The Rav of Tzfas, HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu, published an article on the severe crimes of the disgraced Military Advocate General, apart from her role in the leak of the Sdei Teiman video.
HaRav Eliyahu wrote, “Since the beginning of the war, I have accompanied dozens of families of wounded and fallen IDF soldiers, including dozens of yeshiva and kollel graduates, four of whom learned in the hesder yeshiva in Tzfas.”
“Every levaya is painful, but the most painful levayos are of soldiers who were killed because of the Military Advocate General’s distorted morality orders.”
“A wounded soldier from the yeshiva in Tzfas told me that his unit requested that the Air Force bomb a building from which they were being shot at. The Military Advocate General’s office refused to approve it. The soldiers entered the building—he was wounded, and his friends were killed. In other cases they were shot at from a house that wasn’t bombed because of the Military Advocate General and her orders. Sometimes they entered the building and encountered an ambush.”
“It is important that we know that they were killed because of orders and norms that do not exist in any army in the world. International law permits bombing buildings in which there are terrorists, and certainly Jewish law does.
“Her foolish combat orders weakened the ability of the IDF to win the war. She refused to approve attacking Gazan police officers and civilians who were partners in crimes at the outbreak of the war if they weren’t members of terror organizations. She refused to approve an attack on Shifa Hospital, and soldiers were forced to enter the building despite the fact that there was clear intelligence that it was a terror base.
“Someone needs to deliver a series of educational classes to everyone at the Military Advocate General’s office to teach them that Eretz Yisrael belongs to Am Yisrael and the rule of ‘if someone comes to kill you, kill him first.” No war can be won if we continue with the distorted morality that weakens us.
“In order to be victorious in war, we must remember that we are justified and have all the rights and duties to win against our enemies and bring them down to their knees. This is the only way in which wars end in peace.
“We must restore the true moral backbone of Israel—not the hypocritical morality of Harvard, not the distorted morality of the UN—only our true morality.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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“The Rav of Tzfas, HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu…”
The title “Rav” implies Orthodox. HaRav implies even greater chashivus.
But he is “Religious Zionist”, which is substantially different. Therefore, the article should read, at best, “Religious Zionist Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu…”
G-d Bless Moreinu HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu שליט”א who is so correct, and may President Donald Trump immediately reinstate this איש גדול’s Tourist Visa to be able to visit USA. I have merited to meet this venerated Rov in person.
I want to become sick from this article
Lost my mind on it
If they want a two or one state solution this makes them terrorist, Israel is the terrorist
A Rabbi that says that the stopper of criminal sodomy in the army is sick and not those that do it, will not protect one Jewish soul ever.
Goyim hear this and know that Israel did much more crimes than that.
They aren’t terrorist at all
It’s crazy that a Rabbi can come out brazen and say to commit genocide as clearly as walking on hot coals
UNBELIEVABLE
Can write books about it
They saying “who cares about sodomy, we have an army”
The Palestinian will have either a one state or a two state solution and FAST
I can’t express my feelings about this and get published
Can write books about this
I think you know and I know that that lady will have his place in paradise
It’s completely mind bigoling
But let me just write, first it’s obvious that Israel committed many crimes on the Palestinian
And that a Rabbi that preaches the killing and sodomy of the Palestinian in the name of God, then God himself will show us that this person will never “protect” a Jewish soul
Enough goodbye
Harav Eliyahu is a world-class talmid chochom, certainly far greater than the chutzpeniak who calls himself “Hakatan” but dares to boast that his deviant sect is the “true orthodoxy” and actual gedolei hatorah are somehow inauthentic and not “chashuv”. Let the truth be known that HaKatan and his rabbis are the deviants, those who have left orthodoxy behind.
attention moderator: please remove the blatant hatred that some commenters have posted. it doesn’t belong on a jewish site.
What makes his sect any more deviant than yours
there are top tier gedolei Yisrael- many, who have stated unequivocally that any Zionism in any shade no matter what word you add before it, is treif, tachlis hatreif
is that not deviant?