Zionist rabbis: Bush not welcome

A group of senior Israeli rabbis have condemned the US President George W. Bush next week's visit to the 1948 occupied Palestine.

 

They fear that Bush would urge the Zionist regime to lift some of measures intended to press the Palestinians so that they could pretend they are following their Annapolis promises.

 

They said any easing of pressure would "directly cost the lives of hundreds" of Zionists. 

 

An association of Zionist rabbis recently wrote US President George Bush and asked him to cancel his planned visit to Israel next week.

 

The group includes hundreds of Zionists rabbis, including municipal rabbis and members of the Zionist Chief Rabbinate's supreme rabbinical council.

 

The rabbis also issued a religious ruling declaring that "the Olmert government, this evil government, has no right to exist; it must be abolished and disappear from this world."