RABBI
MEIR KAHANE in 1988
wrote the following article. As you read
it simply change the names and it could have been written today.
Who said, “Violence does not help?”
A
dozen Israeli leaders, including Shamir, Peres and Rabin, solemnly advised the
Arabs (for their own good, we must assume) that “violence and riots do not
help.”
“Riots do not help?
“Violence only hurts your cause?” our leaders said.
Balderdash! Of
course, violence helps, why else did Mr. Shamir decide to help form the Stern
group (cruelly called “gang” by the British and Jewish Establishment types who
warned that “violence would not help”…)
And, if violence and rioting did not help the Arab cause,
why is it that the “Palestine” question has been headline news almost every
day. And what forced the Americans and
West who, from the beginning were comfortably isolating themselves from the
problem. Now they condemn Israel and
demand that a political solution be found?
Who said, “Violence does not help?”
The “Palestinians” seeing that every political effort had
failed, reasoned, why should violence be perceived as not helping? Knowing that television and news media
thrive on “action.” Why should the Arabs not attempt to give them that, knowing
that hundreds of millions of people all over the world would be seeing it?
Who said, “Violence does not help?”
What put the Soviet Jewish issue on page on of The New
York Times and as the major story on almost every television station, if
not violence? And what made the British
get out of Palestine? What led to the
creation of a Jewish state, if not violence?
How much good did non-violence do for the Jews of the
Holocaust? Of course violence helps. It
helps to force an issue onto the headlines and consciousness of the world. It makes people talk about the issue. And then, if the violence is accompanied by
clever propaganda, it helps remarkably well and that the confused object of your
violence does not know how to deal with you and your violence, why – of course
– you continue and escalate that violence.
The truth is violence has already succeeded in making Israel
retreat. When Shamir and Rabin and Peres
declare that as soon as order is restored, Israel will sit down to discuss
“complete” autonomy and a political solution of the “Palestine” problem, that
is exactly what the aim of the violence was.
And had there been no violence, Shamir and the Likud would have been
perfectly content to sit for another 20 years with the status quo.
The Arabs understand an essential truth of world
relations. They understand that the
world cares little about any issue unless it is prodded. Nations and peoples, for the most part, are
involved and preoccupied with their own problems. If one wants to be heard, he must not only shout,
for the world has long been inured to shouts.
The one who wishes to be heard must shock. And there is nothing more shocking than
violence.
This is true for all peoples whether their cause is right or
wrong. And of course, the Arab case is
wrong. But it does not remove the
essential reality of the very great effectiveness of violence. On the day that the helpless and hapless
Jewish “leaders” stop babbling about the ineffectiveness of violence and
concentrate more on improving their own ineffectiveness by putting down of the
violence, Israel will be in a much better position of security.
Violence helps the Arabs.
Crushing that violence in the most effective and the quickest way helps
the Jews.
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