Interesting the type of mentality held by a leading medical figure in Israeli hospital:
<<< During the questioning, Amir [who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin] revealed that two rabbis had called Rabin a rodef and a mosser. A rodef is a persecutor who puts Jews in moral danger. If there is no other possibility such a persecutor must be killed in order to save other human lives; this is not seen as a punishment but as redemption. A mosser, meanwhile, is a spy or someone who extradites someone else, especially Jews and/or gives their possessions to non-Jews. Like a rodef a mosser can be killed without a court ruling. Thus, the assassination was like an order from above, which no one could have prevented, as Yigal Amir's brother Haggai explained. According to Jewish Law, Amir's act was not a murder but rather an urgent necessity, something that needed to be done in order to divert danger from the Jewish people. Aron Ronald Bodenheimer, for many years the medical superintendent of the psychiatric department of the university hospital Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv, sees God as the only guilty one. "He who judges Amir, judges God… The perpetrator lives in heaven. If it is the same God that carried the biblical books of the two testaments into the world, then it is He who is guilty." >>>
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