“Beyond Words” is
a newly-published seven volume collection of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s writings that
originally appeared in The Jewish Press, other serial publications, and his
privately-published works. It also
includes a number of extra features: Chronology of Rabbi Kahane's life.
Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane, 1960-1990
Volume 5 – 1985-1988
Israel Will Survive Without U.S. Aid
The long article by Robert W. Gibson. “Israel: An Economic Ward of the U.S.” (Los Angeles times, July 24), highlights the main thrust of the anti-Israel elements in the United States who, quite correctly, understand that the most direct and easiest way to fuel anti-Israel feeling is to dramatize the amount of economic aid the Jewish state receives from Washington. Not only does this tactic play on the economic resentment of Americans in financial straits but it incites, too, the very strong, though latent, feeling within many, many Americans that “Israel and the Jews” run the policies of the United States. And so it is time, long overdue in fact, to lay down a clear political axiom: If the citizens the of the United States do not feel that their interests are being served by Israel, then their obligation is to stop this economic aid. If, on the other hand, they believe that Israel serves a vital interest of the U.S. they should then put an end to their whining and deal with Israel as one would an equal partner who gives as much as he gets.
Of course, the nonsense about helping Israel because it is “the only democracy in the Middle East” has to be stopped. Nations do not help other states because they are “democracies” or “progressive” states, or “good.” Nations have self-interests that lead them to ally themselves with other states. Those self-interests, and not the “morality” of the state, are what determine foreign policy decisions. That is why “socialist” China sells weapons to Khomeinlist Iran and why the Soviet Union, not to mention various African states, do business with South Africa. That is why the U.S. had military and/or economic ties with such “democracies” as Franco’s Spain, the colonels of Greece and a whole host of other “worthies.” And that is the reason, the only reason, why the United States should have an alliance with Israel – and then pay for what it is getting.
The most urgent U.S. interest in the Middle East is a strong and
reliable anti-Soviet ally. It has a wide
range of choices. If not Israel, it can
always choose from such reliable powers as Oman, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Jordan, or Lebanon
…
It is Israel alone that gives the United States a guaranteed and
safe base whenever needed. It is the
Haifa naval harbor that is open to the U.S. Sixth Fleet regularly. It is in the Negev that the U.S. stores tons
of military equipment for use when needed.
It is Israel that provides the Voice of America an area in which to
build new, powerful transmitters. It is
Israel that works hand in hand with the U.S. to, actively, crush
terrorism. It is Israel that flies U.S.
F-16 planes, in real combat, to tell the Americans what defects exist. It is Israel that puts Soviet missiles given
to the Syrians out of commission and then explains to Washington how it was
done. It is Israel that captures a
Soviet T-72 tank and shows it to the CIA for the first time. It is Israel whose Jericho missiles makes Moscow
nervous enough to protest a weapon that can reach its territory. It is Israel that has the brains, the
technology, the ability to create; things that no nation in the region
has. And it is Israel that has the
innate common hostility to the Soviets and other anti-Western totalitarian
states, shared by America.
And know that the State of Israel’s survival is in no way dependent on the United States or any other human agency. The incredible saga of the Jewish return to the Holy Land is, of course, preceded by the miraculous survival of that Jewish people through 1,900 years of persecution, wanderings and Holocaust. How? Why, because they are, indeed, the Chosen People. They are, indeed, capable of suffering terribly but never being destroyed. They are, indeed, the people of G-d who, just as Divinely promised, have come home, never again to be exiled. That is the immutable fact of history, whether one cares to believe or not. Not by American bread does the Jewish state live but by the word of G-d. Let that be clear.
And a final world. The Kach Movement is committed to putting an end to U.S. economic aid. Not only does it not help us, it perpetuates the economic basket case that Israel is today – a state that, like some beggar, lives off Washington and German reparations and the United Jewish Appeals or Israel Bonds. Normal countries do not survive on charity, which only petrifies economic initiative and intensifies possible political pressure on the part of the donor nation. And Israel, which is a pathetic victim of its own bureaucratic and socialist system that strangles free enterprise and initiative, receives U.S. economic aid as some drug addict needing his annual “fix.” That “fix” does not aid Israel, it keeps it from taking the difficult, painful steps needed to achieve economic independence. Let the aid be gradually stopped and let the bureaucrats be thrown out and let free enterprise and economic initiative rule. Then, Israel will grow and thrive – without U.S. or any other human assistance. Then Israel will be able to respond to intolerable American pressure and interference in internal affairs with a clear and respectable: No. Israel and the U.S. must be partners. Equal partners. If there are Americans who do not want this – fine. Stop giving; but then accept the consequences of not receiving.
The awesome fly in this Jewish ointment is, of course, that the
people in the world who will most strenuously object to all the above will be
Jews. The People of the Book, who cast
it aside for Philip Roth and other moral-cultural-secular pornography, is also
the people of ultimate faith that cast that away to suckle at the
breasts of the nations. The Jew of our times
simply does not believe in G-d, despite all the piously fraudulent
protestations. Too lacking in courage to
admit his lack of belief and preferring to create a G-d that is safe and in his
own image, the Jew will build his temples and hire (at munificent costs) his
priests and priestesses (a.k.a. rabbis), paying expensive lip service to Divinity. But that Divinity is most limited by the new
Creator-Man. He has His place, but He
had better well know it.
The Jew absolutely rejects the idea of a G-d who is stronger than
Caspar Weinberger or Ronald Reagan. He
may pray to G-d, but he quakes before Washington. Israel can certainly survive in his pragmatic
little mind without the G-d of Israel, but it can never last a week without the
American savior. That is the result of
the centuries of Jewish religious corruption, the decadence of Western Hellenization
and secularism. We have evolved from a
holy nation that once worshipped at the footstool of G-d to one that prays at
the armpit of the American president.
And the Orthodox Jew is not a whit better. The Orthodox Jew, he who evolved from the religious
one. From a Jew who once fearlessly
proclaimed, “these may come with horses and these with chariots, but we
shall call in the name of the L-rd” (Psalms 20:8), we have emerged a people
who, following the morning prayer when we mouth that very verse, remove the tallit
and teflin, gulp down a bit of schnapps, and speaking “politics,”
venture: “Of course we believe in
G-d, but be practical. If
Israel does not compromise, Reagan will not give us horses and chariots.”
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