Rabbi Yaakov Yosef recommends the book
An Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in the West Bank has written that it is permissible for Jews to kill Gentiles including children and babies who threaten Israel or break the commandments. This is a strange pronouncement not in line with what the majority of Jews believe but we must ask what if the Rabbi was an Imam, what would the reaction be?
West Bank Rabbi: Jews can Kill Gentiles
Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel.
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah” that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.
Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs.
“It is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” he wrote, adding: “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.”
Several prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Yithak Ginzburg and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, have recommended the book to their students and followers.
November 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Thanks for the article.
I clicked the link and saw another interesting article:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126900.html
It’s about how you can’t get hired for a job in Israel if you are Arab.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Jewish Rabbi: Non-Jewish Babies and Children can be killed if they threaten Israel:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126890.html
No Innocents in Gaza: Israeli Army:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1246346331431&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1270038.stm
Chabad rabbi: Jews should kill Arab men, women and children during war:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091469.html
Chief Jewish Rabbi Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza civilians:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jewish Rabbis tell Israeli army to “Kill all Palestinian civilians”:
http://english.aljazeera.net/archive/2004/09/2008410131850935259.html
Jewish Rabbi calls for “hanging Arab children”:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968729.html
Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3527410,00.html
Israeli spokesperson says children are legitimate target:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m50093&s1=h1
UN: “Israel knew they were bombing a school:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uWP0GU0wVSk
Israel Uses Gazans as Human Shields:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1231760490529&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Israeli soldiers say Palestinians are not human:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP8uZrytG48
UN levels war crimes warning at Israel:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/09/gaza-palestinians-israel-evacuees-zeitoun
Jewish colonists tie Palestinian teacher to a pole and savagely beat him up:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1213871647915&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Israeli IDF shoot Palestinian in point blank range, caught on video:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/20087217259205217.html
If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
CNN: Israel Broke Gaza Cease-Fire:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBiycEz12s
United Nations representative confirms Israel broke the truce:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOFXL62zw0
Hamas answers Israeli air raid with rockets as truce ends early:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/19/israel-hamas-gaza-violence
Pro-Israel commentators on the Internet being directed by Israeli government:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/israel-foreign-ministry-media
November 10th, 2009 at 12:14 am
This is some good stuff but the problem here is that some imams actually go ahead do the crazy things that the say. One of the shaikhs in my area told us that a Muslim becomes an extremist when he/she starts trying to understand his/her deen without proper consultation by a credible scholar.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Danios,
To be fair, it isn’t just the Arabs, that are discriminated against, in Israel
The ehtiopian Jews, and Russian Jews are discriminated against too, and the Haredi too. Haredi are religious Jews.
Israel brags about being a democracy, “the only democracy in the Middle East”, but this kind of discrimination does not exist in a democracy.
This claim of being a democracy is a sham. This would not be allowed in Europe, or the USA.
The truth is that Israel is only slightly better than her Arab neighbors in human rights to their neighbors, but it does have it’s racist and bigoted side too.
In fact recently The State Dept did issue a report criticising Israel’s treatment of minorities.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:50 am
@Very good…but
is it that the imams that say crazy things do what they say or incite others to do it?
also did the shaikh say a Muslim becomes extremist or can become extremist trying to understand the deen on their own accord?
That “can” up there makes a significant difference. Even then you would have to adopt the Islamophobic interpretation of Islam, void of the 1400+ years of scholarship (or from another perspective arrived at without proper consultation of credible scholars), which in and of itself does not make much sense and would rather turn a Muslim away from such a religion not increase them in it.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I get what you mean Abed. What I’m trying to say is that there are some Muslim’s out there who listen to a shaikh inciting dark stuff and they then think it’s alright to do so. I can’t be Islamophobic if I’m a Muslim. What I’m trying to say is that Muslims who don’t study their deen properly end up learning the way THEY would like to justify their actions. So actually, those Muslims are the ones who adopt the Islamophobic interpretation of Islam.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Check this video out on AlJazeera: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#p/u/11/LPMrHa0Ap_Q
It talks about this case, of the Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro who authorizes the murder of innocents.