A senior Israeli rabbi says Tel Aviv should execute Palestinians instead of arresting them and “leave no one alive” in order to establish safety in the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian media report.
“Israeli army has to stop arresting Palestinians,” Shmuel Eliyahu said in a message posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, adding, “but, it must execute them and leave no one alive,” Palestine News Network reported.
As chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Eliyahu is known for his racist behavior and remarks about Arabs and Muslims. He had earlier urged the Zionist regime to take “revenge” against Arabs in order to restore what he called Israel’s deterrence.
He also described Palestinians as the enemy of Zionist regime and claimed that they “must be destroyed and crushed in order to end violence.”
In 2012, he was charged for making racist statements as he called the Arab culture “cruel” and accused Arabs of having “violent norms” which “have turned into ideology.”
Eliyahu alleged that Arabs steal farm equipment belonging to Jews and blackmail farmers.
However, the Israeli Justice Ministry dropped the charges against him, claiming that reporters ‘may’ have changed his statements.
source : irib
