(Mirrors.)
In Orthodox Judaism, we’d rather […] run than fight—in the martial arts, they tell you the first thing is to avoid a fight—we avoid a fight no matter what, and this the Zionists looked at as cowardly. We don’t consider it cowardly. We consider attackers, antisemites… you know, imagine a person surrounded by lions, tigers and bears, stuck in his house and […] they’re besieging him. Can you imagine a human being saying, ‘All right, let’s go out and fight; at least we’ll go down fighting, at least we’ll take some of these animals with us!’ That doesn’t make any sense, and yet […] in the world, in the human condition, that’s considered a noble thing to do: ‘If we’re going to die anyway, instead of just waiting here, let’s take some of them with us! Let’s go down fighting!’ That idea of going down fighting? No.
A human being that wants to kill people is an animal—is worse than an animal, because [with] an animal it’s not his fault [that] he’s an animal, but these are worse—there is no shame in being attacked by an animal, and there is no shame in being […] attacked by an evil person. […] You only feel shame if you assume there’s some type of competition between you and the attacker: you’re the loser, he’s the winner.
Well, winning and losing, to us, no, that’s not the form that we play. Winning and losing only applies to spiritual attainments and the person’s goodness and things like that, but we weren’t interested in this. It wasn’t […] an accomplishment to be a fearsome warrior. We don’t have towns that are holy towns or we don’t even care about places of battles such as the Alamo for example; in Judaism, there’s no such thing. The Bible, like I said, is full of wars, but the places of those wars don’t interest us. The Zionists changed this.
en tant que juif d'origine maghrébine, je suis totalement en accord avec les paroles du Rabbin.