 A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg P.O. Box 166, Kiryat Arba-Hebron, Israel 90100 Tel. 972-50-996-1813 Email: gary@projectshofar.org – Website: http://www.projectshofar.org B"sd | |
The Legacy of Rabbi Meir Kahane, H"YDTwenty one years ago today Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered in New York City after a speaking engagement calling for Jews to come home to Israel. Ahavat Yisrael, love for the Jewish people, was the guiding principle for his life. He went to jail as a result of his efforts to bring the plight of Soviet Jewry to world attention. He organized the Jewish Defense League to protect Jews from anti semitic attacks in New York City when the police were too busy to do so. For years he traveled all over the world calling upon Jews to come home. While the rabbi was defamed for his efforts by frightened Jews who did not want to open their eyes to the reality that the exile is coming to a close, he did succeed in convincing thousands of Jews to come home. I was one of them. After he came home with his family, he was outraged to find that in the Jewish State Jews were not truly a free people in their own land. During the War of Independence the Jewish leadership literally begged the Arabs living in Israel not to leave. Today that war is still raging and the Arabs who did not leave are still our enemies, but they are enmeshed into the very fabric of our society where they work to destroy us from within. There are those who commit acts of terror, and there are those who sit in our Knesset challenging our very right to have a Jewish State. Rabbi Kahane was the first and only one man party to get elected to the Knesset. He held up their hipocrasy for all to see. He succeeded so well that he united all the factions in the Knesset to work together to ban him for running again, especially when his following among the people was growing every day. When his fellow lawmakers accused him of incitement, he pointed at the Israeli flag and told them that this is the true incitement. When they called him a racist he reminded them that, should an Arab member of Knesset lose his seat, should he apply for a job as a waiter in the Knesset dining room he would be denied the position, simply because he was an Arab. And when Yitzchak Rabin called him a fascist, he responded by saying that he never ordered Jewish soldiers to fire upon fellow Jews. (Referring to the horrendous Altelena incident when Menachem Begin brought weapons to Israel for the defense of the country and Rabin had the ship sunk rather than share the weapons with the Irgun). The famous Bnai Brith anti-defamation league was called to Israel to help produce a campaign of defamation of Rabbi Kahane. A new word, Kahanism, was coined and defined as racism. Rabbi Kahane was not a racist. The Arabs of Israel do not seek equality in Israel. They seek to take the country away from us. The war of independence is still going on and the Jewish government refuses to recognize it. One cannot win a war which he refuses to recognize. Every act of war is treated as a criminal act. Rather than remove our enemies from our midst, our leadership chooses to punish individual “soldiers” who are caught attacking our civilians. We are forced to live with those who seek our destruction only because our leadership is afraid that we may be called racists should we choose to expel them. And, to add insult to injury, after Arab murderers are caught and sentenced to multiple life terms in prison, the Jewish leadership permits itself to be blackmailed into freeing these creatures after the kidnaping of a Jewish soldier. And the ironic justification for such treachery is the defacto change in definition of the murderers from “terrorists” to soldiers. The rabbi was murdered, and I believe that murder involved complicity on the part of the Shamir government, during the week of parshat Chayay Sarah. Rabbi Yaacov Culi, who authored the Meam Loez Torah anthology, asks the question about the death of our Mother Sarah, “Why does HaShem take tzaddikim from us?” Surely such good Jews should never die. He then proceeds to answer the question with a parable. The town in which the King was born was under the protection of a great and famed general. It came about that a large army was poised to destroy the town. The townspeople sent word to the King to send them reinforcements to protect them. In response the King sent two soldiers to escort the great general away from the town. The people were aghast. How could this be? Not only did the King not send reinforcements to protect his home town, he took away their great general, their only hope for victory. They went to the wise men of the town to see if there was any explanation of the Kings behavior. The wise men told them that the King knew all about them and their problems. He understood that they were lazy and preferred to let the general do all the work to protect them. He believed that by taking away the general the people would have no choice but to band together and protect themselves, which they are well capable of doing. That King is the Living G-d of Israel. And the General was Rabbi Meir Kahane, HaShem yakam damo. And we are the lazy townspeople. We were proud of our fighting “general” and hoped that he would make things better. He did. But there is just so much one person can do. We should have done more to help. We still should. May the memory of this very special Jew be an inspiration to us all to continue to carry the torch that he left for us.
Project Shofar seeks to bring this message to those who choose not to see. It is incredible that the majority, both in the Exile and even in Israel, fail to see the obvious. They prefer to believe in the nonsense that we can make peace with those who seek our destruction rather than to accept the reality that with us is the greatest power in the world Who wants us to make real peace simply by accepting and demonstrating the fact that He and only He is in charge.
If you would like to invite Gary Cooperberg to speak in your area feel free to send him an email at gary@projectshofar.org. |
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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