Israel formally charged Jack Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders, and two bombings. It has not yet charged him with other crimes in which he is believed to be implicated, murdering two policemen and aiding the killing spree at the Tel Aviv gay community center.
I have heard no evidence that Jack Teitel is mentally insane, but given this statement he’s certainly deranged:
“It was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God,” said Teitel at the Jerusalem courthouse. “I have no regret and no doubt that God is pleased.”
I know the old Gaelism “God loves a drunk,” but I’d never heard that God loves a terrorist or that he loves a killer. What kind of God is this? What kind of twisted, deformed God loves ridding the world of His creatures merely because they are not Jewish or not heterosexual?
Let my pro-settler readers attempt to claim that Teitel represents no one but himself. But the rest of us know it isn’t true. Just a day or so ago an Orthodox settler rabbi wrote that it is permissible under halacha to kill Gentiles who endanger Jews, even permissible to kill CHILDREN! Tinkering a bit with the Maariv headline, I call this The Compleat Guide to Killing Goyim. What kind of monsters have we Jews become that our “spiritual leaders” talk, like Jonathan Swift, of consuming the flesh of babies?
Rabbi Shapira, for all I know or care, may well picture goyim babies with cloven hooves (and the prerequisite horns – or is that exclusive Christian imagery?), but it would be a bit far fetched to assume he imagines them chewing the cud, so no eating babies for him.
Your comparison with Swift is rather insulting though. The “Modest Proposal” was trenchant and bitter satire, its author one of the Good Guys. The Teitels and Shapiras are rather like the targets of Swift’s scorn.
And where is Yaccov? No comment?
Where are all those who proclaim, and exclaim, that Israel is the defender of the all the Jews in the world, and requires not only steadfast defense, even to the US taking on other nations in war, but the ability to track down and kill, extra-judicially, anyone, anywhere.
Where now the defenders of political assassination?
Marshalling, without doubt, their next line of attack, new PR, and/or a handy-dandy diversion of suitably awe-inspiring dimensions.