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“It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable.”

Ovadia Yosef

5 December 2004 article on New York Times https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E5DD1730F936A25751C1A9629C8B63
2001

“They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.”

Ovadia Yosef

Israel rabbi in fallen troops row, BBC News, 27 August 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6965607.stm,
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“It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. […] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.”

Ovadia Yosef

Undated sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs; a Shas spokesman stated Yosef only meant "Arab murderers and terrorists"
Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs, news.bbc.co.uk, BBC News, 10 April 2001, 2007-09-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm,

“A Druze soldier who stood guard to protect Israel against vengeful enemies, and was killed by Ishmaelites - it is proper to say a 'hashkava' [prayer] in synagogue for the benefit of his soul… The Druze believe in one God and are not idolaters at all, and also believe in the persistence of the soul [after death], and all the more so they enlist in the IDF and sacrifice themselves to protect the inhabitants of the State of Israel, and they keep the Seven Mitzvot of the Children of Noah, and their status is as Righteous of the Nations of the World.”

Ovadia Yosef

Funeral Held for Druze Officer Killed in Jerusalem Terror Attack http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187650,
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“Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created.”

Ovadia Yosef

19 October 2010 article on Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=191782
2010

“It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.”

Ovadia Yosef

Quoted in Jewish Chronicle, 11 Oct 2013 page 22.

“Saving a life overrides territories.”

Ovadia Yosef

Sentence according to Jewish law, 1979
Hebrew source http://www.maariv.co.il/online/11/ART/804/189.html.

“The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.”

Ovadia Yosef

Obituary Jewish Chronicle, 11 Oct 2013 page 33.

Ovadia Yosef Quotes about the world

“There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. Where there is Torah it sustains the world. There are negros there [in New Orleans]. Negros will study Torah? Let's bring them a tsunami, drown them. Hundreds of thousands were left without a shelter. Tens of thousands died. All of this is because they have no God.”

Ovadia Yosef

Regarding Hurricane Katrina, September 6, 2005
[Zvi, Alush, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3138779,00.html, Rabbi: Hurricane punishment for pullout, ynetnews.com, 7 September 2005, 2007-09-23]
Hebrew source http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3138771,00.html

“In Israel, death has no dominion over them…With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but (God) will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant…That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.”

Ovadia Yosef

20 Octoboer 2010 on Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/adl-slams-shas-spiritual-leader-for-saying-non-jews-were-born-to-serve-jews-1.320235
2010