Yesha Rabbinical Council?
August 5th, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: Yesha Rabbinical Council? Middle East Conflict :: Yesha Rabbinical Council? Middle East Conflict :: Why Iran? This is why. :: Experientio
Tags: nationalism, power and Zionism
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
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