“The army should learn from the Syrians how to slaughter and
crush the enemy” - that is how Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, son of [Sefardi haredi spiritual leader] Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef, “blessed” the IDF soldiers who may soon find themselves in the Gaza Strip if a ground operation tales place.
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef: “The IDF must learn from the Syrians how to slaughter the enemy”“The army should learn from the Syrians how to slaughter and crush the enemy” - that is how Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, son of [Sefardi haredi spiritual leader] Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, “blessed” the IDF soldiers who may soon find themselves in the Gaza Strip if a ground operation tales place.
[Yaakov Yosef is close to Chabad and hard right wing Jewish settlers. For many years, he was estranged from his father, although a rapprochement of sorts between the two was reached several years ago.]
According to a report [published] on the Hakol Hayehudi [Jewish Voice extreme right wing] website [published by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane], Rabbi Yosef gave brief drasha today at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and blessed the soldiers by saying: “we warmly bless the soldiers and pray that they leave in peace and return in peace.” Immediately thereafter he said that the IDF should learn from the Syrians “how to slaughter and how to crush the enemy.”
According to the report, Rabbi Yosef said similar things in a drasha he gave in Jerusalem last weekend. Yosef was interrogated by the police in the past for alleged incitement, due to his endorsement for the book Torat Hamelech, which deals with the laws of war as laid out in the Torah. [Perhaps most infamously, the book justified the murder of Arab babies because "one day they will grow up to hate us."]