Rabbi Aviner: Killing Terrorists is Always Moral

[Zep]

Well, well. :mad:

Editorial from Israel National News (newspaper site)

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=73233

Following reports that an IDF soldier shot a wounded Arab terrorist to death, a leading rabbi in the national-religious community justifies the killing of terrorists - wounded or otherwise.

In an article published on the Hava Books website, dedicated to the publication of Rabbi Shlomo Aviner's books and articles, Rabbi Aviner explains that, in principle, the immediate execution of a terrorist is justified, even mandated, by Torah law. Emphasizing that ultimately it is the military that decides on its operational directives, the rabbi provides two explanations of his position that killing a terrorist, wounded or not, is a Torah imperative:

[el_gato]

1. so that means any attack on the IDF is a moral act

[tk2kewl]

2. i think the Muslim clerics say something similar about the rest of us

I heard that killing was just plain wrong. Not sure where I got that one though. :shrug:

[politicaholic]

3. Well...I guess every religion needs its Jerry Falwell.

Who needs pins when the yaurmulka will stay on with hairspray?

Lots and lots of hairspray.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Sure. Now define TERRORIST.

[Monkie]

5. other rabbi's say state of israel a sin against G-d

and use the torah and talmud to justify that position

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com
True Torah Jews is working hard to declare to the world the difference between Jews and Zionism.
It is important that the people of world understand the difference and therefore not link the actions of Zionists to religious Jews

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/articles/3strongoats.htm
" The Talmud explains That we have been foresworn, by three strong oaths, not to ascend to the Holy Land as a group using force,
not to rebel against the governments of countries in which we live, and not by our sins, to prolong the coming of moshiach;
as is written in Tractate Kesubos 111a"

Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum

"...if we place all the immodesty and promiscuity of the generation and the many sins of the world on one side of the scale,
and the Zionist state on the other side of the scale by itself, it would outweigh them all"