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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1293908" data-attributes="member: 40736"><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism</a></p><p>A number of violent acts by Jews have been described as terrorism and attributed to religious motivations:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Teitel" target="_blank">Yaakov Teitel</a> an American-born Israeli, was arrested in the aftermath of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tel_Aviv_gay_center_shooting" target="_blank">2009 Tel Aviv gay center shooting</a> for putting up posters that praised the attack. Although Teitel confessed to the gay center shooting, Israeli police have determined he had no part in the attack.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-24" target="_blank">[24]</a> In 2009 Teitel was arrested and indicted for several acts of domestic terror, namely a pipe bomb attack against leftist intellectual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeev_Sternhell" target="_blank">Zeev Sternhell</a>, the murders of a Palestinian taxi driver and a West Bank shepherd in 1997, and sending a booby-trapped package to the home of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Jewish" target="_blank">Messianic Jewish</a> family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_%28city%29" target="_blank">Ariel</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-25" target="_blank">[25]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[26]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[27]</a> A search of his home revealed a cache of guns and parts used in explosive devices.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[28]</a> As of January 2011, the case is still pending trial.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-29" target="_blank">[29]</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Natan-Zada" target="_blank">Eden Natan-Zada</a> killed four <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Arab" target="_blank">Israeli Arab</a> civilians on August 4, 2005. His actions were criticized by then prime minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon" target="_blank">Ariel Sharon</a>, as "a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist", and author Ami Pedhzer describes his motivations as religious.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-jtinisrael-2" target="_blank">[2]</a>:134<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-30" target="_blank">[30]</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein" target="_blank">Baruch Goldstein</a> an American-born Israeli physician, perpetrated the 1994 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre" target="_blank">Cave of the Patriarchs massacre</a> in the city of Hebron, in which he shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers inside the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahimi_Mosque" target="_blank">Ibrahimi Mosque</a> (within the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs" target="_blank">Cave of the Patriarchs</a>), and wounded another 125 victims.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-31" target="_blank">[31]</a> Goldstein was killed by the survivors.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-bbcnewsuk-32" target="_blank">[32]</a> Goldstein was a supporter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach" target="_blank">Kach</a>, an Israeli political party founded by Rabbi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane" target="_blank">Meir Kahane</a> that advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In the aftermath of the Goldstein attack and Kach statements praising it, Kach was outlawed in Israel.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-cdi.org-33" target="_blank">[33]</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Amir" target="_blank">Yigal Amir</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin" target="_blank">assassination of Yitzhak Rabin</a> on November 4, 1995 has been described as terrorism with a religious motivation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-jtinisrael-2" target="_blank">[2]</a>:98-110<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-34" target="_blank">[34]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-35" target="_blank">[35]</a> Amir was quoted as saying he had "acted alone and on orders from God." and that "If not for a Halakhic ruling of <em>din rodef</em>, made against Rabin by a few rabbis I knew about, it would have been very difficult for me to murder."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-sprinzak-13" target="_blank">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36" target="_blank">[36]</a>:45 A former combat soldier who had studied <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law" target="_blank">Jewish law</a>, Amir stated that his decision to kill the prime minister was influenced by the opinions of militant rabbis that such an assassination would be justified by the Halakhic ruling of <em>din rodef</em> ("pursuer's decree").<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36" target="_blank">[36]</a>:48 This Jewish religious concept allows for an immediate execution of a person if that person is "pursuing", that is, attempting immediately to take your life or the life of another person, although the characterization of Rabin as <em>din rodef</em> was rejected as a perversion of law by most rabbinic authorities.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-sprinzak-13" target="_blank">[13]</a>:255 According to Amir, allowing the Palestinian Authority to expand on the West Bank represented such a danger.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36" target="_blank">[36]</a>:48Amir was associated with the radical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal" target="_blank">Eyal</a> movement, which had been greatly influenced by Kahanism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36" target="_blank">[36]</a>:53</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1293908, member: 40736"] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism[/url] A number of violent acts by Jews have been described as terrorism and attributed to religious motivations: [LIST] [*][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Teitel']Yaakov Teitel[/URL] an American-born Israeli, was arrested in the aftermath of the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tel_Aviv_gay_center_shooting']2009 Tel Aviv gay center shooting[/URL] for putting up posters that praised the attack. Although Teitel confessed to the gay center shooting, Israeli police have determined he had no part in the attack.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-24'][24][/URL] In 2009 Teitel was arrested and indicted for several acts of domestic terror, namely a pipe bomb attack against leftist intellectual [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeev_Sternhell']Zeev Sternhell[/URL], the murders of a Palestinian taxi driver and a West Bank shepherd in 1997, and sending a booby-trapped package to the home of a [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Jewish']Messianic Jewish[/URL] family in [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_%28city%29']Ariel[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-25'][25][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-26'][26][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-27'][27][/URL] A search of his home revealed a cache of guns and parts used in explosive devices.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-28'][28][/URL] As of January 2011, the case is still pending trial.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-29'][29][/URL] [*][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Natan-Zada']Eden Natan-Zada[/URL] killed four [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Arab']Israeli Arab[/URL] civilians on August 4, 2005. His actions were criticized by then prime minister [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon']Ariel Sharon[/URL], as "a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist", and author Ami Pedhzer describes his motivations as religious.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-jtinisrael-2'][2][/URL]:134[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-30'][30][/URL] [*][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein']Baruch Goldstein[/URL] an American-born Israeli physician, perpetrated the 1994 [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre']Cave of the Patriarchs massacre[/URL] in the city of Hebron, in which he shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers inside the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahimi_Mosque']Ibrahimi Mosque[/URL] (within the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs']Cave of the Patriarchs[/URL]), and wounded another 125 victims.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-31'][31][/URL] Goldstein was killed by the survivors.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-bbcnewsuk-32'][32][/URL] Goldstein was a supporter of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach']Kach[/URL], an Israeli political party founded by Rabbi [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane']Meir Kahane[/URL] that advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In the aftermath of the Goldstein attack and Kach statements praising it, Kach was outlawed in Israel.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-cdi.org-33'][33][/URL] [*][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Amir']Yigal Amir[/URL]'s [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin']assassination of Yitzhak Rabin[/URL] on November 4, 1995 has been described as terrorism with a religious motivation.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-jtinisrael-2'][2][/URL]:98-110[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-34'][34][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-35'][35][/URL] Amir was quoted as saying he had "acted alone and on orders from God." and that "If not for a Halakhic ruling of [I]din rodef[/I], made against Rabin by a few rabbis I knew about, it would have been very difficult for me to murder."[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-sprinzak-13'][13][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36'][36][/URL]:45 A former combat soldier who had studied [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law']Jewish law[/URL], Amir stated that his decision to kill the prime minister was influenced by the opinions of militant rabbis that such an assassination would be justified by the Halakhic ruling of [I]din rodef[/I] ("pursuer's decree").[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36'][36][/URL]:48 This Jewish religious concept allows for an immediate execution of a person if that person is "pursuing", that is, attempting immediately to take your life or the life of another person, although the characterization of Rabin as [I]din rodef[/I] was rejected as a perversion of law by most rabbinic authorities.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-sprinzak-13'][13][/URL]:255 According to Amir, allowing the Palestinian Authority to expand on the West Bank represented such a danger.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36'][36][/URL]:48Amir was associated with the radical [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal']Eyal[/URL] movement, which had been greatly influenced by Kahanism.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#cite_note-mind-36'][36][/URL]:53 [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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