By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza
Palestine Chronicle
"Perhaps it is indeed time to bomb religious groups given their belief that heaven is their destination......Except, of course, when it comes to Jewish fundamentalists, who have rarely been ostracized....
Even the most belligerent of these have enjoyed the Israeli government’s protection and encouragement; so much so that their beliefs are incorporated into official literature. For example, the training manual of the Israeli army’s Central Region Command contains the following injunction:
"When our forces come across civilians during a war or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then according to Halakah [Jewish law] they may and even should be killed…. Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilized…. In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakah to kill even good civilians.."
The late Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky noted such vitriol is rooted in Talmudic attitudes towards non-Jews:
“For religious Jews, the blood of non-Jews has no intrinsic value” because Jewish fanatics believe non-Jews have souls that “come entirely from the female part of the satanic sphere.” The same logic applies to expropriating land, which is not seen as stealing but rather a transfer from the satanic to the divine realms. Most chilling, Rabbi Israel Ariel, a leading fundamentalist, has used the Code of Maimonides, among Judaism’s greatest philosophers, to infer that “a Jew who killed a non-Jew is exempt from human judgment and has not violated the [religious] prohibition of murder.”......"
Palestine Chronicle
"Perhaps it is indeed time to bomb religious groups given their belief that heaven is their destination......Except, of course, when it comes to Jewish fundamentalists, who have rarely been ostracized....
Even the most belligerent of these have enjoyed the Israeli government’s protection and encouragement; so much so that their beliefs are incorporated into official literature. For example, the training manual of the Israeli army’s Central Region Command contains the following injunction:
"When our forces come across civilians during a war or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then according to Halakah [Jewish law] they may and even should be killed…. Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilized…. In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakah to kill even good civilians.."
The late Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky noted such vitriol is rooted in Talmudic attitudes towards non-Jews:
“For religious Jews, the blood of non-Jews has no intrinsic value” because Jewish fanatics believe non-Jews have souls that “come entirely from the female part of the satanic sphere.” The same logic applies to expropriating land, which is not seen as stealing but rather a transfer from the satanic to the divine realms. Most chilling, Rabbi Israel Ariel, a leading fundamentalist, has used the Code of Maimonides, among Judaism’s greatest philosophers, to infer that “a Jew who killed a non-Jew is exempt from human judgment and has not violated the [religious] prohibition of murder.”......"
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