          In the Traditions of  Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                     by Gershon ben Shabtai
                            May 1991
                    Human Rights for Cancer?

       There exist oppressed peoples in all parts of the world.  There are innocent civilians who
get caught up in war and politics and become the victims of them, being imprisoned, beaten, tortured
and even murdered.  No people recognizes that fact better than the Jewish People who have been
victims in every generation and in all parts of the world.  We have tasted both the bitterness of
violations of our human rights, as well as degradation, humiliation and mass murder just for our being
Jews.  
       Even now, as we have donned the mantel of statehood in our ancient homeland, we have
yet to shake off the yoke of humiliation and degradation we have borne for centuries.  While any
normal nation who fights a war and wins, simply takes the spoils, the Jewish State, which won wars
started by our enemies whose intent was to annihilate us, is afraid to annex its rightful reacquired
ancient lands and lends legitimacy to the claims of impostors! 
       Can anyone find an example in the history of nations where a victor, in any kind of war,
so much as contemplated returning the spoils of that war in return for his enemy's agreement to
recognize his right to exist?!  It is a humiliation and an outrage that such terminology exists and that
Jews accept it.
       The logical deduction from such twisted doctrine is that the Arab nations, as well as our
local Arabs, do not now recognize our right to exist.  How then are there those who dare charge
"human rights violations" by Israel against those who do not so much as recognize her right to exist? 
That is sheer lunacy!  
       If someone does not recognize my right to exist, that means he believes I should not exist. 
This being the case, can anyone expect me to respect the human rights of such a person?  When will
we open our eyes and see what is really going one here?  The Jewish State has never sought to deprive
any human being of human rights.  As is always the case with Jews, the victims are labeled oppressors,
and murderers of Jews are labeled victims.
       When Rabbi Kahane, z"l, h"yd, called the Arabs of Israel a "cancer", he was not spewing
forth a racial epithet.  He was presenting a very accurate analogy.  Cancer is a foreign cell which
destroys and replaces normal cells in the body.  If it is allowed to remain, it will, eventually, kill its
host body.  The only hope to save the life of someone with cancer is to find a way to remove all of the
cancer cells.  It is not a pleasant course of action, but without it the patient is doomed to certain death.
       Such is the case with the Arabs of Israel.  They are a foreign body in a Jewish State.  They
view themselves as the rightful owners of all the land of Israel and are prepared to take any and every
step necessary to reclaim what they believe is theirs.  One cannot co-exist with those who seek your
destruction.
The only way to ensure the continued existence of the State of Israel and the safety of her Jewish
inhabitants, is to remove the very real "cancer" within her body.  If you ignore cancer, the result is
certain death.  
       We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of ignoring our "cancer".  When Rabbi Kahane
called for the removal of the Arabs from the Land of Israel it was not a cry of racial prejudice.  He
simply recognized that not to remove them would, but for the grace of G-d, guarantee the continued
murdering of Jews, and the eventual annihilation of the Jewish State.
       If there are "human rights" violations of Arab refugees in Israel, it is only because of the
abnormal condition of a continuing and unnecessary war within the Jewish State.  This war can be
brought to an immediate end and all accusations of "human rights" violations will immediately cease
only when we return these Arab victims of PLO politics to their Arab brethren in lands where they
share a common culture.
       The Jewish State has never shirked its responsibility to the Jewish People.  In 1948,
thousands upon thousands of destitute Jews who were thrown, penniless, out of their homes in Arab
countries were taken in and cared for by the State of Israel.  Today the doors of the Soviet Union have
been opened and the Jewish State has been inundated with so many new immigrants as to have placed
a tremendous strain on the job and housing markets, but no Jew is turned away.  Just recently nearly
15,000 Ethiopian Jews were rescued by Israel and returned home with just the clothes on their backs.
       The Jewish State was created to be the eternal homeland of Jews the world over.  In recent
months we have seen the wisdom of that purpose.  Even if the Arabs of Israel accepted Jewish
sovereignty and wanted to live here in peace with us, we need to devote all of our resources to helping
our Jewish brothers first, and only then can we consider the plight of others.  But such is not the case. 
The Arabs of Israel have proved their intentions to try and take our country from us.  They throw
rocks at us, burn our cars and stab women and children to death in the streets-- all in the name of
"Palestine".  We cannot continue to contain the violence and also provide our Jewish refugees with the
help they need to become contributing members of the Israeli community.  
       The only way to remove the violence and the threat is to remove the Arabs.  It doesn't need
to be done in the manner in which the Arabs threw Jews out of their countries, after confiscating all
of their possessions.  As Rabbi Kahane suggested many years ago, those who are willing to go
peacefully should receive compensation for their properties and assistance in relocating.  Those who
are unwilling should simply be thrown out.  Anything less than this, and every day in which the Jewish
State refrains from taking such steps, is equivalent to a cancer patient refusing treatment.   