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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					22/01/2011 &#8211; 12:54 AM ] </span></td>
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<td align="center"><span class="IMG_TITLE_Comm">Graffiti by extremist Jewish settlers in Hebron reads: “Gas the Arabs .. JDL” </span></td>
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<div class="AuthorStyle_inside">By Khalid Amayreh</div>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;">Imagine, just imagine, the outcry that  would follow an imagined call by a European Muslim or Christian  religious leader suggesting sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to  concentration camps.  The Sheikh or priest or  bishop would be  lambasted  beyond imagination, and his  denomination  or church  would  immediately distance itself from his foolish remarks.</p>
<p>Political  authorities would also declare that Nazi-minded Sheikh or bishop has no  place in modern Europe and that governments would nip the hateful and  racist elements in the bud. In short, he would be looked upon  as a  pariah, to say the very least. He even might be forced to commit suicide  under public pressure.</p>
<p>As to Jewish circles, their protests would be clarion and omnipresent.</p>
<p>But  how would things look like if such a call took place in Israel and was  made by a popular rabbi, with hundreds of thousands of followers?</p>
<p>According  to a weekly Hebrew magazine, several rabbis, including the rabbi of  Safad, Shmuel Eliyahu,  recently proposed  the establishment of death  camps for the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The magazine indicated that the creation of these camps would be the duty of all devout Jews.</p>
<p>The  Yedeot Ahronot&#8217;s YNet on Saturday, 15 January quoted the rabbis  as  stating that the Torah requires Jews to wipe out any trace of the  so-called<em> Amalek</em> in Palestine . Many religious Jews refer to their perceived or real enemies as <em>Amalek</em>.</p>
<p>The YNet quoted Jewish intellectual Audi Aloni as saying that calls for the extermination of Palestinians are <em>openly made in the synagogues</em> as the genocidal idea has become a practical option.</p>
<p>&#8220;No  one objected to Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad and Rabbi  Shlomo Aviner, Chief Rabbi of Beit El, who undersigned the advisory  opinion, which suggested approval for their opinion.&#8221;</p>
<p>I realize  that these evil men don&#8217;t represent Jews everywhere, nor do they even  represent the entire rabbinic community. There are many esteemed rabbis  who reject outright the satanic mindset permeating through the landscape  of the sick minds of people like Elyahu,  his cohorts and evil  colleagues.</p>
<p>The Torah, after all, was supposed to be a light  upon humanity. But when it becomes, thanks to those rabbis of Satan, a  tool for genocide, there is obviously a huge catch-22 hanging over  Judaism&#8217;s conscience.</p>
<p>Again, the fact that these nefarious  rabbis don&#8217;t represent the entirety of Judaism is no guarantee that  their damage will be limited. A fool man&#8217;s fire could frustrate a  thousand wise men who wouldn&#8217;t know how to put it off.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t  this the way the holocaust started? It didn&#8217;t start with concentration  camps, or even with Kristalnacht.  Such death camps as Auschwitz ,  Treblinka, Mauthauzen and Bergen Belsen became only known much later.</p>
<p>The  purpose of this small piece is not to vilify or demonize Jews. Nor am I  particularly enthusiastic about hurling Nazi epithets at Jews. However,  nothing should be further from truth.</p>
<p>The call for sending  millions of Palestinians to concentration camps means that a sizeable  segment of the Israeli Jewish society is capable, at least mentally, of  embarking on the unthinkable. It means that a real Jewish holocaust  against the Palestinian people is not outside the realm of imagination.</p>
<p>This  matter is well known, even known too well for us who live in this part  of the world. After all, Israel demonstrated two years ago, during its  Nazi-like onslaught on the Gaza Strip, that it could do the unthinkable.</p>
<p>And  that was not the first time Israel behaved manifestly nefariously. In  2006, during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon , the Israeli air force  dropped more than 2,000,000 cluster bomblets on South Lebanon civilian  areas, arguably enough to kill or maim at least  2 million Lebanese  children.</p>
<p>The scant media coverage of the latest diabolic  statements by the rabbis of evil in no way lessens their gravity and  seriousness. After all, these are not marginal or isolated figures in  society.</p>
<p>In fact, paying not sufficient attention to this  phenomenon is tantamount to encouraging it. If Germans and others had  not kept silence in the late 1920s and early 1930s, many things wouldn&#8217;t  have occurred.</p>
<p>I would want to be cautious drawing historical  analogy between every thing happening in Israel today and everything  that happened in Europe several decades ago.  However, there are certain  parallels that shouldn&#8217;t escape our attention, and the latest  outrageous statements by these diabolical rabbis are one of them.</p>
<p>Let  no one say that words are innocuous and can&#8217;t kill; nay, words can kill  and do kill. A few years ago, a Jewish immigrant from France  decapitated a Palestinian cabby from East Jerusalem after the  taxi-driver gave the killer a ride to his home north of Tel Aviv. And  when the murderer was eventually arrested and interrogated by the  police, he said he heard his neighborhood synagogue rabbi say that the  lives of non-Jews had no sanctity.</p>
<p>More to the point, it is  abundantly clear that thousands of Israeli soldiers would rather heed  and obey their respective rabbis&#8217; homilies than their army superiors&#8217;  instructions when it comes to treating Palestinians. This fact was  revealed during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza two years ago when Israeli  soldiers knowingly and deliberately murdered innocent civilians,  including children, by the hundreds.</p>
<p>But this is not the time  for demonization; it is rather the time for action. Jewish leaders of  all orientations should speak up as strongly as possible against those  who are besmirching the good name of their religion.</p>
<p>The likes  of Shmuel Eliyahu must be told that there is no place in Judaism for  those who advocate genocide for non-Jews. In the final analysis, when  Jews or anybody else think or behave or act like the Nazis acted, they  simply become Nazis themselves.</p>
<p>Finally, Jews shouldn&#8217;t keep  silent in the face of these abominations just because the media and  public opinion in the West are more or less keeping silent. Well, since  when a moral stance was decided by other people&#8217;s apathy or silence?    In fact, the immoral silence of much of the west toward what is  happening in Israel these days is bad and dangerous for Jews and their  future.</p>
<p>Anything that causes moral desensitization to occur is definitely bad.  This is to put it extremely mildly. </span></td>
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