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http://www.wrmea.com/archives/may-june01/0105018.html
Israeli Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Incites Followers to Commit Genocide Against Arabs
Quote: "The Lord shall return their deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."
"What is particularly disconcerting in this instance is the fact that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (who has previously referred to Arabs as “vipers”) does not represent a fringe element of the political spectrum in Israel. Indeed, as Israel’s former chief rabbi and founder and spiritual leader of the religious Shas party—Israel’s third largest political party—he is an influential figure in Israeli political circles. Yosef has a devoted following of hundreds of thousands of Jews, and his political party currently controls the interior and religious affairs ministries in the coalition government of hard-line Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."
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Note: I have been unable to find the original Haaretz article, but post a link to this anyway.
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/essay6.html
A dark reminder of the Dark Ages
"Kabbalistic works and the writings of those influenced by the kabbala contain even more essential distinctions between Jews and gentiles. In the 20th century Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook wrote that "the difference between the Israelite soul... and the souls of all non-Jews, no matter what their level, is bigger and deeper than the difference between the human soul and the animal soul." "