Full text of "Steven S. Schwarzschild Collection 1903-2000 bulk dates: 1945-2989" :

The Central Command rabbi Claims that in war we are not obliged to distinguish between blood and blood, that is, between the enemy*s soldiersand civilians. He says, **Even if it is technically possible to distinguish civilians from armed forces, in so far as the killing of civilians is performed against the background of war, one should not, according to religious law, trust a Gentile, and one should beware of the possibility that even a peaceful civilian may aid the enemy."

And if this is not clear enough, Rabbi Avidan adds, "During a war, when the troops of Israel are charging the enemy, they are allowed— and they are obliged according to the law — to kill also good civilians, or rather civilians who appear to be good. About this it is Said The best of the Gentiles you should kiir and no Gentile can be trusted not to aid the enemy.

The worst anti-Semite could not slander Jewish religious law any better. According to Rabbi Avidan these laws command us to kill even good civilians: **You shall kill the best of the Gentiles." These laws permit the Israeli army to kill civilians even when they can be technically distinguished from soldiers. Here it is not an anti- Semite who is defaming us, but a person who holds an official Position in the Israel Defense Forces, a **spiritual leader" of our soldiers, a rabbi commanding certain actions in an official publication of the Israeli army.