Israel ranks No. 32 least corrupt country in the world. (Snips)
... In 2007 the country was ranked 30, and in 2006, 34 - the lower the ranking, the more corrupt a country is considered to be. ...
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128800.html
www.transparency.org/
Poll: Lieberman is Israel's most corrupt minister.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Sat...st%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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Who is funding the rabbi who endorses killing gentile babies? (Snips)
... government ministries regularly transfer support and funding to a yeshiva whose rabbi determined that it is permissible to kill gentile babies "because their presence assists murder, and there is reason to harm children if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us ...
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html
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IDF rabbinate publication during Gaza war: We will show no mercy on the cruel (Snips)
... Haaretz has received some of the publications through Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers who collect evidence of unacceptable behavior in the army vis-a-vis Palestinians. Other material was provided by officers and men who received it during Operation Cast Lead. Following are quotations from this material:
"[There is] a biblical ban on surrendering a single millimeter of it [the Land of Israel] to gentiles, though all sorts of impure distortions and foolishness of autonomy, enclaves and other national weaknesses. We will not abandon it to the hands of another nation, not a finger, not a nail of it." This is an excerpt from a publication entitled "Daily Torah studies for the soldier and the commander in Operation Cast Lead," issued by the IDF rabbinate. The text is from "Books of Rabbi Shlomo Aviner," who heads the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva in the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem. ...
The IDF rabbinate, also quoting Rabbi Aviner, describes the appropriate code of conduct in the field: "When you show mercy to a cruel enemy, you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers. This is terribly immoral. ...
... It calls on "soldiers of Israel to spare your lives and the lives of your friends and not to show concern for a population that surrounds us and harms us. ...
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058758.html
Breaking the Silence (Snips)
Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January's events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere.
www.breakingthesilence.org.il/index_e.asp
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Human Rights Watch: Israel waging concerted misinformation campaign against organization. (Snips)
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of launching an "organized campaign" of lies and misinformation against it in the wake of the organization's support of the Goldstone report, British newspaper the Guardian reported Friday. ...
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128141.html
www.guardian.co.uk/world/...l-human-rights-watch-gaza
