“Beyond Words” is a
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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 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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