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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 6
Due to the most recent rape by an Arab of an
innocent Jewish 7 year old girl in the Binyamin Region, I am sending
this Rabbi Meir Kahane article. The
girls was raped by an Arab school custodian, forced to an Arab village and
raped while 6 of his friends watched and laughed.
Shchem – Where Is Shimon?
Where Is Levi?
“Shall he make of our
sister a harlot?”
(Genesis 34: 31)
Some 3,500 years ago, an abomination was done to a Jew in Shchem. Dinah, daughter of Jacob, was raped by
Shchem, the son of Chamor. Upon hearing
of the obscenity, Dinah’s brothers – Shimon and Levi – went into the town and
slew every male.
Last month, an abomination was done to a Jew in Shchem. A Jewish soldier
was murdered when an Arab dropped a huge rock on his head from a rooftop. Upon hearing of the obscenity, Dinah’s
brothers – Chief of Staff Dan Shomron and the general in charge of the Central command, Amram Mitzna – toured
the scene of the murder, swore that the Arabs would pay “a high price” ( the
exact words of Shomron were: “There is no doubt that we will react in this area
in a way that will make it not worthwhile for local people to throw stones and
the price will be heavy. Every reaction
is possible. You will see this in the
days to come”) – and then proceeded to blow up the upper roof of the building
from which the rock was dropped and brick up windows overlooking the alley.
As they did so, Arabs in adjacent buildings whistled and shouted, “Allahu
Akhbar, Allah is great,” and former Mayor Hafez Touquan said: “This has no
deterrent effect whatsoever.”
The shame of Israel, the Hillul Hashem – desecration of the Name – lies
in the fact that today there is no Shimon, there is no Levi. There is only Dan Shomron who – as Chief of Staff,
to our dishonor, and thus committed to crushing the intifada whose aim is to
wipe out Israel – instead tells the news media that “the intifada cannot be
defeated since it comes from nationalist roots.” There is only Amram Mitzna, the disgrace of a
soldier who, in the middle of the Lebanese war and following the Sabra and Satilla
massacres of Arabs by Arabs, condemned the Israeli Defense Minister before a
press conference in Beirut and then left his post and went home to his kibbutz,
Ein Gav.
What a “high price” the Arabs of Shchem have paid. A roof, two houses blown up and windows
bricked up and an area sealed – and the Arabs laughing and happily shouting
Allah is great! “High price.” What a fraud, what a lie. And how it typifies the entire government of
deceit. They have no policy, they have
no answers.
Where is Shimon? Where is
Levi? Where is the Jewish knowledge that
an abomination against a Jew has been done here and it must be dealt with in
the only way that the Jew-haters understand?
When Jacob heard of the act of Shimon and Levi he protested – not
because it was immoral, as so many foolish Jews say, but – for practical
reasons: He feared the retribution of the people of the land, saying, “You
have brought trouble on me to make me odious among the inhabitants of the land
… and I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me,
and slay me” (Genesis 34:30). No,
not a moral argument, for there was nothing immoral about the act of Shimon and
Levi. Jacob was simply afraid of the
reaction of the gentiles around him.
And the reply of Shimon and Levi resounds throughout the ages: “Shall
he make of our sister a harlot?” And Jacob is silent. There is no answer. For his sons are right . . .
Hillul Hashem! To defile a Jewess
and treat her as a whore! Such a thing
cannot be even if there is danger, because in the case of national Hillul
Hashem, danger is set aside. And this
was even when the Jews were a small minority in the midst of many gentiles. Even then, the demand to wipe out Hillul
Hashem transcended danger. How much more
so, when there is a State of Israel and an army that controls the city of
Shchem! And how much greater is the
Hillul Hashem that we bring on ourselves by our humiliating refusal to do that
which we should – wipe out the terror by killing the murderers and driving out
all the rest.
And the Or HaChaim in his commentary goes further: “To the contrary,
there will be danger for them among the nations; when the latter will see that
one low person ruled over Jacob and did as his pleasure, then the Jews would
not be able to survive among the nations.
And it is through this [the killing of the people of Shchem] that fear of the Jews will be on the
nations and they will tremble before them.”
Of course. It is only true punishment and a heavy hand of Jewish terror
that is the way to terrify the nations who would otherwise wipe out
Israel. It is the way of Shimon and Levi
that not only leads to the natural terror of the gentile but also to G-d’s
approval: “And the terror of G-d was on the cities that were round about
them and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob” (Genesis
35:5).
What the pathetic and humiliating policy of Shomron and Mitzna and their
employers – Rabin and Shamir and Arens – has done has been to lift terror from
the Arabs and give them confidence and contempt for the Jews. By this deadly and terrible policy, so
couched in gentilized and Hellenized concepts of “morality” that is, in fact,
repulsive murder, we guarantee the future blood of Jews. Because there is no Shimon and Levi, the Arab
is unafraid and he thus will murder more Jews tomorrow, secure in the knowledge
that the pathetic kibbutznikim of the army and the Hellenized political leaders
of Likud and Labor will speak loudly and then do nothing to crush the
Arab. It is the Arab who threw the
rock that murdered the soldier but it is Shamir and Arens and Rabin and Shomron
and Mitzna who are the accomplices.
Their Jewish hands are red and filthy with Jewish blood.
And finally, a comprehensive understanding of Shimon and Levi for those
who claim that they sinned when they killed the people of Shchem and were
therefore cursed by their father.
The fact is that their father (as mentioned above) never castigated them
on moral grounds but only out of practical fear of the nations. The fact is that they replied to him and he
was silent, accepting their cry that no gentile could make of their sister a
harlot. The fact is that G-d did not
punish them but, to the contrary brought terror on the gentiles around them.
And the fact is that when G-d commanded the tribes to choose special and
distinctive flags that they would fly proudly as they camped and traveled in
the desert, the Rabbis tell us (Bamidbar Rabbah 2): “Shimon [the tribe of
Shimon] had a flag whose color was green and had drawn on it the city of
Shchem.”
The city of Shchem? This was the
flag of Shimon as commanded by G-d? This
was what the ALL Mighty wished Shimon to wave on high for all to see? No, hardly a sin, but rather, as in the
commentary of the Maharzu: “Because of their bravery and self-sacrifice in
Shchem. And even though Levi was with
him Shimon was the older and the main one.
And this [flag] is his praise for his zealousness against the
abomination of immorality.”
And Maimonides explains the actions of Shimon and Levi (Hilchot Mlachim
9:14), and his words are brought down in the Ramban (Breishit 34:13): “The sons of Noah are commanded to uphold
laws . . . and because of this all the people of Shchem were worthy of death
since Shchem stole [Dinah] and they saw it and knew of it and did not try him.”
And the Ramban gives his own reason as follows: For the sons of
Jacob, since the people of Shchem were wicked people and blood for them was as
water, wished to avenge themselves on them with an avenging sword. And they killed the king and all his servants
who were obedient to him.”
In any event, since it is clear that Shimon and Levi not only did not
sin but, indeed, followed G-d’s law, why then did Jacob apparently,
curse them when he said: “Instruments of violence are their swords. Let my soul not come into their council . . .
for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they uprooted an ox” (Genesis
49:6)
The answer is that, again, their actions against the people of Shchem,
who had acquiesced in the abomination against Dinah, were totally
justified. And that is why Jacob, after
first protesting and then hearing their reply, was silent and agreed. But later, after learning that the
same two sons had also intended to kill Joseph, and Shimon threw him into a pit
that was teeming with snakes and scorpions (see Breishit Rabbah 84, and Rashi
on Genesis 49:6. Who explains the words “And in their self-will they
uprooted an ox.” As referring to Joseph who was symbolized as an ox in
Deuteronomy 33:17. “The firstling of his herd grandeur is his, and his horns
are like the horns of a wild ox”), he then realized that their
motivation in all that they did was violence and anger for its own sake. That is why they sinned – not because of the
act itself but because their motivation was violent anger and this was
manifested even against their own brother.
And so he cursed, not them but their anger and their self-will.
No, those who dare raise their hand in abomination against Israel,
whether through rape of Dinah or murder of a soldier, have raised their hands
against the people of G-d. Hence against the ALL Mighty Himself. It is a Hillul Hashem that demands vengeance
and punishment. Shimon and Levi
destroyed the desecrators, and forever did the flag of Shimon eternalize the
act.
But there is no Shimon and Levi today.
There is only Shomron and Mitzna and Shamir and Arens – small people,
unworthy to carry the flag of Sanctification.
Their pitiful reaction is worse than nothing. It adds to the humiliation, to the Hillul
Hashem. It spits in the grave of the
murdered soldier and guarantees that others will follow him
The casbah where the soldier was murdered should have been razed to the
ground and all the inhabitants of the city told that blood is on their heads
and to flee before the sword of Shimon and Levi returns. Out!
Out of the land! Shall our sister
be as a harlot? Shall our brother the
soldier be as one whose blood is cheap?
We need a Shimon and Levi today.
We need a government in Israel that understands that this is precisely
its role
Written 1989
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