It's moral to murder Palestinians says Chief Rabbi

by
Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan

Jerusalem - July 27, 2001- (ACN) Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau has provided full religious justification for the targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders by the Israeli Defense Forces and police. Yesterday in Jerusalem, Rabbi Lau stated "the killing of Palestinian militants has the full backing of Jewish religious law".

The practice of targeted assassinations has been condemned by the U.S. State Department and human rights groups around the world. The practice, and other forms of atrocities against Palestinian women and children, is propelling an effort to brand Zionism as a form of racism and a crime against humanity at the United Nations conference on racism in South Africa next month. Also, yesterday a Belgium court started legal proceedings against the "Butcher of Sabra and Shatila", Ariel Sharon, who is the present Prime Minister of Israel.

Chief Rabbi Lau quoted the prophets, ancient sages and numerous Biblical passages to justify murder because he said that Israel is in some kind of "War of Commandment" mandated by God himself. He further stated that the killers of Palestinians who are engaged in the war are exempt from the "Ten Commandments". Chief Rabbi Lau is a principal religious leader of all Jews around the world. The religious ruling by the rabbi is one of the most unusual in modern times.

Rabbis in Israel and in the United States like the Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center, owners of the Museum of Tolerance, are increasingly using religion to justify questionable political and military actions. La Voz de Aztlan has been criticized because we are lumping Jews and Zionists together when we write against the apartheid and genocidal policies of Israel against the Palestinians. Who should gentiles see as representing the Jews? Did not the Jews elect the Zionist Sharon? Don't their rabbis speak for them?