Shmuel Eliyahu

Rabbi who called for slaughter of a million Palestinians is to supervise Israel's 'Red Cross'

A notoriously racist rabbi who called on Israel to slaughter a million Palestinian civilians is to head a committee for Magen David Adom (MDA) – Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross.

Top Israeli rabbis advocate genocide

Ali Abunimah
United States,
Chicago
31 May 2007

Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled “Israel’s House of Horrors” about the openly murderous statements of Israeli cabinet ministers. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, I read a news article on the website of The Jerusalem Post that Israel’s former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu – one of the most senior theocrats in the Jewish State “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.” EI’s Ali Abunimah comments.
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