Meir Kahane warned us...
"If you don't choose Kahane,
you're going to get Arafat!"
(And that is exactly what's happening today ... Israel has Arafat!)
Posted on 12/30/2003 1:54:38 PM PST by Nix 2
Torah Scroll & Synagogue to be Dedicated in Memory of the Kahane Family
21:50 Dec 30, '03 / 5 Tevet 5764
(IsraelNN.com) Organizers expect thousands to participate in the inauguration of a new synagogue and Torah scroll in the new neighborhood of Tapuah West in the Shomron community of Tapuah.
The synagogue is the first to be built on Tapuah West and the first building being constructed in memory of Rabbi Meir Kahane, his son Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev and his daughter-in-law (Binyamin’s wife) Talia.
Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by Arab terrorists in NY on 18th of Heshvan 5751 (5 Nov. 1990). Binyamin and Talia Kahane were murdered by Arab terrorists not far from Tapuah on Tevet 5, 5761 (31 Dec. 2000). The 6 Kahane orphans continue to live with family in Tapuah.
Eric Greenberg donated the Torah scroll and he and many others will be flying in for the ceremony from the United States. Bullet-resistant buses will be taking people to Tapuah from major cities throughout Israel.
Organizers add, “The timing of the dedication Torah is particularly significant in view of the recent government threats to dismantle Jewish towns in Yesha.
The military administration has already called for the dismantling of the new synagogue.
”Rabbi Shar Yoshuv Cohen Chief Rabbi of Haifa and many other distinguished Rabbis and community leaders will be attending the event.”
The event is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 10 Tevet (4 January) at 17:00. Evening prayer services will be held in Tapuah followed by a meal to signify the end of the fast day of the 10 Tevet. Then, a parade accompanied by music will begin as the new Torah scroll is escorted into the community of Tapuah West situated about 1.5 kilometers (1 miles) away.
Buses will be leaving the Jerusalem Convention Center (Binyanei HaUma) at 15:45. For more information on buses one may call 067-910341 or visit http://www.kahane.org/shul.html .
Kahane was right, and everyone knows it now.
USA Must Have Guts to Terrorize Terrorists
By Rabbi Meir Kahane, Zt"l
The following essay by Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, appeared in USA Today on February 12, 1987.
If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.
And if that rules is too much for the United States to stomach, let it resign itself not only to the constant threat of kidnapping of Americans in the Third World, but worse, bombs in U.S. department stores, and other public places.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. They assume that everyone else is equally decent.
They assume that, all humans being equal, all cultures are therefore similar in concepts and values. But that is simply not so. And the Middle East is just not the Middle West.
The Middle East and the Moslem-Arab world possess their own unique cultures and values that in so many cases are at variance with those of the West. Human rights - especially those of non-Moslems or non- Arabs - simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. Because of this, the U.S. is looked on as a paper tiger - with all the accompanying contempt. President Reagan's constant flexing of muscle, with absolutely no reaction to the murder of U.S. Marines and the kidnapping of U.S. citizens, has created for him an image of one who speaks loudly and carries a small twig.
That is the heart of the problem. The answer? Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
It is abundantly clear that Syria wished to, terrorists would be deprived of huge areas of haven in Lebanon. But why should Syria want to? Or Iran? They're happily enjoying Western agony without suffering one bit. And that is the key: Make them suffer.
Terror in Syrian and Iranian cities will soon enough convince those two unworthy states that it is unhealthy to support terrorism. And if towns and villages that support terrorists in Lebanon are mercilessly dealt with, they, too, will soon enough turn on them.
The question is whether the United States has the stomach to defeat terror or whether Americans will sink into what the Rabbis of the Talmud call "the mercy of fools." When one refrains from terror against terrorists, he is not better than they. He will be deader, and there is nothing moral of ethical about that.
The choice is clear and once again, the Rabbis put it well: "If one comes to slay you, slay him first." (Brachot, 58 )
The Western Left = the mercy of fools. How right Kahane was.
With all due respect, though, little of the world was focused on the dangers of Islamofacism when the Cold War was at its peak. George W. Bush could never have taken on Iraq with its sponsoring state of the Soviet Union still in existence.
Dear World,
Rabbi Meir Kahane (1988 )
I understand that you are upset over us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. (Outraged?) Indeed, every few years you seem to became upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians"; you never even notice OUR innocent victims of brutal cold-blooded murder, yesterday, it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who try to defend themselves and who, therefore, remain alive, upset you most extraordinarily.
Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the Jewish people - upset you. We upset a German people who elected a Hitler and we upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world "upset." We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648- 49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for centuries, a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through Inquisitions, and we upset the arch- enemy of the Church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.
And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to "leave" you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you - and have you love us? And so we decided to come home - to the same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.
Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and Holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state - we continue to upset you. You are upset that we "repress" the poor Palestinians (who never had it as good). You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset. Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.
In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron - in 1929. Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967?
And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? was it because of Arab upset over1967? And when you, world, proposed a U.N. Partition Plan in1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset, then? The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish state in to the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate the same cry of "itbach-al-yahud" massacre the Jew! - that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel.
What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should not "repress" them...
Dear world, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.
And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us!. In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, there are still some Jews in Israel who could not care less.
He was a vociferous proponent of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. He wanted Israel to expel all non Jews.
I hold no brief for the Palestinians...but!Yikes!
Regards,
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