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Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad in present-day Israel, approved rape by the military in a 2002 article that has gone largely unnoticed.

Writing on Kipa.co.il, a popular Hebrew-language website catering for religious Jews, Eliyahu contended that Israeli soldiers would lose their motivation to wage war if they are not allowed to rape non-Jewish women.

The comments were made five years before Eliyahu recommended that Israel should use massive force in Gaza.

In 2007, he said that Israel “must kill 100,000, even a million” people in Gaza if that was necessary to stop Palestinian resistance fighters from firing rockets.

Eliyahu’s 2002 comments on rape were highlighted in a recent Facebook post by Ruhama Weiss, a Jerusalem-based academic.

“Don’t weaken his spirit”
In a column called “Ask the Rabbi,” Eliyahu suggested that a biblical law authorized sexual violence under certain circumstances. He was responding to a question – apparently by one of the website’s readers – about whether women could be viewed as “war booty.”

According to Eliyahu, an Israeli soldier should be subject to few, if any, constraints when fighting a war.

“Now he has got to fight, and you shouldn’t be preaching morality to him,” he wrote. “Do it at home, before the war, and not now in the middle of the war. Don’t weaken his spirit. If you forbid him from a beautiful woman and he’s enraptured by her outer charms, then he’ll think about her and is likely to get to the point where the Jewish people will be defeated. What will you gain from that?”

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Enlil said:

This is dangerously close to a thread seeking criticisms of jews.  If it turns into that, I'm locking it.  Please tread carefully.

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Enlil said:

You chose the word "Jewish" in the title, and you chose to say that orthodox Judaism is worse than Islam.  None of that is specific or limited to Israel.

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Enlil said:

It is racist to criticize a religion.  Why are you derailing your own thread, though?

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Enlil said:

Sounds far-fetched and made up.  Not as far-fetched as 1000 men with guns raiding a music festival and not raping a single woman, but still far-fetched.

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Enlil said:

If I weren't here, you'd be talking to yourself like a street person.

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Wouldn't be the first time... Or the last!

This thread has 94 views... are those all you? I think not.

I guess I do appreciate your fellowship though, brother... Thanks for posting

Enlil said:

Dude...you know that at least 50 are you re-reading it to admire your own brilliance.

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No.



I actually had guessed it was you re-reading it to admire my own brilliance... As you so often do.

Enlil said:

This thread is now about the two of us finding common ground like brothers facing a raw deal on a shitty planet.

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