Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Open Letter to the WorldVic Biorseth, http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com Entry for April 05, 2007, Taken from: 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 WORLDDear 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.
Return to Web Site Log (Blog) page Return to HOME PAGE Build/Host/Maintain Your Own Personal Website using SBI! (Advertisement) CommentsFrom: Lyman Victor Biorseth 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
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
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
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
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
Meir Kahane's work should be in the curriculum of all nations even the arab world. Date: Sat Jun 05 23:24:25 2010
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
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:
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
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. Please note the language and tone already established in this Website. This is not the place to stack up vulgar one-liners and crude rejoinders. While you may support, oppose or introduce any position or argument, your comments must meet our standards of logical rigor and of civil discourse. We will not participate in trading insults, and we will not tolerate participants trading insults with each other. Participants should not be thin-skinned or over sensitive to criticism, but should be prepared to defend their arguments when challenged. If you don’t really have a coherent argument or counter-argument of your own, sit down and don’t embarrass yourself. If you have something serious to contribute to the conversation, please keep it civil. We apologize to religious conservative thinkers for the need to even say these things.
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