The magazine of the Authentic Jewish Idea
September – October 1990 Ellul 5750 – Tishrei 5751
ISAIAH 6: 9-10
Some 2500 years ago the Prophet Isaiah was chosen by the
Almighty as His prophet to His people, Israel.
And thus did G-d speak to Isaiah:
“… Hear ye indeed – but understand not, and see ye indeed – but perceive
not. Make the heart of the people fat
and make their eyes heavy and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their
eyes and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return
and be healed . . ." (Isaiah 6:9-10).
That the Jewish people in both the Land of Israel and Exile
hear and understand nothing and see and perceive not, is so abundantly clear as
to be beyond debate. The only question
is whether there is hope left for them or, because of their stubborn refusal to
see and understand, the almighty brings down upon us the curse of Isaiah 6:
9-10 in which as punishment, the Jew is no longer allowed to see and understand
(See Radak, Ibn Ezra Ibid.). But whatever
the reason for the phenomenon, it is clear; it is an indisputable fact: The Jew
is blind and deaf and lacking in understanding.
And worse: He does not want to
see; he does not want to hear; he does not want to understand, because the
reality is so difficult and tortuous and agonizing, and it would call upon him
to take steps that he refuses to even contemplate. And so, the edge of the
cliff comes closer and the coach and its wildly charging horses rush to it.
As I await the resumption of my trial for “incitement” after
having stated that the Arabs are a cancer in our midst, I look at an article in
the paper today that tells of a policy involving the building that houses the
Supreme Court of Israel, the one that ruled that Kahane is a “racist”. The article describes a policy that bars
any Arab from the territories from entering the building even if he is a worker
hired to repair the building. Furthermore,
any Israeli Arab, meaning a citizen if Israel, can only enter the building to
work with a policeman in tow, who must be with him all the time.
I am deeply moved by this expression of trust in the loyal
citizens of Israel and can hardly wait for the Supreme Court to send the racist
Kahane to Jail. This goes along with the
policy of the Knesset of Israel which bars any Arab from working in the
building, even as a waiter, and any Arab taxi driver from entering past the
guard post.
Indeed, as I once told Arab Knesset Member Muhammad Watad, in replying to his motion to condemn
Kach’s victory in the Kiryat Arba elections:
If you had not been elected as a Knesset Member you would not be
allowed here as a waiter.
And then, I read about a secret military prosecution report
to the Attorney General and the State Attorney (who led the fight to bar me
from the Knesset), which states that Faisal Husseini is one of the four Arab
leaders of the intifada and the PLO’s representative. I know that at
that moment, Husseini was in the U.S. with Moshe Dayan’s daughter, being
welcomed and cheered by liberal Jews, by Jewish leaders and temple rabbis, and
spoke at the Los Angeles Jewish Federation building, from which Jewish “racists”
are barred.
And then, I go over the foreign news and my heart is warmed
by such items as Amal and Hezbollah factions killing each other by the scores
in southern Lebanon; Christians and Moslems doing the same in Beirut. Tamales and Singhalese are massacring each
other in Sri Lanka; Serbs and Croats engage in bitter dispute in Yugoslavia
along with fighting between Serbs and Albanians while the Slovenes there want
to break away and form their own state, and the Macedonians are demanding land
from Greece which is engaged in a bitter dispute with Turkey in Cyprus, while
the former is furious over Bulgarian treatment of its ethnic Turks. Meanwhile, the Kurds are fighting the Turks
(and the Iraqis) for their own land and the Iraqis take over Kuwait which was
already sending back Palestinians who work in its oil fields because they are
an internal danger .
And watching all this is Great Britain, which demands that
Israel sit down with the PLO while it refuses to meet with the IRA which kills
three policemen and a nun in its struggle against the Protestants. And in the capital of the European Common
Market, Belgium, Flemish and Walloons fight a bitter language battle that tears
the country apart, and the sick giant of the East, the Soviet Union, is hardly
Soviet and less of a union with tens of different ethnic groups shouting “nyet,
we want out.” And in the New World, the
French dream about a Quebec libre, and the Indians in New York State and
Canada and all over are on the warpath and in Los Angeles an Hispanic school district
is carved out, and blacks hate Koreans, and whites hate blacks and vice-versa, and
it is so clear that if only Jews had the good will and made the necessary compromises
they and the Arabs could live together happily because they have so much in common...!
No, there is no doubt.
It is a people that are very disturbed.
Seeing nothing, hearing nothing, understanding nothing and not
wishing to.
And then, a long article appears in the Friday edition of Ha’aretz.
The title? “Israel Arabs Seek Autonomy.”
Well, well, well. And
when did we first hear that? And who was
the first to declare that there is a basic contradiction between a democratic
universal state and a Jewish one? Of
course the Arabs are right. And of
course we must choose and of course we must choose a Jewish state and of course
the Arabs must go and of course it is because they are a cancer. I say it again and if the government wants to
put me on trial again, let them do so. But
the truth is the truth. They are a cancer; a dangerous and spreading one and
they must go.
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