Left Outraged As Rabbi Rules Rockets From Gaza Need Not Be Returned To Hamas

“Found objects with identifiable marks of ownership don’t automatically become the property of the finder.”

Tel Aviv, June 20 – Political and cultural figures railed against a Jewish religious leader today for informing an inquirer that he need not try to return to their previous known owners pieces of Hamas weaponry that he finds on the ground, despite overwhelming evidence who last held the items.

Activists and a handful of celebrities issued uniform criticism this morning of Rabbi Hefker Yiush, whose reply to an inquiry on the parameters of the commandment to restore lost objects to their owners was shared on social media. Several speakers accused the rabbi of racism and ethnocentrism.

“What a backward, supremacist view,” spat MK Tamar Zandberg of Meretz. “The people of Hamas have just as much attachment to their possessions as anyone else, and it is the height of hypocrisy and dehumanization to declare that the rules suddenly do not apply to items an Israeli finds in his back yard, or in close proximity to a daycare canter in Sderot – items that just so happen to have been in the possession of a non-Jewish organization in Gaza.”

“I know enough about Jewish law to realize that found objects with identifiable marks of ownership don’t automatically become the property of the finder,” sneered commentator Tomer Persico. “Anyone with a basic grasp of the internet can easily determine that the fragments of rockets they find all around the Gaza perimeter communities came from weapons in the possession of Hamas or one of the other militant groups operating within the Gaza Strip. It’s a special sort of bigot who rules that just because the rocket’s last known owner lives across the border, he doesn’t have any rights to the object anymore.”

Peace Now personality Yariv Oppenheimer added that the travesty goes deeper than mere bigotry. “Of course the Biblical obligation to return lost objects doesn’t technically apply to objects lost be non-Jews, but that’s a discussion for a different time,” he noted. “The fact is over the centuries it’s become obligatory to return the lost objects of goyim as rabbis responded to the often-violent consequences of such a policy among Jews. This rabbi makes a mockery of that consideration because it risks the title-holder on the rocket committing violence in response to such blatant bigotry, and all but invites harm.”

The activists pronounced themselves unsatisfied with the IDF sending back into Gaza at high speed some bigger, better, more expensive versions of the products than the ones Hamas lost in southern Israel.

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