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Beyond Words
Selected Writings of Rabbi
Meir Kahane,
1960-1990
Volume 7
CHANGING THE SYSTEM
Let it be clear as it could possibly be: The main motivation behind the extraordinary,
demonic drive for a change in the Israeli political system is the desire and
passion to destroy the political power of the religious parties and community
in Israel.
Disgust with the present system of corruption and bribery
and stealing from the public trough?
Indeed, there is that and more, but for thirty years as Mapai and
Labor-Left and its Mapam and kibbutz allies ruled the country with all the arrogance
and contempt of some Stalinist Boss Tweed, corruption ran rampant and bribery
was the order of the day, and they stole shamelessly by the light of the
day. The Histadrut ran the country and
ran the money and took the money and created a cadre wealthy arrogant political
leftist labor leaders. The kibbutzim
received the best land in the country and fully 30% of the water despite the
fact that they totaled three percent of the population, at best. Parties decided how much money to take for
their expenses and needs – at will. Never in Israel’s history was there ever a
single party able to form a government without a coalition, and how much
political bribery was paid then! Knesset
members switched parties, and all that the liberals and leftists suddenly find
disgusting began and flourished for decades under the liberals and
leftist. And no one shouted:
Change the system!
More, in those days they not only stole money, the stole
people. They not only killed democracy,
they kidnapped children and destroyed souls.
The Sephardic immigrants who came to Israel were treated with contempt
and with strong-arm tactics that were worthy of the Bolshevik Mafia that ran
the country. The earlocks that were
ripped from Yemenite children’s heads went along with the forced irreligion
that was thrust upon them in the Kibbutzim and Youth Aliyah institutions so
proudly boasted of by the same Hadassah which, today, demands a change of the
system. Six hundred Yemenite children,
kidnapped after being born, and given to elite members of the political Mafia
establishment, are still missing, and the results of the deliberate destruction
of Judaism within hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews by the left-liberal
Mafia can be seen today in the crime, violence, pornography and general
destruction of values of the grandchildren of the Jews of Spiritual
genocide. And no one shouted then:
Change the system!
What was done to the religious Sephardic Jews then was
deliberate, just as what is being done today is deliberate. Just as then the
left-liberal Mafia feared the growth of the religious political power in the
“democracy” that was Israel and so they went about destroying it, so, too,
today the motivation behind the hypocritical call for change in the system in
the name of “democracy” is an obscene fear that in a democracy the religious
will win the day because of their population growth.
And so, the Nazi-like caricature that appear in the papers
and the blatant incitement to hate against the religious. And the outrage over ten of millions of shkalim
to religious institutions when the kibbutzim just had debts of billions
wiped away, and the Histadrut’s corrupt institutions are bailed out with
hundreds of millions of shkalim from the Treasury, and the Likud – a
partner in corruption ever since it got a taste of power – decides to raise the
amount of money for the parties since it is deeply in debt.
If all that was troubling the “moralists of democracy” was
the power of small parties, there is a simple solution to it and that is to
raise the percentage of votes needed for a Knesset seat from the present 1% to
three or four or five. That would
eliminate all small parties and produce four major ones, as blocs are formed –
right, left, cent and religious. Ah,
but that is the problem. The religious
would still be there and still be in a position to grow, through babies, and
become more and more powerful and that is what disturbs all the “moralists” of
the left. If instead of the
black-garbed Rabbi Shach and others, the small parties that held the government
captive were those of Ratz and Mapam and Shinui – that would have never led to
the hysterical demands of “Change they system!” But it was the religious. And that brought out all the hate and racism
that the moralists so deplore when used against Arabs.
It is difficult to understand the sheer bile that possesses
the left-liberal secularists when they discuss the religious. It is an obsession with them. It is a war – not of culture but of belief,
of being. Those who destroyed Jewish
values and found themselves with a morally rotting state and children who are
neither religious nor Zionist, but empty of all values except “Me,” can never
admit their failure. And so they hate
the religious and they hate Judaism and they hate themselves. What did the
Rabbis say (Psachim 49b)? “Greater is
the hatred of the ignoramus for the scholar than the of the gentile for the
Jew.” And we see it daily in Israel.
Are the religious parties corrupt? Of course they are; shamefully so! Are they a disgrace to Torah? Of course they are, and in the words of the
prophet Isaiah (1:6): “From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no
soundness.” And let the wise man understand . . . . But Labor and Likud
make them look like pikers in comparison.
Change the system?
And then things will be better?
Has not history proven a thousand times over that it is not the system
but the people who bring evil and corruption into the world? The same thieves and corrupt politicians with
their money and power will create the same abomination in Israel under any
system.
Do you know what they wish to do? They wish to create districts from which
individuals can be elected. Districts
that will guarantee that the religious, despite their larger population, will
always be limited to 3-4 seats since they live together in 3-4 districts. Districts that make the vote infinitely less
democratic (if that is what bothers you) than the present system of
proportional representation. For under
the present system, every vote counts.
Under district voting, all those who did not vote for the winner see
their votes go down the drain. Indeed,
that is why in England today there is a great demand to change the system from
district voting to proportional representation, as in Israel . . . .
Democracy? They are not interested in
democracy except that it will help them keep or get power.
And they tie all this to a demand for a constitution that de
facto will turn Israel from a Jewish state into a Western democratic one in
which Jewishness will not matter, and it will be “Israeliness” that will be the
equal common denominator, with the non-Jewish Israeli equal common denominator,
with the non-Jewish Israeli equal to the Jewish one and the very reason for a
“Jewish” state destroyed.
When the All Mighty created the Torah He understood that
it is not the “system” that makes things good or bad. It is the people. And that is why the same Torah that is so
stringent concerning seemingly minor matters in a person’s life has no
definitive system for political organization or economic structure. For these things are not the important ones
in building a society. Times change and
structures change, but good and evil in the world come from Man. And the same corrupt, hypocritical thieves
will continue their dirty business in any system. For a cesspool by any name remains just that.
And one final word.
As I watch the enormous success of the liberal-left drive to
change the system. I will never forgive,
until my dying day, those thousands and more “supporters” of mine who helped us
lose Israel when we had a divine opportunity to save the land.
Watching the large rallies demanding a “change,” I know that
it is Kach that could have had the crowds and the rallies and the momentum in a
demand for a Referendum. The disgust of
the people with all the parties, our unbelievable popularity as the only clean
and honest group – all this made for a golden opportunity to demand People
Power, a Referendum! But we did not have
the money that the liberal-left has, and so we lost the opportunity and I doubt
if it will ever come again. And the
reason we had no money was that the ones who cheer me and condemn the Left and
the traitors and Peres and Likud, and thus get their pious preaching jollies so
that they can feel pure and good and righteous, never made the sacrifices. Never gave me the money at a time when I saw
the events coming. Again. Once
again, the betrayal by the supporters and cheerers.
The country is falling apart. As small people haggle over seats and money
and power, Iraq speaks of missiles and chemical warfare and Egypt nears a
nuclear bomb and I sit in frustration knowing what might have been if my
supporters and cheerers had cared enough to do more than gleefully condemn
Peres.
And for that, for what they did to Israel, I will never
forgive them.
Written: May 1990
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