Carpet bomb Gaza, "If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand,"

The Nazi Rabbi (his son isn't kidding either) former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu - this is no backwoods redneck, but the voice of the mainstream middle east Jewry has some forthright views about Arabs.

A MUST READ ARTICLE by Kahlid Amayreh, (lifted direct here from Peace Palestine) it begins like this:

"Shortly before Israeli occupation soldiers in cold blood murdered two Gaza children, who apparently were searching for scrap metal to sell for a few cents in order to help feed their impoverished families, the former Chief rabbi of Israel, Mordechai Elyahu, urged the Israeli army and government to use the “Nazi choice” against Palestinians.

Elyahu reportedly petitioned the Israeli government to carry out a series of carpet bombings of Palestinian population centers in Gaza, arguing that a ground invasion of the world’s most crowded spot would endanger Israeli soldiers."

The source for this information, the Jerusalem Post:

Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza
Matthew Wagner - May. 30, 2007

All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.

The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision.

According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.

The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza.

Eliyahu could not be reached for an interview. However, Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, who is chief rabbi of Safed, said his father opposed a ground troop incursion into Gaza that would endanger IDF soldiers. Rather, he advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Kassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life.

"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."

In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them."

Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses."

Lord Patel warns you to remember Former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu issued a threat against politicians who would dare to cede land to Arabs. Addressing pulsa denura ([pseudo-]Kabbalistic death curse) ceremonies on March 2nd 2006 performed against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Eliyahu said: "There is no person in the world who can perform a pulsa denura. The only one able to do a pulsa denura is the Land of Israel." "In the past, some leaders undermined the land of Israel and gave away parts of it, and later they suffered grave disasters," the rabbi said at the time.

Ariel Sharon is currently in a vegetative coma having been replaced by Mr Olmert to whom the rabbi addressed his recent letter letter.

The BBC (10/4/2001)reported the spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, calling for the annihilation of Arabs.

"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable," he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered on Monday to mark the Jewish festival of Passover.