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Rabbis: Shas 'collaborating with the enemy'
Shas and other government coalition members who permitted the transfer
of armored cars and firearms to the Palestinian Authority are aiding
and abetting terrorism and will lead to the shedding of Jewish blood,
according to a Jewish legal decision issued by a group of hawkish
rabbis this week.
A Palestinian honor guard stands outside the headquarters of
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah [archive -
illustrative]
Photo: AP
The rabbis also called on IDF officers and soldiers to resist military
orders to facilitate the transferral.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak (Labor) said last week he had agreed to
the transfer of new military vehicles and equipment to Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces as well as to the
easing of travel restrictions for West Bank residents.
In addition, Palestinian police will receive Kalashnikov rifles,
rubber bullets and night-vision equipment, according to Army Radio.
Barak said the roster included equipment for Abbas's forces, including
his elite Presidential Guard, and new vehicles, some of them armored.
Barak's office said he discussed the items with PA Prime Minister
Salaam Fayad but no details were provided regarding types or amounts.
The rabbinic decision which does not specifically mention Shas but
indirectly targets the Sephardi haredi party as a government coalition
member is another example of pressure from the Right on Shas to leave
the government coalition. So far, Shas has managed to deflect right-
wing criticism by proving that it can obtain concessions beneficial to
the Right by remaining in the coalition.
Shas managed to remove the freeze on building in Givat Ze'ev, a
northern Jerusalem neighborhood. Shas also received a promise from
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that a freeze on building in Betar Illit
would be lifted.
However, the very fact that Shas remains in a government coalition
that makes concessions to the Palestinian Authority, such as the
removal of security checkpoints and other easing of restrictions, is
considered a betrayal in the eyes of many right-wing rabbis.
The transferral of armored cars and firearms to the Palestinian
Authority as a means of strengthening it vis a vis Hamas has aroused a
group of rabbis to issue a halachic decision that deems Shas's
political behavior unlawful according to Jewish law.
Chief Rabbi of Hebron-Kiryat Arba Dov Lior and Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head
of the Kiseh Rachamim Yeshiva, an influential spiritual leader and
kabbalist, were two of the most prominent signatories.
The other rabbis were Ya'acov Yosef, son of Shas mentor Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef, David Druckman, rabbi of the Kiryat Motzkin neighborhood near
Haifa and Shalom Dov Wolpe, a messianic Chabad rabbi.
"There is a severe prohibition against transferring to Arabs any kind
of military equipment," wrote the rabbis. "Anyone who does so (whether
by voting in favor of the transferral in the government or making it
possible logistically) is an accomplice to bloodshed and a
collaborator with the enemy."
In response, Shas spokesman Ro'i Lachmanovitch said that his party
follows the halachic decisions of its own spiritual leaders.
"We are obligated to adhere to them and only to them. The halachic
opinion of the right-wing rabbis will be published in a weekly called
Eretz Yisrael Shelanu [The Land of Israel is Ours] which is
distributed in synagogues across the nation.
The rabbis' decision was made public in response to the government's
decision to transfer armored cars and guns to the Palestinian
Authority as part of US-brokered peace negotiations.
"The present government is going ahead with the transferral despite
clear evidence that Palestinian Authority police were responsible for
several terrorist attacks against Jews recently. These include the
murder of the righteous Ido Zoldan and Achikam Amichai and David
Rubin, may God avenge their deaths. The government is doing this
despite knowing that the guns will eventually find their way to Hamas
soldiers."

 Rabbis: Shas 'collaborating with the enemy'
devo scusarmi con nahum, effettivamente il partito clericale SHas è
troppo di sinistra per certa gente...