                   Absolute Falsehood always
Recognizes Absolute Truth       
                     by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                       December 18, 1991

     Ever since the death of Rabbi Kahane, z"l, H"yd, the media in this country have been
starving for a Torah scholar to vilify.  With the appointment of the Chief Rabbi of Hebron, and
Rosh Yeshiva of Kiryat Arba to the Post of Dayan, and the proposal of his candidacy for the
post of the next Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Dov Lior has been selected as a prime
target of the media vultures in Israel.
     I will not attempt to defend Rabbi Lior against the mud slingers, rather I will point out
a lesson taught by Rabbi Kahane: "Absolute falsehood always recognizes absolute Truth, and
seeks to destroy it".  It is a tribute to Rabbi Lior to be attacked by the self-hating anti-religious
and anti-nationalist press in this country.  The self deceivers are naturally drawn to attack the
ones most likely to point out their lies and hold them up to the light for everyone to see.  
     The purveyors of self-hate have an obsession to try and destroy Jewish Truth in order
to preserve their beloved self-deceit.  That Rabbi Lior has been selected as a target of their
venom proves that they do, indeed, recognize where Jewish Truth can be found. 
     The media have tried to compare Rabbi Lior to Rabbi Kahane as a means of
defamation.  In fact they praise him.  There were certainly two traits which both rabbis shared:
a love for Torah, and the certainty of its Truth.  If to teach Torah is racism, then Rabbi Lior is
a perfect racist.  
     While Rabbi Kahane wanted to personally effect positive change in the country by
political action, Rabbi Lior has had no such aspirations and prefers to remain a scholar and
teacher, and leave the control of the country to the Ribono shel Olam.  Yet this does not
dissuade a hostile media from viciously attacking him.  
     The media, in their haste to find an object of vilification, have shown an uncanny
recognition of their true enemy, the Torah of Israel.  It is clear to them that this "enemy" is to
be found, among other places, in the holy city of Abraham.  Those pure self-sacrificing Jews
who have chosen to face the uncertainties and dangers of living in Kiryat Arba, Hebron, as
have their holy predecessors for generations before the rebirth of the Jewish State, simply to
maintain the kedusha which has been in this holy city from the beginning of time, are labeled as
"hostile obstacles to peace".   To the so called "peace mongers", pathetic lemmings of the
Mosaic persuasion, the tombs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob belong rightfully to the Arabs. 
For Jews to as much as pray at our Fathers' graves is an incitement to the peace loving Arabs
of Hebron who daily attack and often murder Jewish civilians throughout this country with
relative impunity!
     Those who control the media in this country are entrenched in their positions from the
days when leftist politicians ruled this country by blackmail and threats.  When Menachem
Begin was elected Prime Minister of Israel and neglected to throw these vipers out, he only
perpetuated that monopoly.  He too was consistently vilified by the press even in his role as
Prime Minister!
     Rabbi Kahane was met head on by the self-hating leftist media in Israel because he
dared to challenge their prevarications.  They hated him with a vengeance because he was not
afraid to defy their attempt to control the Truth.  The Rabbi always knew that the Truth is
beyond their control.  It is their greatest enemy and will, in the end, be their downfall.