Reply #17: Bingo!

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The parade was cancelled because the heightened security alert means Israel no longer has the manpower to protect the parade-goers from the right-wing extremists who have threatened violence.

Spinning this cancellation as the fault of the Palestinians is the ultimate in cynicism.


Sanhedrin’ to police: Protecting gay march sinful

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325758,00.html

Panel of rabbis issues edict calling on police to refuse orders to secure Jerusalem pride parade. Participating officers are 'criminals, whose sins will be judged by heavenly throne'

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"A panel of rabbis made a halachic ruling Wednesday demanding police refuse orders to protect the gay pride parade slated to take place in Jerusalem Friday.

The rabbis, who consider themselves a Sanhedrin (supreme religious judicial body) and convene occasionally to discuss current issues, conferred on Friday’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem and concluded: “Any police officer who reveres God’s law will refuse orders and will not participate in any way in protecting those committing abominations in Israel," the rabbis ruled, who consider themselves a Sanhedrin."