- Yesha Rabbinical Council is the recognized authority
on Jewish religious questions in Gaza and the West Bank. This week it decreed
that at least 56 Lebanese citizens of Kfar Qanna, including at least 34
children, targeted by an Israeli air strike, were not "innocent."
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- "The Yesha Rabbinical Counsel announced in response
to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that 'according to Jewish law, during a
time of battle and war, there is no such thing as 'innocence' among the
enemy.'" 1
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- 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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- Ben Yohai's bloodlust against Gentiles is enshrined in
the State of Israel itself, a nation whose apartheid laws caused the United
Nations to term Zionism "a form of racism and racial discrimination"
in 1976. They were putting it mildly. But Zionism isn't the root cause;
it's one black fruit of the poisoned root of the religion founded and guided
by the ancient Pharisees, those whom Christ so bitterly rebuked. "Rabbinic"
Judaism is not the Hebrew monotheism established by God through Moses.
Rather, it is what that pure religion became after its leaders rejected
and crucified Christ.
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- World Revulsion
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- Much of the world, not sharing Israel's disregard for
the lives of innocent civilians caught in a war zone, were shaken by IDF's
intentional strike on a huddled enclave of refugees at Qanna this week.
Christianity, the heritage of Western nations, teaches compassion toward
innocent non-combatants in war time, as well as to a vanquished enemy.
Despite some Allied atrocities during World War II (including the bombing
of Dresden), such core values epitomized US altruism to Japan and Germany
following the war.
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- But Orthodox Talmudic Judaism, the official religion
of the state of Israel, has no sympathy for such high-mindedness. Jewish
leadership is bold in asserting that Judaism is not a 'turn the other cheek'
religion, or one to forget past offences. Judaism is a 'hit back'
religion. The Talmud teaches that if you know your enemy is out to kill
you, don't do good to him. Kill him first.
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- Islam, birthed in conquest and plagued by blood feuds
and vendettas for more than a millennium, is also a 'hit back' religion.
But of the two, Rabbinic Judaism is by far the most evil. Having rejected
the Messiah who commanded, "Love your enemies," Israel has become
one of the most ruthless oppressors on the planet.
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- Who's Killing Infidels Now?
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- A high percent of Christians live in Lebanon. To Jews
who believe the Talmud literally, Christians are idolaters - worshipping
the false prophet Jesus. And what should be done with idolaters? The Talmud
commands ". . . those who deny the Torah and prophets of Israel-the
law is that all those should be killed: and those that have the power of
life and death should have them killed; and if this cannot by done, they
should be led to their death by deceptive methods." 3
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- The renowned medieval Jewish sage and Talmudist Maimonides,
writes: "Do not eat with idolaters, nor permit them to worship their
idols; for it is written: make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto
them. (Deuteronomy 7:2) Either turn them away from their idols or kill
them." 4
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- Incidentally, the Talmud says that the children of Gentiles,
such as those bombed into rubble at Kfar Qanna, are to be regarded as animals.
The Jewish Encyclopedia article on "Gentiles," p. 621, says that
the Torah [Talmud] "outlawed the issue [child] of a Gentile as that
of a beast."
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- Zionist Massacres
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- Israel's "hit back" policy has repeatedly endorsed
reprisals against the Arabs, not only in Israel and the occupied territories,
but Lebanon, especially in 1982.
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- What happened then is remarkably similar to what is happening
now. Listen to World Vision International's Stan Mooneyham, who was on
the scene.
- Some say there was two hours notice. Others insist
there was none. In a camp of 60,000, it's not easy to get the word
around, even when warning leaflets are dropped . . . the first planes
came at five o'clock in the evening; from just after midnight until
eight the next evening the bombing was continuous. For three days the pounding
went on. Everybody here has friends who died in the attack. A woman
makes a chopping motion across the knee of a baby another woman is
holding, saying she saw a baby at Ein-el-Hilweh who had both legs blown
off.
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- There is no Ein-el-Hilweh anymore. Never before have
I seen such total destruction, not even in Managua, the earthquake-stricken
capital of Nicaragua. If the world's war makers and peace makers want
to see what the saturation bombing looks like, they should look here. Israel,
the country skilled in making the desert blossom like a rose, knows also
how to turn rose into desert.
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- Block after block of crumpled wreckage is all that's
left. Plus the unknown number of bodies. There must be hundreds
down there underneath the rubble - the permeating odor of decaying
flesh tells you that much. Refugees who escaped say that as many
as 8,000 died. The Red Cross puts the number at 1,500. Either way,
it's one of the major massacres of modern times. (Ed. note: The final Lebanese
death toll was 17,500).
- Mooneyham then describes the Israeli attack on Sidon
in the darkness of the early morning:
- . . . at 2:30 Monday mornings, June 14, an aerial bomb
slices into Kineye School. It rips bodies apart, strews arms and legs
and pieces of what a second before had been living, breathing human beings. The
concussion takes the rest.
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- No more running. No more crying. Now they sleep.
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- Now here I am three weeks later, where no observer is
supposed to be, seeing what no observer is supposed to see. The
bodies and pieces of bodies . . . Kineye School is a charnel house:
body fluids, creeping across the basement floor from the stack of bodies,
are ankle deep in places. It is possible to count 50 or so bodies.
The rest are piled atop each other, hurled there by the blast that took
their lives. We are told there are 255 in the helter-skelter pile."
- Lest We Forget
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- The Israelis, of course, played down the casualties and
damage in Sidon, as well as Beirut. Yet Mooneyham, who managed to
penetrate the area much sooner than other Western observers has this to
report:
- If the Israeli figure of 165 killed in Sidon is accurate,
I saw all but ten of those bodies in one school basement, still unburied
three weeks after the invasion. That says nothing about the township
of Ein-el-Hilweh just outside of Sidon which had a normal population
of 60,000 and was obliterated by saturation bombing.
- As the head of an international relief organization bringing
$400,000 worth of medical and relief supplies to the victims of the holocaust,
Mooneyham was astonished at the refusal of the Israeli conquerors to allow
distribution of such necessities, even after the fighting had ended and
the area was secure.
- Early delivery attempts were thwarted on several occasions
by Israeli blockades . . . Causing costly delays . . . Israel refused
all relief agencies access to occupied areas for more than ten days of
the worst need when quick action could have saved many lives. The
Red Cross ship SS Anton (carrying World Vision relief supplies) was
refused permission on security grounds to land critically needed supplies
to Sidon two weeks after the invasion, although our people in the city reported
total security, with people fishing on the docks." (August, 1982)
- Although Mooneyham did not view other areas of Lebanon
as closely as his inspection of Tyre and its environs, what he saw there
prompts him to make an ominous comparison: "The sheer magnitude of
this one visible piece of the Israeli war machine is incredible. David
seems determined to become Goliath." 5
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- History Repeats Itself
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- Today, America and the West naively impute Christian
instincts and values to Israel, our supposed ally in the "war against
terror." But Israel's ethics are worlds apart from ours. Their
Talmudic values do not come from Christ, but from those who killed Him,
the Pharisees.
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- Further, Israel resents American attempts to impose Christian
ethics. This week the Yesha Rabbinical Council sent this terse statement
to the Christian West, "All of the discussions on Christian morality
are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us
in the blood of our soldiers and civilians." 6
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- In other words, Israel's Judaic Taliban says, "Butt
out of any attempt to Christianize the Israeli war machine!"
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- Dissent Answered with Bullets
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- In the early 1980's, my father and our family promoted
the newly revived National Day of Prayer at the National Religious Broadcasters
Convention in Washington D.C. In a booth near ours, a Christian friend,
Stan Rittenhouse, was selling his book critical of Zionism, For Fear of
the Jews. Rabbi Ben Ami, liaison between Israel and the religious right,
stopped to peruse Stan's book. He flew into a fury shouting, "He should
be killed!"
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- Would a Christian minister or priest respond that way
toward an opposing view? Of course not.
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- But Rabbi Ben Ami comes from a very different mindset. His
deep hit-back-hit-first reflex lashed out from a racial/religious tradition
going back thousands of years.
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- Time to Pull Out
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- After Israel's saturation bombing of Lebanon in 1982,
Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrogantly defended Israel's actions saying,
"We do not have to answer to the world, only to ourselves."
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- In other words, Israel may take America's military and
monetary contributions to her war-making in the Mid-East, but she rejects
any attempts by the Christian world to impose its Christian morality upon
her- a morality which, if implemented, could end Mid-East strife. America's
business is to mutely supply the money and military hardware that enables
Zionism's bloody expansion
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- Isn't it time to ask a few commonsense questions?
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- George Washington warned America to "avoid foreign
entanglements." Just what are we doing spending nearly a trillion
dollars and sacrificing thousands of American lives on the other side of
the world to benefit nations, whether in Tel Aviv or Baghdad, who reject
our values?
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- America was intended by its founding fathers, not to
be an international meddler in the strife of foreign lands, but a beacon
of truth and liberty which benighted foreign nations could turn toward
for inspiration. It's time to disentangle ourselves from the troubled Middle
East and make use of the same man-power and the next trillion dollars to
build a stronger America.
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- It's time to come home.
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- (Adapted from Ted Pike's book Israel: Our Duty, Our Dilemma)
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- Endnotes:
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- 1 ynetnews.com 7/30/06
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- 2 Booklet published by the Chaplain of the Israeli army
Central Region Command quoted by Dr. Israel Shahak in his Jewish History,
Jewish Religion, page 76
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- 3 Choschen Hammishpat 113, Hagah
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- 4 Hilkoth Akum X,1
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- 5 World Vision Magazine, September 1982
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- 6 ynetnews.com, 7/30/06
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- Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network,
a Christian/conservative watchdog group.
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- www.truthtellers.org
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