Interesting article.
Here is an excerpt dated October 1973:
— “Dear Rabbi. In one of our group’s discussions there was a debate about the ‘purity of weapons.’ [From Talmud]. We discussed whether it is permitted to kill unarmed men or even women and children.
I could not arrive at a clear decision whether Arabs should be treated like the Amalekites, meaning that one is permitted to murder them until their remembrance is blotted out from under heaven. Or perhaps one should do as in a just war in which one kills only the soldiers?” —
Reply of Rabbi Shimon Weiser:
— “Dear Moshe. According to our sages, war for us is not a game but a vital necessity and only by this standard must we decide how to wage it. On the one hand we seem to learn that if a Jew murders a Gentile he is regarded as a murderer though no court has the right to punish him.
But we find in the very same authorities saying: ‘The best of Gentiles - kill him; the best of snakes - dash out its brains.’ According to Tosafot, though during peace time it is forbidden to kill Gentiles, in a case that occurs in wartime, it is a mitzvah [religious duty] to kill them.
According to Tractate Sanhedrin, all Gentiles during wartime are to be presumed to have evil intent. And thus the rule ‘Whoever comes to kill you, kill him first’ is to be applied. This is the rule of ‘purity of weapons’ according to Halakah. (Body of Jewish Law.)” —
Yes, Freeman, we all realize that your brethren have evil intent to us Infidels, and that is why Americans and other civilized people would rather be prepared against your murderous brethren. Freeman would like the Free World to roll over for his fellow Muslims and let them murder innocent people with wild abandon like they are doing right now in Iraq. However, Freeman has still not told us why during Ramadan, which is supposedly the holiest month in Islam, that his fellow Muslims rev up their killings so that more people are murdered during this month than the previous months. I think many of us are curious, and Freeman, whatever Muslim country he hails from, can give us some answer, as short as they might be.