"The King's Torah"
source: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2009/11/20091111141817912970.html
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Religion plays a large part in Israel's claims to the land it lies on and Palestinian hopes for statehood.
The King's Torah is the title of a book written by Yitzhak Shapira, an Israeli Rabbi living in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, and it is complicating an already seemingly intractable political conflict.
The book offers a theological backing to Jews killing those perceived to be violating Jewish commandments or threatening the Jewish nation.
Are such calls harmless or do they drive official policy and manipulate the masses?
And what about Palestinian extremist rhetoric, what harm does it cause?
We discuss religious extremism among the occupier and the occupied, and the damage done to peace prospects.
Inside Story discusses with guests Lamis Andoni, a Middle East analyst, Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, from Rabbis for human rights, and Gerald Steinberg, a chair of political studies and director of the conflict resolution program at Bar Ilan University.
This episode of Inside Story aired on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
The King's Torah is the title of a book written by Yitzhak Shapira, an Israeli Rabbi living in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, and it is complicating an already seemingly intractable political conflict.
The book offers a theological backing to Jews killing those perceived to be violating Jewish commandments or threatening the Jewish nation.
Are such calls harmless or do they drive official policy and manipulate the masses?
And what about Palestinian extremist rhetoric, what harm does it cause?
We discuss religious extremism among the occupier and the occupied, and the damage done to peace prospects.
Inside Story discusses with guests Lamis Andoni, a Middle East analyst, Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, from Rabbis for human rights, and Gerald Steinberg, a chair of political studies and director of the conflict resolution program at Bar Ilan University.
This episode of Inside Story aired on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
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freecrack
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religion plays a part to the religious just as it does to muslums aswell.
some israelis fight for israel because its the ONLY jewish nation in the world
some palastinians fight for it because it is the land of thier ancestors wich has nothing to do with what name you refer to god by.
thier is a religious argument as well as political one as well as historic one a strategic one an economic one and so on. to reduce it to just one issue is to spread seeds of hatred - 2 years ago
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