American Board of Rabbis Calls for the Elimination of All Terrorist Heads
American Board of Rabbis President Rabbi Mordechai Friedman demands the elimination of terrorist heads Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah), Ramadan Salah (Islamic Jihad), Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi (Hamas) and PLO's master terrorist Yassir Arafat, among others.
New York (PRWEB) March 25, 2004 -- Citing a Talmudic passage from Avoda Zora
18a, Rabbi Mordechai Friedman reads “Whoever has the ability to rebuke evil and
does not rebuke evil will be punished,” and takes it to heart. In a dramatic and
unanimous vote of the American Board of Rabbis, the New York-based Rabbinic
association agreed on a statement urging Israel and the United States to
“Eliminate all Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and terrorist leaders
immediately, including Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah), Ramadan Salah
(Islamic Jihad), Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi (Hamas) and PLO's master terrorist
Yassir Arafat.” The strong statement comes on the wake of Israel's killing of
Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
In the United Nations Tuesday, the
United States rejected a council statement condemning the killing. The statement
had been put forward by Algeria, the lone Arab member of the 15-nation Council,
at the request of the Palestinians. Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, named as Hamas’ new
chief for the Gaza Strip, vowed that the Hamas terrorists group would take every
opportunity to attack Israeli interests, local and abroad. In response, the US
State Department issued a worldwide advisory to Americans overseas of increasing
threats from terrorist organizations such as Hamas and al-Qaida.
“We dare
not tolerate the murder of Jewish children, women and men,” states Rabbi
Friedman. “Since the Holocaust, Jews have not been murdered as these terrorist
Islamic factions are doing now.” According to the Israeli government, Yassin's
Hamas terrorists have carried out 425 attacks in Israel, including 52 suicide
bombings, over the last three and a half years, killing 377 Israelis and
wounding 2,076. Even US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, commented
"Let's remember that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Sheik Yassin has
himself, personally, we believe, been involved in terrorist
planning."
Additionally, the American Board of Rabbis endorses “the
relocation of all Arab occupiers out of the Jewish biblical territories, and the
annexation of all liberated territories given by G-d to the Jewish people back
into Israel.” In the first book of the Bible, Genesis 15:18, it states “G-d made
a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from
the Egyptian River as far as the great river, the Euphrates.’” Judea and Samaria
(the West Bank) and Gaza all fall within these boundaries,” declares Rabbi
Friedman.
Contact:
Rabbi Mordechai Friedman
(646)
996-4040
American Board of Rabbis
292 5th Avenue - 4th Floor
New
York, New York 10001
Tel (212) 714-3598
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