From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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Subject: kahane's judaism
Date: 6 Jan 93 07:18:08 EST
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     Meir Kahane refers to Arabs as "dogs," "a cancer," "fleas,"
     and "leeches" who should be deported or murdered in the name
     of Judaism. (Katzman Ha'aretz 11/16/90)

<doctype>newspaper article
<author>Katzman, Avi
<title>A Post Mortem: Inspection of Writings and Speeches of an
Individual in Whose Honor Knesset Stood to Attention.
<newspaper>Ha'aretz (Supplement)
<date>November 16, 1990
<translated in>From the Hebrew Press, January 1991, v3 n1, p. 1-2

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     The Knesset, which had ousted him, honored his memory with a
     minute of silence. Thirty Knesset members stood to attention
     to honor an individual whose contempt for democracy was
     unrivalled, who demanded protection by democratic
     institutions in order to overthrow them, a man whose
     teachings were qualified by the Supreme Court as echoing the
     tenets of Nazism....

     "In Judaism there is no tolerance; nothing that would
     resemble the 'live and let live' principle." These were
     Kahane's words which served as his premise for preaching the
     murder of Jews and non-Jews alike. Eli Adir, who served for
     a time as a director-general of "Kach," recounted to Hayim
     Shibi of YEDIOT AHARONOT that "periods in which no Jew was
     hit by [the] enemy were periods of his grave crises."
     Towards the Jews, Kahane had the same love-hate attitude as
     towards the Italian prostitutes of New York. Without turning
     prostitution into an ideology, he was obsessed by it. The
     legislation drafts he kept submitting [to the Knesset]
     concerning sex relations between Jewish women and the Arab
     men, had plenty of pornographic appeal. Here is a quote from
     many such bills: "A non-Jewish male who engages in sex
     relations with a Jewish prostitute or with a Jewish male,
     will be sentenced to 50 years of prison. A Jewish prostitute
     or a Jewish male who engages in sex relations with a
     non-Jewish male will be sentenced to 5 years of prison." A
     Jewish male engaging in sex relations with a non-Jewish
     prostitute or a Jewish male deserved, according to him, no
     more than 2 years of prison. If any of the described acts
     took place outside the borders of Israel, the same
     punishments will be carried out..."  The sexual restrictions
     he proposed were intended to protect the purity of the
     nation, the purity of the sperm and the purity of the womb,
     exactly as in the Nazi case. In his Knesset speeches he also
     used to dwell on the same subject: "Of all the prostitution
     in the whole world, 90% is Arab and only the remainder is
     non-Arab." "The thousands of Jewish prostitutes who have sex
     relations with Arabs are polluting themselves and all of
     us." In another speech he proposed that beginning with the
     age of 17, all male Arabs serve 3 years of penal servitude,
     during which they would be subjected to "a hormonal
     treatment," intended to suppress their excessive sexual and
     nationalistic drive, "until they come to kiss my shoes and
     ask my mercy so that I will allow them to get out. And then
     I will indeed show them mercy, and allow them to get out..."
     In 1981, the Supreme Court Judge Moshe Etzioni wrote in his
     verdict: "In my opinion there can be no doubt that what the
     "Kach" list proposes, is no more and no less than a
     replication of the Nuremberg Laws, with the sole difference
     being that where the word 'Aryan' appears, it is replaced by
     'Jew', and where it was written 'Jew' it is here written
     'Arab'. Did the Knesset stand to attention in commemoration
     of those bills?

     "Shalom Jews, Shalom dogs," so used Kahane to open his
     speeches. Here is a sequel of one his speeches: "Is it
     racist to say that their very name should perish? They are a
     cancer in our body: yet apart from myself, no one has the
     courage to stand up and announce this much. They are
     proliferating like fleas! They should be drowned in the sea!
     They drink our blood, the leeches!"

     The idea of the transfer of Arabs, wrote Kahane in one of
     his books, "is not only my personal view, and it certainly
     is not just a political issue. It is the position of
     Judaism, grounded in Halacha and the Bible."

     He repeatedly declared that he was ready, with his own
     hands, to blow [up] the Temple Mount mosques and to erect
     synagogues in their place. And that anyone who would do just
     this, would "sanctify the Holy Name." The best rationale for
     murdering him had been provided by Kahane himself. He used
     to quote [the Talmudic dictum]: "Everyone who sheds the
     blood of the wicked is like one who has offered a sacrifice
     in the Temple." When the former mayor of Hebron, Fahed
     Qawasme, was murdered [by other Palestinians in Jordan],
     Kahane gave out a party for his followers. In his movement's
     headquarters where the party was held, he said: "There are
     many in Israel who say that 'the only good Arab is [a] dead
     Arab'. I disagree. Even a dead Arab is no good. He remains a
     piece of rubbish!"

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