Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror?

[Purveyor]

Jerusalem — The marble-patterned, hardcover book embossed with gold Hebrew letters looks like any other religious commentary you’d find in an Orthodox Judaica bookstore — but reads like a rabbinic instruction manual outlining acceptable scenarios for killing non-Jewish babies, children and adults.

“The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder’” applies only “to a Jew who kills a Jew,” write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and attacks on them “curb their evil inclination,” while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since “it is clear that they will grow to harm us.”

“The King’s Torah (Torat Hamelech), Part One: Laws of Life and Death between Israel and the Nations,” a 230-page compendium of Halacha, or Jewish religious law, published by the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar, garnered a front-page exposé in the Israeli tabloid Ma’ariv, which called it the stuff of “Jewish terror.”

Now, the yeshiva is in the news again, with a January 18 raid on Yitzhar by more than 100 Israeli security officials who forcibly entered Od Yosef Chai and arrested 10 Jewish settlers. The Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, suspects five of those arrested were involved in the torching and vandalizing of a Palestinian mosque last month in the neighboring Palestinian village of Yasuf. The arson provoked an international outcry and condemnation by Israeli religious figures, including Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who visited the village to personally voice his regret.

Yet, both Metzger and his Sephardic counterpart, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, have declined to comment on the book, which debuted in November, while other prominent rabbis have endorsed it — among them, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Jewry’s preeminent leader. Also, despite the precedent set by previous Israeli attorneys general in the last decade and a half to file criminal charges against settler rabbis who publish commentaries supporting violence against non-Jews, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has so far remained mum about “The King’s Torah.”

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[snagglepuss]

1. I swear to God. Fundies across the board are swine that feed off the same tit and

produce the same sh*t.

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[Meshuga]

2. The insane "ultras" are an embarrassment

The worst possible "sin" in Judaism is called "Chillul Hashem" and the publication (and endorsement from many crazy ultras) of this book is a perfect example of it. :mad:

[struggle4progress]

3. Police arrest 10 in raid on West Bank settlement

Last update - 12:47 18/01/2010
Police arrest 10 in raid on West Bank settlement
By Haaretz Service

More than 100 Israeli security officers raided the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar before dawn on Sunday. Officers arrested 10 settlers in the crackdown, include five allegedly involved in burning down a nearby Palestinian mosque last month.

Two of the five suspects arrested in connection with the arson were minors, eyewitnesses said. It was not immediately clear what led police to arrest the other five settlers.

During the raid, police forcibly entered the settlement's synagogue and seminary buildings, including the prominent Od Yosef Hai yeshiva ...

Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, Yona Metzger, also visited the mosque, telling Yasuf residents: "I came here to express my revulsion at this wretched act of burning a place holy to the Muslim people ... This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1143391.html

[BolivarianHero]

4. I remember reading some story about a racist Haredi Rabbi...

He ensconced his condemnation of certain types of music in anti-Black racist language.