Mole Patrol
30-07-2005, 00:39
This is pretty crazy. Do you think the cultists will go through with their vows or they will chicken out? Keep in mind the last time crazies like this placed a death curse on someone they succeeded (Yitzak Rabin). Sharon is a much bigger target (literally the man is enormous!).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801846.htm
JERUSALEM, July 28 -- Prayers had failed. Plan B called for a curse.
So a week ago, 20 men gathered in darkness around a grave in northern Israel to carry out the cabalist ritual pulsa denura , which in Aramaic means "lash of fire." The object of the curse was Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who refuses to cancel his plan to evacuate 25 Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.
According to participants, Sharon will be struck down by the Angels of Destruction in less than a month, or else the 20 men themselves will die.
The ritual might have drawn little attention at a quieter moment in a country that has long been a showcase for extreme beliefs. But as the evacuations approach, Israeli society is transfixed by every detail of what Sharon calls disengagement, and images of the chanting men have been played repeatedly on Israeli television.
Sober assessments also appeared in Israeli newspapers Wednesday noting that a pulsa denura was invoked nearly a decade ago against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin not long before he was killed by a Jewish extremist opposed to his support of the 1993 Oslo accords.
The Justice Ministry is investigating the new curse, although the participants are hardly hiding. "We believe in God," Michael Ben-Horin, a settler in the Golan Heights who helped organize the rite, said in a telephone interview. "I put myself in judgment before God. Either Sharon will die or I will."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801846.htm
JERUSALEM, July 28 -- Prayers had failed. Plan B called for a curse.
So a week ago, 20 men gathered in darkness around a grave in northern Israel to carry out the cabalist ritual pulsa denura , which in Aramaic means "lash of fire." The object of the curse was Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who refuses to cancel his plan to evacuate 25 Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.
According to participants, Sharon will be struck down by the Angels of Destruction in less than a month, or else the 20 men themselves will die.
The ritual might have drawn little attention at a quieter moment in a country that has long been a showcase for extreme beliefs. But as the evacuations approach, Israeli society is transfixed by every detail of what Sharon calls disengagement, and images of the chanting men have been played repeatedly on Israeli television.
Sober assessments also appeared in Israeli newspapers Wednesday noting that a pulsa denura was invoked nearly a decade ago against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin not long before he was killed by a Jewish extremist opposed to his support of the 1993 Oslo accords.
The Justice Ministry is investigating the new curse, although the participants are hardly hiding. "We believe in God," Michael Ben-Horin, a settler in the Golan Heights who helped organize the rite, said in a telephone interview. "I put myself in judgment before God. Either Sharon will die or I will."