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Rabbi Lior speaks out against hiring of arabs
Efrat Weiss
Published: 20.03.08, 07:13
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1. Dov Lior
David ,   Yerushalayim   (03.20.08)
Ynet - Please don't call him "Rabbi". It's Chillul Hashem.
2. rabbi lior
sas ,   israel   (03.20.08)
u r disgusting to make such statements. take your followers and leave this country. if we want to live in peace these people need jobs etc. not every arab is a bad arab. not every jew is like you.
3. Rabbi Lior: well said
gabriela ben ari ,   jerusalem   (03.20.08)
Arabs should stop spiting at the well they drink water from.
4. Rav Lior
Israeli ,   Israel   (03.20.08)
Kol ha kavod to Rav Lior. It is being said that the murderer of the 8 boys sometimes worked as a driver for the yeshiva, I don't know if it is true or not. But I do remember that many years ago, an Arab murdered a Jewish man and his two little daughters in Nahariya, and he had worked as a carpenter in their house. There are plenty of Jews who need work: hire them instead, even if it costs more. The Arabs charge less because they don't pay taxes. And as for auto repairs: they charge less as it's a known fact that the used parts they use are from cars stolen from Jews by Arabs.
5. Purim rebe, that Lior
Samuel ,   Serbia   (03.20.08)
"There is no term in the Halacha that states one must consider innocents during war." With this in mind HAMAS attacks your citizens! What do you say, that Hamas works with Tora in mind?
6. now that's a Rav!
uri ,   beer sheva   (03.20.08)
kol hakavod
7. Hope for Peace ?
Jean Van Daem   (03.20.08)
We may wonder : Aren't the recommandations of Rabi Lior concerning the Arabs grounded ? "Be gone. Die anywhere you like, but don't die here." PA TV program on Jaffa (Tel Aviv): "It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don't live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but don't die among us. We have the past here. We have the present, the present and the future. So leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds. Everything. And leave the memories."These words of hate are the parting moments of yet another program on Palestinian Authority television calling for the destruction of Israel. The words, calling for the expulsion of every last Israeli from Israel, are spoken while the screen is showing Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israelis and Israeli flags. Official PA TV has aired this twice in recent months.The program about Jaffa opens with a revision of history, by casting the ancient Canaanites as Arabs. By doing this, the more than 3,000 years of Jewish history in the area are pre-dated by a fabricated Arab history. (The Arab Conquest actually took place in the seventh century of the Common Era.) Jaffa, a part of Tel Aviv, is defined as a Palestinian city, and all of Israel's coastal cities, Acre, Haifa, Caesarea, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Jaffa, are said to be situated in what is "known today as Palestine." According to this PA program, Israel is already non-existent.The final words of this television program are those of Israeli-Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish, calling for the expulsion of every Israeli: "Die wherever you like, but don't die among us." The roots of the hate of Jews can be found at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/communist-roots-of-palestinian_342.html
8. #4 -It is very important what you say.
Keren ,   Israel-SP   (03.20.08)
9. Who let the dogs out ?
Simon ,   TA Israel   (03.20.08)
Im not even going to answer such nonsense as this would only encourage him and the "Praise the Lord" crowd. This rabbi is not only a big rascist but he has the arrogance to think he speaks and represents the state of Israel. Have Jews never commited crimes abroad, would it then be fair to issue statements in such countries stating dont employ the Jews? No doubt this hypocrit would be the first to cry anti semitism. Sorry but keep your religion of hate to your self and not in my name.
10. Dov lior
Sean ,   Semple   (03.20.08)
This man is a religious leader, what a morally corrupt and spiritually bankrupt entity Israel is.
11. #7 Jean Van Daem
Said ,   London   (03.20.08)
Isn't that the same thing that you are advocating against the Arabs? I've read those silly, bigotted articles that you post ad nauseum. If you want to expell all the Arabs from Israel, why are you surprised when they call for the expulsion of all Israelis? Articles that espouse continued war, discrimination, humiliation, subjugation and so forth of Palestinians, and yet you're surpirsed by their retaliatory words? You're either very very naive, or just an outright hypocrite.
12. And why now?
Talula ,   Israel   (03.20.08)
Arabs have been murdering Jews since time immemorial. Why does he pipe up now?
13. dont forget the laborer in Efrat...
(03.20.08)
Also a worker in efrat came in on his day off, entered the busy supermarket with a vest of explosives. Thank G-d a neighbor recognized him and acted quickly to illuminate the aggressor.
14. Racism similar to Apartheid South Africa
Shimon Z. Klein ,   Bat Chefer, Israel   (03.20.08)
The racist statements made by this graduate of Mercaz Harav is shocking. He is using this terrible tragedy that occurred at Mercaz Harav as an excuse for racial incitement against the Arab community. He is twisting the Torah in order to justify racism and discrimination against the Arab community. He and Hamas ideology have much in common when it comes to racism, ethnic cleansing not to mention genocide. It is sad that the heinous crime of terrorism that occurred in Mercaz Harav, resulting in the tragic deaths of 8 students formed a focal point for racist rabbis to spew out hell and brimstone against non-Jewish minorities in Israel.
15. Re: #7
Daniel ,   NYC   (03.20.08)
Not in my name either! This rabbi and I share a religion only in name. My religion taught me the dangers of bigotry, his seems to have taught him that bigotry begets greater bigotry.
16. No racism involved - this is common sense!
menashe ,   NJ, USA   (03.20.08)
17. the rabbi is right
aviad ,   herzeliah, israel   (03.20.08)
today i fired all 15 arab workers and quickly replaced most of them with vietnamese, european and israeli workers.
18. I love Israel and hate racism
Jonathan Edelstein ,   New York, USA   (03.20.08)
This rabbi does not speak for me. Hating Arabs is not part of Judaism.
19. Italian Priest: "Don't Hire Jews or Rent to Jews"
TommyRob ,   Dallas, TX   (03.21.08)
Can you imagine the tidal wave of criticism and screams of anti-semitism from Israelis and Jews worldwide if an Italian priest said this. Yet when the same blatant racism comes from a Rabbi living on occupied, stolen land, it's just business as usual in Israel. This silence shows what a bunch of hypocrites you are in Israel (and elsewhere). PS I lived in Israel for a year so I have seen this myself.
20. #19 Hipocrites we are already by hiring people who desire
Keren ,   Israel-SP   (03.21.08)
Hipocrites we are already by hiring people who desire our demise. Would we Jews,G'od forbid,do what arabs do to us in Israel in any other country in the world,we would be massacred before kicked out. Do not make stupid comparitions just to prove a silly ,typical leftist unthought point.
21. #19your typical hipocrite leftist ,politicaly correct view
Keren ,   Israel-SP   (03.21.08)
your typical hipocrite ,leftist ,politicaly correct view is distorded. We Jews never did, and will never do, to any nation what arabs do to us. It is indeed very hipocrite the kind of thought you are displaying.
22. # 17 AVIAD THE RABBI IS RIGHT AND SO ARE YOU!
petra ,   USA   (03.21.08)
HOPE MANY OTHER ISRAELIS WILL DO THE SAME.
23. TOMMY ROB THE ITALIANS DID THAT ALREADY,
petra ,   USA   (03.21.08)
DON'T YOU EVER READ ANYTHING OTHER THAN MUSLIM SHIT? WHAT A MORON. READ SOME HISTORY MUSSIE.
24. # 9 SIMON YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
petra ,   USA   (03.21.08)
THE RABBI IS RIGHT. ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THE ASSASSIN OF 8 UNARMED YESHIVA STUDENTS WAS COMMITED BY A PAL WHO HAD A JOB DRIVING THERE. IF YOU LOVE PALS SO MUCH, MOVE TO GAZA. YOU'LL BE A HIT. OOPS, OR IS THAT A TARGET THAT'S HIT? ONE WISE RABBI ONE DUMB SIMON. SIMON SAYS, SHIT.
25. sAID LONDON YOUR GUYS EXPORT TERROR WORLDWIDE
petra ,   usa   (03.21.08)
AND YOU WANT A MEDAL? get real, the world is united to destroy all terrorists. soon, a reward will be on all the scalps of all muslims. no one can live in peace with these insane walking mad bombers. women, kids of their own caste system are methodically murdered. Take your hatred and go to hell. Take all your raping, murdering thugs with you.
26. # 12 Tulala why not now?
petra ,   usa   (03.21.08)
is there a better time? Shall he wait for another 8 yeshiva students to die at the hands of an employee who's hell bent on the murder of Jewish kids? Someone should have said this years ago, but better late than never.
27. # 18 Jonathan the muslims will keep murding Jews
petra ,   usa   (03.21.08)
and it's okay by their 'religious' guidelines. Better rethink this. They'd murder you and yours in a heartbeat. Then, pass out the candy.
28. wrong aproach, will only bread more hatred...
Rami ,   Nazareth, Israel   (03.21.08)
I do not see any difference between him and radical muslim clerics, both sides bread hatred. The attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva is politacillay motivated, such acts can only be prevented through a peaceful political settelment. Not hring or renting to arabs is irrelivant, not a solution . The only thing it does is contributes to the culture of hate..
29. The question
jsm   (03.21.08)
The question is not weather its wrong to refuse to hire or deal with arabs. The question is is it safe to do so? Personally I do not wish to have anything to do with people who would like to kill me or who would celebrate my death.
30. better late (100 yrs) than never
Y ,   Israel   (03.21.08)
How much better things would be today if we didn't hire our enemy starting some 100 years ago. So so many arabs would never have immigrated to our Land and we wouldn't be facing internal terrorism today. After hundreds of thousands of terror attacks - if it finally took the attack at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva to awaken the Rabbis - so be it . Better late than never!
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