Goldstein as a saint and martyr. Lior also said "a thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew's fingernail" according to journalists."The List: The World’s Worst Religious Leaders". foreignpolicy.com. April 2008 (original article no longer available online). Copies are cached at Google.com and reproduced on richarddawkins.net. Retrieved 17 March 2010. Lior publicly gave permission to spill blood of Arab persons and has publicly supported extreme right-wing Jewish terrorists. Following an arson incident in 2010, in which a mosque in Yasuf village was desecrated, apparently by settlers from the nearby Gush Etzion settlement bloc,"Palestinian mosque torched in suspected 'price tag' operation by settlers." by Avi Issacharoff. Haaretz. the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger condemned the attack and equated the arson to Kristallnacht, he said: "This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe." Rabbi Menachem Froman, a well-known peace activist, visited the mosque and replaced the burnt Koran with new copies. The rabbi stated: "This visit is to say that although there are people who oppose peace, he who opposes peace is opposed to God" and "Jewish law also prohibits damaging a holy place." He also remarked that arson in a mosque is an attempt to sow hatred between Jews and Arabs."Board slams West Bank mosque arson". The Jewish Chronicles Online. October 7, 2010. According to Haaretz, in July 2010, Yitzhak Shapira who heads Dorshei Yihudcha yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, was arrested by Israeli police in suspicion for the writing of a book that encourages the killing of non-Jews. The book, The King's Torah, (Torat HaMelech) claims that, under Torah and Jewish Law, it is legal to kill Gentiles and, even in some cases, to kill the babies of enemies."Yitzhar rabbi suspected of incitement" by Ben Hartman. Jpost.com. Later in August 2010, police arrested rabbi Yosef Elitzur-Hershkowitzco-author of Shapira's bookon the suspicion of incitement to racial violence, possession of a racist text, and possession of material that incites to violence. While the book has been endorsed by radical Zionist leaders including Dov Lior and Yaakov Yosef, it has been widely condemned by mainstream secular and religious Jews. Rabbi Hayim David HaLevi stated that in modern times no one matches the biblical definition of an idolater, and therefore ruled that Jews in Israel have a moral responsibility to treat all citizens with the highest standards of humanity. Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin The assassination