"Our holy Torah teaches us that punishing the murderer is the justice and right morals. ‘Whoever sheds human blood, by a human being will his own blood be shed.’ [Genesis 9:6]. The court must not have mercy on the killer, saying that a person has already been killed and there is no point in killing the other [Maimonides Hilkhot Sanhedrin].…When in a war against a cruel enemy, we must take a firm hand against [that enemy]. ‘Don't pity them because they won't pity you [a quote from Rashi’s commentary].’”
Above: Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
29 Right-Wing Rabbis Sign Public Letter Calling On Government Of Israel To Execute Palestinian Terrorists
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
More than two dozen right-wing Israeli rabbis led by noted extremists Dov Lior, Yitzchak Ginsburgh and Yitzhak Shapira released a public letter last week calling for the execution of all Palestinian terrorists who have hurt Jews, Ynet reported.
Shapira, Ginsburgh’s top student, is the coauthor of the profoundly racist book Torat HaMelech (The King’s Torah), which among many other things rules that in a time of war the IDF can murder Arab babies sleeping their cribs because they will one day grow up to hate Jews. Both Ginsburgh and Lior strongly endorsed the book.
The public letter-cum-petition was reportedly organized by the Derech Chaim movement.
Relying primarily on the rabbinic dictum “haba lehorgecha hashkem lehorgo,” “when someone tries to kill you, kill him first,” written in the Babylonian Talmud Brachot 58a and derived from Deuteronomy 22, the right-wing rabbis rule that Palestinian terrorist who succeed in hurting or killing Jews must be killed.
"Our holy Torah teaches us that punishing the murderer is the justice and right morals. ‘Whoever sheds human blood, by a human being will his own blood be shed.’ [Genesis 9:6]. The court must not have mercy on the killer, saying that a person has already been killed and there is no point in killing the other [Maimonides Hilkhot Sanhedrin].…When in a war against a cruel enemy, we must take a firm hand against [that enemy]. ‘Don't pity them because they won't pity you [a quote from Rashi’s commentary],’” the rabbis wrote.
From the moment God gave the people of Israel diplomatic and military force, we have been obligated under halakha (Orthodox Jewish law) to select "a firm leadership which the world's nations will also respect…and not ]leadership that will act] in a confused manner which sows cowardliness and desperation, as some of the authorities and media outlets are doing.…lenient conduct encourages terror. The wild terrorists' intention is to harm the Jewish people in general, and the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel in particular - and they should therefore be treated as an enemy which must be killed, rather than taking pity on these cruel people,” the rabbis’ letter continued.
"Punishing the terrorists with a firm hand deters the enemy, ruins its hopes and prevents future attacks. It is the government's responsibility to root out this murderous disease. Even today, the State's laws allow it to impose a death sentence on terrorists, and we are demanding that the authorities fulfill their duty and carry it out in practice,” the rabbis concluded.
29 senior right-wing Zionist Orthodox and Chabad rabbis – Ginsburgh is a popular Chabad rabbi although he holds no official position in the Chabad movement – signed the public letter.
Israel's Internal Security Service (better known as the Shabak or the Shin Bet) believes that most of the racist anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian hate crimes carried out over the past few years in Israel and the West bank were committed by Ginsburgh's followers, his students, and their students.