{"id":396645,"date":"2019-02-21T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rule-of-the-rabbis-fuels-holy-war-in-israel-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:56:09","slug":"rule-of-the-rabbis-fuels-holy-war-in-israel-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rule-of-the-rabbis-fuels-holy-war-in-israel-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rule of the Rabbis\u2019 Fuels Holy War in Israel \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Palestinians, the secular and women all face a harsher environment as theocratic tendencies are entrenched, writes Jonathan Cook.<span id=\"more-33502\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/jonathan-cook\/\">By <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JonathanCook<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/\">Jonathan-Cook.net<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook-130x130.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28879\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28879\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook-130x130.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a>I<\/strong><\/span>n which country did a senior, state-salaried cleric urge his followers last month to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-fighters-for-justice-top-israeli-rabbi-defends-jewish-teens-suspected-of-murder-1.6868574\">become \u201cwarriors,\u201d<\/a><\/span> emulating a group of young men who had murdered a woman of another faith?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The cleric did so with impunity. In fact, he was only echoing other highly placed colleagues who have endorsed a book \u2013 again without penalty \u2013 urging their disciples to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.5088576\">murder babies<\/a><\/span>\u00a0belonging to other religions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Where can the head of the clergy\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/chief-rabbi-compares-african-americans-to-monkeys\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">call black people \u201cmonkeys\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and urge the expulsion of other religious communities?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Where does a clerical elite wield so much power that they alone decide who can marry or get divorced \u2013 and are backed by a law that can\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/police-grill-conservative-rabbi-for-officiating-at-weddings\/\">jail someone who tries to wed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0without their approval? They can even\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/after-train-work-halted-gov-t-announces-shuttles-for-soldiers-1.5434758\">shut down the national railway system<\/a><\/span>\u00a0without notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Where are these holy men so feared that women are\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/.premium-campaign-ads-in-ultra-orthodox-israeli-suburb-censor-faces-of-female-politicians-1.6868407\">scrubbed from billboards<\/a><\/span>, college campuses introduce\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-high-court-gender-segregation-at-israel-s-universities-spreading-to-whole-campus-1.6850965\">gender segregation<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to appease them, and women find themselves literally\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4163265,00.html\">pushed to the back of the bus<\/a><\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Is the country Saudi Arabia? Or Myanmar? Or perhaps, Iran?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">No. It is Israel, the world\u2019s only self-declared Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0\u2018Shared Values\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_33507\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Donald-and-Bibi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Donald-and-Bibi-700x467.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33507\" alt=\"President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017. (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Flckr)\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33507\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Donald-and-Bibi-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017. (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Flckr)\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Flckr)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">There is barely a politician in Washington seeking election who has not at some point\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/hillary-clinton-israel-2-2428788-Nov2015\/\">declared an \u201cunbreakable bond\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0between the United States and Israel, or claimed the two\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/full-text-of-donald-trumps-speech-at-the-israel-museum\/\">uphold \u201cshared values.\u201d<\/a><\/span> Few, it seems, have any idea what values Israel really represents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">There are many grounds for criticizing Israel, including its brutal oppression of Palestinians under occupation and its system of institutionalized segregation and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/big-story\/if-happened-alabama-there-would-be-uproar-israel-its-norm\">discrimination<\/a><\/span>\u00a0against the fifth of its population who are not Jewish \u2013 its Palestinian minority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">But largely ignored by critics have been Israel\u2019s increasing theocratic tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">This hasn\u2019t simply proved regressive for Israel\u2019s Jewish population, especially women, as the rabbis exert ever&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/02\/20\/rule-of-the-rabbis-fuels-holy-war-in-israel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinians, the secular and women all face a harsher environment as theocratic tendencies are entrenched, writes Jonathan Cook. By JonathanCookJonathan-Cook.net In which country did a senior, state-salaried cleric urge his followers last month to\u00a0become \u201cwarriors,\u201d emulating a group of young men who had murdered a woman of another faith? The cleric did so with impunity. 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