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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane, 1960-1990
Volume 5
The speech by Vice Minister of Defense
Michael Dekel calling for a voluntary “transfer” of Arabs from Judea and
Samaria, to be agreed upon by the Arab states, raised an incredible furor in
Israel, far more than it really deserved.
It was immediately attacked by the entire spectrum of the Left,
condemned by the Likud party of which Mr. Dekel is a member, and put down by Tehiya. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called it the
product of a perverted mind, and immediately three motions of no-confidence were
presented in the Knesset. Two, by the Communists
and the Progressive List, blasted the government for not taking action against Dekel.
The third, by the Kach Movement, condemned the government for not
supporting Dekel and not condemning Peres.
Leading off
the debate was communist Party head, Meir Vilner who said:
M. Vilner
(Communists): Now it is clear to those who previously could not see that racist
and fascist views are the province of leaders of parties represented in the government
and not only of Kahane and his gang.
M. Kahane (Kach): What is this “gang”?
Speaker: Knesset Member Kahane,
do you know what you call Knesset members here?
What he said is still nothing in comparison.
M. Kahane: You try to stop
me. Why are you silent when it comes to
this Communist?
Speaker: Are you still continuing
this? If you continue, they will tell
you things that are not very pleasant to hear.
M. Vilner: We dare not
underestimate these racist plots. They
are aimed at the very national existence of the Palestine people. They are rooted in the Nazi racist ideology.
M. Kahane: Perhaps in the Stalinist
Nazi Ideology?
Speaker: Knesset Member Kahane,
you are scheduled to present a no-confidence motion today on the same subject. Save these things for your own speech.
M. Vilner: One of the fascist racists, General (Reserves) Rehavam Z’evi, yesterday wrote in Yediot
Achronot, and I quote: “For those who say that the transfer proposal is not
moral, why was it moral when David Ben-Gurion dealt with it and sent Yitzchak
Navon to check the feasibility of sending Arabs to Latin America? Why was it moral when Chaim Weizmann,
Menachem Usishkin, Arthur Rupin, Yosef Weitz, Berel Katznelson, Yigal Alon,
Yitzchak Rabin, Moshe Dayan and many others spoke about it?”
Indeed, all those who dealt with
it have unclean hands. Members of the
Knesset, these racist plans, according to international law – I checked
yesterday – in the concept of “genocide,” there is included the ouster of a
people from its homeland.
M. Kahane: But it is not their
homeland.
M. Vilner: We demand the ouster
of Michael Dekel from his past as Vice Minister of Defense.
M. Kahane: Transfer him.M. Vilner: The continuation of the occupation and the estrangement of the Likud and its far-right partners from the national rights of the Palestine Arab people, the program of cruel oppression of the occupied territories – we saw what they did in Gaza and not to Jewish terrorists.
M. Kahane: How dare you! What gall!!!
They murdered an Israeli officer in Gaza, you retched Moscow puppet.
Speaker: Knesset member Kahane,
please calm down.
When it was Kahane’s time to
present his motion of no-confidence, he began by saying:
“And it came to pass in the days
of the two-headed kingdom, that the flying Peres (‘peres’is a bearded vulture’
in Hebrew) raised his head and exclaimed: ‘Only a perverted mind could propose
a transfer.’
“Shimon Peres, the expert
witness on perverted minds. The baker
comes and testifies to his handiwork.
Only a perverted mind would suggest a transfer? Or perhaps he who condemns, testifies to his
own failings and only a twisted mind condemns the transfer.
“I must immediately make it
clear that my soul is repelled by the concept of ‘tranfer,’ and for a few
reasons. One, what kind of a word is ‘transfer’?
and for a few reasons. One, what kind of
a word is transfer’? Are there no Hebrew words left? And how we conjugate it? ‘Ani atransfer’; ‘ata t’transfer’; ‘anachnu
n’transfer’…?
If the Vice Minister had some
imagination and prayed the Ma’ariv (evening service daily, he might
speak of ‘lha’ariv aravim …’
“And more. What is transfer by choice? What nonsense! No Arab will voluntarily
choose to be transferred. The whole
concept is ludicrous. Our Torah and
Rabbis spoke Hebrew properly, and used the proper words in this context. Listen, Shimon Peres, and receive both a
lesson in Judaism and Hebrew.
“In the Book Number (33:52), the
All Mighty commands Moses and Israel as follows: ‘And you shall drive out
all the inhabitants of the land from before you.’ Precise words. The All Mighty is not a Vice Minister of Defense
who must play with words, modify them, soften them, lest He be called ‘racist’
or fascist.’ He uses the word ‘v’horashtem,’ which Rashi explains as: ‘u’girashtem,’
‘And you will drive them out.’ And so does the translator Onkelos write.
“Oh, Reb Shimon Peres, perhaps they,
too, have perverted minds, Rashi, Onkelos and G-d? This weasly word ‘transfer’ is not found in
the commentary on this verse by the Sforno, who writes ka’asher tva’aru
yoshvei ha’aretz…’Tuvaru – uproot them. Ah, what a clear
understanding versus the perverted mind of Shimon Peres and the fear of Michael
Dekel, who did not have the courage to adopt the halachic…”
It was here that Kahane was astoundingly
interrupted by the speaker who, just twenty minutes earlier, had defended the Communist
Vilner when Kahane demanded that the latter be called to order for defaming
him. Now the speaker, Aharon Nahmias of
Labor, said:
Speaker: You are already
insulting, Knesset Member Kahane.
September 4, 1987
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