"THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR KILLING GENTILES"
By Rev. Ted Pike
24 Jan 11
In November 2009, the world was stunned to learn of a shockingly
popular book in Israel, The King’s Torah. It advocates
murder of non-Jews and even their babies, claiming such infants would
only grow up to become enemies of Israel. Ha’aretz says
the book received “wide dissemination and the enthusiastic endorsement
of prominent rabbis.” Some rabbinic authorities have condemned
it, but many influential Orthodox leaders have chosen to remain noncommittal.
(Ha’aretz, March 23, 2010, “The
King’s
Torah: A Rabbinic Text or a Call to Terror?”) They recognize
that anti-Arab sentiment and sympathy, even with violent militancy
against Palestinians, continues its dramatic upswing in Israel.
The book’s primary author, Yitzhak Shapira, was arrested in
February 2010 for violating Israel’s law against incitement to
religious hatred. However, he is reported not to fear imprisonment
because of his influence and stature as a prominent head of the ultra-Orthodox
settler movement. That confidence has been vindicated by lack of significant
prosecution of Shapira for nearly a year.
Recently, a poll in Israel found a majority of Israelis approve the
racist rights of Jewish property owners who refuse to sell or rent
to Arabs. (See, Most
Israelis Approve Racist Rabbis) Just
as significantly, the government of Israel itself seems outwardly divided
between bland expressions of tolerance by Prime Minister Netanyahu
versus “inflammatory statements” and “unbridled incitement” of
the ultra-Orthodox by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Ha’aretz,
January 12, 2011, “The
Extreme Right’s Incitement
Will End in Murder”).
As Israel descends into ultra-Orthodoxy, increasingly violent solutions
to the “Arab problem” are proposed. A recent Ha’aretz editorial
describes an ultra-Orthodox video that recommends killing authorities
and police who aid Palestinians attacked by settlers. Factions in the
highest levels of Israel’s government, including the cabinet
and Knesset, are sympathetic to the militant far right. Ha’aretz: “Scarcely
a day goes by… without the coalition joining hands with the
extreme right in order to depict non-Jews as hostile elements – and
Israeli Human Rights groups protecting Arab rights, as enemies of the
state.”
Rising Anti-Arab Militancy
Foreign Minister Lieberman embodies the new anti-Arab militancy. Ha’aretz says
he “accused organizations that defend human and civil rights
of abetting terror and undermining the Israel Defense forces.” He
even claimed “the terror being waged against us from within is
more dangerous than the terror being waged against us from without.” Ha'aretz
says that if indeed those who defend Arab rights in Israel are now
to be viewed as complicit with terrorists then Israel is no longer
a democracy. “People who abet terror belong behind bars.”
Especially since last year’s “settlement freeze,” many
Haredi call for violence against any governmental authority that restrains
Jewish attacks upon Arabs. A December 2009 bulletin from West Bank
settlers said, “We’ll expel the soldiers from the settlements.” Their
internet-distributed pamphlet, The Jewish Voice, includes
a call to “execute targeted operations against the evildoers,
invade Civil Administration offices and ransack them, as well as operate
violently against the Palestinians, deepen the refusal to serve in
the army and not recognize Israeli courts.”
The article was written by co-author of The King’s Torah, Rabbi
Yosef Elitzur. Ha’aretz has reported that the Yeshiva
(Talmudic training school) he helps preside over at Yitzhar was generously
funded by the government of Israel (about $250,000 in 2007-08). A similar
announcement by Elitzur says “we remember that the war is over
Judaism, and the main enemies are the Gentiles in our country who are
trying to conquer it and confusing the minds in crooked Jews who are
far from the Torah…the Jews will win by violence against Arabs.” Elitzur
is smug that the ultra-Orthodox can back down even the government of
Israel, allowing settlers to establish virtually autonomous bastions
of violence against Arabs. Elitzur:
To this day, administration inspectors have
not managed to enter Yitzhar since the freeze decree. That is because
the experience and the heat at Yitzhar make every entrance by hostile
elements require large forces and end with much damage to IDF and
police property, even more damage to Arab property and persons,
and a sector burning on all sides for a few days. When in every
settlement a police patrol car becomes an unwanted presence, and
administration inspectors understand they have ten minutes to run
away before their tires are punctured, the government’s ability
to enforce its decrees will drop sharply. (Coteret.com, December
6, 2009, “Document:
Settlers Prep to Terrorize West Bank”)
With such incendiary rhetoric, it’s not surprising that violence
by Jewish settlers against Palestinian farmers and communities continues,
with increasing reluctance by authorities to intervene or prosecute.
Haredi, particularly in the West Bank and southern Israel, also constantly
harass Messianic Christians (sometimes violently), virtually unrestrained
by local police or the government of Israel. (See,
Israel’s
Increasing Anti-Christianity)
Calls for Murder Come from Talmud
The groundswell of possibly homicidal activism against Arabs and even
Jews who defend them is especially dangerous for a powerful reason:
It derives its authority from Orthodox Judaism’s most sacred
Scriptures, the Talmud and its mystical/revolutionary companion, the
Zohar, or Kabbalah, written by the fathers of modern Judaism, the ancient
Pharisees.
Perhaps the most highly esteemed Pharisee in the history of Judaism
is the “great” Maimonides. He said concerning the “Akum,” or
Gentiles: “Do not have any pity on them, for it is said…Show
no mercy with them. Therefore, if you see an Akum in difficulty or
drowning, do not go to his help. And if he is in danger of death, do
not save him from death.”
Speaking of idolaters (those who worship the false prophet Jesus),
Maimonides decreed: “Do not eat with idolaters, nor permit them
to worship their idols…Either turn them away from their idols,
or kill them” (Hilkoth Akum (X, 1)). (1.) Such venerable Judaic
authority underlies The King’s Torah. Its homicidal
sentiments are literal interpretations of the 2,000-year-old Talmud
and Zohar, the highest ethical and spiritual authorities of Judaism.
Israel’s second largest newspaper, Maariv,
quotes some of The King’s Torah, whose homicidal
recommendations (which the book claims are “halakah,” binding
Jewish law) continue for 230 pages.
In any situation in which a non-Jew’s presence endangers Jewish
lives, the non-Jew may be killed even if he is a righteous Gentile
and not at all guilty for the situation that has been created… when
a non-Jew assists a murderer of Jews and causes the death of one, he
may be killed, and in any case where a non-Jew’s presence causes
danger to Jews, the non-Jew may be killed. The dispensation applies
even when the pursuer is not threatening to kill directly, but only
indirectly… even a civilian who assists combat fighters is considered
a pursuer and may be killed. Anyone who assists the army of the wicked
in any way is strengthening murderers and is considered a pursuer.
A civilian who encourages the war gives the king and his soldiers the
strength to continue. Therefore, any citizen of the state that opposes
us, encourages the combat soldiers or expresses satisfaction over their
actions is considered a pursuer and may be killed. Also, anyone who
weakens our own state by word or similar action is considered a pursuer… Hindrances – babies
are found many times in this situation. They block the way to rescue
by their presence and do so completely by force. Nevertheless,
they may be killed, because their presence aids murder. There is justification
for killing babies if it is clear they will grow up to harm us (emphasis
mine). And in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately and
not only in conflict with adults.
Echoing Maimonides, this work extensively clarifies that “idolaters” who
violate the Talmud’s Noahide laws (Christians) must also be executed: “When
we approach a non-Jew who has violated the seven Noahide laws and kill
him out of concern for upholding these seven laws, no prohibition has
been violated.”
Readers who would like to become familiar with rabbinical passages
teaching the Jewish right to murder both Gentiles and Christians may
read my articles “The
Talmud: Scalpel That Bleeds the Mideast” and “The
Jewish Kabbalah: Root of Mideast Violence” at Truthtellers.org.
Ultra-Orthodox fanatics are not inventing a new Judaism. They are only
returning to a literal interpretation of the Talmud/Kabbalah and applying
it in the modern anti-Arab, anti-Christian context.
Maariv concludes:
One student of the Od Yosef Hai yeshiva in Yitzhar explained, from
his point of view, where Rabbi Shapira and Elitzur got the courage
to speak so freely on subjects such as the killing of non-Jews. ‘The
rabbis aren’t afraid of prosecution, because in that case, Maimonides
[Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, 1135–1204] and Nahmanides [Rabbi Moses
ben Nahman, 1194–1270] would have to stand trial too, and anyway,
this is research on religious law,’ the yeshiva student said. ‘In
a Jewish state, nobody sits in jail for studying Torah.’
How correct that student is. The modern ultra-Orthodox movement has
behind it 2,000 years of rabbinic hate of Gentiles (and Christians)
as well as possibly hundreds of Israeli rabbis presently supporting
it. It is authentic pharisaic Judaism. Such genuine Talmudism
bears little resemblance to modern derivatives of Judaism (so popular
in the West), such as the Conservative and Reform movements. They “spiritualize” and
rationalize away the Talmud’s actual teachings in order to make
Judaism amenable to civilized society. That is why such theological “liberals” are
loathed and largely boycotted by the Orthodox establishment in Israel.
The government of Israel, maintaining the Orthodox position through
its Chief Rabbinate, is founded on the same sacred rabbinic scriptures
which give the ultra-Orthodox license to kill. For this reason, stringent
repression of ultra-Orthodox terror is unlikely.
Thus, we see that a religion and nation founded upon the depraved
teachings of the Pharisees is not bringing forth the fruits of high-mindedness,
tolerance, and peace in the way evangelicals have eagerly anticipated
for more than a century. Instead, this apostate system, "Babylon
the Great," (See, 'Babylon
the Great' is Israel) whose
forebears tried to extirpate the infant church 2,000 years ago, produces
the same bitter fruit: persecution.
This persecution may manifest itself in Israel against Arabs or Messianic
believers -- or internationally through Jewish-created, Christian-persecuting
ADL "anti-hate" laws.
But make no mistake. Persecution from Jewish sources is the wave of
the future. Judao-Pharisaism threatens freedom everywhere.
Endnote:
(1.)
Pranaitis, Rev. I. B., The Talmud Unmasked (pg. 76, 83)
