Yeshiva Dropout Suggests IDF Avoid Genocide Charges By Using Bullets ‘Sold’ To A Goy

“We do it with chametz,” he argued.

Jerusalem, June 10 – A man who paid insufficient attention during his religious studies as a child and young adult wondered today why the Israeli military, to keep its officers clear of war crimes accusations, does not employ a what he thinks works as a broad loophole in Jewish law to avoid culpability, namely the transfer of title to a non-Jew, and thus create a technicality by which “Israeli” military arms, however used, took no part in any alleged violations.

Yerahmiel Amhoritz, 20, employed the full breadth of his twelve-plus years slacking off in yeshiva to arrive at his legal approach, which he asserted should form the basis, or at least one basis, for the Israel Defense Force’s strategy to prevent its personnel from facing the docket in The Hague. The middling-at-best-student mined his superficial knowledge of Jewish law to arrive at the proposal, which for some reason the IDF adjutant general has not adopted.

“We do it with chametz,” he argued, referring to one of several practices to avoid transgressing the Biblical prohibition of possessing leavened grain products during Passover. “Lots of people rely on it for shmittah,” he added, invoking a more controversial loophole that many Israeli farmers exploit to avoid the restrictions on land cultivation during the once-every-seven-years Sabbatical year. In both cases, transferring title to the grain products or farmland, respectively, serves to remove any actions done with those items form the realm of what a Jew may not do during those times. Amhoritz asserted that the same device can work for the IDF.

“Find another country to take ownership of the bombs, tank rounds, bullets, grenades, missiles, et cetera,” he elaborated. “That way it’s not Israeli weapons being used. Even if the purported war crimes take place, it won’t be with Israeli weapons. We’d be untouchable.”

The pre-Sabbatical-year, one-year sale of farmland in the Land of Israel no non-Jews, first proposed in modern times toward the end of the nineteenth century, has always remained controversial in Jewish law; to this day, a significant share of the religiously observant Jewish community considers produce grown under such circumstances forbidden. However, those who rely on it deem it an economic necessity without which Jewish agriculture – a hefty portion of the Torah’s laws – will become non-viable.

The pre-Passover sale of chametz to non-Jews began with similar concerns: Jewish tavern-owners in Eastern Europe often formed the financial backbone of their communities. Destroying or otherwise disposing of large inventories of grain-derived spirits would imperil the innkeepers and their communities. Rabbis of the late Middle Ages devised the sale technique to keep their already-poor communities from economic collapse, allowing the taverners to sell their stock before the festival and buy it back afterwards – while the product itself would remain on the premises of the Jew. The practice eventually expanded beyond scenarios of dire economic necessity and has become mainstream.

Mr. Amhoritz has not received word from experts in International Humanitarian Law, or representatives of the International Court of Justice, on the subject.

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