Israeli Rabbi's Guide to Killing Causes Firestorm

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:06 PM EST

Article Source: The MidEast News Source

An Israeli Rabbi living in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank has caused a firestorm in both Israeli and Palestinian media with a new book outlining a series of Jewish theological arguments for killing those who threaten Israel or demand Israeli land.

The 230-page book, "The King's Torah" was released over the weekend by Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and gives theological backing to Jews killing those perceived to be violating Jewish commandments or threatening the Jewish nation. A theological treatise based on Rabbi Shapira's interpretation of passages from the Jewish bible, "The King's Torah" is an extensive guide to when it is permissible for Jews to kill non-Jews.

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Rabbi Shapira's book argues that revenge is a necessity under Jewish law.

"To defeat the wicked one should be vengeful, tit for tat," the book reads. "Revenge is a necessity... and sometimes doing savage things intended to create a true balance of terror."

The book further states that Jews are permitted to kill children "If it is clear they will grow up to harm us."

"If hurting an evil leader's children will pressure him to stop acting maliciously," Rabbi Shapira wrote, "you can hurt them."

I just don't know what to say ??? peace will come in the M.E. but this wont help much.

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#1 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:12 PM EST

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Re ("I just don't know what to say ??? peace will come in the M.E. but this wont help much.")

Peace?

Maybe in another 1000 years

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#2 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:36 PM EST

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I'm saying

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#2.1 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:17 AM EST

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"To defeat the wicked one should be vengeful, tit for tat," the book reads. "Revenge is a necessity... and sometimes doing savage things intended to create a true balance of terror."

Considering Israels' gross violations and crimes against the Palestinians that kind of thinking could well turn around and bite the 'good' rabbi his racist, bigoted ass.

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#3 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:31 AM EST

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Wheel

Nicely put, one could say the same about American empire wreaking havoc in the M.E.

This from a article I am reading today that mentions the book by the fine Rabbi.

An Interview with Michael Hoffman on the Fort Hood Shootings

There is the stirring of the embers of hatred for Muslims and Islam, the "clash of civilizations;" the idea that we can terror-bomb Afghan wedding parties and dismiss it as "collateral damage" and still consider ourselves heroes and sleep well at night -- although many front-line American troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are not sleeping well at night, because they still have a conscience, unlike the top brass. But no Afghan is supposed to send any avenging troops against us, here in America, to defend the lives of Afghan people from our bombs. We claim that right while we deny it to them. That's Talmudic.

The test of the justice of any law is its universality. When you have one law for the agents of the American empire and another for the people of the Third World, you have a rabbinic standard. Yesterday the head of a Talmud school (yeshiva) in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, published a book, The King's Torah, calling for the murder of the children and infants of gentiles who thwart "Israel."

Almost no one among the super-patriots who have methodically studied the "evils" of the religion of Islam from alpha to omega, knows anything about this rabbi's ruling, or many similar rulings from what are called, in Judaism, the "posikim." It's rabbinic theology like this that got 1400 Palestinians slaughtered last December and January. But to the superior Talmudic mind, what is done to the inferior non-Talmudic being doesn't register. Victims of Zionism and Talmudism have no right to fight back. "Christian" America has adopted this Talmudic standard. Palestinian resistance is completely illegitimate in the eyes of contemporary Western governments and media.

http://thy-weapon-of-war.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-michael-hoffman-on-fort.html

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#3.1 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:13 PM EST

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update; November 19, 2009 — Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar, based on Yesh Din data, reveals that the Rabbi’s Yeshiva is funded by the Israeli government.

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#4 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:46 PM EST

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