Comments on: Wednesday briefs

By: Rahel

Rahel — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:48:42 +0000

I just want to know when African Cats is coming to Israel….

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:37:55 +0000

Well Sabba, I don’t know about Jewish law, but I think that as an accessory before the fact of the murder of 3000 people Osama is as responsible as if he flew one of the planes, and subject to the same penalties. In any case he was commander of a nongovernmental organization that had declared war on the US of A, despite not having standing to wage war under international law, making him and all his boyos unlawful combatants. As such a commander, he was a legit target for military action. As an unlawful combatant he was not owed a trial or the legal protections of the Geneva Conventions.

If the jihadists want asymmetric warfare, we can get even more asymmetric on them than we have up to now.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:32:46 +0000

Actually, the terrorists are murderous enough to put a bomb in the baby’s diaper. That way the terrorist does not even have to be on the plane. He just has to tell the mother that he is trying to smuggle drugs.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:30:07 +0000

It is ironic that they attempt to complain about the execution of a murderer by using the commandment that the murderer violated. It is like the person who kills his parents and then pleads for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan.

Of course, technically, OBL is not an actual murderer because he just ordered the murders done and did not do them with his own hands. As a result, he is only subject to the death penalty as a “mored bemalchus” (attempt to overthrow the king). In that case, the “king” is allowed to order his death as an extrajudicial power. This is similar to what King David ordered King Solomon to do to Yoav and Shim’i Ben Geirah.