[Peace] Call for help from Ram Rahat-Goodman

[Meridith Kruse]

There's a Limit to Incitement Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: It's permissible to kill
refuseniks  Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of the most important of the Judea and
Samaria Rabbis (the West Bank), published an article that permitted killing
soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories. "We are in a state
of war, and it is forbidden to criticize the army" wrote Rabbi Aviner in the
bulletin "B'ahava u'bemuna" (In Love and Faith), that is distributed in
thousands of copies in synagogues throughout  Israel. "Woe to the informer,
woe to the refuser. Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the head of the Wolozin
Academy, wrote that one who weakens  the hand of the commander is liable to
death, since he endangers the entire nation. Rabbi Aviner's words of
incitement, and his permit of bloodletting against those who refuse to take
part in the Occupation, reminds us of distant days - when internal hate
caused the destruction of the Temple - and not so distant days, when similar
religious judgments were issued against the late Prime Minister Yitzchak
Rabin. Yesh Gvul demands that Attorney-General Rubinstein order the Police
to investigate the Rabbi Aviner's words of incitement - words that are
intolerable in a democratic society. We demand that Aviner be put on trial,
and wonder if after the next political assassination, the Attorney-General
will claim "I didn't know" , that he didn't understand the handwriting on
the wall and that it was only a matter of some "rotten apples" and not the
persistent incitement of the rabbis of the Occupied Territories. We also
wish to point out that only last week members of the "Young Likud" filed a
complaint of bribery to the Police against Yesh Gvul. This was followed by a
campaign of threats against Israeli musicians who were supposed to perform
at the Yesh Gvul concert, by groups such as the Israeli Students and
Academics Organization. Yesh Gvul sees Aviner's words as the natural
continuation of these anti-democratic acts. We call on all decent people to
oppose these actions. Yishai Menuhin - Ram Rahat-Goodman
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=188225&contrassID
=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0   For updates visit Yesh Gvul's
website:
http://www.yesh-gvul.org====================================================
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