Operation Screwball

Apparently, there’s a new grassroots movement to protest the ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist, Iran-friendly Neturei Karta. Its code name: Operation Screwball. (The group’s website link is dead all of a sudden, but keep checking back. In the meantime, check out the YNet coverage.

All of this as Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger brought his Neturei Karta protests to Australia.

Rabbi Metzger said he had written to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to urge him to bar Neturei Karta members from entering Israel following their participation in the Holocaust-denial conference in Iran last month.

“If someone from Hamas wants to come to Israel, Israel would welcome him?â€? he asked.

“They [Neturei Karta] are like Hamas today they shook hands with our enemy. The result is they are our enemy.”

In the same speech, Rabbi Metzger suggested that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, should consider Saddam Hussein’s execution a warning.