Rabbi Manis Friedman has come under intense criticism for appearing to call on Israel to massacre Palestinians.  A prominent Chabad rabbi is seeking to clarify remarks in which he renounced "Western morality" and seemed to call on Israel to massacre Palestinian civilians.

"The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way," wrote Rabbi Manis Friedman in the current issue of Moment magazine. "Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)."

Friedman's comments were a response to the question "How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?" The question was posed to rabbis of several denominations, and the Friedman response was identified as "Chabad."

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/02/1005579/chabad-rabbi-clarifies-remarks-on-killing-civilians

Galilee communities: We're not racist, we just don't want Arabs:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090527.html

Shulamit Aloni / Israel is controlled by religious fanaticism

snip In the letter, Rothschild explains why he refuses to support the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. He writes that he "should view with horror the establishment of a Jewish colony pure and simple; such a colony would be Imperium Imperio; it would be a Ghetto with the prejudice of the Ghetto; it would be a small petty Jewish state, orthodox and illiberal, excluding the Gentile and the Christian."

Nevertheless, and despite phenomena like Kahane, the hope prevailed here over the years that Rothschild's harsh vision would prove false; that Israel would indeed "ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex," and "guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture," as stated in the Declaration of the Establishment of the State.

Time has passed and many heirs to Kahane have arisen - not only among a greedy and savage multitude but also among "the public's chosen representatives" in the Knesset and government. The latter are busy preparing blatantly racist laws and sending armed police to thwart Palestinian-initiated international cultural events because the regime believes the Arabs of the Land of Israel, the native Palestinians, are not worthy of being called human beings. According to the writers of these laws, the Arabs are certainly not entitled to human rights, not to mention a cultural and intellectual life, and never mind property, land and a home, because thousands of years ago God promised this land to Abraham and his seed.

Most regrettably and disgracefully, everything that Lord Rothschild predicted is coming to pass in our time. snip

For 42 years we have been occupying, oppressing and stealing lands that are not ours. To be free in our land do we need to become thieving Cossacks, uprooters of trees, burners of fields and harassers of women, the elderly and the very young? "We have this land, we have it," goes the song, but what should have been said is "We have the power, we have it, we have the money, we have it, and we are allowed, we are," to starve an entire population, imprison it and annihilate it using air strikes, cluster bombs and white phosphorous. Because we are the lords of the land and God has chosen us to rule. For the shame of it.

"A unique people," wrote David Ben-Gurion. Alas, for that uniqueness. Instead of a Jewish and democratic state they have delivered us a Jewish state controlled by religious fanaticism, one that maintains the purity of the race. They have delivered a democracy in the most primitive sense - not the preservation of democratic values but rule by the demos, the populace that is dictating the transformation of Israel into a totalitarian ethnocracy.

I'd go on at length about the obvious, loathsome dishonesty involved in trolling dive bars for less than ideal specimens of humanity and implying that the represent the larger society from which they come, but I can only assume that everyone here has already seen The Eternal Jew and recognizes the technique.

I'm no friend of Israel -- I do not accept its purported right to exist and think that the European colonists should be expelled from Palestine -- but this kind of base, transparent, and frankly unethical propaganda piece makes me ashamed to be a member of the American left audience it is aimed at. The only thing missing is the Prague cemetery.

Let's please try, as we battle monsters, not to become monsters, shall we?

It is not difficult to picture these ignorant thugs being part of the Irgun.