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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 5
THE TRANSFER PROPOSAL ( PART 2)
The debate over Deputy Defense
Minister Michael Dekel’s proposal for a “voluntary transfer” of Arabs was a
stormy one, with angry leftists warning of the growth of Kahanism and with
Knesset Member Meir Kahane attacked and defamed by a number of speakers. Now, it was Kahane’s turn to addess the
Knesset and the Kach leader, quoting extensively from the Bible and
Commentators concerning the need for involuntary transfer, attacked
Shimon Peres for calling people who advocated transfer, “those people with
perverted minds.” “Kahane had just finished saying, “what a clearer
understanding (the Torah has) versus the perverted mind of Shimon Peres and the
fear of Michael Dekel, who did not have the courage to adopt the halacha” when
he was interrupted by Labor Vice Speaker of the Knesset, Aharon Nahmias, who
said:
Speaker: You are already
beginning to insult, Knesset member Kahane.
M. Kahane (Kach): I beg your
pardon”
Speaker: You are insulting.
Kahane: Insulting”
Speaker: Yes.
Kahane: I sat here and Knesset
Member Vilner called me a fascist…
Speaker: And you said that you
were not as extreme as he. He called you a “gang” and you said you were more
moderate. And now you are defaming.
Kahane: Now I will be precisely
as Knesset Member Vilner.
Speaker: Perhaps you will cease
speaking about Hellenists and “perverted minds.” Hellenists!
Kahane: Yes, Hellenists. I see that bothers you.
What “transfer”? The Bible
speaks of “v’horashtem, v’girashtem, u’viartem.” You will drive them out, uproot
them. These are the concepts of clear
minds. “And if you shall not drive them out they shall be as thorns in your
eyes.” (Numbers 33:55). Yes, Mr. Peres, of the perverted mind, if we do not
drive them out, they will be “as thistles in your sides,” the murderers
of the soldiers Moshe Tamam and Akiva Shaltiel …
Speaker: Knesset Member Kahane,
if you wish to continue to speak today you must retract the defamations.
Kahane: What defamations?
Speaker: I ask you.
Kahane: I am not a second-class
Knesset member.
Speaker: Knesset Member Kahane.
Kahane: I repeat, sir, that I am
not a second-class Knesset member.
Speaker: Knesset Member Kahane,
you will not insult. Enough.
Kahane: Sir, I do not
defame. I say exactly what I say,
exactly what Knesset Members Peled and Vilner said.
Speaker: Say what you wish but
do not insult.
Kahane: Sir, he rises here and
calls Kahane a fascist while you are silent…
Speaker: He did not say you are
a fascist.
Kahane: But he did.
Speaker: He did not say to you
that you are a fascist.
Kahane: I tell you that he did
say that.
Speaker: He did not say it to
you. Now he did not say it. It is possible that he said it another time,
when I did not know about it.
Kahane: What is this, a
game? I repeat that I am not a second-class
Knesset member, I am exactly as all the rest.
Speaker: You have the rights of
all of them but not the right to defame.
Kahane: I will say what I have
to say. The murderers of soldiers Moshe
Tamam and Akiva Shaltiel and Esther
Ohana and David Bukra and tens of others, may the L-rd avenge their blood,
murdered them because they were not “transferred” or expelled or uprooted.
The responsibility lies on Peres
and his band, his gang that calls my group a gang.
Speaker: They called you a gang?
Kahane: Yes, that too. Of course, the idea of Vice Minister Dekel
for a voluntary transfer is absurd, a wild dream. Of course the Arab states will not agree to
voluntarily accept them. But, of course,
we must work for an involuntary transfer. What Arabs agreed in 1948 to
leave? We threw them out, more power to
us. In those days there were no
perverted minds like Shimon Peres. And
how the great Rabbis understood the reality, as opposed to the Knesset
dwarfs. What did Rashi (Numbers 33:55)
say? “And you shall clear the land of its inhabitants and then you will dwell
in it. Then you will be able to exist in
it. And if not – you will be unable to
exist in it.” And the Or HaChaim
(ibid.,55) wrote: “Not only will they hold on to the part of the land that you
did not inherit, but they will persecute you over that portion which you did
inherit saying: ‘Rise up and leave it.’”
A perverted mind? Indeed, there exists such a mind and it is
rooted in the head of Shimon Peres and the left-Hellenist camp that is
incapable of understanding the Arab mind.
Members of the Knesset, in ten
years we will stand before a Northern Ireland and Cyprus tragedy. And in New York they will watch television
each night, seeing Israeli soldiers shooting Arabs. Is that what we want? Not I.
There is a fundamental contradiction between Zionism and a Western
democratic state. Either there will be a
Jewish state or one in which all people, Arabs too, have the right to become
the majority. You run from this, but you
cannot run away.
The Torah answer, the Zionist
and logical answer to a Jewish state, is that every Arab that is not prepared to
live here with only personal rights and not his political ones – no Knesset and
no voting – must leave the country. You wish to call it “transfer,” let it be “transfer.” The main thing is – do not ask them.
September 4, 1987
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