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Article: Israeli Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Incites Followers to Commit Genocide Against Arabs
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- June 30, 2001
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Israeli Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Incites Followers to Commit Genocide Against Arabs
By Riad Z. Abdelkarim
Dr. Riad Z. Abdelkarim is communications director for the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Anaheim, CA.
"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."
It is easy to imagine these words being uttered by a Nazi leader in Germany some 60 years ago, or by a proponent of apartheid in South Africa just a decade ago. In reality, however, these blatantly ...