Pullout leaders are cursed, argues the religious right

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In the "crime and punishment" part of The International Campaign to Save the Nation and the Land - associated with an offshoot of the Chabad movement - the sin is "the crime of the disengagement" and the "expulsion" of 10,000 people from their homes. The punishment takes various guises: removal from office, resignation, illness, a commission of inquiry or a criminal conviction. The campaign called "There is Justice and a Judge," which the organization embarked on recently, asserts that everyone who was a partner to the "crime of expulsion" or did not act to prevent it has received or will receive his punishment from heaven.

"This is a curse," many in the religious public are now convinced. As the list of the supposed "disengagement victims" grows, so does the number of people who believe in the existence of this curse. A public opinion survey commissioned by the Campaign from Professor Yitzhak Katz and the Maagar Mochot Research and Interdisciplinary Consulting Institute has indicated that one out of every four religious and ultra-Orthodox people in Israel believes former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's illness is a punishment from heaven in the wake of the disengagement plan.

Haaretz

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1. Apparently the US doesn't have a monopoly on Religous wingnuts.

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2. I don't think it's an ethnic or national trait.

More like a weed that can pop up anywhere the ground is cleared off.