NOVANEWS
By: Gilad Atzmon
We are used to reading about Israelis and Jews bragging about the inherent bond between Israel, enlightenment, modernity, science and technology. Hence, it may take us by surprise to find out that in the Jewish State, a dog was ‘sentenced to death by stoning’ by a Rabbinical court.
Ynet reported yesterday that several weeks ago a large dog entered the Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem. The dog scared the court’s visitors and to their surprise, “refused to leave even after they attempted to drive him [it] away.”
“One of the judges suddenly recalled that about 20 years ago, a famous secular lawyer who insulted the court was cursed by the (Rabbinical) panel of judges, who wished that his spirit would move on to the body of a dog (considered an impure animal by Halacha). The lawyer passed away several years ago.” Luckily enough, the curse was realised. The spirit of the Lawyer had been transferred into a dog and, as if this isn’t enough, the dog has been identified. In spiritual terms, this is far from a coincidence. It is no less than a divine intervention.
One of the Rabbinical court’s managers told Ynet that the death by stoning sentence “was ordered by the rabbis because of the grief he had caused the court…They didn’t issue an official ruling, but ordered the children outside to throw stones at him [it] in order to drive him [it] away. They didn’t think of it as cruelty to animals, but as an appropriate way to ‘get back at’ the spirit which entered the poor dog.”
Following the obscure Jewish logic above, in order to resolve the Jewish Nazi Holocaust trauma, all we have to do is to find the kitten, kangaroo or the unicorn that hosts Hitler’s soul, and stone it to death and move on.
The Israeli Let The Animals Live organization filed a complaint with the police against the Rabbis involved.
Again, it seems as if in the Jewish state, dogs are slightly more fortunate than Palestinians who are frequently chased by the strongest and most lethal army in the world. Seemingly, not enough Israelis believe that Let the Palestinians Live is also an important cause to fight for.
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Its not surprising that all Jew-Haters jumped on this story including Gilad Atzmon, he just waits to get stories like this in order to pass another day.
The Telegraph who was one of the first to jump on this story too, as its orientation towards Israel is known announced
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8588536/Israel-dog-stoning-reports-strongly-denied.html
Israel dog stoning reports strongly denied Reports that a Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog have been strongly denied.
9:01AM BST 21 Jun 2011
Israeli newspaper Maariv had originally reported that a dog had wandered into the Monetary Affairs Court in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, frightening judges and plaintiffs, who believed the dog was a reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges 20 years ago.
Reports that the court decree the dog be stoned to death however have been dismissed by the secretariat of the court however, who said it was “bitter humour”, and all that happened was the dog had been removed by the local dog catcher. Maariv newspaper apologised for the original report.
A court statement said: “There is no basis for stoning dogs or any other animal in the Jewish religion, not since the days of the Temple or Abraham.
“The female dog found a seat in the corner of the court. And the children were delighted by it; there were hundreds outside the court. They are used to seeing stray cats but most have never seen a dog before. The only action we took was to dial the number of the Jerusalem Municipality to get the people in charge to take it away.
“There was no talk of reincarnation, a lawyer has never been mentioned, either now or 20 years ago, and there was no stoning. Such inventions are a kind of blood libel, and we wonder why the inventor of the story did not continue to describe how we collected the blood of the dog to make our matzah.”