BROWN 28/07/09
      24.   The triumph of ignorance 04:36  |  Mark Lincoln 28/07/09
      25.   Americans don`t fund Israel but the PLO and Hamas 05:26  |  AK 28/07/09
      26.   Of cause Obama cannot be a racist -- he is Black 05:30  |  AK 28/07/09
      27.   With all that is happening 05:48  |  Chet 28/07/09
      28.   #15, Since when does one not have the right to captured land? 05:49  |  Confused 28/07/09
      29.   arabs and jews 05:51  |  carla 28/07/09
      30.   Israel will expand...period! 05:52  |  Ryan 28/07/09
      31.   Didn`t you guys build a WALL??? 06:00  |  Justice Seeker 28/07/09
      32.   Finally 06:11  |  Sholom Ben Leibel 28/07/09
      33.   To Confused #19 re settlements 06:18  |  Raphael 28/07/09
      34.   Remember the video of the drunken kids? 06:32  |  MIKE 28/07/09
      35.   Obama is not a racist, he is a muslim. 06:34  |  Yes We Can 28/07/09
      36.   just stop this behaviour 06:36  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/07/09
      37.   There is only one difference between these rabbis and 06:36  |  one 28/07/09
      38.   John Brown....Israel owns land 06:37  |  MMM 28/07/09
      39.   #16, Mark Lincoln 06:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/07/09
      40.   Do You Talk to People Like This? 07:04  |  Dolphin 28/07/09
      41.   Dear Yehuda 07:09  |  Jew 28/07/09
      42.   1500 out of 5,593,000 Jewish residents 07:13  |  SJ 28/07/09
      43.   It`s the Geneva Conventions 07:23  |  Marilyn 28/07/09
      44.   No32 is one deluded soul 07:25  |  Marilyn 28/07/09
      45.   obama is a racist? I thought your favorit insult was antisemite! 07:46  |  an enraged bystander 28/07/09
      46.   yes we can 29! 07:57  |  an enraged bystander 28/07/09
      47.   Obama is a Racist Rally 08:01  |  Joe 28/07/09
      48.   U.S. Aid 08:09  |  A.M. 28/07/09
      49.   Everybody is a racist 08:21  |  Natallie Durson 28/07/09
      50.   Who`s a racist? 08:56  |  World Citizen 28/07/09
      51.   Protest Against President Obama in Toronto 09:07  |  Meir Weinstein 28/07/09
      52.   To Yahuda 09:18  |  John of Jordan 28/07/09
      53.   #22 confused 09:28  |  John of Jordan 28/07/09
      54.   # 33 news for you, cipora 09:36  |  eric 28/07/09
      55.   # 22 the west bank wasn`t "captured", confused 09:43  |  eric 28/07/09
      56.   The UN should invoke the 4th Geneva Convention against settlement 09:51  |  Ivar 28/07/09
      57.   Rabbi meant Obama descriminating against Jews 09:56  |  Kenny 28/07/09
      58.   Cipora on Obama 09:58  |  Malka L 28/07/09
      59.   at least waldeman and fellow "settlers" are against racism. 10:06  |  eyebeam 28/07/09
      60.   Obama is no racist; honest broker you willl ever get 10:19  |  Ninjateck 28/07/09
      61.   you`re insulting American taxpayers 10:23  |  Capt Black 28/07/09
      62.   THE Rabbi is fool 10:39  |  PETER SM 28/07/09
      63.   Since 1950, confused 10:55  |  Murray 28/07/09
      64.   Racist rabbi calls others `racist` 10:55  |  UlfT 28/07/09
      65.   Israel is in for a world of hurt 11:06  |  Danny 28/07/09
      66.   Since Obama like to meddle in Israel`s politics.... 11:12  |  The Archives 28/07/09
      67.   The path of the not so righteous ribbi`s and their ilk 11:14  |  maoriboy 28/07/09
      68.   waste of taxpayers money 11:15  |  john locke 28/07/09
      69.   Don`t print this Haaretz, Instructions 11:20  |  The Archives 28/07/09
      70.   dear malka-it is a sign of courage in face of adversity 11:23  |  rushbug 28/07/09
      71.   # 32 MMM 11:27  |  maoriboy 28/07/09
      72.   Video from the Rally 12:07  |  Gerald 28/07/09
      73.   #56,59 The Archives 12:53  |  Sven 28/07/09
      74.   #52 PETER SM Tkes one to know one 12:53  |  Labhras 28/07/09
      75.   If you build Jews only settlements illegally 12:58  |  Labhras 28/07/09
      76.   #39 Durson fears strangers 13:18  |  H 28/07/09
      77.   Back... 13:18  |  Esther 28/07/09
      78.   Obama should come to Europe! 13:27  |  Dutch Dirk 28/07/09
      79.   This is the level of their arguement 14:12  |  SJ 28/07/09
      80.   To All American Taxpayers 14:26  |  Ken 28/07/09
      81.   Murray # 53 That`s Not What The IVth GC Says 14:40  |  Jeff Northridge 28/07/09
      82.   Response to A.M., no. 38 15:08  |  Observer 28/07/09
      83.   # 29 AMEN AMEN AMEN! A MUSLIM CALLING HIMSELF A `CHRISTIAN` 15:14  |  Petra 28/07/09
      84.   # 63 jeff 15:15  |  Axel 28/07/09
      85.   JOHN BROWN, OK CALL HIM A `USEFUL IDIOT`. 15:15  |  Petra 28/07/09
      86.   "Racist, racist" 15:15  |  Gully Foyle 28/07/09
      87.   SJ TA HA HA HA funny premise. 15:21  |  petra 28/07/09
      88.   If my Rabbi had been as racist as Jeremiah Wright 15:21  |  H 28/07/09
      89.   #39 Natalie Durson 15:26  |  H 28/07/09
      90.   #63 Jeff Northridge 15:36  |  BDS 28/07/09
      91.   Hi there Captain Black 15:47  |  Dana 28/07/09
      92.   Jeff Northridge 16:34  |  jake 1948 28/07/09
      93.   Let`s just say 16:48  |  rm 28/07/09
      94.   #63 Correction to my post # 70 16:59  |  Jeff Northridge 28/07/09
      95.   #71 Ken you left out a fistful of dollaaars 17:12  |  Labhras 28/07/09
      96.   JOHN BROWN - 1948 Borders LOL 17:26  |  Jane 28/07/09
      97.   H 17:43  |  Roo 28/07/09
      98.   #72 Judge Jeff Northridge. Weren`t you disbarred already? 17:44  |  Roo 28/07/09
      99.   Axel # 75 The Balfour Declaration & Others 18:23  |  Jeff Northridge 28/07/09
      100.   #84 Roo You`re argument doesn`t hold up 18:26  |  H 28/07/09
      101.   How long until rightists are burning American flags? 18:33  |  Josh 28/07/09
      102.   #40 18:34  |  hicks? 28/07/09
      103.   #45 John of Jordan curious how many Jews are now settled in your 18:53  |  BIG SUR 28/07/09
      104.   #85 Jane in Palm Beach Palestinian homeland-Jordan 19:00  |  BIG SUR 28/07/09
      105.   To all Cncerned Israel Is MY LAND! Jerusalem its capital 19:09  |  BIG SUR 28/07/09
      106.   jake 1948 # 82 Then You See Wrongly 19:24  |  Jeff Northridge 28/07/09
      107.   H your response doesn`t stand up 19:39  |  Roo 28/07/09
      108.   H your response doesn`t stand up 19:51  |  Roo 28/07/09
      109.   Jeff Northridge and His Points 20:34  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/07/09
      110.   This Is What We Get From Our Good "Friend" 20:36  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/07/09
      111.   Yaakov Sullivan Should no Better claiming to be x IDF 20:53  |  Big Sur 28/07/09
      112.   #107 Roo No need to get personal 20:55  |  H 28/07/09
      113.   #110 Yaakov 20:56  |  BIG SUR 28/07/09
      114.   Fundamentalist bigotry - 3rd attempt to post 21:00  |  Ussishkin 28/07/09
      115.   H on Converts 21:12  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/07/09
      116.   12 21:22  |  zionist forever 28/07/09
      117.   Poor behavior 21:26  |  Lee 28/07/09
      118.   #9 Gary 21:34  |  Ice 28/07/09
      119.   Racist, no. Politician, yes. 21:41  |  Moises 28/07/09
      120.   Asking a Jew not to live in a neighborhood because he is a Jew is 21:41  |  Bob 28/07/09
      121.   Funny John of Jordan Yaakov and Jane cannot answer simple truths 22:13  |  BIG SUR 28/07/09
      122.   97 Roo Part Two 22:24  |  Der Zweifler 28/07/09
      123.   Big Sur On Jerusalem 22:29  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/07/09
      124.   US needs Israel .. 22:36  |  Gully Foyle 28/07/09
      125.   Bob-120 22:39  |  Greg 28/07/09
      126.   O, Jerusalem! 22:42  |  Gully Foyle 28/07/09
      127.   Dear Bob #120 22:45  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/07/09
      128.   Obama is blessing from above.... 23:06  |  JFK 28/07/09
      129.   The rabbi should take a look in the mirror! 23:23  |  Jaap 28/07/09
      130.   Obama Is A Racist 23:26  |  Nergol 28/07/09
      131.   Then why did you, H? 23:27  |  Roo 28/07/09
      132.   more enemeis oppress us stronger we get! 23:27  |  gershon 28/07/09
      133.   One would expect a group that knows prejudice to not just.... 23:47  |  Czarkazem13 28/07/09
      134.   The racists building Jew-only Settlements complain about racism? 23:59  |  binny 28/07/09
      135.   Asking an arab not to live in his home bcs he is an arab 00:01  |  Anti-Racist 29/07/09
      136.   Peace 00:10  |  NNdiaye 29/07/09
      137.   Peace 00:22  |  Ndiaye 29/07/09
      138.   Obama Racist 01:12  |  Namresh 29/07/09
      139.   the disintegration of the American superpower 01:26  |  Isaac 29/07/09
      140.   115 Yaakov Sullivan 01:28  |  H 29/07/09
      141.   WOW....first Gatesgate 01:48  |  Lynn 29/07/09
      142.   Who is racist, the ones building Jew-only settlements? 01:54  |  binny 29/07/09
      143.   Then why did you, H? #112 02:10  |  Roo 29/07/09
      144.   Bob don`t be disengenuous 02:20  |  uriah 29/07/09
      145.   Obama is no racist 02:59  |  Marty 29/07/09
      146.   Dear carla of nyc 03:01  |  gil62 29/07/09
      147.   Moises That`s more Like it for sure@119 WELL SAID. 03:03  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      148.   Sick of This 03:06  |  David 29/07/09
      149.   TO JEW IN JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN@41 WELL PUT. 03:08  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      150.   rabbis need to teach, not insult heads of state 03:09  |  petey 29/07/09
      151.   Beware of Hussein Obama 03:13  |  M Roland 29/07/09
      152.   There`s a thing now ha@66 The Archives.Meddling is a CURSE and 03:18  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      153.   To Zionist forever@116 Kol_Ha Kavod to all of them. 03:27  |  Zionist Jew 29/07/09
      154.   Haaretz Moderator 03:35  |  Der Zweifler 29/07/09
      155.   OHHH N.Durson@49 You never said a truer word. 03:40  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      156.   rabbi comment 03:47  |  danny roturra 29/07/09
      157.   And to you eric to both your long posts I say: 03:48  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      158.   #106 Jeff claims the right to call up "pinch hitters" 03:48  |  Johnboy 29/07/09
      159.   #81 That`s not what Article 49 says, Jeff. 04:03  |  Johnboy 29/07/09
      160.   Obama`s prejudiced attack on Boston police supports rabbi`s view 04:05  |  Dr. L. Brnd 29/07/09
      161.   America created the racist monsters of Israel and have to respond 04:50  |  BIG 29/07/09
      162.   At least the jewish have their own mad mullahs too ... 05:04  |  Welshman 29/07/09
      163.   The triumph of ignorance _ Marks being printed 06:06  |  DocD 29/07/09
      164.   #97, Roo, selective quoting and other mistakes 1 06:07  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/07/09
      165.   #97, Roo, on conversion 2 06:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/07/09
      166.   81 Jeff Northridge - Just Plain Wrong 06:58  |  Mark of Lewiston 29/07/09
      167.   Obama 07:48  |  Ralph 29/07/09
      168.   #140 jb and his knickers in atwist , he cannot grasp 07:55  |  vhardman 29/07/09
      169.   ROO"Shall not transfer" RETURNING after the Arabs had ethnically 08:03  |  PETER SM 29/07/09
      170.   Keep your money 08:34  |  Zev 29/07/09
      171.   To Der Zweifler@142 Sorry,Barking at Haaretz Moderators Will not 13:43  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      172.   Rabbi meant Obama descriminating against Jews? 14:08  |  Zionist Jew 29/07/09
      173.   The Triumph of ignorance_Marks being printed @151 DocD 14:16  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      174.   NAMRESH DON`T EXAGGERATE@127 14:49  |  Zionist Jew 29/07/09
      175.   DocD~@152 THIS IS WHAT I CALL"NEPOTISM" CRONYISM 14:56  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      176.   CJK wrong as ever 15:01  |  Roo 29/07/09
      177.   To Dr.L Brnd@149..At First i did not realize... 15:10  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      178.   Dear Welshman@151 Oggy,oggy ay! But! 16:08  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      179.   #38 MMM ISRAEL DOES NOT OWN THE LAND 16:20  |  JOHN BROWN 29/07/09
      180.   Jasmine 16:26  |  Dr. L. Brnd 29/07/09
      181.   AS AN AMERICAN TAXPAYER I MUST SPEAK OUT 16:27  |  JOHN BROWN 29/07/09
      182.   To Welshman@151 Oggy,oggy,yeah ,BUT Trying second Time 16:32  |  Jasmine 29/07/09
      183.   #159 ZEV: WE WILL KEEP OUR MONEY 16:47  |  JOHN BROWN 29/07/09
      184.   H, I think Obama remained because 18:19  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/07/09
      185.   Roo on Maimonides 18:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/07/09
      186.   Yaacov Sullivan 19:49  |  Roo 29/07/09
      187.   PETER SM Res 242 was between the Arab States and Israel. Not I 22:32  |  CJ 29/07/09
      188.   Does Obama plans to destroy Israel? 00:03  |  Gully Foyle 30/07/09
      189.   To Mr.L. B @180 Returning The Unwarranted Compliment( THIRD TRY) 14:59  |  Jasmine 30/07/09
      190.   # 157 you have an uncanny obsession with scatology, jasmine 06:13  |  eric 03/08/09
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