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Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza

May 30, 2007

All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.

The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision.

According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.

The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza.

Eliyahu could not be reached for an interview. However, Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, who is chief rabbi of Safed, said his father opposed a ground troop incursion into Gaza that would endanger IDF soldiers. Rather, he advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Kassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life.

"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."

In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them."

Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses."
De normen van de chief rabbi van Israel.

Collectieve verantwoordelijkheid maakt de weg vrij voor collectieve straf. Als je het concept eenmaal hebt omarmt is er praktisch geen einde meer aan hoever je kunt gaan met straffen.

Toen in 1942 de SS-er Reinhard Heydrich na een aanslag om het leven kwam, verwoesten de Duitsers het dorpje waar het was gebeurd. Driehonderdveertig van de inwoners werden gedood. Zij waren collectief schuldig aan de dood van Heydrich want ze hadden de aanslag laten gebeuren. Na de 2e WO werd collectieve straf als oorlogsmisdaad en misdaad tegen de menselijkheid gezien en de uitvoerders van de moordpartij berecht.

Het artikel over Collective responsibility op Wikipedia merkt op:

"Terrorism is commonly rationalized by its practitioners on ideas of collective guilt and responsibility."

Ik zou verder willen gaan. Als er al een definitie van terrorisme bestaat dan is het de doctrine van collectieve verantwoordelijkheid. Dat staat aan de wieg van iedere vorm van geweld waarbij een willekeurig individu als legitiem doel beschouwd wordt.
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