 
                The Fathers of Jewish Self-Hatred
                   Rear their Ugly Heads Again
                     by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                         June 16, 1991

       Israeli Interior Minister, Rabbi Yitzchak Peretz, is a Jew with a memory.  He saw what
the Labor government was capable of doing to young religious Jews via the Youth Aliyah
Movement.  He, like Rabbi Kahane, z"l, hy"d, remembers the studied efforts of Mapai to
deJudaise new olim by withholding jobs from those who chose to send their children to religious
schools, and resorting to the lowest forms of coercion to remove Judaism from the Jewish state. 

       Last week Rabbi Peretz, out of true concern for the innocence and susceptibility of the
many new religious immigrants from Ethiopia, made some forceful statements recommending that
these Jews not be sent to non-religious Kibbutzim.  As a result of his honesty and concern for the
religious future of these Jews, Rabbi Peretz got a small taste of the hatred faced by Rabbi Kahane. 
And, not unlike Rabbi Kahane, Rabbi Peretz is under the most viscious attack, including name
calling and demands for his dismissal from his cabinet post by low-life intellectual morons like
Amos and the various other wizards of "Oz".  Let us listen to what Rabbi Kahane had to say on
the subject in his book, "Uncomfortable Questions . . .":
        "It is beyond dispute that the Sephardic Jews who poured into Israel beginning in 1948
were, overwhelmingly, religious Jews.  Close to 2,000 years of exile and a millennia under
Moslem rule could not shake the deep religious faith of these Jews...  
       History will record the heartbreaking truth that what the Moslems could not do in a
thousand years, the secular Zionist Establishment in the Jewish State was able to accomplish in
less than 25.
       The founders of political Zionism were overwhelmingly secularist, Western-oriented
and determined to create a "new" Hebrew nation, free of antiquated religious ties.

       A deliberate, ruthless campaign to spiritually destroy Sephardic Jews through the brutal
use of governmental force and coercion, in manners so reminiscent of totalitarian, police states,
was planned and launched by the same leftists and "progressives" who today bellow and belch
forth their orchestrated attacks on "Kahanism" [or now, Rabbi Peretz].  Those who today din into
our ears the cries of "morality, Jewish values, and democracy", were guilty of the cruelest and
most ruthless campaign of spiritual genocide against fellow Jews.







       . . . who can overlook the brutal deception of Youth Aliyah which brought tens of
thousands of young Sephardic Jews to the Land of Israel?  Almost all were religious and their
families were convinced that they would be placed in a religious environment.  Instead they were
sent to irreligious and anti-religious institutions and frameworks, such as kibbutzim of the Marxist
Hashomer Hatzair, where short shrift was made of their millennia old religious traditions.  Saddest
of all, in this connection, was the spiritual destruction of thousands of Yemenite children,
unanimously religious, who naively arrived in the Land with their payot (earlocks) and Shabbat
(Sabbath) and were quickly shorn of both."
       Rabbi Peretz is to be highly commended for standing up to the hissing snakes who call
for his expulsion from the cabinet.  The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is also to be commended for
backing Rabbi Peretz in his valiant stand of "Never Again".  And Cabinet Minister Zeevi, who so
many have run to as the fraudulent "heir of Kahane", has, once again disappointed us by showing
himself to be a coward.  It was bad enough that he apologized to Yussie Sarid for saying that one
Jew is worth more than a thousand Arabs, even though it is true and he meant it.  Now he has
wants to have Yitzchak Peretz share his cowardice with him as he suggested that he too,
"apologize".
       Apologize for what?  Telling the truth?  Wanting to save the Jews from Ethiopia the
same treatment their Sephardic brothers were afforded?  A Jew need never apologize for acting
like a Jew.
       One final remark, and quote.  In browsing through this book, I found another two
paragraphs, taking this concept one step further, which sent a chill down my spine.  I wish to
share them with you:
       "Let history record that the first brutal Jewish political murder in the Land of Israel of
modern times was coldly and politically planned by the top leadership of the left and that one of
the planners is immortalized today after having been elected as President of the Jewish State. 
Woe unto the political tyrants who honor murderers of Jews, for surely, that guarantees the
repeating of the process every time yet another Jew threatens their narrow interests.
       There is hardly a Jew in Israel who doubts that the Israeli authorities are totally capable
of political murder should they feel so threatened; should they perceive Meir Kahane as achieving
mass political strength.  That is the reason why, at every rally there are Jews who nervously
whisper, "Shmore al atzmicha", "Watch yourself..."    
       