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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 5
FEAR, THE NEW ZIONISM
Written January 10, 1986
If there is anything left of secular Zionism to prove its
success in the wake of its ideological tatters and bankruptcy, it can only be
the claim that it took the Jew out of the ghetto, out of the exile, out of fear
and terror, and created a state of security and safety for the Jewish
people. Alas, the truth is that what has
occurred is that Israel is in the process of creating a new Minsk, Pinsk,
Sa’ana and Brooklyn. Fear has become a
permanent resident of Israel, moving into the hearts and minds of hundreds of
thousands of Jews who fear the night, fear to hitch rides, fear to drive in the
evening through Arab villages, fear to allow their children to play alone in
the streets.
Four Jews have been stabbed within two months, within the
Old City of Jerusalem, capital of Israel, home of Teddy Kollek and his Arab
friends. One was Yossi Martin, a tank
commander, whose girlfriend blurted, “I will never again enter the Old City.” Fear. It is hard to find Jews
who are prepared to use the Damascus Gate to walk to the Western Wall. Fear.
The Jerusalem weekly paper Kol Ha’ir printed a survey asking,
“Should we continue going to East Jerusalem?” Fear.
As yet another soldier, waiting to hitch a ride, was
murdered in cold blood (just three kilometers from his Petach Tikvah home), the
response from hysterical politicians was, “compel public transportation to give
rides to (female soldiers!” Which led,
of course, to outrage and the brave new Zionist demand, “free bus transportation
to male soldiers, too.” And, since this
leaves civilians to the pleasure of the Arabs who move freely and without fear
about Israel, naturally a columnist in the Histradrut paper Dvar wrote
an article, “Home Before Dark,” in which he outlined his terror, driving
through Jerusalem late at night.
That secular Zionism from its beginning was the bankrupt and
naked of all ideological meaning was obvious to me long ago. But here, we see in the State of Israel, that
rose in order to sanctify G-d’s name through Jewish power and strength and
victory, the exact opposite – Hillul Hashem, desecration of G-d’s name – as the
same fear and terror of the Exile is recreated in Hebrew on the soil of the
Holy land.
The nations, the gentile, understand Jewish destiny and
truth only in terms of power and victory.
If for two millennia they were able to persecute, trample, humiliate,
burn, gas and massacre the Jew – to them this was proof not only of Jewish
impotence, but of the very non-existence of the G-d of the Jewish people! Defeat, humiliation and weakness of the Jew
have always been the yardsticks of gentile desecration of G-d’s name, whereas
power and victory of the Jew over his enemies have always been proof to the
gentile that the G-d of Israel is One and the only one. Kiddush Hashem, sanctification!
The pitiful secularists of Israel, joined by the ghettoized
ritualists, have institutionalized fear in Israel. They desecrate G-d’s name daily. The answer to Arab arrogance, to attacks on
Jews, stoning of Jews, stabbing of Jews, murder of Jews – is not to have Jews
fearfully ride public buses or use the “Jewish” Jaffa Gate rather than the
“Arab” Damascus Gate in the Old City. It
is not to tell Jews to keep a watchful eye out for bombs and explosive
devices. This is the policy of Minsk and
Brownsville, Brooklyn. This is pandering
to the fear and humiliation of the ghetto and Exile we left. This is the reincarnation of Hillul Hashem in
the Land of Israel, the Land of Kiddush Hashem.
The answer to the Arab who desecrates G-d’s name by
attacking Jews is to rise up with the Jewish wrath of G-d and drive the
contemptuous Arab from the land. For in
the end, the removal of the Arab is the removal of desecration. Jewish power and strength and pride and
confidence – walking with the G-d of Israel – are the Jewish reply to Both Arab
and Hellenized Jew.
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