Do you have an opinion on Meir Kahane?
How many nuclear bombs will have to be detonated in America before the current political correctness is forever pushed aside?
Is there even a number? Or will we still be tied down by this self destructive mentality after millions have died?
I wonder the same for Israel, knowing that it won't take more than one well placed nuke to make it a moot point.
Why Be Jewish? is also a great book, though I only skimmed through it once in a university library. I've heard it's out of print now. A shame.
I can go to Palestinian Media Watch and find example after example of Hamas calling for the destruction of Israel, propagating the vilest anti-Semitism, and proclaiming that Islam will rule the world (especially the Western World. This is not unique to Hamas; this can be said of the entire Arab World and of Islamic groups in Europe and the United States. Nazism has a new face.Thanks Conservative Coulter Fan.
In politics and statecraft, raising and pressing ultimate issues can lead to extremism, despair, infighting, and unnecessary, unproductive violence. That is where Kach and Kahane went astray.
Instead of raising ultimate issues and making them the center of a politics, the best approach for a country is almost always muddling through and pursuing several alternatives at the same time so as to hedge bets and permit events to make the correct course of action apparent. In doing so, a country can be prepared for what comes while maintaining goodwill among the populace and an effective governing consensus.
Jews in Israel and the West earnestly hope that there can ultimately be peace with the Muslims. The Left commonly takes those hopes to a destructive, delusional extreme. The better approach is for Israel to be well armed, vigilant, reasonably united, and determined to survive no matter what happens.
Israel must talk with her neighbors, not so much in hope of ultimate peace but to keep war away from her door as long as possible. In the meantime, Israel's economic, military, and technological strengths grow and help to dissuade her adversaries.
What happens in the end? Who knows, but Muslims may eventually reform their faith and establish governments based on democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. If so, they will come to accept that a bad peace is better than a good war with Israel. Or if they chose war with a powerful and united Israel, they lose worse than they did before.
Kahane took on the Soviets when most American Jews were happy pretending that there was no communist antisemitism. He was assasinated by El Sayyid Nosair on the orders of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Emir of MAK and OBL’s spiritual leader. Among those funding his defense was Osama bin Laden.