After embracing Iranian president Ahmadinejad, the Neturei Karta group is giving encouragement to Hizbullah and Hamas as well. Rabbi Israel Hirsch gave an interview to Arab A-Sinara magazine in which he said that his movement seeks representation in the new Palestinian Authority government. Hirsch's father, Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, was once a member of Yasir Arafat's government.



"The war in Lebanon showed that the Israeli army is not omnipotent," Hirsch said. "Thank God, along came Nasrallah and proved this was a lie." Hirsch told the Nazareth-based newspaper the end of Israel is near.