Jerusalem – An Israeli human rights group on Monday called for the immediate dismissal of the chief military rabbi, claiming he gave soldiers fighting in Gaza pamphlets urging them to show no mercy.
Yesh Din said it had written to both Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, urging them to “take this incitement seriously and fire Chief Military Rabbi” Brigadier General Avi Ronzki.
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It said a pamphlet distributed to soldiers taking part in Operation Cast Lead stressed that the troops should show no mercy to their enemies, and that the pamphlet borders “on incitement and racism against the Palestinian people.”
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“When you show mercy to a cruel enemy you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers. These are not games at the amusement park where sportsmanship teaches one to make concessions. This is a war on murderers,” Yesh Din quoted the pamphlet as saying.
It said the pamphlet quotes at length statements by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a spiritual leader of the Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank who opposes any compromise with Palestinians.
“The Palestinians claim they deserve a state here, when in reality there was never a Palestinian or Arab state within the borders of our country,” the pamphlet quoted Aviner as saying.
The rights group said the pamphlet contains “degrading and belittling messages that border on incitement and racism against the Palestinian people. These messages can be interpreted as a call to act outside of the confines of international laws of war.”
The Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday that far right-wing groups also gave out pamphlets bearing racist messages on military bases.
It said one urged soldiers to “spare your lives and the lives of your friends and not to show concern for a population that surrounds us and harms us…”
“Kill the one who comes to kill you. As for the population, it is not innocent,” the daily quoted the pamphlet as saying.
I would tell these leftist agitators “kol hamerachem al hachzorim soifoi misachzer
al harachmanim”
and let them all go to hell.
Brigadier General Avi Ronzki is my new hero!!!
To Big Masmid–I couldn’t have said it better!! Amen!!! How dare they tell the soldiers to have mercy on these people who glorify death and killing!! May we merit to see Moshiach right now!!
human rights group??the only goup they care about is law breakers, murderurs etcetc etc
bottom line is, as long as these fake, posturing, sickening hypocrites don’t have to face the consequences of their deadly dangerous ‘mercy’ on murderers; they feel free to shrill out their feel-good, holier-than-thou pretense.
The day they come face to face with arab terror, they’ll be the ones shrieking loudest in cowardly panic, and demanding the army ‘kill the arabs’.
It’s only when other people are in danger that they can afford to cloak themselves in ‘mercy’. Afroh Le’pumeihi
About the only more moronic statement I’ve ever seen is the letter from PETA to Arafat urging him not to use donkeys for suicide missions.
The only State in the world which is being threatened with annihilation is Israel.
why do we have to justify PROTECTING ourselves.
They don’t recognize our existence, we should not treat them any differently.
AM ISRAEL HAI
This was very funny… thank you for exposing more left wing nonsense.
Kol HaKavod to this Rabbi.
Nowhere did he call to kill innocent women and children. By nature Yiden are Rachmonim Bnei Rachmonim. So by default they won’t shoot an enemy when in doubt; therefore he had to tell them to have no mercy, that if you’re in doubt of being in danger, then don’t think twice but eliminate the threat to you and your fellow soldiers. They are interpreting his words the way they want to interpret it. Everyone who knows anything about the mentality of soldiers, knows that this wasn’t a call to genocide, but a call to be fierce in battle, without rachmoness, and do the job once and for all.
The IDF has given out new instructions that anyone captured by Hamas should be murdered in cold blood by his fellow soldiers to avoid another “Shalit” case.
I guess that kind of cruelty is O.K. with this “human rights” group.
How do we get Ronzki to run for Prime Minister?
A man speaks the truth and gives wise advice and some people want to shaft him! He wasn’t speaking to kindergarten children or impressionable young boys and girls at junior high school or a group of young mothers at synagogue he was speaking to valiant warriors who were engaged in defending the people and the state of Israel. His message was appropriate for audience and context. There is a time for everything, a time for peace and a time to make war and the troops were faced with a situation that called for them to be as fierce as lions. They were not playing a competition sport for the cafe patrons’ amusement they were putting their lives on the line to face a ruthless, merciless enemy. The Rabbi is to be applauded for giving the troops support and strengthening their resolve and courage to do what they had to do in order to ensure the continuation of a free society that allows for the kind of social debate and criticism in which this human rights group is engaged.