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September 7, 2009
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | The rise of Israel's military rabbis
Before his unit went in to Gaza, Rabbi Kaufman said their commander told him to blow the ram's horn: "Like (biblical) Joshua when he conquered the land of Israel. It makes the war holier."
Rabbis handed out hundreds of religious pamphlets during the Gaza war.
When they came to light, they caused huge controversy in Israel. Some leaflets called Israeli soldiers the "sons of light" and Palestinians, the "sons of darkness".
Others compared the Palestinians to the Philistines, the bitter biblical enemy of the Jewish people.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | The rise of Israel's military rabbis
Posted by thdyck on September 7, 2009
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