Ireland abstained from a vote in the UN calling for international law to be observed in Palestine. Basically, giving Israel a pass to break international law and continue to commit war crimes. All EU states did. Irish people do not agree with how our government voted.
Israel has right to completely destroy Gaza,
right-wing rabbi says
RT July 23
A right-leaning Israeli rabbi has issued a religious ruling stating
that the total destruction of Gaza is justified if military leaders consider it
necessary. Rabbi Dvor Lior is considered to be one of the most extreme
far-right religious leaders.
Lior
wrote that during any war where the Jewish people deem themselves to be under
attack, they are legally allowed to fight back against the nation from which
the attack came from.
“Therefore, in a time of war, the attacked nation is
permitted to punish the enemy population with whatever measures it deems
proper, like blocking supplies or electricity. It may bomb the entire area
based on the judgment of the war minister and not wantonly put soldiers at
risk,” he wrote, adding that “deterrent measures to exterminate the
enemy” are allowed, Haaretz reported.
However, his comments did not go
unnoticed from those who disagree with his views. After his ruling was
published, Mertz Zahava Gal-On, head of a left-wing Israeli party, asked
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to launch an investigation.
“Rabbi
Dov Lior’s racist comments long ago lost the protection of the right to free
expression. These remarks follow his racist comments through the years, among
them his many comments before the murder of [Yitzhak] Rabin and support for
Baruch Goldstein,” Gal-On wrote to
Weinstein. Goldstein was the man who gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers in
Hebron in 1994.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza over the past 15 days has
so far resulted in the deaths of more than 600 Palestinians, many of them women
and children, with more than 4,500 wounded.
In comparison, around 30 Israelis
have been killed in the war, although Hamas puts the figure at 40.
Lior is a
staunch supporter of the settlement movement; he believes that all land between
the Jordan and the Mediterranean belongs to the Jewish race, and that
Palestinians have no right to live there.
"All of those who believe
in the Torah know that this land was promised solely to these people. There is
no room for another national entity in this place. There has never been a state
belonging to another people here. It belongs exclusively to the Jewish
people," Lior wrote, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.
Lior was the
spiritual teacher of Yigal Amir, who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Amir was opposed to Rabin’s signing of the Oslo peace
accords.
Lior was arrested and questioned in 2011 for endorsing a book
sanctioning the killing of non-Jews.
Please take time to watch a short speech by a former Israeli soldier.Just click on the link below.
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