Israeli Rabbis Debate Book on Killing Non-Jews and Children

On August 18th, at the Ramada Hotel in central Jerusalem, leading Israeli rabbis gathered

to defend the publication of a book by one of their peers that cited rabbinic sources

to justify the killing of non-Jews, including innocent children and families.

The book was published on August 18th in the Ramada Hotel in central Jerusalem, leading

Israeli rabbis to justify the killing of non-Jews, including innocent children and families.

The book was published on August 18th in the Ramada Hotel in central Jerusalem, leading

Israeli rabbis to justify the killing of non-Jews, including innocent children and families.

What happened here, what this was, was a desecration of the Torah.

The Torah is a Torah of peace.

And what we heard here was that most of the people didn't read the book, and they said

what's important is the Asmot HaTorah, is that nobody should criticize anybody who

writes anything about it, especially if he's a Rav.

And what we're saying is we've read the book, we know what the book says.

The book calls for killing innocent children.

There's no fine distinctions made here.

It's a book of racist statements in the name of the Torah.

But there is such a concept in Jewish law as any population, and under very, very specific

circumstances according to various rabbinic opinions, it would be seemingly permissible

to kill children.