Shlomo Haim Pinto told the court he had a ‘spiritual calling’ to stab an Arab.
ed note–before any naive Gentiles buy into the notion that our would-be murderer was acting outside the confines of ‘true Judah-ism’, keep in mind the following passages from the most holy book of Judah-ism, the Torah, that explain in Kristol clear terms what the Judah-ites, Israelites, whatever combination of vowels and consonants we want to use in describing them, are to do with the Gentiles ‘polluting’ the land given to the ‘Chosen’, to wit–
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall save nothing alive that breathes…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy. You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…’–Book of Deuteronomy
Haaretz
An Israeli Jew who sought to stab an Arab but stabbed another Jew instead was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday.
Shlomo Haim Pinto, a resident of the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Ata, was convicted in December of attempted murder for the October 2015 incident.
According to the indictment, Pinto sought to attack an Arab. He picked a Supersol supermarket in Kiryat Ata as the site for his plot, believing that many Arabs work there. He entered the supermarket with a knife concealed in his sleeve, and a box cutter in his pants pocket.
Pinto came up behind his victim, Uri Razkan, a Jewish employee whom he believed to be Arab, with the knife in his hand, and stabbed him several times in the waist, the lower back and the shoulder, with the intention of killing. Razkan tried to flee, and the defendant pursued him in the supermarket with the knife in hand.
During his courtroom testimony Pinto claimed that he was being controlled by an inner voice and that he felt that he was performing a mitzvah. Later, the defendant explained that the backdrop for his actions was spiritual, as he believed that by attacking an Arab he would weaken ‘Ishmael’s emissary, and if he weakened the spiritual influence of Ishmael’s nation, there would be ‘greater mercy for the Jewish people and he would advance the redemption,’ according to the court’s ruling.
Judge Tamar Naot-Perry of the Haifa District Court said she didn’t find the “inner voice” argument credible, nor did the judges accept the claim by Pinto’s attorney that he was suffering from a mental disorder or from insanity.