Yemenite kiruv (intra-Judaism missionary) Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak said the West Bank kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens last month and the current rocket fire at Israel from Palestinian terrorists in Gaza are punishments by God for Tel Aviv’s Gay Pride parade and called these punishments “a blessing.”
Above: Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak
Sefardi Haredi Kiruv Rabbi Calls Hamas Rocket Fire, Kidnapping And Murders Of Jewish Teens Punishments From God And “A Blessing”
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Yemenite kiruv (intra-Judaism missionary) Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak said the West Bank kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens last month and the current rocket fire at Israel from Palestinian terrorists in Gaza are punishments by God for Tel Aviv’s Gay Pride parade and called these punishments “a blessing.”
The parade was held on June 13, the day after the three teens were kidnapped but weeks before their bodies were found in a shallow grave near Hebron.
Yitzhak holds large revivalist tent meetings to try to convince secular and traditionally religious Israelis, mostly Sephardim, to become haredi.
During a lecture Tuesday night, Yitzhak lashed out at gays and blamed the kidnapping, murders and terrorist rocket attacks on gays and on those who, while not themselves gay, tolerate or enable them by allowing the parade and similar events to be held.
“This punishment is a blessing, because [it] atones for sins.…Precisely because of this, the Almighty sends us Hamas. Violence is rife with the land of Israel!” Yitzhak said, and noted that the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli teens last month on the day of Tel Aviv pride parade was not a coincidence.
The teens were actually kidnapped the night of June 12, the day before the Gay Pride parade, but in the Jewish calendar, each new day begins at nightfall, meaning the kidnapping and murders took place on the same day as the parade.