Puppet Masters
"Israeli army has to stop arresting Palestinians," Shmuel Eliyahu said in a message posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, adding, "but, it must execute them and leave no one alive," Palestine News Network reported.
As chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Eliyahu is known for his racist behavior and remarks about Arabs and Muslims. He had earlier urged the Israeli regime to take "revenge" against Arabs in order to restore what he called Israel's deterrence.
He also described Palestinians as the enemy of Israel and claimed that they "must be destroyed and crushed in order to end violence. If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand. 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," the Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying in 2007.
In 2012, he was charged for making racist statements as he called the Arab culture "cruel" and accused Arabs of having "violent norms" which "have turned into ideology." Eliyahu alleged that Arabs steal farm equipment belonging to Jews and blackmail farmers.
"The minute you make room for Arabs among Jews, it takes five minutes before they start to do whatever they want," he purportedly said.
However, the Israeli Justice Ministry dropped the charges against him, claiming that reporters 'may' have changed his statements.
Back in December, the Jerusalem Post quoted Eliyahu as saying, "Should we leave them (Palestinians) alive in order to then free them in another gesture to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? The fact that they still have a desire to commit ... attacks shows that we are not operating strongly enough."
On his Facebook page, he also called for the prosecution of those Israeli forces that keep Palestinians alive, saying, "We must not allow a Palestinian to survive after he was arrested. If you leave him alive, there is a fear that he will be released and kill other people... We must eradicate this evil from within our midst."
The comments come as tensions have been running high across the occupied Palestinian lands in recent months over Tel Aviv's imposition of restrictions on Palestinian worshipers' entry into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in August last year.
More than 160 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of last October.
Reader Comments
My God does not wish this upon anyone, no matter how personally offensive they may be.
My God is the God of Abraham but this man who calls himself a rabbi is from the synagog of satan. He sold his soul to Baal and to Baal may it go, and quickly.
THE CHOSEN ONES SPEAK FROM THE MOST MORAL DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. ?
"All or nothing"? Yes, I believe even psychopathic Israel would be forced to bend under the weight of that determination. The World would have to concede, do we stand by whilst Israel annihilates the whole Nation of Palestinians, the rightful residents of these ancient homelands, or do we finally intercede to kick Israel into the twenty first century.The World has been complicit in this struggle for too long, we have taken too many Israeli pieces of gold and shekels, and, to their everlasting shame, this includes all other Arab and Muslim States World wide. I for one would like to hear the protestations and arguments all other Arab and Muslim states will advance to explain or justify, their lack of action to support Palestinian justice; lets call upon them to speak and explain. Do not use the excuse relating to Israeli possession of nuclear weapons, that is irrelevant, especially if the World will unite against this Israeli oppression; will they "nuke" the whole world? Also tell me this, which Nation will they occupy next? and, where will they stop? Read their history of pronouncements over the last one hundred years; read their religious texts, they see themselves as the "chosen" race, and everyone else exists either to "serve" them or be dead. Now think where have you heard those teachings before. Israel must be brought down to Earth, so it must be "All or nothing".All Peace negotiations are a farce simply used to punctuate the periods of Palestinian death and destruction.
"The minute you make room for Arabs among Jews, it takes five minutes before they start to do whatever they want," he purportedly said.
The minute you make room for Jews among Arabs, it takes ONE minute before they start to do whatever they want.