Rabbi Mier Kahane, who started using the phrase "Never Again" in his book, was the founder of the Jewish Defense League. In his later years after emigrating to Israel, he became so radical that he turned off many American Jews
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Greetings Rabbi,
You posted that Rabbi Meir Kahane went off the deep end and turned off many American Jews.
I don't think he went off the deep end at all. He was on the scene while the American Jews he turned off viewed this scene on TV.. Kahane realized early that the Jews in Israel and the Arabs would NEVER be able to get along with each other. And he knew why. NOTHING the Jews could do would mollify the Arabs who resent and hate the Jews and lust for their blood.
He wrote a book called, THEY MUST GO! I challenge you, or anyone else to refute anything he wrote there, or anywhere else.
The Jews he turned off are the same liberal Jews who say "never again", but hate the 2nd amendment and fear gun owners. They fear the believing Christians who are the Jews' and Israel's best friends, in the USA and in the world.
You say he advocated random killing of Arabs. What he really advocated was Jewish self-defence against murderous, marauding Arabs who typically got away with their barbarism.
Even today, Arabs guilty of killing Jews or of being involved in the planning or support of killing Jews are arrested and later often released wholesale in trade for one Israeli and some dead bodies of Jewish soldiers (in the latest instance). Then these same animals kill more Jews.
The Jewish Defence League, advocated defence of Jews and synagogues besieged by tough blacks in the inner cities. The JDL mobilized tough young Jews with baseball bats who showed the world that not all Jews are cringing pushovers.
But MOST American Jews recoiled from the JDL and stigmatized it as 'extremist" from the beginning. The same kind of liberal Jews who will vote for Kerry, who demonize the friends of Jews and Israel, and who support the leftists who embody the new anti-semites. The left that supports the "Palestinians" and works to destroy Israel is good to go with such people, but those who face reality and tell it -- those they hate.
The Jews of antiquity also killed their prophets. Most people simply hate to hear the truth. As DesertEagle613 posted above, if they faced reality they would then have to take responsibility for it.
The Israeli government outlawed Kach, Kahane's party because it quickly garnered the support (10%) of Israeli voters. Kach represented an extreme threat to the secular, socialist power structure and so they demonized and outlawed it. Today, polls indicate that 20% (!) of Israelis support the policies of Kach if only they had a party to vote for. In terms of ensuring the survival of Israel, it is IMO the Isaeli power structure who are the extremists.
Remember that the American Patriots were only 6% of the poplulation of the colonies and were considered very much extremists.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, who begged and implored the Jews of pre-holocaust Europe to arm themselves and resist their killers - he was also vilified as "extremist".
The JDL was listed as a terror organization by the Jew-haters in our Arabist State Dept. which views Israel as an irritant it would gladly sacrifice to further its interests in and curry favor with the Arab world.
Rabbi Kahane did not, in his later years, BECOME so radical....
He maintained his vision from the beginning.
A good part of the motive for American Jews and secular Israelis to hate Kahane was his direct challenge to them as Jews. He was a brilliant Torah scholar and he challenged the watered-down "Judaism" practised by his detractors. He made them very uncomfortable by exposing their "improvements" and "reforms" of G-d's laws. Such "believers", wittingly or not, as they vote in their synagogues whether or not to keep kosher, etc. -- by acting thus such Jews place themselves above G-d (which does make one wonder what EXACTLY kind of G-d they believe in). But they hate anyone who might 'cause them to take even the tiniest peek at this (which is to say at themselves).
I am not (yet?) a believer. Even so I love those who take their religion seriously and not as something to be added on to their lives (that is if they have the time and it's conveniont, of course).
It is said that, "If Christ returned today, it is current Christians who would kill him again."
It is ridiculous, absurd, to watch typical Jews today celebrate Channukah while vilifying a modern Mattisyahu.
I was always a proud Jew. But I was quite confused and ignorant about what that really meant. Then I read Kahane's books, NEVER AGAIN and WHY BE JEWISH? It was Rabbi Kahane who stoked the barely guttering flame in my Jewish soul into a veritable furnace!
Rabbi Kahane was a modern Maccabbee and I revere him as such.
It is written in Talmud: If a man comes to kill you, arise and kill him first.
Please Rabbi, this is NOT meant as a personal attack.
But if you feel frustrated with anti-gunners, how can you not feel the same about liberal Jews and their pathetically distorted and naive "views"?
I implore you to READ Rabbi Meir Kahane's book, THEY MUST GO!. My guess, especially in light of current developments in Israel, in the US and in the world -- is that you will find nothing in it to disagree with.
And I would be very happy to hear your reaction to this book.
Shalom achi! (DesertEagle613 taught me to say this)
matis
Heck, when I offered to teach them boxing or grappling, I got laughs.
