“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,

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Israeli rabbi 1920–2013

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