{"id":255899,"date":"2016-07-14T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-incoming-israeli-army-chief-rabbi-accused-of-condoning-wartime-rape\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:57:59","slug":"new-incoming-israeli-army-chief-rabbi-accused-of-condoning-wartime-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/new-incoming-israeli-army-chief-rabbi-accused-of-condoning-wartime-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"New Incoming Israeli Army Chief Rabbi Accused of Condoning Wartime Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The appointment of a 59-year-old colonel as the next chief rabbi for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has caused controversy in the Israeli parliament, as the colonel has stated that the rape of women during wartime is permissible.<\/p>\n

Col. Eyal Karim is known for\u00a0his misogynistic leanings. On the religious website Kipa, Karim answers questions people send him. When asked “What are the problems with\u00a0conscripting girls to\u00a0the army?” he answered, “In a situation that existed, such as\u00a0in the War of\u00a0Independence, that exposed the nation of\u00a0Israel to\u00a0an existential threat, and the reality is defined as\u00a0actually pikuach nefesh [a Jewish concept that obligates believers to\u00a0save a life in\u00a0jeopardy, even if religious boundaries must be crossed] then women also participated in\u00a0defending the people and the country, even though the reality wasn’t so modest. But currently, we aren’t in\u00a0a situation of\u00a0actual pikuach nefesh.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added, “Because the damage to\u00a0modesty that is likely to\u00a0be caused to\u00a0a girl and to\u00a0the nation is decisive, the greats of\u00a0the generation and the chief rabbinate have ruled that girls serving in\u00a0the IDF<\/a> is completely forbidden.”<\/p>\n

But the response that caused the greatest disgust came when Karim was asked if soldiers were permitted to\u00a0rape women during\u00a0war. Karim responded that soldiers are allowed to \u201cbreach\u201d notions of\u00a0modesty and “satisfy the evil inclination by\u00a0lying with\u00a0attractive Gentile women against\u00a0their will, out\u00a0of…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The appointment of a 59-year-old colonel as the next chief rabbi for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has caused controversy in the Israeli parliament, as the colonel has stated that the rape of women during wartime is permissible. Col. Eyal Karim is known for\u00a0his misogynistic leanings. On the religious website Kipa, Karim answers questions people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}