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.”
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro – co-author of the book
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.
Non-Humans
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.
The article is also available on Israeli website Haaretz.
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I think we can safely call this TERRORISM. The man should be sent to Guantanimo (where we send all terrorists)
“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.”
Hypocrisy at its finest!!! This man’s satanic religion should be banned.
What do expect from a people that have been arrogant and hypocritical from the very begginging? So if they follow the ten commandments (which most of them dont) its ok to kill people, but if a muslim follows the Quran and defends him/herself its terrorism? No wonder they have been persucuted throughout history BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT for being disgusting,inhumane, and proud…
And why exactly access to Mein Kampf is limited in certain cases? These ….. fanatics are basically preaching the same mode: superior race have right/obligation to kill “inferior” beings.
There is nothing new about this book for us Palestinian! Israeli people were killing us, specially Kids for decades.
Very soon we will destroy the Wall, and evacuate every single Invader.
C’mon guys, see the other side. The Jews living there are under constant threat of attack by the arabs, who constantly preach hatred, and organize sniper attacks, homicide bombings, stabbings, and so on, against the Jews living in their G-d given land. So a Rabbi wrote a book on how and when to fight back appropriately, as opposed to people thinking that in some ways they can’t defend themselves when they should, or vice versa.
Proportion wrote:
“C’mon guys, see the other side. The Jews living there are under constant threat of attack by the arabs, who constantly preach hatred, and organize sniper attacks, homicide bombings, stabbings, and so on, against the Jews living in their G-d given land. So a Rabbi wrote a book on how and when to fight back appropriately, as opposed to people thinking that in some ways they can’t defend themselves when they should, or vice versa.”
To an extent this is true. However the rabbi’s comments are way beyond the pale, and can only be read as hostility and not some kind of etiquette crib-sheet.
Reading the original Haaretz article it was obvious to me that this Rabbi is a kook. However the article has been significantly – and so insultingly blantantly – rewritten to make him seem like an average Israeli. Is it the agenda to report honestly on comments a Rabbi mustn’t make, or is it the agenda to smear Israelis further by claiming this book is a bestseller and including lines like that ridiculous parting shot?
Well, all religions, and all political parties, have their extremists. The article did come across as distorted. Yes, is Israel is under threat. Yes, they have a right to exist. No, they do not have a right to occupy. No, they do not have a right to oppress. The author may (italics) be a “kook”, but kooks sometimes drive/describe/define policy and action. Unfortunately, sadly, I have read far too many opinions online particularly on Orthodox Jewish (surprisingly not necessarily Zionist) websites, that read like extremist Arab Islamic websites. Posts on websites on BOTH sides All too often assert a religious and/or ethnic superiority; suggest or codone extreme and/or cowardly tactics against innocent civilians are not only acceptable but laudable; and, interestingly, a disturbing number suggest non-Jews or non- Muslims (depending), are unimportant or even non-human, e.g.”Infidels” and “Goyim.” The World wearies of both.
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Also, no one here read the book, but they are relying on an article written in an anti-religious newspaper. That’s not very fair!