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01/05/24

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Originally posted by 822-190 ↑

Here's the full quote (and note also: "Last Friday, Rabbi Manis Friedman clarified his comments. In a post to the Moment blog, he said that his comments did not “represent the official policy of any Jewish movement or organization").:

"I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).The first Israeli prime minister who declares that he will follow the Old Testament will finally bring peace to the Middle East. First, the Arabs will stop using children as shields. Second, they will stop taking hostages knowing that we will not be intimidated. Third, with their holy sites destroyed, they will stop believing that G-d is on their side. Result: no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war. Zero tolerance for stone throwing, for rockets, for kidnapping will mean that the state has achieved sovereignty. Living by Torah values will make us a light unto the nations who suffer defeat because of a disastrous morality of human invention."
https://forward.com/life/107053/why-is-a-chabad-rabbi-advocating-violence/

And..."Further, as Rabbi Feller told the AJW last week, Friedman said that he was addressing the question of “how should we act in time of war, when our neighbors attack us, using their women, children and religious holy places as shields. I attempted to briefly address some of the ethical issues related to forcing the military to withhold fire from certain people and places, at the unbearable cost of widespread bloodshed (on both sides!) — when one’s own family and nation is mercilessly targeted from those very people and places.”
Finally, Friedman allowed that the words he used were “irresponsible, and I look forward to further clarifying them in a future issue. I apologize for any misunderstanding my words created.”
https://www.ajwnews.com/rabbi-manis-friedman-denounced-for-his-article-on-waging-war-the-jewish-way/
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So following the general trend of many rabbis. Say something totally abysmal , get called out for the hideous nature of the comments ... and, finally, try and provide a softer context for it all.

What's sicker? The disgusting comments and supremacist attitude, or the sycophants that try to explain and excuse it?
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