          In the traditions of Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                     By Gershon ben Shabtai
                            May 1991
                            Choices

       One thing that drives people to commit suicide is their inability to recognize that, no matter
what problems life places before us, we always have the ability to make choices.  When we
categorically decide to ignore our choices, we succumb to despair.
       Rabbi Kahane spent his life trying to point out that we do have a choice; a very real and
sensible way to solve the unbearable problem of Arab terror in the Jewish State.  To this very day,
however, this country's leadership, and those who control the media attempt to brainwash our citizens
to believe that the only realistic and sensible choice we have, does not exist.
       In his book, "They Must Go", Rabbi Kahane very carefully and rationally outlined the
reasons why we must rid ourselves of the enemy within, and provided documented historical
precedents of world sanctioned population transfers of far larger proportions than that of our Arab
population, and for reasons far less critical than ours.  Yet the opinion molders in this country, who
themselves fear for our future with our Arab co-citizens, refuse to consider the very real choice of
Transfer.  In a true democracy, even if a choice is repugnant, even were it heinous and dastardly, that
is no reason to deprive the public from hearing it.  The concept being that the people are intelligent
enough to decide what is good and what is bad.  When the elite few take the right to choose from the
public, then democracy is on its way out.  This, of course, is exactly what happened when Kach was
banned from running in 1988.
       In last week's Friday edition of the Jerusalem Post, in its editorial column, there appeared
a remarkably positive statement about the settlement movement.  Despite this fact, the editorial staff
found it necessary to make the following statement,
       "One need not possess a wild imagination to envision what would happen if Israel
suggested that the Jewish State should be free of Arabs.  Even a whiff of such proposals would be
condemned-
and rightly so- not only as an obstacle to peace but as an inexcusable display of racism and bigotry."
       I daresay that the editor does indeed possess a wild imagination.  The fact is that there is
a legitimate Knesset party which has given, more than a whiff of, such a proposal.  That party has not
been condemned as an obstacle to peace, nor for its racism and bigotry.  Indeed, its leader is even a
cabinet minister.  
       This is a perfect example of how those who mold opinion in this country fall upon ideas,
which they find unacceptable, and attempt to remove them from the market place of ideas in which
all citizens in a democracy have a right to shop.  That attitude is, in and of itself, an act of pompous
self-righteousness and even bigotry.  The fact is they are allowing their prejudices to blind the public
to historical truths, and defaming those who have a right to present them.  But, what is worse, they are
destroying the very fabric of democracy in Israel. 
       Of course, every sensible person in Israel knows that to even suggest the removal of our
Arab enemies would "obstruct peace" and really not be very nice to those who like to murder us.



       In its magazine section, which would never have featured Knesset Member Rabbi Kahane,
z"l, nor will you read the opinions of Cabinet Minister Zeevi there, the readership was treated to three
pages of rubbish from the aging pacifist daughter of Moshe Dayan, the former Israeli Defense Minister
who was personally responsible for creating the conditions which gave birth to the PLO, the intifada
and the myth that there is a legitimate "Palestinian" people. 
       While Yael Dayan is, most definitely, eloquent in her presentation, her own opinions lack
the conviction she would like to impart.  She truly wants peace, but hasn't the courage to recognize the
bitter and painful truth that the only peace our neighbors want is the riddance of any kind of a Jewish
state.
When asked about what she thinks about Arabs in Israel she states,
       "It is our immediate problem.  Because of the knives.  Because of the fear.  We have to
separate."  
       She then goes on to say, 
       "There are two million people here.  We cannot get rid of them."
       We cannot get rid of them?  Why not?  Why is it that the Yael Dayans of our country
refuse to at least examine what they clearly know is a choice available to us?  Clearly Miss Dayan
recognizes the problem, and despite her admiration for Feisal Husseini, she wishes to live separately
from the Arabs.  Her fantasy solution is to simply give Judea, Samaria and Gaza to the rioters and thus
arrive at peace.  
       Aside from choosing to forget the wonderful peace we didn't have when the Arabs had
control of these areas, Yael deliberately doesn't mention her response to the claims of the Arabs of the
Galilee and the Triangle and Jaffa, who also consider themselves "Palestinians".  Will she transfer
them to the new "Palestine", or will she choose to further carve up our country for "peace"?
       We cannot get rid of them?  Of course we can:
       In August of 1945, immediately following World War II, Truman, Atlee and Stalin met
at Potsdam and agreed to the transfer of over eleven million ethnic Germans from Hungary, Poland
and Yugoslavia, to Germany.  And this was after the war when, it could be assumed that, the danger
was over.  The countries involved could not have cared less about the meeting in Potsdam and had
begun the transfer even before the meeting was convened, with little regard for the rights and property
of those being transferred.
       In 1948 18 million people were transferred between India and Pakistan because Hindus
and Moslems could not find a way to live together in peace.  They still hate one another, but the death
toll from killing one another has been sharply reduced by their population transfer.
       But, of course, we Jews will teach our enemies to love us and live together with us in peace. 
Incredibly we have been trying that course of action for 43 years now.  Not only hasn't it worked, but
our educated Arab citizens have manufactured and nurtured a very effective deceitful myth.  They
have convinced the world, and even a large segment of the Jewish world, of the existence and
legitimate rights of a non entity!  This mass of Jew haters has taken to the streets, not to "protest"; not
to "demonstrate"; but to murder Jews in order to frighten the rest of us away so that they can take over
our country.  




       We refuse to recognize an outright rebellion, and while Jews are murdered in cold blood
nearly every day in Israel, our courts have yet to sentence a murderer of women and children, who
committed murder as an act of treason against the existence of the state, to the death penalty!
       This non entity clearly threatens the existence of the Jewish State and warm hearted, ethical
Jews, like Yael Dayan naively come running to help it to achieve its hateful aim!
       It is truly remarkable that views, no matter how ridiculous, which meet with editorial
approval are given wide publicity, while views which offer a realistic option, but with which the
editors disapprove, not only never get to see the light of day, but are roundly condemned along with
whoever had the courage to present them.
       One of the most fundamental guarantees of democracy is the inviolable right of the
individual to hear varied opinions and to choose from among them.  When elite individuals who are
charged with the responsibility of guarding those rights themselves violate them, the victims are
democracy and the public.
       Rabbi Kahane, z"l, faced raw hatred from Jews who did not want to listen; who found truth
so painful that, in their effort not to listen they found the need to destroy the one who brought it to
them.  "Democrats" of all shapes and ilks came to deprive Rabbi Kahane of his right to speak Jewish
truth, all in the name of protection of democracy.  Jewish fascists, in the true sense of the word, refused
to recognize that if Rabbi Kahane's views were so wrong, honest open debate could refute them.  They
knew that they could never refute him because they themselves were very confused and had no
answers to the questions he would pose.  Rather than admit that the Rabbi was right, they defamed him
and tried to prevent him from speaking, both in America and in Israel.  The B'nai B'rith anti-defamation league went so far as to financially support a campaign to defame Rabbi Kahane on Israeli
television!!
       One cannot help but wonder why so many powerful Jewish groups, in both countries, went
to such extremes to deprive Jews from hearing Jewish truths.  The only explanation must be that our
Jewish leaders know not where they are going, and are deathly afraid that someone might make the
Jewish people aware of that fact.
       Every day we must remind our people that we do have choices.  The quality of our
Jewishness is determined by how we make them.  Rabbi Kahane was a hero.  He died trying to bring
truth to his people, despite the fact that he was paid back in hatred, defamation and finally with
murder.  Every Jew who has learned from Rabbi Kahane has an obligation to continue to teach the
lessons he taught us.  Only thus will his life not have been in vain.
 