Sunday, May 25, 2014

THE POOR JEW - 1980

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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 3

THE POOR JEWS
March 28, 1980

The poor Jews; poor, poor Jews.  How catastrophic to be beset by Jewish leaders who are so blind and so obtuse and so unwilling to see that which is so clear to all who would but look.  The hysteria and shock that is currently gripping the blind who lead the blind, and which causes us to hear such patent nonsense as “Carter has changed American policy,” is yet another indication of what empty vessels lead the poor American Jewish community down the eventual path of destruction.

When the impossibly gentilized American Jewish leaders babble in their hysteria that Carter has “changed U.S. policy,” the President and his Secretary of State and his U.N. Ambassador all heatedly denied it. AND THEY ARE RIGHT. When Carter speaks of Israeli illegal occupation of all the lands of 1967 including East Jerusalem, there is no change in U.S. policy.  There is an eminently consistent thread that has run through the United States view of the Arab-Israel conflict from the very end of the Six –Day War.   When a ludicrous rabbi-turned-politician gives his usually nonsensical Sabbath sermon and accuses Carter of “deceit” does the rabbi and do the American Jewish Congress leaders remember the U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers?  He was not Carter’s Secretary of State.  He was not even a Democrat.  He was Nixon’s man (the same Nixon that conservatives who urge Jews to vote for Reagan point to as having done so much for Israel.) It was Rogers and his employer Nixon who created the so-called “Rogers Plan” that called for total Israeli withdrawal and allowed for only minor, “insignificant changes.”

And do we remember the United States Ambassador to the United Nations on July 1, 1969?  His name was not McHenry, and so Ed Koch could not include him in the ridiculous “Gang of Five.”  His name was Charles Yost and he was not a Carter man.  He said the following, more than a decade before Carter’s supposed “change.”

The United States considers that the part of Jerusalem that came under the control of Israel in the June (1967) war, like other areas occupied by Israel, is occupied territory and hence subject to the provisions of international law governing the rights and obligations of an occupying power . . . . The occupier must maintain the occupied areas as intact and unaltered as possible without interfering with the customary life of the area . . . . I regret to say that the actions of Israel in the occupied portion of Jerusalem presents a different picture and the rights and the activities of the population are already being affected and altered.

Poor, poor Jews.  Led by the nose by dwarfs and clowns.  There is no change.  The policy has always been the same, only the names are different.  And the policy will remain the same when Carter is gone, and those who think that Reagan will be different because he says wonderful things are invited to spend a day reading some of Carter’s promises in 1967.

The problem is not Carter.  The problem is not Sadat.  The problem is the Jews.  He does not want to see the truth.  He prefers to deceive himself. Children love candy and the Jewish infant will yet die from overeating.  The Jewish leaders are the same who led us to destruction two generations ago.  They are gentilized creatures, ignorant of everything that has to do with the Jewish destiny.  They drag after them too many Orthodox practitioners of Jewish ritual.

We do not want to see what Rogers says, so we do not and then are rudely “shocked” by a Carter.  And we scream, ludicrously, about being “betrayed.”  It is not so much Carter who betrays us but the Jewish leaders who are captives of their fat, prestigious, comfortable life.  To speak of gentile betrayal is to open the doors of all kinds of awful possibilities such as anti-Semitism and Holocausts.  And since this is the last thing they want to hear, the Jewish leaders invent their own world.  They see what they want to see.  And they lead the poor Jew to hell, with them.

I wonder where the UJA delegates who booed me in Washington two weeks ago are today.  When I said:  “Do not trust Carter,” they squealed.  What are they saying today?  I know what they are saying.  They’re beginning the process of convincing themselves that Carter really did not mean it.  They are preparing to boo me the next time.  If the masses are asses, surely it is because the leaders ride them.

The problem is not Carter.  Did you expect anything more from him?  The problem is not Sadat.  The problem is the Jewish leaders in Israel and in America, who refuse to see that which is unpleasant.  It was the Israeli Ambassador, Ephraim Evron, who, four days before the U.N. vote, babbled to the UJA conference about the wonderful relationship with America.  It was Begin who turned Sadat into a man of “peace and courage.”  What right do we have to complain today about arms to Egypt?  Why the outcry about Carter’s betrayal?  It is not Carter or Sadat who betrayed us.  It is Jewish leadership.  For years I said it and was booed.  What is so sad is that – deep in the marrow of my bones- I know that there is nothing that I can do that will ever teach this people the truth.  For they do not WANT to learn.  And the hour is almost midnight and I see the destruction and I say: the poor Jews; poor Jews.
[We are now in 2014 and nothing changes, we are still unwillingly to learn and lead by leaders that do not want to learn. bg]

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

BUT IT IS MY OX -1990


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RABBI MEIR KAHANE
ON JEWS AND JUDIASM

But It Is MY Ox!  
January 19, 1990   -  22 Teveth 5750
           
Once upon a time, there was a man who owned several beautiful oxen.  They were strong and well-mannered and just a delight.  He had a neighbor, however, who was a bad man and very jealous of the beautiful oxen, because the bad man’s oxen were ugly and ill-tempered.  And the jealousy of the bad man gave him no rest, so that one day he deliberately let his ill-tempered oxen into the field where the beautiful oxen were grazing and they gored one of them, killing it.  The owner of the dead ox was angry at this terrible and deliberate outrage that, in the middle of the night, he entered the field where the ill-tempered oxen were and killed one of them.

The neighboring villagers and cattle people were very moral and ethical people and they were aghast at the man who had taken revenge on the ill-tempered ox and its bad owner.  Their leader, Mr. Morality, was especially indignant.  “What you did was very immoral,” he told the poor man.  “You cannot sink to his level.  And you cannot enter someone else’s field even if there is a dangerous ox there.  You cannot take the law into your own hands.”

In vain did the poor fellow protest that someone had to teach the bad fellow a lesson and that unless that were done, he would do it again.  Nothing helped.  Mr. Morality was adamantly ethical: “You do not take the law into your own hands; you do not enter other people’s property; you do not sink to his level.”  And with that, Mr. Morality and his merry band of ethical cattlemen walked off, heads high and breasts filled with a sweet sense of righteousness.

The poor man was so beaten that he could not bear the thought of continuing as before.  He was so depressed that he decided to sell the rest of his beautiful oxen to anyone who would buy them. To be sure, there was no lack of buyers and, in the end, it was Mr. Morality himself who offered the highest price.  Beaming, he took possession of the beautiful, quiet, well-mannered and delightful oxen.      

But the change in ownership had not changed the way the bad man felt.  Every time he would see the beautiful oxen, he was blinded by jealousy and envy.  And so, one night, when he could no longer contain his jealousy, he sent his ugly and ill-tempered oxen into the field of Mr. Morality and they again killed one of the beautiful oxen.

When Mr. Morality heard of what had happened, his anger knew no bounds.  And without a second thought, he took a number of his merry ethical friends, entered the field of the bad man and killed not one, but two of his oxen.
           
When the original owner of the oxen heard of this, he hurried over to Mr. Morality.  “I do not understand.  What did you do?  When I did the same thing, you told me that one does not take the law into one’s own hands; one does not enter other people’s fields and one does not sink to their level.  What happened now?”
           
Mr. Morality looked with pity on the poor, uncomprehending man.  “I see that you really don’t understand, poor fellow.  Let me explain.  There is a difference between you going into his field and my going into his field.  In your case, you really should not have done such a thing.  In this case, it was my ox…”
           
I wallow in glee over events in Panama and Romania.  O, Panama!  O, Romania! I watch as the United States troops go into someone else’s field, invade a foreign country with 25,000 troops, shoot up its capital city, kill some 70 Panamanians, and install their own government.
           
And then I remember Israel’s invasion of Lebanon after years of attacks on Jewish towns from that country; after scores of Jews were murdered by attacks launched from that land; after life was made a living hell for the Jews of Kiryat Shmona, one third of whom fled the city.  And I remember Israeli troops reaching Beirut and installing their Lebanese as President in order to put an end to murder and attacks upon Jews.
           
And I remember Messrs. Morality!  ALL of them!  President Reagan, Vice-President Bush, the State Department, the Defense Department and all the merry, ethical Americans (and British and French and, and, and, ad infinitum.  Ad nauseum). How they condemned and how they railed and how they moralized and how they ethicalized!  Merrily.  “You do not sink to the level of the PLO.  You do not enter someone else’s field (land).  You do not take the law into your own hands.”  Messrs. Morality, Post Office Box One Million, Washington, DC.           
           
And so now there is Panama.  And should any simple-minded type ask President Morality, High-minded Bush of morality, why he did everything he told Israel it should not do – he would give a sympathetic nod to the poor simpleton who really does not understand, and the answer would be: But it is my ox…
           
I remember Israeli troops entering the field of Lebanon to capture a Moslem Sheikh who was leader of a group of Moslem Shiite thugs holding Israelis as hostages; and President Morality and his merry ethical State Department cattlemen with their shouts of condemnation!  And now I see the same moralists invading the field of Panama to try and catch a thug named Noriega because he deals in drugs that harm Americans and because he tweaks America’s nose.  And I finally understand the difference and can even hear President Morality say it: But it is my ox…
And I remember the outcry by all the Democrats and anti-Racist equality types demanding that William Nakash be extradited from Israel to France and rising up in righteous indignation over the thought that just because someone is a Jew, he should not be extradited.  After all, all human beings are equal and being Jewish is no reason to refuse to hand him over to strangers.  And what would the world say to any such tribalism!  And then I read that under Panamanian, law, a Panamanian cannot be extradited to a foreign county and I understand the difference: But it is my ox…

I watch as, in Romania, the dictator is captured and he and his wife are shot in secret trial, with summary justice dealt out within less than two days and no appeal allowed.  And I know that Israel did not give the death penalty to any murdering terrorists and goes through elaborate procedures of “justice” in order that terrorists sit and eat and drink at our expense until they are exchanged for hostages.  And I know what the outcry from Romania and other ethical nations would be if Israel would do to murdering terrorists what Romania did to its former President.  But I have already learned the difference; THIS IS MY OX…

And having said all that, I do not – as so many professors and intellectual doers on the right – merely weep, complain and wring my soul. I have no intention of wasting a precious few moments of my finite life in the House of Eternal Kvetching, in which so many of the right-wing spend their lives.  The lesson for me in this morality lesson of Whose Ox is gored? Is not that there are hypocrites in this world. Boker Tov! Good morning!  There are hypocrites in the world!  Surprise…

For me, the only lesson here is that there is, indeed, a difference.  Not the one that the moralists of hypocrisy give, but the objective and eternally true one of divine Torah Law.  There is a difference, the one that cannot be grasped unless one has knowledge and sense.  In the words of the rabbis, “Im ein da’at havdala minayin?”  “If one has no knowledge, how can he differentiate?” 

The lesson is that there is objective good and objective evil, objective truth and objective falsehood, and the same action taken against the one is good while the same act done against the other is wrong and evil.  Yes, it is good and right and a mitzvah to go into Panama to eliminate the slime named Noriega and yes, how much more so was it right and a mitzvah to enter Lebanon and eliminate the PLO and other Moslem terrorist swine.  And yes, it was wrong and evil for the Russians to do exactly the same in Afghanistan and for the Chinese to invade Tibet.  Yes, the German bombing of Coventry and London is not the same as the Allied bombing of German cities and yes, the hanging of evil criminals is good and that of decent people, bad, and anyone who does not understand this havdala, differentiation, needs a good grounding in knowledge.  Divine knowledge.  Torah knowledge.

Until then, at the very least, let the Jew learn the simple message of normal gentiles who – when their basic interests are threatened – do not hesitate to enter strange fields and to kill evil oxen.  It is time the Jew learned there is nothing for which to apologize or retreat when his people are killed and his interest threatened.  It is time that he learned to tell President Morality and any other merry ethical type:  “But it is my ox and no one touches it; understand?”


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Thursday, May 1, 2014

I LOVE ARABS -1986

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 “Beyond Words” is a newly-published seven volume collection of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s writings  from 1960 – 1990 that originally appeared in The Jewish Press, other serial publications, and his privately-published works.
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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 5

I LOVE ARABS
April 25, 1986

I love Arabs.  I really do.  They are so much more honest than the Jews I so often meet, they are so much more normal.  Consider two examples of Arabs I love.

The first is Knesset member Muhamad Miari of the pro-PLO Progressive List.  Miari is the very epitome of all that the liberal, humanist, democratic, co-existentialist egalitarians of the Jewish faith boast of.  A well-mannered, polite, intellectual (he is a graduate of the Hebrew University) citizen of Israel, he rose on October 15, 1985 in the Knesset of Israel to declare:

The State of Israel is not the state of the Jewish people but rather of the citizens who live there as citizens of the State of Israel.  I said it, we say it and we will continue to struggle for this.

And yet another Israeli Arab, poet, intellectual, writer, Anton Shamas, publishes a column in the leftist, self-hating Kol Ka’Ir (a local Jerusalem weekly controlled by the newspaper Ha’Aretz) on September 13, 1985, and writes:  “A Jewish state, by its very definition, carries with it the seed of disaster, namely the collapse of democracy.”

Would that Jews were so honest and normal!  Two Arabs who speak openly and who raise the clear contradiction between Western democracy and a “Jewish” state.  Two Arabs who make it perfectly clear that all the nonsense spouted by the pitiful Jewish liberals is too laughable to even consider seriously.  Two Arabs who make it clear that they reject Zionism and the Zionist state, and what shall we do with all the neurotic Jews who are shaking as if with the ague at this slap in their obtuse faces?

I love Arabs because they are so normal and honest, even as I become more and more convinced that the Jews need a national couch.  And because I respect the Arab, unlike the pathetic Jewish liberals, I understand that we cannot buy their logic and national pride with syrupy words, with indoor toilets and with “better living conditions.”  Because I respect Arabs I know that not by bread alone does the Arab live.  Nor even by cake.  And because, unlike the Mad Hatter Jewish liberals, leftists, Moderdox, ad infinitum, I respect the Arabs – I know that they must go.  And with G-d’s help, they will, and we will save Jews from both honest Arabs and from their own dishonest selves.

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