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Topic: Where to post an item about an Israeli politician blaming gays for earthquakes?
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martin dufresne
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posted 24 February 2008 09:31 AM
The article describes this quip as a ploy to get media exposure in order to fight corruption charges against Benizri.
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Benizri's gay earthquake
By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz, Feb. 22(...) Benizri is Shas' most skilled and experienced speaker and was probably fully aware of the earthquake he would cause when he approached the microphone during a Knesset plenum session and, knowing he was in full view of the television cameras, quoted passages from the Gemara concerning body organs so shaken during male homosexual sex they even cause shocks in the Syrian-African fault line.
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He was referring to a discussion in the Jerusalem Talmud about the causes of earthquakes and which, in one passage, makes a link between gay sex, God's wrath and earthquakes. (...) Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv said that the "only organ that shook the Knesset was Benizri's unrestrained tongue." If somebody is planning to appeal to the Knesset Ethics Committee then they are wasting their time. MK Nissim Ze'ev compared "homos" to the bird flu in a Knesset committee last month. He also said that they are causing "the self-destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people." (...)
Benizri's gay earthquake[ 24 February 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]
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