Joe -“Sam, you’re correctly describing rodef/nirdaf as applicable between yehudim. Only. If an aino yehudi is planning to kill a yehudi he has a different status than a yehudi who is planning (but not actively running after) to kill another yehudi”
“I have to disagree with your analysis. Unless the Rambam tells us what the din would be in the case of an Eino Yehudi, how could you assume they are different?”
The problem here is who says he didn’t have a Din of Rodef?!?
It’s typical that many posters here are defending the Medina!
Just like a Habomacteres is a Din Rodef – so here. How do you know he didn’t have an explosive device?!?