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In case you doubted it, Rabbi Lior who leads the council of rabbis for the West Bank settlements, confirms it is a mitzvah to steal Palestinian olives, so doing helping to publicly assert the religious commandment of conquering the land…
If only Rabbi Lior were a fringe figure, universally recognised as the crank he is. Alas, no – he leads the council of rabbis for the West Bank settlements.
According to Wikipedia:
“Lior is a longtime symbol of religious and nationalist extremism in Israel. Lior has also expressed support for mass murderers, such as Israeli-American mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Muslims in a Hebron mosque. He claimed the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, which left 130 civilians dead, were deserved as payback for the Holocaust. When Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in 2014, he issued a religious ruling that allowed soldiers to kill civilians if that’s what’s needed for the safety of Israel and, if necessary, destroy Gaza entirely.”
He was obviously ahead of his time!
The consolidation of Israel as a theocratic ethno-state is proceeding apace and we see no reason for believing that the forthcoming Israeli elections will change the underlying culture of Jewish supremacy which most parties share unquestioningly.
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Fri 16 Oct 2026. Read the original here.
Top settler rabbi rules Jews may harvest olives from Palestinian-owned groves
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Palestinians and their defenders should be armed and free to defend themselves. Palestinian security personnel need to seriously start getting on code and actually standing up for Palestinians.