........thats okay , free speech and all that ......just as long as we have the right to express our views :...
There Is No Need for the Israeli Army Rabbinate in 2016 Israel
The remarks about rape, gay people and killing wounded terrorists by Col. Eyal Karim, the army chief rabbi-designate, exposes the world he comes from.
Uri Misgav Jul 14, 2016
The truth? It’s a good thing that Col. Eyal Karim was appointed the army’s chief rabbi. The uproar that erupted surrounding his appointment is to be welcomed. It is affording the wider public a glimpse into the intellectual world of Karim and others like him.
It’s okay to be appalled, but that in itself is not enough. This is a golden opportunity. We shouldn’t be calling for Karim’s appointment to be revoked, but rather for doing away with the army rabbinate altogether. It has become another outpost for the national ultra-Orthodox camp. Karim is not alone. There are many more like him, within the defense establishment and the future enlistees of religious Zionism that operate outside the system but rub shoulders with and feed it (the hesder yeshivas and pre-army academies).
Grown, educated men, who hold senior ranks or influential teaching positions, who most seriously and learnedly consider such weighty questions as: Is it permissible for soldiers to rape good-looking non-Jewish women in wartime?; is it permissible to kill a wounded terrorist?; are homosexuals sick people?; is it permissible for a soldier to leave a ceremony at which women are singing?; why shouldn’t women be permitted to testify in a rabbinical court, or to enlist?
Contrary to the claim of the settler right, which as usual has launched a very organized counterattack (while wailing about the “campaign” against it), these are not just theoretical, academic inquiries, but a way of life. Life according to religious laws that were composed thousands of years ago and never updated.
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