The Jerusalem Post has
an article on what Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. From the article:
Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.
Apparently Eliyahu was not available for comment, however his son, chief rabbi of Safed, gave the following stellar quote for the piece:
If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand. And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop.
These are the people the United States government supports blindly; these are the people our own Liberal leader Mr. Ignatieff is defending.
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These are the people who are the direct result of 100s of years of Western racism.
Alright. . .so you're excusing them?
I'm not excusing anything. I'm making a statement of fact. I know this is a hard concept to understand when you are dogmatically defending a set of principles.
Well I'm not sure what you mean. You make a statement like "direct result of 100s of years of Western racism." How am I supposed to respond to that? I'd have to do weeks worth of reading to support or argue this statement.
Hint: the Sephardic population was miniscule before 1910. The influx of European Jews into Palestine started at just about the same time that Western racism against the Jews became severe. The Pogroms, for example.
I'm just trying to figure out what your point is. That the quotes aren't disturbing? I feel like your original comment was almost meant to be accusatory, like most of your comments.
"I'm just trying to figure out what your point is. That the quotes aren't disturbing? I feel like your original comment was almost meant to be accusatory, like most of your comments."
My point is about cause-and-effect. The United States should be supporting Israeal, just not the way it is doing it now.
"My point is about cause-and-effect. The United States should be supporting Israeal, just not the way it is doing it now."
Israel would be much better of the if the US just left it alone.
No. The Jewish people need a state to call their own. The United States should encourage them by arming them, as it has done. The problem with current policies is that the United States arms them and condones their violence.
"The Jewish people need a state to call their own."
Why?
"Why?"
Because generally that's what "a nation" needs to survive.
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