Fringe activists held a midnight kabbalistic ritual in an ancient cemetery calling for angels of death to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and thwart his Gaza withdrawal plan, participants in the ceremony told WND.

The same individuals used the ritual against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin one month before his assassination in 1995.

The activists said they performed a ‘Pulsa Dinura’ – a kabbalistic ceremony in which God is asked to curse a sinner, usually an enemy of the Jewish people – and prayed for a death curse to be placed on Sharon.

As far as I know, Israel is the only democratic state in the world that uses assassination as an acknowledged instrument of foreign policy, so I guess it’s fair ball to use it domestically as well (and “angels of death” are ever so much cooler than Mossad agents with forged Canadian passports). But couldn’t they have started by conjuring up a Patronus, or something a bit less drastic?