Leading Israeli rabbi Haim Druckman called on national TV to ‘release the children’ suspected of stoning to death Palestinian mother-of-seven Aisha Rabi – because they’re ‘not terrorists.’ His behavior is an inexcusable perversion of Jewish values

ed note–as we like to say here in starting off a conversation such as this, please take a good, long, considerate look at the quote featured in the pic above. It is not from the Kabbalah, the Zohar, the Talmud or from the ‘Clean Break’ document. It is not something attributed in the last 100 or so years to ‘Zionists’ such as Herzel, Jabotinsky, Sharon, Begin, Shamir, Netanyahu, Shaked, or Bennett.

It literally is as old as Judaism itself and has been sitting there in exactly the same language as it appears above as an open secret now for thousands of years for Gentiles–in the interests of their own survival–to read and consider for themselves without intoxicating agents such as emotions, religious sentimentality or irrationality that inevitably clouds, confuses, and consternates a proper understanding of something that is as much an existential threat to all humanity as are the razor blades on full display in the wide, open, smiling mouth of a Great White shark.

Now, as it pertains the little schtick in which our unesteemed Rabbi is engaged, let us dissect a few ‘goodies’ offered for Gentile-consumption–

1. Yoffie’s criticism of Drukman claiming that the Joosh yoots are not ‘terrorists’.

From the Judaic standpoint, Drukman is 666% correct. The Torah is clear on this matter–kill all Gentiles–and Yoffie knows this, given that he is a trained-n-ordained rebbe. This is typical Judaic wizardry and black magic injected into the mental bloodstream of Gentiledom leading to confusion of otherwise clear issues by throwing out there for endless, useless debate the notion that ‘Judaism is not Zionism’.

Nexto–

‘Worst of all, given your position as a religious leader and a man of Torah, your words may be taken by some to suggest that the Jewish tradition takes a forgiving approach to the crime committed near Rehelim. Many of the young people of Rehelim, and the murderous circles of “hilltop youth” in which they travel, have already embraced this perverse view of our sacred teachings.’

Again, please consider the quote featured in the pic above, taken verbatim from the Torah which forms the basis of the ‘sacred teachings’ which Yoffie references. In short, he is lying–surprise surprise, given what we know about fish swimming and bids flying.

Nexto–

‘Rabbi Druckman, your job is not to excuse the inexcusable. It is to teach these young people Torah – and that means the Torah of truth, and not the Torah of murderous zealotry.’

Again, Drukman is correct, as well as the yoots who murdered the Goy woman–Judaism commands extermination. Yoffie is lying, surprise, surprise.

Nexto–

‘Who are the rabbis who teach, enable, and empower these unhinged zealots? Who are the teachers that allow out-of-control youth, supposedly operating with a mantle of Torah but in fact freed of Torah’s moral constraints, to believe that unspeakable crimes can be seen as justified acts of retribution, sanctioned by our Jewish tradition?’

No need to deconstruct and repeat what has already appeared, other than to say the following–Yoffie is lying and this is PE evidence of ‘how they do it’.

Nexto–

‘Despite the explicit commandment to do battle found in the Torah, we are commanded to show compassion to our enemy and not to kill him except when compelled to do so by the need for self-defense and victory. And we must not cause any harm to the non-combatant population. And surely it is forbidden to hurt women and children who are not participating in the hostilities.’

It is an established fact (as discussed by various Judaic authorities, including Professor Peter Schaefer in his book ‘Jesus in the Talmud’)  that there are many, many places in the Talmud where passages were inserted that give the APPEARANCE of negating otherwise clear and unequivocal hatred of Gentiles, but which–to the initiated–carries a different (and sometimes opposite) meaning entirely. The smart money says that this is exactly what encompasses the passage cited by the lying rebbe Yoffie.

Furthermore, and of equal importance, is that Gentiles understand the historical context of the Talmud’s creation. It was compiled in the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, a time period wherein Jews were (correctly and justifiably) viewed by the empire as the threat that they were and where their very lives–both in the collective and individual sense–hung by a thread. The rabbis responsible for compiling the Talmud knew this to be the case and therefore left instructions in written form to restrain the otherwise violent tendencies of Jews while living amidst the Gentiles for fear that if the kibosh was not put on the the more violent manifestations of Torah teaching/adherence that not a single Joo would survive the impending fever of the Gentile body politic.

In sum, what all of this represents is prima facie evidence of ‘how they do it’. As a trained rebbe, Yoffie better than anyone else KNOWS exactly what kinds of ingredients go into making up this deadly voodoo stew known as Judaism, just a small spoonful of which is proffered in clear, unequivocal language in the pic above. He knows all about the various commandments appearing in the Torah that are read throughout the year in every sin-a-gogue on God’s green earth commanding the Hebrews, Shebrews, Israelites, Jews, Kay-zars, Lay-zars, Schmay-zars–whatever combination of consonants and vowels we want to use in describing them–to go forth and stain their swords red with the blood of Gentiledom, and especially those in the Middle East whose very presence on even as much as a booger-sized piece of clay between the Nile and Euphrates is considered an affront to yahweh and who must be eradicated in toto, to wit– 

‘Now go, and smite with the sword the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, not one. Put to death the men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’–1 Samuel

Again this is not Kabbalah, the Zohar, the Talmud or ‘Clean Break’…It is not Herzel, Jabotinsky, Sharon, Begin, Shamir, Netanyahu, Shaked, or Bennett, but rather yahweh, the ‘god’ of the Jews, and our less-than-honest rebbe knows this to be the case, but also knows that this modern age–and with it the availability of instantaneous information leading to ‘full disclosure’–threatens to begin a chain reaction of sorts that could actually result in Gentiledom beginning the process of discovery resulting in a new ‘age of enlightenment’ that is thousands of years behind schedule where Joodism is as much a thing of the past as Smallpox, polio and leprosy.

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie for Haaretz

Rabbi Haim Druckman, I have read with wonder and dismay your widely reported statements on the teenage yeshiva students arrested for allegedly murdering a Palestinian mother of seven children in October of 2018.

Aisha Rabi was, according to news reports, struck in the head and killed by a rock as she rode with her husband and two daughters near the Jewish settlement of Rehelim. Israel’s Shin Bet security service has taken into custody five students of Pri Haaretz, a yeshiva high school in Rehelim, on suspicion of throwing the rocks that killed Mrs. Rabi.

Many in the settler movement have rushed to the defense of the students, but no voice has been more prominent than your own.

When the students were initially detained, you publicly demanded, even as you acknowledged that an interrogation might be called for, that the prime minister “order the immediate release of the children.” The reason they should be released, you said, was that ‘they are not terrorists.’

Your statement was interesting on many levels.

I saw no hint of the revulsion that you should have been feeling and that, I hope and believe, most religious Zionists in Israel were feeling about the terrible crime that the yeshiva students were arrested for allegedly committing.

It is true that in this pre-election season, most of Israel’s right-wing leaders have chosen to be silent about the horrors of the murder, reserving their concern for the alleged perpetrators rather than the alleged victims. Nonetheless, I would have hoped that you, as a rabbi and educator, would have set an example by expressing both compassion for the grieving family and abhorrence at the violent act that led to Mrs. Rabi’s death.

I was struck too by your reference to the accused as “children.” Your intention obviously was to generate sympathy for the supposed suffering of the young people who, it is true, are minors. But it is important to note that when Palestinian youths commit abominable crimes that cry out for condemnation from all civilized people, we in the Jewish community hardly ever refer to them as “children.”

We refrain from doing so because it is a linguistic trick; the term implies innocence and the indiscretions of youth. And we know that teenagers who carry out brutal murders are not entitled to our sympathy or to be excused on the grounds of immaturity.

And I was most distraught by your statement that the young men ‘are not terrorists.’ How could you say this?

It is true, of course, that they have as yet been convicted of nothing and are entitled to a presumption of innocence. It may be determined, after appropriate judicial proceedings, that they are guilty of no crime. But how can you know that now?

And the wording of your statement suggested that you uttered it as an unconditional declaration, regardless of what transpires in the legal system. In other words, even if they turn out to be guilty, you refuse to see them as terrorists.

But this is an appalling proclamation, and one that makes a mockery of every discussion of terrorism ever held in Israel. When an Arab throws a rock for the purpose of maiming and killing, it is a terrorist attack. And when a Jew throws a stone for the same purpose, he is a terrorist in precisely the same way that an Arab is.

Worst of all, given your position as a religious leader and a man of Torah, your words may be taken by some to suggest that the Jewish tradition takes a forgiving approach to the crime committed near Rehelim. Many of the young people of Rehelim, and the murderous circles of “hilltop youth” in which they travel, have already embraced this perverse view of our sacred teachings.

And your words can serve only to strengthen their conviction that they operate with the backing of rabbinic authority when they engage in the politics of vigilantism, the harassment and physical intimidation of innocents, and outright acts of Jewish terror that have grown fivefold over the last year.

Who are the rabbis who teach, enable, and empower these unhinged zealots? Who are the teachers that allow out-of-control youth, supposedly operating with a mantle of Torah but in fact freed of Torah’s moral constraints, to believe that unspeakable crimes can be seen as justified acts of retribution, sanctioned by our Jewish tradition?

There cannot be many such rabbis, but apparently there are enough to feed the sickness that keeps these young extremists going, and enough mainstream rabbis who choose to remain silent rather than putting an end, in the name of God, to this hillul hashem.

If you will permit me to suggest it, Rabbi Druckman, your job is not to excuse the inexcusable. It is to teach these young people Torah – and that means the Torah of truth, and not the Torah of murderous zealotry.

A good place to start might be “Meshiv Milchamah,” a book of responsa by Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Rabbi Goren, of course, was the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the IDF and later the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Having served in the military in three wars, he knew first-hand about how Judaism is to be practiced even in the most difficult times, when Jews may be under attack.

In the volume noted above, he discusses the famous midrash (Sanhedrin 39b) in which God instructs the ministering angels not to rejoice after the Egyptians, pursuing the Israelites as they flee Egypt, are drowned in the sea.

From this midrash, Rabbi Goren concludes that when Jews go out to war, they are obligated to fight their enemies with all their heart and all their might, but they are forbidden to rejoice when doing so. Yet Goren takes the point a step farther:

“Despite the explicit commandment to do battle found in the Torah, we are commanded to show compassion to our enemy and not to kill him except when compelled to do so by the need for self-defense and victory. And we must not cause any harm to the non-combatant population. And surely it is forbidden to hurt women and children who are not participating in the hostilities.”

Goren, in other words, makes completely clear the prohibition against killing civilians in time of war. And in fact, he also extends this prohibition to include the killing of an enemy soldier if it is not required during the actual fighting – an extraordinary humanitarian judgment.

Goren then goes on to discuss whether the commandment in Deuteronomy 20:17 to kill all the members of the seven Canaanite nations, a commandment repeated by Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah, can ever be used as justification for taking the lives of non-Jews who live in the Land of Israel in our day.

His position on this point is emphatic: “We are not to harm the non-combatant population (in the Land of Israel), and one can learn no lessons from wars fought in ancient times…One cannot, heaven forbid, conclude anything from other, (earlier) wars concerning wars in our time…We are commanded by law to walk in the paths of the Holy One, Blessed be He, and to show mercy to His creations, as it is written: ‘God’s mercy is upon all God’s works.'” (Psalms 145:9)

Rabbi Druckman, should not the responsa of Rabbi Goren be taught in the Pri Haaretz yeshiva in Rehelim? And if they were, is it not at least possible that some of those alleged rock-throwing killers might have learned from the wisdom of his teachings, and chosen another course for their lives?

In any case, if Rabbi Goren were alive today, I have no doubt that he would not be embracing the alleged murderers, excusing the crimes of which they have been accused, dismissing their deeds as the work of “children,” and demanding gentleness rather than justice from the authorities authorized by the Jewish state to enforce the law.

Instead of coddling them, he would be condemning their actions – as Torah demands and as justice requires.