Jewish rabbi calls for extermination of all Palestinian males

[smyth]

http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21527/1/

A Jewish rabbi living in the West Bank has called on the Israeli government to use their troops to kill all Palestinian males more than 13 years old in a bid to end Palestinian presence on this earth.

Extremist rabbi Yousef Falay, who dwells at the Yitzhar settlement on illegally seized Palestinian land in the northern part of the West Bank, wrote an article in a Zionist magazine under the title "Ways of War", in which he called for the killing of all Palestinian males refusing to flee their country, describing his idea as the practical way to ensure the non-existence of the Palestinian race.

"We have to make sure that no Palestinian individual remains under our occupation. If they (Palestinians) escape then it is good; but if anyone of them remains, then he should be exterminated", the fanatic rabbi added in his article.

Falay is not the first to have called for such extreme measures. Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, called for "the transfer of Israel's Arab population to Arab (or other) lands." (As it states on the group's website). Followers of Kahane have been connected to a number of murders of Palestinians, particularly in the Hebron area in the southern West Bank. In the most well-known of such attacks, 29 Palestinians praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron were gunned down by Baruch Goldstein, a follower of Kahane, in 1994, with Israeli soldiers looking on and allowing the gunman to reload his automatic machine gun and continue killing innocent civilians. In response to that massacre, the Israeli authorities punished the Palestinian victims by taking over the Ibrahimi mosque and turning half of it into a synagogue, where Israeli settlers go to pray each week. And each year, on the anniversary of the massacre, Israeli settlers in Hebron dress up like Baruch Goldstein and parade through the streets of Hebron, firing guns in the air.

The Kach movement recognizes the 'transfer' of 750,000 Palestinians that took place in 1948 in order for the state of Israel to be created on their land, but argues on their website that this 'transfer' was incomplete, and that all Palestinians must be sent away, or killed, in order for Israel to remain a 'Jewish state'. Their platform reads, "In a genuinely 'JEWISH State', how can an Arab be an equal when that State has an Independence Day celebrating his defeat. Its flag isn't that of its people. He isn't trusted to serve in the army. His cousin born in Haifa [sic] and fled during the 1948 War of Independence cannot return... yet any Jew who never lived there before is welcomed with open arms. In short, Israel is his enemy's country, not his. So how can an Arab truly be a loyal citizen in a Jewish State? Simply, they cannot, and they must go!"

The idea of extermination of Palestinians, or their 'transfer' into other countries, is not only a view held by extremists on the fringes of society. Prominent Israeli politicians have also made calls for a 'transfer', or ethnic cleansing, based on race. Just last week, on September 11, 2006, an Israeli member of Parliament called explicitly for the transfer of Palestinians (whow he referred to as 'Arabs') from the West Bank (which he referred to as 'Judea and Samaria', the biblical name for the region where the majority of Palestinians now live).

"We have to expel most Arabs from Judea and Samaria," Eitam said at a memorial service for Lt. Amihai Merhavia, a soldier who was killed in South Lebanon in July. "We can't deal with all these Arabs, and we can't give up the territory, because we've already seen what they do there. Some of them might have to stay under certain conditions, but most of them will have to go." Despite a law that would strip Israeli parliament members of their immunity to prosecution if they are found make explicitly racist statements, no investigation of Eitam has occurred on this matter, and there was no condemnation of his statement by the Israeli government.

 

[themexi]

That guy certainly is an extremist...& as bad as any nazi....but it would be a mistake to assume his views reflect the views of more than a minority of Israelis, let alone Jews. That being said, I think he is not only a dangerous hatemonger, but politically embarrassing enough that the Israeli government themselves might do well to have him silenced.

 

[asnlover]

Why don't you also post on of the hundreds of stories where the Palestinien's say they want to wipe all Israelis off the face of the earth. I guess this guy is better, he is willing to spare the women and children unlike the the Arabs.

 

[VinnyBuff]

Why don't you also post on of the hundreds of stories where the Palestinien's say they want to wipe all Israelis off the face of the earth. I guess this guy is better, he is willing to spare the women and children unlike the the Arabs.

well said.

The majority of Palestinians voted for Hamas, whose goal is to wipe Israel off the map and kill off all the jews.

So on one hand we have one lunatic rabbi and on the other we have millions of lunatic palestinians, I guess that's why there will never be peace in the middle east, because muslims refuse to accept anyone who is not muslim.

The muslim palestinians torched 5 churches in the palestinian territories, what a bunch of uncivilized animals.

 

[smyth]

Evangelicals and Israel: Theological Roots of a Political Alliance

Evangelicals and Israel: Theological Roots of a Political Alliance
Donald E. Wagner teaches at North Park University in Chicago. He is the author of Anxious for Armageddon (1995) and Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000 (revised edition, 2003).

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington , his initial meeting was not with President Clinton but with Jerry Falwell and more than 1,000 fundamentalist Christians. The crowd saluted the prime minister as "the Ronald Reagan of Israel," and Falwell pledged to contact more than 200,000 evangelical pastors, asking them to "tell President Clinton to refrain from putting pressure on Israel" to comply with the Oslo accords.

The meeting between Netanyahu and Falwell illustrates a remarkable political and theological convergence. The link between Israelis Likud government and the U.S. Religious Right was established by Natanyahu's mentor, Menachem Begin, during the Carter and Reagan administrations. However, the roots of evangelical support for Israel lie in the long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.

 

[DATYdude]

Yet again, when faced with rational arguments proving that his post is meaningless (BTW Kach is an outlawed organization in Israel), smyth changes the subject as though suddenly his spurious argument becomes proven.

Anyway, it just hurts the people who might advance similar (though more sensible) arguments, when over and over again he is shown to be full of shiite.

 

[lenharper]

You gotta watch those rabbi's. Especially the Jewish ones.

 

[Inferno]

That guy certainly is an extremist...& as bad as any nazi....but it would be a mistake to assume his views reflect the views of more than a minority of Israelis, let alone Jews. That being said, I think he is not only a dangerous hatemonger, but politically embarrassing enough that the Israeli government themselves might do well to have him silenced.

You're referring to smyth, right?

Couldn't agree more.

 

[basketcase]

Unfortunately, you get used to this guy. His bi-weekly "anything bad about Jews" post tirade is as much of this forum as the "all muslims are evil" and the "Bush is Satan/Hitler" posts.

Yes, he is an idiot with no interest in debate.

 

[JohnLarue]

There has always been & always will be nuts on both sides of this sad conflict

 

[johnhenrygalt]

That guy certainly is an extremist...& as bad as any nazi....but it would be a mistake to assume his views reflect the views of more than a minority of Israelis, let alone Jews. That being said, I think he is not only a dangerous hatemonger, but politically embarrassing enough that the Israeli government themselves might do well to have him silenced.

That's assuming he even exists and actually said those things. Given the source I wouldn't be surprised if the alleged comments were a complete fabrication by various Islamic "news" agencies.

 

[basketcase]

I wouldn't dout that it is a true statement. Israel is a democracy and there is varied opinion. As was mentioned before, the Israeli government/court system has determined that this is a hate motivated group and has banned them. One of these days, I hope that the Palestinian Authority will ban all groups that call on the the destruction of Israel but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[peteeey]

There aren't any more Muslim rabbis. They've all blown themselves up.

You gotta watch those rabbi's. Especially the Jewish ones.

 

[onthebottom]

Unfortunately, you get used to this guy. His bi-weekly "anything bad about Jews" post tirade is as much of this forum as the "all muslims are evil" and the "Bush is Satan/Hitler" posts.

Yes, he is an idiot with no interest in debate.

All three tiresome.

OTB