MEIR KAHANE WRITINGS
1971-1973
5732-33
Wanted: A Jewish State
WHEN all is said and done and all the causes are separated
from the effects, it becomes clear that the ultimate sin of the people who rule
the State of Israel is that they have done everything to remove the
significance, the magnificence and the sweetness of victory from the great
miracle of Return and resurrection of the Jewish state. What they have done and do daily is to turn
the miraculous into the ordinary, the hallowed into the profane and the truth
of the matter is that, because of this all the miracles and wonders that have
occurred to us in the nature of rebirth of the Land have come about, not so
much because of the ruling circles, but despite them.
The decision by the government of Israel not to allow
Jews to purchase land in that part of the Land of Israel known as the ‘territories’
(those lands liberated in 1967) is as grotesquely absurd as it is obscenely
outrageous. Not since the Nuremberg
laws and the years when their legislators held sway, has there been a land in
which Jews, per se, have been singled out for a ban on land purchase. A Moslem, a Christian or a Buddhist may buy
land in the Land of the Bible, but not a Jew.
In the lands wherein strolled Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – the children of
Ishmael may do what they will with land but not the children of the
Patriarchs. The thing becomes an unfunny
joke. A Jew from Tel Aviv asks to buy
land and is turned down. He turns around,
enters a Moslem religious court and declares his fealty to Allah, emerges as a
Moslem and can now buy land in Eretz Yisroel.
At least Nuremberg had the logic of anti-Semitism behind it – the hatred
of the gentile for the Jew. The madness
of the present situation is that the ban on Jewish purchase comes from
Jews. All that is needed to complete the
farce is for an appeal from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the
American Jewish Committee, to the United Nations Human Rights Commission,
citing the State of Israel for discrimination against Jews . . .
It is no answer to say that the political situation in the
world demands that Israel act as she does.
That very argument is the one that strips naked the secularism and the
un-Jewishnesss of the Jewish government in Israel. For it is not true that the ghetto mentality
of the Jew exists only in the Galut, the Exile.
It is alive and sick in the Jewish State in the forms of a Jewish
government which – on a dozen issues –reacts according to the yardstick: “What
will the goyim say?” It is the measure
of their Galut minds and their utter failure to understand the nature and
destiny of the Jewish people.
When the government of Israel refuses to allow Jews to
purchase land in the Land of Israel; when the government of Israel extradites
Jews to non-Jewish areas, even when they are citizens, Israeli soldiers and Jewish
freedom fighters; when the government of Israel refuses to ban missionaries who
daily prey on the poor and the economically weak; when the government of Israel
is stricken daily by the disease of Ebanism (from the root ‘Eban’ as in Foreign
Minister)
It is a symptom of Galut mentality and the desire to create
in Israel a carbon copy of the
Western, liberal, assimilated ideological state. Israel has become a state with Jewish
people, not a Jewish State.
Its reactions are assimilated ones for it has become like all the other
states, learning from them, influenced by them, slavishly following their
philosophical, ideologically a slave to the goy – but because of the ghetto
mentality that makes it reject Jewish exclusiveness – in the end, a political subject
too
The roots of the ultimate sin of the leaders of the State of
Israel lie in that they do not recognize and never did recognize that the
incredible survival of the Jewish people through two millennial of incredible
exile was a simple miracle. (Usually, it is the miracle that is the more simple
explanation rather than the torturous explanations that go into denying it and
finding some other answer). Because they
do not really believe in G-d (and let us not be put off by their evasive
attempts to deny their denials) they also do not believe that the Jewish
people are a people of G-d, whose past survival in the midst of seventy hungry wolves of the
world was accomplished only through His power and whose incredible return to
the Land, after centuries that saw the passing of every nation that once
existed together with the Jews in ancient times, was part of the Jewish destiny
as dictated by the hand of the All Mighty.
Everything that was miraculous, holy and special about the
Jews was discarded and turned into an ordinary and profane story. Because they did not believe in G-d or in the
Jewish destiny as being A Divine one that MUST be and that WILL be, regardless
of “natural” or “logical” obstacles, these rulers fought against all the
dreamers and the visionaries and did everything to impede the Return.
When the Nordaus demanded that Jews be thrust into the Land
of Israel by the hundreds of thousands, those who then and who today, still,
rule the Zionist Establishment – mocked him and exclaimed: “Impractical! Where
shall we put them all? How will they
live?” So they died.
When Jabotinksys demanded that Jews march out of the Exile
and flee the ghettos and that the aim of Zionism be declared, openly, to be
that of a Jewish State, the disbelievers, the men of “practicality”, “logic”
and political secularism brought forth all their mockery, the statistics and
their skepticism to defeat the dreamers.
When the freedom fighters of Irgun and Stern demanded that
the Jew rise up and fight for the Land of Canaan, the ruling circles of
disbelievers condemned them – and condemned
the entire people
In 1948, the ruling circles seriously considered putting off
the declaration of a Jewish State and in 1956 they retreated from Sinai and in
1967 they listened for days to Eban and others not to go to war but rather
trust the nations of the world.
The truth is, that the State of Israel, the return from
Exile, the breathtaking miracles of three victorious wars, and the return to
the Wall, to Jerusalem, to Hebron and to the Land of Israel, has all been
miracles that have come to us not because of the rulers of Israel but despite
them. For Israel is not blessed with the
deep desire to be Jewish but rather with the disease of Ebanism.
Ebanism is that disease that sees Israel as a model Western,
liberal, progressive state but that has no connection with the exclusive Jewish
Destiny that is based upon a Jewish G-d, a Jewish heritage, a Jewish reaction
and a Jewish Destiny that transcends Washington and Moscow, both.
Because Ebanism looks at the world through secular eyes, it
also sees Israel’s destiny in that world as a secular one. Because there is no place for G-d and the
miracle of the Jewish destiny, every political question is based not on “what
should Jews do and how should a Jew react,” but on “what will the goyim
say?” Because the Ebans of the Israeli
cabinet do not really believe that there is a G-d, let alone a Hand of G-d that
has returned His people and that will preserve their state under all
circumstances, they refuse to allow Jews to buy their own land because of fear
of Nixon. They return Jews to gentile
prisons because of fear of Nixon. They
refuse to limit the soul-snatchers of the Missions because of fear of all the
Nixons, Catholic or Protestant. There is really no need to go to the trouble
and expense of electing a new president of Israel. We already have one and he resides in
Washington. . . No, there is no need
for a new president of Israel – we need the old G-d.
We waited so long for the miracle of return and, finally,
when it occurred we were cheated. We were robbed of the sweetness and the
deliciousness of its pleasure. The state
for which we waited centuries became just as any other state, and the
uniqueness of the Jew does not lie in a tank or jet – even if they are better
than those of the gentiles. We waited
for the return to the true lands of the Bible and now we have them – and no
Jews can live there. Ebanism has taken a
miracle and profaned it, taking it an ordinary thing. It has taken Eretz Yisroel, the unique and
special land of the Jews and made it into any state, acting and reacting on the
basis of realpolitik and power politics, making decisions on the basis of
western secularism rather than on Judaism.
This is what happens when Ebanism rules, when the waters that sprinkle
the fields of policy making are drawn from the wells of Oxford and Cambridge
rather than Jerusalem and Hebron.
The time is long overdue for the malady of Ebanism to be
overcome with the healing herbs of Judaism.
It is time for Israel to believe in G-d so that it can stop fearing
man. On that day we will begin to allow
Jews to purchase land in their own country; on that day we will allow Jewish
freedom fighters to arrive in Israel without fear of extradition; on that day
Israel will return to its true role – its only role – the servant of the Jewish
people.
Written: May 18, 1973
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