Jerusalem – Hagai Amir said he does not regret his role in the murder of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin because his actions accorded with Jewish law, according to an interview published by +972 Magazine on Sunday.
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Hagai, who was released in May after serving 16 years in jail, revealed that he and his brother Yigal thought about killing Rabin for two years before Yigal did so, an act he described as a “mitzva.”
In the interview, Hagai predicted the impending destruction of Israel, saying “no one can change anything now. It’s too late.” He attributed this inevitability to Israel’s “regime,” which he said had not changed its ways since his incarceration and was thus causing “a slow yet steady disintegration of the state.”
Broadly outlining his ideology, Hagai said “the Jewish state has importance, but the state of the Jews has no justification to exist.” He expanded: “A Jewish state is one that cherishes Jewish values – the Sabbath, studying the Torah and so on. The state of the Jews is ruled by people who are only Jews, with no obligation to Judaism, which is basically what this state is.”
He implied that this state of affairs justified murdering Rabin, Israel’s secular figurehead.
“I would fight shoulder to shoulder with those Jews on their land if they themselves were willing to fight for their homes,” Hagai said. “But this is not the case, unfortunately. The settlers today are not willing to fight for their homes…. 99 percent are not willing to fight, as you saw in the disengagement.”
While Hagai admitted that he is “against returning land, especially if Jews live on it,” he did not kill Rabin because the premier was an advocate of a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
When asked whether he and his brother achieved their goals, Hagai responded “some.” He said that while it was still too early to tell, he and his brother acted with good intentions and on behalf of the Jewish people, and that “at the end of the day, a good intention does not go to waste and it will bear fruits.”
Hagai also confirmed that he and his brother remain “very close” and that he is proud of his brother’s actions. He concluded that he will “not rest until [Yigal] is released, and this is the reason for all [his] activity.”
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Before rushing to condemn the Amir brothers, one must remember the weekly terrorist attacks that were killing scores of Jews. Peres and Rabin did nothing to stop any of it. The world faithfully published graphic photos of the scorched buses and shed crocodile tears for the victims. Arafat and Rabin and Peres danced on the desecrated corpses on the way to the White House Rose Garden.
That death and destruction ended when Yigal Amir acted bravely to end the reign of terror. Soon after, Peres was booted from office and the more sensible Likud government took hold.
It will take decades to know whether Yigal and Haggai were correct in their actions, but for now, it appears they were justified and should be thanked for eliminating the Rodeph.
They (Hagai, and is brother Yigal) are delusional. They fail to realize that murder is a capital crime, regardless of the motive. Interestingly. Their ideology is very close to that of some extreme segments of the Nat. K. Hopefully, the government is keeping watch that some mixed up members are not taking their teachings too far, and are conspiring to kill the PM or some other member of the Knesset.
Some Rabbi’s called Yitzhak Rabin a rodef, because their interpretation of the Tanach suggested that the Prime Minister’s peacemaking efforts were against the will of G-d. At that time Yigal Amir was one of many who were willing to carry out the assassination of the democratically elected leader of Israel. Anyway this is just one example of the Tanach’s words being interpreted incorrectly.
An unrepentant, calcified released criminal is far more dangerous to society than an incarcerated offender who has truly mended his ways. An old North American Indian custom was to publically shame people found guilty of serious sexual crime. There were then sent away from the camp to a special outcasts area, where they were meant to repent. This was not really a prison, but they were denied access to their friends and loved ones. Wise sages of the camp would go and visit the outcast’s camp to check on the sincerity of the criminals and when they were satisfied the person had really changed they were allowed back into the main camp. The idea of fixed sentences was not in place. Some criminals did tshuva and were not so hardened as others.
Jurisprudence is a fascinating area.
You would think after 16 years in prison, he would have figured it out.. There are other ways besides murder. He’s a danger to Israeli society. Keep an eye on him, he’ll be in the news some day.
Perhaps its time to realize the real mitzvah is to remove these two cancers from our midst once and for all. Its the democratic value of EY which they hate and which has kept them from being summarily removed from society.
It is tragic that taking a life is taken so lightly. Is this frumkeit?
Which gadol hador labeled Rabin a rodef? Since no one that I can recall, the without a Sanhedrin, then the Amir brothers should not have taken it upon themselves to commit this murder. While I have absolutely no love lost for Rabin and his ilk, once we start assassinations we are no better than anyone else. Same goes for the rock throwing youth of Ramat Shlomo and torching of mosques. We are Yidden. That should set us aside as better because Baruch Hashem we have a Torah to follow.
“rabbis interfering in Dina Dimalchusa”!!!
You certainly have got to be kidding.
Dina dimalchusa, if it even applies in the modern State of Israel, ONLY applies and only has force because of the Rabbis.
Because of their understanding and teaching us the will of the Creator.
But you think they should stand aside, and not voice their Torah opinions, because after all, we’ve got dina dimalchusa on guard.
What a warped view
Did it occur to anyone that since this is politics that he may just be talking for the camera? Let’s not condemn a fellow Jew, especially in Elul, unless we know for sure all the facts in the case. Since we don’t know (all) the facts, we can conjecture as if we do, but we should not actually CH”V condemn -or worse- another Jew.
i have a simple question to all of you ,if someone would decide to bring into his home a bunch of poisonous human eating snakes,and one morning finds his whole family wiped out,wouldn’t you say,this criminaly insane human garbage is a murderer and deserves to hang on the gallows,if that’s the case,why is it that what this traitorous self hating leftist gangster Rabin did is different?.
when it was still illegal to negotiate with the terrorist PLO swines,this leftist piece of human garbage went behind his own governments back,and negotiated an agreement with these poisonous murderous snakes,to bring them back from Tunisia by the tens of thousands,and on top of that to arm them with the latest of lethal weapons,
and the expected result happened,rivers of jewish blood flowed in our holy land, over i,200 men women and children were butchered and blown to bits by these terrorist murderous swines with arms given to them by Rabin and Peres ‘YEMACH SHEMOM”
If anyone deserved a bullet between his eyes it is none other than this traitorous murderous jew hating leftist swine Rabin.
It is frightening following some of the commentators. Oh lion, so quick to say that murder is good because of your politics. Yes, politics, not religious conviction. What will you say if there is a bombing in Yerushalayin? The Arab killed only Jews, and according to his religion they were proper targets? You, of course, are saying the same thing. Why do I think that you, and some others, are applauding from the safety of Brooklyn?
In the meantime, where are all of the others who claim that the Amirs were innocent and that Peres murdered Rabin? I guess they will wait for another news article.
The only comfort is that sooner or later someone will think you a rodeph. Perhaps because of your love of the Jewish people.
Torah does not murder. Torah has many ways to fix the world. Murdering and violating our LAWS is not a way. I am certain that the fate of the world is as it is built, but the facts are simple. This man is a cold blooded murderer or accomplice and his future is not the future of a man with G-ds vision of humanity.
It is muttar to kill an apikores, as they have a din ‘moridin v’al maalin’, and in a dor porutz, you may kill the leaders of movements away from Halacha according to the din in Ch’m…