Chief rabbi says Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to intervene in Syria

8 April 2018, 6:09 pm

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The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel says Jews have a moral obligation to intervene in the Syrian civil war to protect innocent civilians.

Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says in a statement that attacks on noncombatants amounts to the “genocide of women and children in its cruelest form.”

“As Jews who have experienced genocide, as Jews whose Torah is a light to the nations, it is our moral obligation to try and stop this murder, it is an obligation no less important than the moral obligation to destroy the nuclear reactor in Syria,” he says.

Yosef’s comments come after a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Douma killed dozens of civilians, including children.