By Khalid Amayreh — Desert Peace
Hundreds of children were killed in Israel’s war on Gaza earlier this year.
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.”
He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be killed if they threaten Israel.
“If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder.”
Shapiro, who heads a small Talmudic school at the settlement of Yitzhar near Nablus, claims his edict “is fully justified by the Torah and the Talmud.”
The anti-goyem edict seems to come in response to the arrest by Israeli police of a Jewish terrorist who has confessed to having murdered two Palestinian shepherds in the West Bank.
The terrorist, an American-born immigrant named Yaakov Teitel, also confessed to have tried to assassinate leftist Jewish figures.
Police considered the arrest an important achievement in combating Jewish terrorism, which experts contend thrives on religious edicts issued by rabbis affiliated with the religious-Zionist camp.
Nearly 16 years ago, a Jewish terrorist named Yigal Amir assassinated then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin.
Moreover, numerous innocent Palestinians have also been murdered in cold blood by Jewish terrorists.
In 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a notorious Jewish terrorist, murdered 29 Muslim worshipers inside Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank town of al-Khalil.
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The controversial edict is backed by numerous rabbis affiliated with the so-called national-religious camp as well as the Talmudic seminary in West Jerusalem, known as Merkaz Ha’rav.
Among the rabbis who have publicly supported the edict are Yitzhak Ginsburg and Ya’akov Yosef.
Ginsburg had written a leaflet glorifying murderer Goldstein and called him a “saintly figure.”
Shapiro’s views on how Palestinians and non-Jews in general ought to be treated according to Jewish religious law (halacha) are widely looked at as representing the mainstream not the exception in Israel.
During the Israeli onslaught against Gaza earlier this year, Mordecahi Elyahu, one of the leading rabbinic figures in Israel, urged the army not to refrain from killing enemy children in order to save the lives of Israeli soldiers.
He had even petitioned the Israeli government to carry out a series of carpet bombing of Palestinian population centers in Gaza.
“If they don’t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand. And if they do not stop after we kill a thousand, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don’t stop, we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to stop them.”
According to Israel Shahak, author of “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: the Weight of Three Thousand years,” the term “human beings” in Jewish law refers solely to Jews.
Many Jewish orthodox rabbis, especially within the national-religious sector, view international conventions incriminating the deliberate killing of civilians and destruction of civilian homes and property as representing “Christian morals” not binding on Jews.
In 2006, the Rabbinic Council of Jewish Settlements in the West Bank urged the army “to ignore Christian morals and exterminate the enemy in the north (Lebanon) and the south (Gaza Strip).
Such manifestly racist and hateful edicts don’t raise many eyebrows in Israel, neither among the intelligentsia nor in the society at large.
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This is filthy blood libel. You are a Nazi.
What is libel? Just google, "Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro." This report is all over the European news sites and extensively covered in Israeli newspapers. But, you knew that didn't you? You were attempting to instill doubt about this story.
It is the Rabbi who is promoting policies that follow the agenda of the Third Reich – except in this version it is not the Germans who are the war criminals.
I think the Palestinians got off on the wrong foot when they adopted violence to
solve their very real problems. Like bombing a little kids birthday party.
King and Ghandi adopted passive resistance and they both succeeded. We have a
black president and England left India.
As usual, history is the best teacher. Select the wrong strategy and lose the game.
Mike Cuggino Sr.
I’ll tell you what is libel.
“The controversial edict is backed by numerous rabbis affiliated with the so-called national-religious camp as well as the Talmudic seminary in West Jerusalem, known as Merkaz Ha’rav”.
“the term “human beings” in Jewish law refers solely to Jews.”
“Many Jewish orthodox rabbis, especially within the national-religious sector, view international conventions incriminating the deliberate killing of civilians and destruction of civilian homes and property as representing “Christian morals” not binding on Jews”.
And, of course, “Such manifestly racist and hateful edicts don’t raise many eyebrows in Israel, neither among the intelligentsia nor in the society at large”.
All those are blatant, in-your-face, patological lies (which are understandable, taking into account that your estimable author is a known Hamas stooge). The truth is quite simple – one Jewish religious nut has poured his xenophobia into a crazy book (Hey, you’re the one for freedom of speech!) Except for a small circle of likewise minded fanatics (who are under surveillance by Israeli internal security service and as a consequence are all talk and no action) nobody would ever see this book, if it wasn’t uncovered by ISRAELI press. What followed was nation-wide revulsion. Now, what happens when your beloved Muslim clerics call to kill Jewish children? Don’t bother to tell me.
Mike,
Can you give me specific examples of when the US was stealing the land of African-Americans, rendering them effectively homeless and pushing them into prison and concentration camps like Gaza? Can you also give me specific examples of the British doing the same to Indians in India? Did the British encourage British immigration to India to displace the Indians?
Nappie and Trans,
I don’t think Linda or the author ever claimed that this represents most Jews. However, it is worth publishing as counter-propaganda to the lies that Jews in Israel are innocent and defending themselves against aggressive Islam. The simple fact is that both sides have would-be murderous extremists, but in the past 10-15 years only the Jews have actually been murdering on a large scale.
And even aside from the extremists, in mainstream Likudnik, Kadima-, or Labourite circles there reigns a Jewish supremacism that essentially sees the Holy Land as belonging to the Jews, even if they are secular as Netanyahu and Sharon are, and that the Palestinians are not an equal race. Simply some of them are more practical about the benefits of peace and are not genocidal.
Moonshiner, Thank for your feedback. Please don’t think that I am picking sides
one way or the other. Both sides have some reasonable people who want to solve
their problems. Both sides also have their Nazis and terrorists. I have always
been a problem solver in my professional life, and when I see a problem, I tend
to look for a cause, not necessarily a reason or solution.
I simply point out that passive resistance has had two great achievments,
beating the English in India and beating the racists in America.
My observation is that passive resistance is a tactic that worked. Some
Palestinians seem to support what terrorists do, like sending youngsters to
blow themselves up along with other people. The result of this TACTIC has
been a 25 foot concrete wall.
Some Isaelis seem to think it was OK for the English to give away something
that wasn’t theirs to give. Why didn’t the English invite the Jews to England
after WW2?
My statements do not suggest a solution, but are simply an observation.
As long as there are Israeli Nazis and Palestinian terrorists there will
be no solution.
Regards, Mike Cuggino Sr., NY.