MK Benny Elon (National Union) said in Knesset session that Police Chief Moshe Karadi is lying about the existence of a halakchic ruling purporting to allow violence against non-Jewish soldiers, in the event that the IDF will be called upon to uproot Jewish residents of Gaza and northern Samaria.
Calling the Police Chief a “liar” on three occasions during the Knesset session, Elon said Karadi “is spilling the blood of Yesha [Judea, Samaria and Gaza] residents. The news media has been celebrating for three days over the police chief’s media spin” about a non-existent rabbinical ruling.
“The police chief is a liar and I demand that he come out officially and deny the existence of the halachic ruling. The police chief is endangering the lives of the religious community and of those faithful to the land of Israel,” said Elon.
Ya’akov Edri, Vice Minister of Internal Security, the ministry responsible for the police department, severely criticized Elon’s use of the term ‘liar’ in the Knesset session. “You used the term ‘liar’ three times, something that is very severe. You must not say such things,” responded Edri.
The defense and security apparatus has no information that such a ruling had in fact ever been made. Despite this, the media has been playing out the disinformation for a number of days, interviewing Bedouin and Druze soldiers about how they would react if violently attacked by Yesha residents during the Gaza withdrawal. The media even interviewed a Moslem cleric in the Negev who issued a ruling that Moslem soldiers must respond with gunfire if attacked by Jewish residents.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security has already issued a statement saying that a halakhic decision allowing Jews to act violently against non-Jewish IDF soldiers “does not exist”.
Calling the Police Chief a “liar” on three occasions during the Knesset session, Elon said Karadi “is spilling the blood of Yesha [Judea, Samaria and Gaza] residents. The news media has been celebrating for three days over the police chief’s media spin” about a non-existent rabbinical ruling.
“The police chief is a liar and I demand that he come out officially and deny the existence of the halachic ruling. The police chief is endangering the lives of the religious community and of those faithful to the land of Israel,” said Elon.
Ya’akov Edri, Vice Minister of Internal Security, the ministry responsible for the police department, severely criticized Elon’s use of the term ‘liar’ in the Knesset session. “You used the term ‘liar’ three times, something that is very severe. You must not say such things,” responded Edri.
The defense and security apparatus has no information that such a ruling had in fact ever been made. Despite this, the media has been playing out the disinformation for a number of days, interviewing Bedouin and Druze soldiers about how they would react if violently attacked by Yesha residents during the Gaza withdrawal. The media even interviewed a Moslem cleric in the Negev who issued a ruling that Moslem soldiers must respond with gunfire if attacked by Jewish residents.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security has already issued a statement saying that a halakhic decision allowing Jews to act violently against non-Jewish IDF soldiers “does not exist”.