[Avodah] What was AA's Hetter to endanger his people

[Zev Sero]

On 5/11/2011 10:48 PM, Meir Rabi wrote:
> R Zev S suggests that we are permitted to go to war even if there is no danger to life, just for economic gain.  Kal vachomer to save somebody.
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> I imagine R Zev is alluding to the Gem, that Dovid HaMelech directed his army to extend their hand to the booty of war when the ministers complained that there was not adequate means to feed the people.
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> I believe the Peshat is that these were nations or clans that were already worthy of being the objects of attack due to safety concerns, but were not urgently so and thus were on the back burner so to speak.
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On the contrary, the halacha explicitly permits "milchemet reshut".
And the gemara says that a kingdom that wipes out a sixth of the world's
population in a war is within its rights.

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Zev Sero        If they use these guns against us once, at that moment
zev at sero.name   the Oslo Accord will be annulled and the IDF will
                 return to all the places that have been given to them.
		                            - Yitzchak Rabin