Yesha Rabbinical Council? Middle East Conflict
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Cologne 06-Aug-2006
I’m not going to respond to such a wilful misrepresentation of what I
said — you are only destroying your own credibility.
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Malcolm Riddoch schrieb Sun, 6 Aug 2006 05:50:16 +0800:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 05/08/2006, at 11:59 PM, Michael Eldred wrote:
>
>> The Palestinians, and neighbouring Arab states, did not recognize
>> Israel when it
>> was proclaimed in 1948.
>>
> Apparently in 1947 Chief Rabbi Deshinski informed the United Nations
> of his opposition to the proposed formation of the state of Israel,
> and actual history is as always much more complicated than your
> pro-Zionist justifications for the mass murder of civilians and the
> destruction of the modern infrastructure of the state of Lebanon.
> That’s not an anti-semitic statement by the way, anti-Zionist perhaps,
> but certainly anti-war. The current massive aggression seems to be
> aimed at destroying Lebanon as a viable state, yet again, as Israel
> did in 1982. Much like the US aggression in Iraq we’ll then have two
> failed states as bloody breeding grounds for extremist terrorism
> surrounding Syria which I assume will be next on the agenda of the
> Neoconservative hawks as that will pull Iran into a wider Middle East
> conflict and perhaps re-mobilize and further radicalize US public
> opinion in support of this insane energy war that ‘will not end in our
> lifetimes’.
>
> I think the hawks in Washington might be getting rather desperate,
> should be interesting to watch events unfold over the next 3-4 months
> in the run up to mid term elections. A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio
> University poll suggests domestic anger at the US Federal government
> is at record levels, 54%, with 1 in 3 people believing the Bush regime
> was complicit in the 911 attacks ( http://tinyurl.com/qk9mw ). You can
> view an entertaining video from the recent Scholars for 911 Truth
> conference to see what they’re angry about http://tinyurl.com/kd7jz
>
> Along the lines of this polemics on Judaeism/Islam/Zionism and your
> justifications for continued Israeli aggression, according to YNet
> News ( http://tinyurl.com/qhc4z ) the Yesha Rabbinical Council has
> announced in response to the IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that “according
> to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term
> as ‘innocents’ of the enemy. 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”.
>
> I understand the Yesha Council apparently supports the more extreme
> Israeli settler communities, especially those threatened by and
> forcefully evacuated in the unilateral withdrawal, and has a
> fundamentalist religious interpretation of the question of greater
> Israel as including all of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Gaza. I also
> fully understand they do not represent anything near a consensus of
> Rabbinical opinion in either Israel or elsewhere as can be seen in the
> anti-Zionist views of ultra Orthodox Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss and the
> Neturei Karta.
>
> So does anyone know if this is an actual ruling or misinformation? If
> it’s authentic I’d like to discuss it not in terms of it’s
> ‘Jewishness’ but rather in terms of its pragmatic logic from the
> general perspective of nationalist power relations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malcolm
> **********************************Dr Malcolm RiddochAn-archos
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