Obama Wailing Wall Prayer Disclosure Cynical PR Stunt - Israel Media Say
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Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the ‘private’ prayer, with its ‘modest’ supplication to the Lord, out to the public, buffing his Christian credentials and showing his “humility,”
(IsraelNN.com) Democratic U. S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign seems to have purposely leaked the contents of the note that he placed in the Kotel, web magazine Israel Insider wrote Tuesday. While Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv came under fire for publishing the note, “it now appears that Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the ‘private’ prayer, with its ‘modest’ supplication to the Lord, out to the public, buffing his Christian credentials and showing his “humility,” the web magazine said.
Last Friday, on the morrow of Obama’s visit to the Kotel, Maariv published a close-up picture of the note written by Obama to G-d, supposedly after a yeshiva boy took it from the crack between the Kotel stones in which Obama deposited it. Maariv’s competitor Yediot Acharonot slammed the paper for violating Obama’s privacy. Filched or released for publication?
In a statement issued following the public outcry over the leak, Maariv said that “Barack Obama’s note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put it in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.” A third newspaper, Haaretz, quoted Maariv as saying that “Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem.”
Based on these statements by Maariv, Israel Insider concluded that the Obama campaign “managed the event brilliantly, if deceptively, getting the double benefit of appearing to be victimized by the invasive Israeli press and prayer-thieving Jew while at the same time leaking out his humble Christian plea to the Lord.”
The report noted that by the week’s end, “a (relatively) slick video appeared on [public video website] YouTube that blended Obama’s Western Wall prayer with various church scenes, crosses aplenty, a dove of peace, and a soundtrack based on Amazing Grace. The video closes with a “vote” button and an invitation to visit the official campaign website.”
Pro-Obama video features Obama’s “note to G-d.” Apparently unaware that the leaking of the note was coordinated by the Obama campaign and Maariv, Kotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz called the publication a “sacrilegious action” which “deserves sharp condemnation and represents a desecration of the holy site.” He stated: “Notes which are placed in the Western Wall are between the person and his Maker; Heaven forbid that one should read them or use them in any way.
The custom of placing notes between the stones of the Western Wall is ancient and is used as a means of expression by a person praying to his Creator.” Maariv’s editors, Doron Galezer and Ruth Yovel, are considered to be hard-core leftists. The paper said that it was “pleased” with its “journalistic accomplishment.”
“It now appears that Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the ‘private’ prayer, with its ‘modest’ supplication to the Lord, out to the public.”
“In any case,” Maariv added, “since Obama is not a Jew, publishing the note does not constitute an infringement on his right to privacy.”
Jerusalem lawyer Shahar Alon asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz Monday to order a police investigation into the removal and publication of Obama’s note. “By making the note public,” Alon wrote to Mazuz, “Maariv violated the law protecting holy sites, several clauses in the penal code and also infringed upon the basic rights of a person’s honor and freedom.”
Comment by jackie cox on 11 March 2009:
Israels attempts to control america are insidious act of treason and should be condemed and prosecuted,
Comment by jackie cox on 11 March 2009:
how does one enjoy seeing the destruction of a free america by an ignorant peoples lulled into a comatose state chanting the words of perliterate scribes who wrote to simply please their king, in an attempt to keep him and his in power perpetually—literary hypnosis—the world will soon awake and you will be gone, I hope its soon enough
Comment by jackie cox on 11 March 2009:
academic dudu—Who cares about the primitive writings of a world ruled by kings, Only academia would give consideration to such meaningless gibberish, but hey, thats what they sell to the children of the world. Academic Ventures an instuition, the tail wagging the dog, Consider this. A man sitting on the moon started his stop watch, when another man left the earth traveling at 1,000,000 miles per second, went 60 seconds into space, turned and returned to earth at the same speed, at which time the man on the moon stopped his stop watch. Did the man traveling more than 4 times the speed of light go backwards into time as the einsteinian theory states, or did 120 seconds pass? As the independent observer states. Not a complex illustration of the relevancy of what has been taught for the last 100 years, academic vidange—the age of the”La regime de la pedagogic ” has passed in time. awaiting its burial, replaced by an educational venture simple teaching learning technology, in the Age of ” one book ” Where any child can learn and become their full potential, unaffected by the ideals of puppets, chanting over and over the words of preliterate scribes, cultivating the human jardin, for the” chosen ones ” awaiting their proper burial in a world where all the land is holy land and all the children are chosen—in the spirit of truth