[In the words of Dr. Aaron Lerner, director of IMRA, ” Chalk up a major accomplishment to the media-Sharon administration tag team: after giving top billing to a fake story for a day about a nonexistent rabbinical ruling allowing settlers to shoot at non-Jewish soldiers a leading Bedouin cleric responded with a real ruling. The news item about a supposed Rabbincal edict which permitted Israeli citizens to kill non-Jewish Israeli soldiers ran on the Israeli news wires for two full days, until the IBA NEWS finally acknowledged it to be a falsified news story with no factual basis. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency ran the news item for two days without pulling it off their news wire -db]

TEL AVIV – A leading Bedouin cleric has issued a religious edict allowing Bedouin soldiers to kill anyone who attempts to harm them in the process of settlement evacuation, Channel 2 reported Wednesday.

“Whoever attempts to harm Bedouin soldiers.shouldn’t think they would just stand there and do nothing,” said Sheikh Kamal Abu Nadi, whose rulings are respected by families whose sons serve in the IDF.

Notably, Druze, Bedouin, and even some Muslim youngsters choose to serve in the IDF. The cleric himself served in the army for 11 years. This item ran on the Y-Net News Service on March 2nd, 2005

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