To Kill in God’s Name


For the Past 2 Years the IDF Israeli Defense Force and Mossad Israel’s Secret Service has been Assassinating Terrorists and Terrorist Leaders from Several Islamic Terrorist groups since Oct 7 attacks on Israel.
They Call It Self Defense or “To Kill in God’s Name”
The Nation of Israel see themselves as the Nation of God due to Biblical History, and They feel that if they defend themselves “The Nation of God “They are Acting on Behalf of God in Killing of the Enemy and Their Leaders by Assassination’s. Weekly You read about another assassination that was done successfully by the IDF or Mossad.


To a Point that it is Getting Alarming to some, the new normal in Israel is, if you are against the Nation of Israel, you are a Target of their Assassination list.


TO KILL IN GOD’S NAME
“To kill in God’s name” is a controversial phrase referring to acts of violence committed in the name of a religious belief, often in a way that contradicts core religious tenets like the sanctity of life. While some interpretations cite religious texts to justify violence, others argue that killing is inherently wrong and any such actions are a perversion of faith. The concept is debated in many religions, where interpretations range from the idea that God authorizes violence to the belief that all violence in God’s name is a violation of God’s will.

Religious and ethical interpretations
• Justification: Some interpretations cite religious texts that connect authority with God to justify killing in a divine cause. For example, the Christian Bible states that authority is “instituted by God” and the one in authority is “the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer”.
• Contradiction: Many see killing in God’s name as a contradiction to religious commands. The Sixth Commandment in Judaism and Christianity is “Thou shalt not kill”. In Islam, mainstream Sunni Islam considers the practice of takfir (excommunication) to be wrong and a right held solely by God, even though some groups have used it against others.
• Secular authority vs. divine authority: Some argue that claiming to kill “in God’s name” is a way to transfer absolute authority to a secular entity like a nation-state, which is then seen as a “god” that demands the ultimate loyalty of its citizens. This is a theme explored by philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, who called the state a “mortal god” with a monopoly on violence, say Santa Clara University.
• Sanctification of life and martyrdom: The concept of Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God’s name) in Judaism is one example of a religious concept that can lead to martyrdom, where a person’s willingness to die rather than desecrate God’s name is seen as a form of martyrdom. The six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are known as the Kedoshim (holy ones), say Wikipedia.
Key differences in interpretation
• Some people believe that violence done in the name of religion is a violation of God’s will and a perversion of God’s commands, while others believe that God has given humans the authority to kill for righteous causes.
• The debate is also complicated by the fact that religious teachings are not always interpreted uniformly by all believers, and that violence has been committed in the name of many different religions and secular ideologies, say Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
• Whether it is right to kill “in God’s name” is a subject of ongoing debate and has been a source of conflict throughout history.

  • The Sixth Commandment says, “Thou shalt not kill.” But the Bible doesn’t treat all forms of man-slaying equally. It doesn’t prohibit every form of killing.
  • Scripture permits killing animals for food, self-defense (Samson kills a lion), or protection of property (David kills a bear that threatens his flock).
  • Israelites were permitted to kill, under restricted conditions, to defend their homes with deadly force (Exodus 22:2-4).
  • The Lord authorizes civil rulers to execute criminals (Romans 13) for murder, some sexual crimes, forms of Sabbath-breaking, blasphemy, public idolatry, kidnapping, and cursing parents. Unchecked, these crimes sicken the land until it vomits out the inhabitants. Civil rulers punish these crimes to defend the land against pollution.
  • War is permissible in some circumstances (Deuteronomy 20), and God sometimes commands Israel to carry out wars of utter destruction, where Israel wipes out entire cities, men, women, children, and to devote all of the plunder to the Lord.
  • Yet, the Bible never gives blanket permission to kill, whether human beings or animals. Even if someone deserves to be killed, we’re not free to kill them.
  • In Israel, all shedding of human blood has to be dealt with, either by the confinement of the manslayer, the execution of the murderer, or a rite of cleansing (cf. Deuteronomy 21:1-9).
  • Even killing in war has to be “atoned” by a money payment (Exodus 30:11-16). Apart from the conquest, God permits war only after Israel offers terms of peace, and Israel isn’t allowed to prosecute total war against trees and land (Deuteronomy 20).
  • Even killing animals is hedged with restrictions. From Noah on, human beings were prohibited from eating blood. Israelites aren’t allowed to butcher a mother bird and also take the eggs (Deuteronomy 22). A righteous man cares for his cattle.
  • In sum, as William Cavanaugh has written, we’re allowed to kill only in the name of God.
  • Talk about “killing in the name of God” sounds dangerous. Saying it makes me sound like an ayatollah inciting terrorism.
  • But think about it. People kill all the time. Who authorizes the killing?
  • In liberal systems, who pronounces the capital sentence? Does a judge appeal to God when he sentences a convicted criminal to death? He’s not allowed to. That would be un-Constitutional. He’s only allowed to kill if he leaves God out of it.
  • We think that’s normal.
  • Who authorizes war? Do Presidents send troops to war because they’re convinced before God that it’s a just war? Presidents pray in the privacy of the Oval Office, but the public rationale has to be secular. Modern soldiers kill, as Cavanaugh puts it, for “a state whose very ideal is the separation of violence from the will of God.”
  • We think that’s normal.
  • In most “advanced” societies, the right to kill one’s unborn baby is a basic human freedom. As Robert Jenson says, legal abortion grants “the most interested party” a license to kill at will. Abortion privatizes murder. It’s nothing less than “a relapse to pure barbarism.”
  • We think that’s normal.
  • Who authorizes mass shooters? Some kill to protect the white majority of the US from the immigrant invasion. Everyone condemns white nationalist terrorism, but aside from body count, what’s the difference from killing we permit? If we grant a woman a private right to kill her baby, by what logic do we restrict the private right of a man to kill Hispanic immigrants?
  • God determines when killing is permitted because of who He is: Lord of life and death. If we kill at another’s command, that other has effectively become our God, our Lord of life and death. If we can kill by our own authority, we’ve made ourselves gods. And that’s a prescription for a war of all against all.
  • “Kill only in the name of God” doesn’t sanction a bloodbath. Following that principle is the only way to stop the bloodbath.

One thing above Terrorism Israel battles against is Antisemitism ,  After the Holocaust by Hitler , Israel is on the Back foot against Anti-Semitism against the Nation of Israel .  After the Terrorist Assassination’s, will the Antisemitism Assassination Starts?  That is my Concern! For Israel are on the Brink of including Antisemitism to the List under Terrorism. Will the World keep on Looking away?   

IN THE NEWS

White House: Trump supports Israel’s right to ‘take out terrorist threats’

U.S. President Donald Trump supports Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist threats, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday following the killing of Hezbollah’s second-in-command.

Asked by Israel’s Walla news site whether Trump supported the assassination of Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the Iranian-backed terror group’s “chief of staff,” Leavitt said she had not spoken directly to the president about the strike.

“But of course, the president supports Israel’s right to defend itself and to take out terrorist threats in the region,” she added.

The operation against the senior terrorist—dubbed “Black Friday”—was the first Israeli strike in Beirut since July and came nearly a year to the day after a ceasefire took effect.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday noted that Tabatabai was a “mass murderer” whose hands were “soaked in the blood of many Israelis and Americans, and it is not for nothing that the U.S. put a bounty of five million dollars on his head.”

He warned that Jerusalem expects the Lebanese government to uphold its commitment to disarm Hezbollah under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.

Washington had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Ali Tabatabai’s capture, after designating him a global terrorist in October 2016 for overseeing Hezbollah’s operations in Syria and Yemen.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES -article in the News

Big Brother Grid Control – From Where You Drive To What You Post

For decades, an insidious Big Brother control grid has been growing and evolving all around us, and now artificial intelligence is allowing authorities to do things that they have never been able to do before.

Shockingly, that includes monitoring where we drive so that those with “suspicious” travel patterns can be detained.  There are many that are arguing that this kind of surveillance is unconstitutional, and it is certainly morally wrong.  How can we possibly be free if the federal government is literally watching us wherever we go?

I don’t want to live in a “Minority Report society” where the government is arresting people simply because an algorithm has flagged their travel patterns.

But that is precisely what the Border Patrol’s “predictive intelligence program” is doing…

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.

The Border Patrol’s predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.

Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over – often for reasons cited such as speeding, no turn signals or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.

The AP spoke to eight former officials that have direct knowledge of this program.

All of them confirmed that this is happening.

You may think that you are safe is you do not live near the border, but when asked about the scope of this program the CBP explained that it can legally operate “anywhere in the United States”…

CBP defended its use of license plate readers, stating that the program is “governed by a stringent, multi-layered policy framework, as well as federal law and constitutional protections, to ensure the technology is applied responsibly and for clearly defined security purposes.” The agency added: “For national security reasons, we do not detail the specific operational applications.” According to CBP, while the U.S. Border Patrol primarily operates within 100 miles of the border, it is legally permitted “to operate anywhere in the United States”.

Reading that should send a chill up your spine.

Apparently this program began “about a decade ago”, and they have been going to great lengths to keep it secret…

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol’s surveillance system stretches into the country’s interior and monitors ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years.

Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, according to two people familiar with the program. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels.

If the government is trying to keep a domestic surveillance program secret, that is a major red flag right there.

Obviously they know that they are doing something that the general population would not like.

So why are they doing it?

We are also being told that the government is “ramping up its social media surveillance” with new AI-driven tools…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring powerful new surveillance tools to identify and monitor people.

They include apps that let federal agents point a cell phone at someone’s face to potentially identify them and determine their immigration status in the field, and another that can scan irises. Newly licensed software can give “access to vast amounts of location-based data,” according to an archive of the website of the company that developed it, and ICE recently revived a previously frozen contract with a company that makes spyware that can hack into cell phones.

The federal agency is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.

When most of us post stuff on social media, we never even imagine that the feds might be spying on us.

But that is exactly what is taking place.

According to Politico, the Department of Homeland Security has contracts with several social media monitoring companies…

It’s not clear what tools the government is using to collect and analyze social media posts, and DHS didn’t respond to a direct request about how it is surveilling online platforms.

To get a picture of what kinds of tools they might be using, DFD reviewed active federal contracts from public government records, and found four DHS contracts with social media monitoring companies.

One of the entities that the Department of Homeland Security is working with is known as Zignal Labs.

Apparently Zignal Labs is able to monitor and analyze “8 billion social media posts per day”…

An informational pamphlet marked confidential but publicly available online advertises that Zignal Labs “leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning” to analyze over 8 billion social media posts per day, providing “curated detection feeds” for its clients. The information, the company says, allows law enforcement to “detect and respond to threats with greater clarity and speed.”

Essentially, Zignal Labs is using artificial intelligence to watch everything that we do on social media.

If you post this article on social media, they will see that too.

Big Brother is watching, and if something you post gets flagged, you could potentially get into trouble.

If we do not stand up and object now, they will just keep pushing the envelope even farther.

Eventually, we could end up just like China…

To get a sense of the capabilities of AI law enforcement, look to present-day China. Analysts estimate that over half of the world’s surveillance cameras are in China, and many of those cameras use AI facial recognition. AI algorithms identify people and track their movements, allowing the government to monitor their activities and their meetings with others. Iris scans act as a visual fingerprint of people, even those wearing masks. 

Spy drones fly above China’s cities, recording activities in ever-sharper detail. AI analytics can spot unlawful or anomalous actions, even littering. In recent years, Chinese authorities have installed facial recognition cameras inside residential buildings, hotels, and even karaoke bars. The goal of installing these systems is, according to a Fujian province police department, “controlling and managing people.”

Increasingly, AI is used not just for surveillance but also for policing. Semi-autonomous AI police robots operate without human input a majority of the time. In China, these police robots patrol public places and use facial recognition to scan for people wanted by law enforcement. When such a person is detected, the robot begins following them until the police arrive. Other robots knock suspects over or fire a “net gun” to immobilize them.

In China, there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

The Chinese government uses artificial intelligence to monitor everyone and everything, and even the smallest infringement can affect your social credit score.  A good social credit score is necessary to fully participate in all aspects of life in China.

What the Chinese have created is the exact opposite of a free society.

And that is where we are heading too if we continue to go down the road that we are on now.