Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Open Letter to the World
Vic Biorseth, http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com
Entry for April 05, 2007, Taken from:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-k9CkPP44aLSTTtK2j0Jtcx4C?p=524 (Opens in a New Window)
An Open Letter to the World
By Rabbi Meir Kahane, OBM Tue, September 19, 2006, 4:51 pm
Rabbi Meir Kahane, OBM, was a strong Jew who believed in a Jewish State that apologized neither for its Jewishness nor its willingness to fight to survive. He was vilified by the Left, especially the Israeli government as he gained popularity dramatically among the Likud voters, threatening the status quo. The Israeli Supreme Court outlawed his party as racist when it used quotes from the Five Books of Moses. He was assassinated by an Arab named Nosair on the streets of New York -- the same Arab who later stood trial as a co-conspirator of Shaikh Omar Abdel Rahman and received a life sentence plus fifteen years imprisonment for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, conspiracy to use explosives against New York landmarks, and a plot to assassinate U.S. politicians.
The following is a letter Rabbi Kahane, OBM, wrote to the world. It is a strong letter based on an unpleasant history, but a true one nonetheless. What rings out, however, is the clarifying distinction between the call by Muslims and Arabs around the world claiming victimhood and hatred and calling for murder and indeed terrorizing the world with actual murder, and this one Jew's proclamation that his desire is not to conquer or convert but to be left alone. With all of the Left-wing and Arab-based conspiracy theories of Jews manipulating the US government into war expeditions in Iraq and elsewhere, the simple truth is that Jews around the world would be happy to be just left alone in one little piece of real estate surrounded by more than 21 Islamic states with a collective land mass 649 fold greater than Israel's and a total population 49 fold greater. When Muslims can blame the Jew, the American, the European, and even the Pope for their misery and wretchedness, one might conclude that the condition they find themselves in is a product of their own making and constitution.
The text of the letter follows:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD
Dear World,
I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel.
Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry.
Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily.
Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the Jewish people - upset you.
We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians and Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset.
We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us.
For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.
And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you)- and have you love us and so, we decided to come home - home to the same land we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.
Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please.
Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.
Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.
In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929.
Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967?
And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?
The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbach-al-yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.
Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.
You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well think of how many times in the past you bothered us.
In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.
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Comments
From: Lyman Victor Biorseth
Date: Fri, November 03, 2006, 06:41 PM
Subject: Rabbi Kahane's Letter to the World
Comments:
This letter should be required reading for history and social science students. As much as I have feared for and prayed over the threats to America, from within and without, these threats do not even begin to compare to the continuous and multiple direct physical threats faced by Israel. I cannot help but believe that it is not luck, or accident, or fate, or human planning, or strategy, or allies, or weapons, or technology, or anything and everything worldly, alone or in combination, that keeps Israel alive. I pray that more and more in America and in Israel will turn their faces back toward the Lord and make atonement for those who do not.
Regards,
Vic
Date: Fri Jun 19 03:48:25 2009
From: Ishah Ehat
Email: sandrasophia4@hotmail.com
Location: Australia
Comment:
As time progresses the words of Rabbi Meir Kahane become more relevant. It appears that Jew hatred results from the continued, Phoenix-like existence of the Jewish nation. Long may the Jewish Phoenix continue to exist, although this time without the need for destructive holocausts.
Date: Tue Aug 11 14:03:06 2009
From: Pinny
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Rabbi Kahane was right 25 years ago and he is at least as right today. Some people hated him then, and some do now, but that is only because the truth is difficult to accept!
Date: Sun Oct 18 14:06:30 2009
From: Ivan
Email: toiletorphan@gmail.com
Location: USA
Comment:
Obviously anti Semitism needs to be illegal and enforced immediately by Jews and gentiles worldwide. Murder is not free speech and a debatable issue at all. Condolences to me for those of you who are reading this because I am probably dead due to baseless anti-Semitism.
Date: Mon Oct 19 06:03:55 2009
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:
Ivan:
Only God can make law applicable to all men everywhere. Mere mortals may only make and enforce civil law in their own territorial jurisdictions, which is why some territories are more attractive to decent men than others. If and when any worldly authority is established over the whole world, an evil man or group will somehow gain dominance over it. That is the nature of the world.
Note well that Jesus Christ, Whom all true Christians regard as the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, which is to say, God Personified, lived His exemplary earthly life as a Semitic Jew. We are all called to do our best with what we’ve got to work with.
Hang in there, Ivan; you are never alone. Please God and live forever.
Regards,
Vic
Date: Fri Jan 22 23:28:56 2010
From: Eli
Email: elyavizel@gmail.com
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Comment:
Meir Kahane's work should be in the curriculum of all nations even the arab world.
Date: Sat Jun 05 23:24:25 2010
From: Old Jew
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Comment:
Ivan is right. If a world law means the world must be taken over, then the world must be taken over, and then it must be defended. The Arabs will never be satisfied with any other situation other than the end of the Jews. The only way to prevent that other than killing all the Arabs is to rule them.
Date: Sun Jun 06 06:43:26 2010
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:
Old Jew:
I disagree, and not only because of the impossibility of the task. There is no perfect solution to the problem. The best approach to amelioration of the problem is to recognize the enemy who has declared war on us, know that it is a true war, and engage in war with them just as they engage in war on us. The enemy who has declared war on Judaism, Christianity, Democracy, Representative Government, Free Commerce, Liberty, Israel and America comes in two flavors:
- Marxism, in all its varieties, and
- Islam, in all its varieties.
These two false and evil ideologies have set themselves the task of killing us all or enslaving us all. Both are intent on world domination. Our strategic problem is that ideas are not nations, they have no borders, the soldiers wear no uniforms and they are sneaky, underhanded, treacherous ideologues who hold out the hand of friendship until they can gain some advantage, and then they attack you.
It is the ideas themselves that must be openly and publicly attacked everywhere. Nations dominated by Marxism or by Islam must be treated as hostile to all that we hold dear, which means, treated as enemy states in time of war. Practitioners of Marxism and Islam must be treated as social pariahs and denied immigration, travel and citizenship in decent lands. Priests, ministers and rabbis need to point out the errors and the immoralities of Marxism and Islam. Politicians, philosophers and pundits need to highlight the gross logical errors and fatal flaws in Marxism and Islam.
Unfortunately, none of this is going to happen under the regime of Comrade Barrack Hussein Obama, peace be upon him.
Regards,
Vic
Date: Fri Jun 11 05:42:44 2010
From: Sandra
Email: s.roos10@upcmail.nl
Location: Netherlands
Comment:
Rabbi Kahane's has the right to pronounce the truth. Therefore first of all we should openly , and I hope you except this one from me, admit to you that the shame should be on our faces (like Daniel ,from Tenach, had) with reference to our history in name of Christianity. Also please know, Rabbi Meir Kahane, that there are true believers, who will not abandon you, who pray for you, stand behind you ,even cry about what has happened over the years en even now all these awful issues and lies you people have to deal with. There are people who really love you , my Jewish brothers and sisters, because of the love of Yeshua Mashiach in their hearts. These are the people who even stands behind your army. Not only there are watchmen on your walls of Yerushalayim also watchmen in their own countries, and plead in their prayers to Adonai for your people, our brothers and sisters.
Further, let us put our trust in Adonai, like Jeremia said; that the grace of Adonai is not exhausted, that His compassion has not ended.
They are new every morning!
How great Your faithfulness!
"Adonai is all I have," I say; therefore I will put my hope in Him.
Adonai is good to those waiting for Him, to those who are seeking Him out.
(Lamentations 3:22-25)
Greetings,
Sandra from the Netherlands.
Date: Tue Jun 07 22:11:14 2011
From: Simon
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This is all false and untrue Zionist right-wing propaganda. Kahane was a racist and a violent man in a racist, violent right-wing Party, who lived by the sword and who died by the sword. He reaped what he sowed. This whole site is opposed to equality and justice, and seeks to aid domination of the world by Jews and the ultra-bourgeoisie, through increasingly unrestrained Capitalist multi-national imperialism. All of this open, unconstitutional opposition to particular religions and to particular politics, so long as they lean Left, is a carefully crafted smoke screen behind which the right wing perpetrators work to oppose social justice and equality among men. As for “Israel”, there will never be peace over there until the land stolen from the Palestinians is returned to them; even then, America still bears the guilt of having exploited and pillaged the resources of that region of the world. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Date: Wed Jun 08 05:53:22 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:
Simon:
A man who defends himself, or his family, or his kin, or his nation, or his race, even by use of violence when necessary, may not properly be called a man of violence. Violence was thrust upon him from outside. I am guessing that you might be a holocaust denier; nevertheless, history is hard to kill, even for Lefties.
You are not the first to confuse Right and Left politics of Marxists with Right and Left politics in America. Let me again try to set the record straight regarding that.
Important figures in world politics during the rise of Nazi-Fascism and the rise of Communism were all Marxists, and said so. Such personages as Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini all were born, politically speaking, of Marxism.
The name of Hitler’s political Party was the National Socialist Worker’s Party. The only economic difference between the Nazi-Fascist brand of Marxism and the Bolshevik-Communist brand of Marxism was that the former totally controlled the owners of Capital, and the later simply nationalized all Capital. In both variants, the people were ruled by one absolute totalitarian dictator.
The only socio-political difference between the Nazi-Fascist brand of Marxism and the Bolshevik-Communist brand of Marxism was that the former was a nationalist movement that sought world control by a superior nation and race, and the later was an internationalist movement that falsely claimed to seek the end of all sovereign nations as well as the end of all private property to achieve a perfect utopia.
Nazi-Fascism and Bolshevik-Communism represent the major Right – Left argument within Marxism itself. Both despise Capitalism, private property and human liberty, and thus both see America and any entity remotely similar to America as the ultimate mortal enemy of Marxism. Within the confines of Marxist thought, American Constitutionalism is neither Right nor Left – it is simply the system that must be destroyed so that Marxism may advance. On that single point, the Left and the Right within Marxism profoundly agree.
In America, politically speaking, the Left is represented by any and all forms and varieties of Marxism, whether Nazi-Fascist or Communist-Socialist; and the Right, in America, is represented by strict and strong adherence to and defense of the American Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. Everything Marx wrote, from Das Kapital to the Communist Manifesto, opposes the American Constitution.
Regarding our supposedly “unconstitutional opposition to particular religions and to particular politics, so long as they lean Left”, let me say this: We do not oppose Islam as a religion, but as a theocracy that seeks our destruction or subjugation as a nation, and the destruction or subjugation of all nations. We oppose Marxism for exactly the same reason – it is an ideology that seeks our destruction or subjugation as a nation, and the destruction or subjugation of all nations.
Regarding “increasingly unrestrained Capitalist multi-national imperialism” – I could question the use of the word imperialism here, but the larger question is how and why we should seek to restrain it, beyond naturally existing legal restrictions against crime and fraud. I know of no business, multi-national or not, that seeks to rule any land.
If by social justice you mean “equality” to be achieved by redistribution – which is to say, one of Marxism’s smoke-screen recruitment aids – this site is opposed to it, as it is opposed to any other object of practical impossibility.
No land was stolen from any Palestinians. Land was given to them. And I am left wondering what the resources might be that we Americans “exploited and pillaged” from that area of the world. Flies, maybe? Dirt? Camel dung? What, exactly, did we take from there, and how exactly did we prosper by the taking of it?
Regards,
Vic
Date: Wed Jun 08 18:36:02 2011
From: Annie Hamilton
Email: annie.hamilton@gmail.com
Location: Ventura, CA, USA
Comment:
What a beautiful letter and certainly one I agree with 100 %. In light of the seemingly growing anti-Israel sentiment throughout America and other places, please permit me to share something I wrote a few days back in response to this letter as it's appropriate and a perfect fit. With kindest regards, Annie Hamilton.
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Israel is a topic that seems to garner strong responses whether it’s at the dinner table, online or listening to the President’s latest (attempt) at speaking.
America’s kids are routinely taught in left-leaning schools that much of the conflict is due to Israel’s refusal to ‘share land’ and as such the ‘freedom fighting Hezbollah, Hamas and others are simply trying to make room for their Arab brothers and sisters.’
Some take it further, drawing parallels between the Gaza strip and the troubles in Northern Ireland, comparing Palestinian ‘warriors’ and the IRA.
Nothing could be farther than the truth.
This malignant information continues to spread throughout our communities, hurting families, poisoning American minds and threatening safety and at what cost? Ultimately who is accountable for the things that are said and for such actions?
* Gwyneth Paltrow raising money for HAMAS/Coldplay endorsing HAMAS’ Palestinian Jihad against Israel (what do people think that means?)
Will people stop seeing her movies?
Will they stop supporting Coldplay? (I will because I refuse to fund terror but how many others will?)
Read more …
*Jill, a fabulous clothing store, fabrics, fashions and selections are to die for – apparently quite literally. I’ve single handedly supplied my wardrobe from this brand for the past decade…until learning, recently, that they too, are a front, for terror.
*The companies, celebrities, brands are seemingly everywhere.
Is the hate for Israel … growing or is the successful building of stealth jihad growing at a pace that you have to be paying attention to notice because so many Americans are still asleep with their heads in the sand? Which is it? Growing evil or does it matter? I think it does.
Israel Apartheid Week is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses throughout the world.
The goal, per their own recruiting materials is to educate people about the ‘nature of Israel’ as an apartheid system as well as to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns as part of a growing global movement.
Last year, Israel Apartheid Week took place in more than 40 cities.
This is strange, as the people behind the leadership of these events claim to want peace.
Even more peculiar is the fact that Israel is, in fact, the only state in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid state. Israelis have (very successfully) created the first multicultural society in the Middle East, the only one that exists where the rights of all are honored and respected.
It’s the only state where Moslems may live peaceably amongst their neighbors, even if they’re female or gay.
They may vote, own real estate, own businesses, work, go to school, have families, live freely and happily without fear or ridicule. It’s a wonderful system that their neighbors across the strip do not enjoy.
The argument regarding Israeli occupation is deeply flawed and enemies have been attacking them since the beginning of the 20th century.
Rather than egg them on with fundraisers and praise however, the US should be cutting off enemy funding and bringing them to justice. Naturally, this isn’t happening. It’s sickening.
Israel’s right to exist, to occupy their land is a right that is entrenched in historic relevance.
Israel existed right up until the time of the Roman Empire. When the Romans conquered the land, Jews were permitted to live there.
There are two periods where they were effectively forced from their property, the first time in 70 A.D. and the other sometime around 135 A.D.
There’s always been a Jewish presence in Israel and for hundreds of years; the Middle East was easily the most peaceful part of the World.
Some have forgotten that Rahm Emanuel arranged meetings between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat back in the early nineties and during this exchange, Jewish leaders expressed the need to create a Palestinian government to remove the rapidly expanding Palestinian population away from Israeli hands.
The pressing concern of ‘the day’ was Israel’s inevitable destruction and as such the situation must be handled immediately to manage any potential hostile presence in the region.
This seemed agreeable to Israel although certainly not smooth. (A peace agreement including both sides of the Gaza along with the United States of America)
Obviously following incidents in the late nineties as well as September 11th, Israel has remained steadfast in reliability with America struggling to define and contain threats, global and domestic pertaining to hostile enemies from within the Palestinian and other Islam-based territories.
Now we’re under a different Administration that once included Emmanuel, and things have never been worse.
We have a Moslem President who bluffed his way into the oval office and since then has appointed several fellow Moslems, radical Marxists, Socialists or other unsavory characters that have effectively dismantled our founding papers since 2008.
It’s disheartening that those who marched against Vietnam now sit in Washington DC offices, enacting policies, on our dime.
Our President recently arrogantly asked PM Netanyahu to ‘roll back’ their borders to 1967. It’s a good thing Bibi is a classy gentleman.
I would have told him (using expletives, of course) “I’ll roll my borders back to 1967 just as soon as you roll yours back to August 20th, 1959 so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen”
This Administration continues to lie to the American people and ridicules our allies while bowing to Islamist leaders, something never done in the history of America, turning the United States Presidency into a mockery, something to be laughed at, no longer respected.
Liberals and their universalism demands that Israel make concessions to appease Arabs but this rarely satisfies anyone and the truth is that there is plenty of room for Arabs in other areas and they refused the offer for a separate Palestinian state in 1937, 1939, 1947, 1979, 1993, and 2000.
This Administration’s betrayal of Israel is both shocking and disheartening and exposes the range of evil and/naïve thinking in the people in today’s government and media who seem to not understand (or care) what is truly at stake right now.
This direction should disturb us all.
Source: Annie Hamilton
Editor’s Note: Annie Hamilton is a Writer/Researcher and lives in Southern California. Currently she is engaged in two projects. One is fiction, titled, ‘The Defender’ the other, non-fiction, titled, ‘The Climb’. Annie can be reached at
Annie.Hamilton@gmail.com or http://www.hamilton-research-group.org
Date: Thu Jun 09 23:53:12 2011
From: Simon
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Comment:
“Important figures in world politics during the rise of Nazi-Fascism and the rise of Communism were all Marxists, and said so. Such personages as Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini all were born, politically speaking, of Marxism.”
Vic,
They were all Marxists, and they said so? When?
Date: Fri Jun 10 05:59:18 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:
Simon:
“Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.” - Adolph Hitler, 1941. (The Road To Serfdom, F. A. Hayek, Chapter II, page 30. Refers to a public speech in February 1941, recorded in the Bulletin of International News, published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, XVIII, No. 5, 269.) See the Marxism page.
The Nazis were slightly smarter than the Communists, in that they saw the utter impossibility of the Ultimate Communist Utopian Dream. In Hitler’s variant of a New World Order, what he promoted was what he called The Third Position, representing a state-controlled economy that was neither Communist nor Capitalist. Nazism supported private property and a market economy up to a point – the market and the owners of property were subject to subordination to the state and the goals of the state.
Joseph Goebbels described this as a synthesis of Nationalism and Socialism, as the preferred counter to the “mistaken” Internationalism of the Bolshevik- Communist brand of Marxism.
Thus the “Right” and “Left” wings of Marxism came to be, and to hate each other, while being united in opposition to Capitalism and the liberty of man. Both were evil, and both sought to fool the masses, to mesmerize them, propagandize them and mal-educate them into masses of useful idiot followers of a ridiculous dream, and thus centralize all power in one man. Both opposed religion and the morality that flows from religion, and to gain absolute, unquestioning allegiance from citizens, and absolute power over them all.
“It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.” --John Kenneth Galbraith.
Regards,
Vic
Date: Fri Jun 10 22:21:18 2011
From: Simon
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Comment:
Vic,
You cannot deny the fact that Krupp, Mercedes-Benz, almost all heavy industry and the major German financial institutions prospered enormously in Nazi Germany. How can you attribute that to any form of anti-Capitalism?
Date: Sat Jun 11 06:49:38 2011
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:
Simon:
Krupp, Mercedes-Benz, almost all heavy industry and the major German financial institutions were all in bed with Hitler, who kept them all on a very tight leash and controlled them. Whether they were in bed with Hitler willingly or not, I cannot tell, but Hitler told them what to produce, in what quantities, in what quality, and he supplied the slave labor for them to use to fulfill his orders. This is almost exactly the same arrangement we see today between Comrade Obama and GM, Chrysler, almost all heavy industry and the major American financial institutions, although he hasn’t succeeded in gathering and supplying slave labor yet. Unions will probably supply the slave drivers.
Regards,
Vic
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