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Lynette
7/18/2002 (13:34) |
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There’s a Limit to Incitement !!!
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: It’s permissible to kill refuseniks
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of the most important of the Judea and Samaria Rabbis (the West Bank), published an article that permitted killing soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories.
“We are in a state of war, and it is forbidden to criticize the army” wrote Rabbi Aviner in the bulletin “B’ahava u’bemuna” (In Love and Faith), that is distributed in thousands of copies in synagogues throughout Israel. “Woe to the informer, woe to the refuser. Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the head of the Wolozin Academy, wrote that one who weakens the hand of the commander is liable to death, since he endangers the entire nation.
Rabbi Aviner’s words of incitement, and his permit of bloodletting against those who refuse to take part in the Occupation, reminds us of distant days – when internal hate caused the destruction of the Temple – and not so distant days, when similar religious judgments were issued against the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.
Yesh Gvul demands that Attorney-General Rubinstein order the Police to investigate the Rabbi Aviner’s words of incitement – words that are intolerable in a democratic society. We demand that Aviner be put on trial, and wonder if after the next political assassination, the Attorney-General will claim “I didn’t know” , that he didn’t understand the handwriting on the wall and that it was only a matter of some “rotten apples” and not the persistent incitement of the rabbis of the Occupied Territories.
We also wish to point out that only last week members of the “Young Likud” filed a complaint of bribery to the Police against Yesh Gvul. This was followed by a campaign of threats against Israeli musicians who were supposed to perform at the Yesh Gvul concert, by groups such as the Israeli Students and Academics Organization. Yesh Gvul sees Aviner’s words as the natural continuation of these anti-democratic acts. We call on all decent people to oppose these actions.
HOW LOW CAN ISRA'HELL GO??
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