The council's edict reflects existing Israeli military/religious law. The chaplain for the IDF forces says, "In war, when our forces storm the enemies, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakah to kill even good civilians, that is, civilians that are ostensibly good." 2
Such official standards come from binding Jewish law, or Halakah, contained in the Babylonian Talmud. The Talmud is the highest religious and ethical authority for the state of Israel and religious Jews. The Talmudic 'proof text' for Yesha's decision came from treatise Abodah-Zarah 26b, where Rabbi Simeon Ben Yohai says: "The best among the gentiles deserves to be killed. The best of snakes ought to have its head crushed."
Is the author of such bloodthirsty racism denounced in our time? Hardly. Rabbi Ben Yohai is one of the earliest and therefore most respected of Talmudic rabbis. He is so beloved by Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel that every year at his birth place, in Meron, tens of thousands gather for days in the festival of Lag Ba Omar to sing and dance in honor of his memory. The prestigious Encyclopedia Judaica, in its article on him, describes Ben Yohai as one of the giants of Judaism for all time.
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Rabbinic Council Says Dead Lebanon Kids Not Innocent
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
We are still a rather primitive species, unfortunately.
Mike
Winnipeg
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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis
It may be the highest accepted authority, but it is grossly inferior to the Torah in matters of both moral and ethical conduct.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti08012006.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti08012006.html</a><p>---<br>Michael<br />
I agree Mallus
Not necessarily on the from of revolution, but certainly an awakening or cosmic rapture in thinking.
One of the positive aspects of Israel's actions is I am beginning to see a challenge to the "Staus Queue"
I love that phrase it reminds me of Bush the First's 'Line in the sand' or Baby Bush's 'Yer either with us or against us'
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
I have heard the Israeli Government preach the same line of defence for its actions against civilanes ex. non combatants, civilians, the old, women and children.
If this is such rightous thing the Israeli Government is doing then why did't the British Government do the same thing in Northern Ireland?
Also why doesn’t the British Government do the same as the Israeli Government bombing, tarring down houses and arresting Sein Finn members, the political wing of the IRA, to kill and rout out the IRA exterminating them from existence?
How can one look at one terrorist group differently then another just because they exsist in different locations.
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.