Obituary for a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, in the Telegraph, points out his intolerant views that make Helen Thomas look middle-of-the-road:
[In 2005] Rabbi Eliyahu wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to say that, according to Jewish war ethics, an entire city (he referred to Gaza City) holds collective responsibility for the immoral behaviour of individuals.
Thus, he continued, there was no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians during a potential massive military offensive in Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket attacks. He ended his letter quoting from Psalms: "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them."
…As for the hundreds of thousands killed by the Asian tsunami of 2004, he said that those who died were paying for their governments’ support of the Palestinians.
