From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: jewish fundamentalism
Date: 24 Dec 92 07:22:42 EST
Reply-To: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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To: Alan Stein

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Date: 12-24-92 (02:56)             Number: 21537

>>
>>    As stated in HAMAS pamphlet no. 65, distributed in October of
>>    1990,
>>
>>           "Every Jewish settler is an occupier,
>>            and it is our obligation to kill him."
>>

 AS> Can anyone, in his or her wildest dreams, conceive of even
 AS> the most right-wing Israeli making a similar statement about
 AS> Arabs?  It's absurd to even consider the question.

Compare the rhetoric of Hamas with that of Meir Kahane, as
reported by Robert Friedman in The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir
Kahane: From FBI Informant to Knesset Member (Brooklyn, New York:
Lawrence Hill Books, 1990), page 217:

     .... In a speech in Haifa on June 28, 1985, Kahane attacked
     Jews and Arabs equally.  "No one can understand the soul of
     those (Arab) beasts, those roaches," glowered Kahane.  "We
     shall either cut their throats or throw them out.  I only
     say what you think."  According to a report in Kolbo Haifa,
     a Hebrew-language weekly newspaper in Haifa, Kahane then
     directed a stream of obscenities against the mayor of Haifa,
     Arieh Goral, and left-wing politicians Shulamit Aloni and
     Yossi Sarid, whom he called "scoundrel," "dog,"
     "disgusting," and "Jewish prostitutes who employ Arab
     pimps."

     Kahane concluded his harangue, which was megalomaniacal even
     by his standards, by promising his audience: "In two years
     time, they [the Arabs] will turn on the radio and hear that
     Kahane has been named minister of defense.  Then they will
     come to me, bow to me, lick my feet, and I will be merciful
     and will allow them to leave.  Whoever does not leave will
     be slaughtered."

The rhetoric of Kahane was at least as murderous and inflammatory
as that of Hamas. How much of the extremism and popularity of
Hamas is a reaction to the extremism of Israeli political figures
like Kahane? Jewish fundamentalists have triggered an Islamic
fundamentalist backlash.

Nor is this genocidal rhetoric limited solely to Kahane and his
followers. Ehud Sprinzak in The Ascendance of Israel's Radical
Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) produces numerous
quotes in this repulsive vein from Jewish fundamentalists in
Israel outside the Kahane school of ultra-racist ultra-violence.
I'll be happy to post them all here if anyone doubts my word.
Some of them make the Hamas covenant read like a PTA
announcement. (I particularly like the remarks of one rabbi who
insists that all goyim are subhuman beasts.)

By all means complain about Hamas. But Israel had better start
dealing with the mote in its own eye if it is going to make a
convincing case to the Western democratic world about the dangers
of Islamic fundamentalism. Jewish fundamentalism is as fully ugly
and dangerous as Islamic fundamentalism.

Btw, can you you clarify something for me? Why do emotional
Israeli supporters around here repeatedly try to pass of as
factual statements remarks that can easily be refuted from
well-documented sources? How many times do they have to be burned
before they realize that the best path is to stick to the truth?
Every time they are caught out in misstatements and falsehoods,
their credibility sinks yet another notch lower. At this point
the Israeli lobby has virtually no credibility in Western
democratic circles with an IQ above room temperature, precisely
because it has been caught in telling so many lies.

If you think all this hurling of verbal violence back and forth
between Jews and Arabs is making a favorable impression on the
average American, think again. Stop to consider how appealing you
find the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern
Ireland, or between Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists in India,
and I think you'll begin to get the picture.
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