freediver wrote on Feb 8
th, 2023 at 5:12pm:
Can you cite a Rabbi claiming that verse is a general command to slaughter goyim?
I shall again quote Prof. Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion:
(The) special laws concerning Gentiles in the Land of Israel. Their connection with actual Zionist practice will be quite apparent.
The Halakhah (Jewish Law) forbids Jews to sell immovable property—fields and houses—in the Land of Israel to Gentiles...
These and several other rules are explained as follows: . . . "so that you shall not allow them to camp on the ground, for if they do not possess land, their sojourn there will be temporary."
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Even temporary Gentile presence may only be tolerated "when the Jews are in exile, or when the Gentiles are more powerful than the Jews," but
When the Jews are more powerful than the Gentiles we are forbidden to let an idolator among us; even a temporary resident or itinerant trader shall not be allowed to pass through our land unless he accepts the seven Noahide precepts,
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for it is written: "they shall not dwell in thy land"
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that is, not even temporarily. If he accepts the seven Noahide precepts, he becomes a resident alien (ger toshav) but it is forbidden to grant the status of resident alien except at times when the Jubilee is held [that is, when the Temple stands and sacrifices are offered]...
It is therefore clear that—exactly as the leaders and sympathizers of Gush Emunim say—the whole question to how the Palestinians ought to be treated is, according to the Halakhah, simply a question of Jewish power: if Jews have sufficient power, then it is their religious duty to expel the Palestinians.
All these laws are often quoted by Israeli rabbis and their zealous followers...
In addition to laws such as those mentioned so far, which are directed at all Gentiles in the Land of Israel, an even greater evil influence arises from special laws against the ancient Canaanites and other nations who lived in Palestine before its conquest by Joshua, as well as against the Amalekites. All those nations must be utterly exterminated, and the Talmud and Talmudic literature reiterate the genocidal Biblical exhortations with even greater vehemence. Influential rabbis, who have a considerable following among Israeli army officers, identify the Palestinians (or even all Arabs) with those ancient nations, so that commands like "thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth"
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acquire a topical meaning. In fact, it is not uncommon for reserve soldiers called up to do a tour of duty in the Gaza Strip to be given an "educational lecture" in which they are told that the Palestinians of Gaza are "like the Amalekites." Biblical verses exhorting to genocide of the Midianites
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were solemnly quoted by an important Israeli rabbi in justification of the Qibbiya massacre,
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and this pronouncement has gained wide circulation in the Israeli army. There are many similar examples of bloodthirsty rabbinical pronouncements against the Palestinians, based on these laws.
Chapter 5, The Laws Against Non-Jews
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. Maimonides, op. cit., "Idolatry" 10, 3-4.
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... R. Yo'el Sirkis, Bayit Hadash, commentary on Beyt Josef, "Yoreh De'ah" 158...
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. Exodus, 23:33.
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. Deuteronomy, 20:16.
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. Numbers 31:13-20; note in particular verse 17: "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him."
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. R. Sha'ul Yisra'eli, "Taqrit Qibbiya Le'or Hahalakhah" ("The Qibbiya incident in the light of the Halakhah"), in Hattorah Wehammedinah, vol 5, 1953/4.
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