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Joo Fakers Join Joo Dopers In Presidential Campaign -
02-09-2009, 08:32 AM
I admit to being shocked by THIS news story that just came across the wire. While it doesn't surprise me that a group of holocost liars are trying to cram their agenda of revisionist history on the world, I cannot believe that the Israelis allow admitted narcotics users to hold public office. I had no idea that things were that hellish over in Israel.
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Holocaust survivors team up with marijuana activists in coalition
On Tuesday, a party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party for a run at Israel's parliament.
Even in the world of politics and its strange bedfellows, this coalition is odder than most.
The new party launched its campaign in a near-empty, underground, graffiti-filled nightclub in south Tel Aviv, pledging to pursue two primary goals: to financially assist elderly Holocaust survivors and to legalise the consumption of cannabis.
While most of the attention in the run-up to Israel's February 10 general election is focused on its three major parties Likud, Kadima and Labor and their high-profile candidates for prime minister, as well as surging anti-Arab Yisrael Beiteinu party, many Israelis are considering voting for the smaller, and quirkier, of the 34 parties officially registered.
Parties need to win just 2.5 percent of the vote, or roughly 70,000 votes, to win a seat in the notoriously fractious parliament.
Most participants won't even pass that threshold, though TV ad campaigns that premiered Tuesday will give them an opportunity to present their offbeat agendas to an electorate fed up with lofty issues such as war and peace.
Parties receive government subsidies for the commercials, so even minor political movements can get air time.
Israel is no stranger to fringe, obscure political parties. Previous candidates vying for parliament have included a group that campaigned for men's rights, the establishment of a national casino and a group led by a fishmonger and puppeteer that tried to abolish banking fees.
The alliance between Holocaust survivors and marijuana advocates is not the only long-shot bid for parliament.
The "Power to Change" party is promoting rights for the handicapped. It launched its campaign with an online video showing a couple in bed. The woman then gets up and hands her mate his prosthetic limbs.
The party said it hoped to send a message that the handicapped are a functioning part of society.
Members of the smokers and survivors bloc say their union is less leftfield than it seems.
The merger adds an air of credibility to the younger members, and it gives a boost of energy to the older members who say medical marijuana has helped some of their cancer-stricken friends.
Yaakov Kfir, 74, who survived the Holocaust as a child in then Yugoslavia, said he welcomed the efforts of youngsters to push the campaign for Israel's estimated 350,000 survivors, many of whom struggle financially.
Kfir, the party's No 2 candidate, said he has never experimented with drugs, but after learning much from his new colleagues was eager to try. "But only when it is legal," he said.
Wearing a T-shirt reading "cannabis is safe medicine", Ohad Shem-Tov, the party's 29-year-old, ponytailed leader, said he naturally levitated toward Kfir's life story.
Kfir's parents were killed when he was six. He emigrated to Israel, became an air force officer and later an activist for the rights of survivors.
The ultraliberal Green Leaf movement has run for parliament three times before, narrowly missing out in the 1999, 2003 and 2006 elections.
Internal bickering led the party to split after the last election with the Israeli comedian Gil Kopatch taking over the reins of the mother party.
He recently made headlines for filming an election ad of himself sitting on the grave of Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, while rolling and smoking a marijuana cigarette.
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Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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