Christian morality weakens Israeli war effort, innocents are fair game.

[Phrogman]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3283720,00.html

The Yesha Rabbinical Council 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 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," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss)


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But these attacks on civilians and UN peacekeepers are all accidents?

[Phrogman]

1. Actually, if this is Jewish law, than this opens up a whole can of worms..

and explains a lot about Israeli tactics.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. I think this latest Israeli aggression of Lebanon has exposed Israel's ...

motive and tactic in the region.

[David Dunham]

2. Immorality is not an excuse for bombing innocent civilians.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Seems to me that the Israelis make a pretty big deal of it when

their own women & children fall victim to enemy attacks. Is there a different law for Israeli innocents?

As for those UN observers, they were giving aid and comfort to the enemy by observing & reporting Israeli attacks on infants, school children & other terrorists to an unsympathetic world, so they were fair game.

[Kagemusha]

4. Guess we've now decided international law is "Christian"?

Well, that actually has a historical basis, but they wanted these Christian values to be universal. Guess the rabbis have a big problem with that, since unlike the constraints the US is faced with in Iraq, this.. ...uh nevermind.

[everythingsxen]

6. Hey hey.. look it's part III

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1804382&mesg_id=1804828

or is it 4, 5 or 6??

Once again though for everyone who has not read this:

The people quoted in the story calling for "no innocents" are the Israeli equivalent of the 700 Club.

Thank you and good night.

[regnaD kciN]

9. I thought the "Israeli equivalent of the 700 Club"...

...was the 700 Club.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. To be fair, that is an extremist group

and not representative of official Israeli policy. There are complete nutcases in every religion.

[Democrats_win]

8. Doesn't God have to approve of Israels wars for that law to apply?

There aren't any prophets telling Israel that this war is approved by God so in fact EVERY death is MURDER in this war.

Of course Christian and pure sectarian wars are also nothing but murder as far as the Bible is concerned.

[Reckon]

10. I think the point is

the Yesha Rabbinical Council is telling those in power, yes, you have Jewish law on your side. "there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy."

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I don't think any of the three Western Monotheistic religions has any kind

of corner on "morality", or wonderful track record thereof.

[The Magistrate]

12. Locking

This is a pronouncement by an extremist body, roughly equivalent in domestic terms to Christian Identity fanatics. Presenting it as if it were authoritative either for Israel or Judaism is a species of flame-bait we can do without.