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Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is the Rabbi of Beit-El and Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Cohanim in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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By Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
July 13, 2005
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| Anti-expulsion protester arrested at Palm Beach in Gush Katif. (AP) |
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Dear soldier/officer!
Your mission is not an easy one, but it must be carried out. We know you will not disobey. You were chosen from among those, officers, staff sergeants, pilots and career soldiers, whose livelihood and promotion depend on good behavior. It will therefore be in your interest not to disobey. Still, we do worry that you may not be able to carry out your orders because you may feel solidarity with your brethren. We therefore present you with the following Expellers? Ten Commandments and ask you to study them well.
1. I am not your God!
Everyone has beliefs which accompany them throughout their lives. But when you expel, remember: You have no God! Otherwise you may, God forbid, remember your humanity when you see women and children crying at being expelled from their homes.
2. Thou shalt have another God!
This is of course our Prime Minister. Since he is a god, he can steal votes in the elections, destroy our democracy, buy off Members of Knesset, and refuse to hold a referendum.
3. Thou shalt take an oath in vain!
This is the time to break the oath you took when you entered the IDF, when you committed yourself to defend Jews. From now on the IDF will help carry out political decisions by assaulting unarmed civilians.
4. Thou shalt not honor parents!
You will expel any number of orphans from Gush Katif, tearing them away from the last memories they possess of their parents.
5. Thou shalt profane the Sabbath!
Officially we are denying that we shall profane the Sabbath, but clearly a military operation on this scale will involve performing actions on that day. We may be forced to act as we did at the Yitshar farm, where orthodox soldiers were brought in under the pretext that this was an operational mission which can save lives. So our motto is: Expulsion is more important than the Sabbath!
6. Thou shalt kill their souls!
You can kill someone without touching his body. It?s enough if you tear up his community, expel him from his home, cause his family to disintegrate, leave him without work and traumatize his children for their entire lives.
7. Thou shalt commit adultery!
We have yet found a way you can carry out this commandment. In the meantime you can drag a woman or a girl on the ground, since there won?t be enough policewomen and women soldiers around, and so cause them great emotional anguish.
8. Thou shalt steal!
This you can carry out excellently by taking away a man?s house and property, especially if he gets only minimal compensation -- and then giving it all to murderers.
9. Thou shalt covet!
If you covet promotion, perform your task as well as you can.
10. Thou shalt bear false witness!
This is the key to everything: delegitimize!, demonize! Wash your brain and those of others: settlers are corrupt people, wild, violent, immoral and only want compensation. He hates you, he will curse you, spit on you, stab you with a knife; he is even capable of shooting you.
Don?t forget this for a moment! Then you can attain a level of emotional violence that will make you hate him and, if necessary, break his skull and bones.
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Translated by: S. Michael Guggenheimer. This article appeared on http://katif.net.
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