Max Blumenthal on the Torat Ha’Melech
September 3rd, 2010 § 1 Comment
During a recent appearance on Antiwar Radio author and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal discusses his recent article on the Torat Ha’Melech, or the King’s Torah, a 230 page “guidebook” for Jews who are considering killing non-Jews.
According to Blumenthal:
As soon as it was published late last year,Torat Ha’Melech sparked a national uproar. The controversy began when an Israeli tabloid panned the book’s contents as “230 pages on the laws concerning the killing of non-Jews, a kind of guidebook for anyone who ponders the question of if and when it is permissible to take the life of a non-Jew.” According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, “Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and should be killed in order to “curb their evil inclinations.” “If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,” Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: “There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”
Read more here.
Hmmm this makes me think. If (a) it’s all right to kill a baby because it might grow up to be your enemy and (b) there’s a good chance any babies who grow up in the Rabbi’s community might think like he does and want to enslave or kill me then (c) it’s all right to kill the babies in the Rabbi’s community. You can’t argue with logic. I guess Himmler was right!