           In the traditions of Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                      by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                         April 30, 1992
               We have been praying for Redemption
                      for two thousand years
         How long will it take us to notice its Arrival?

       It was holocaust day in Israel.  A state ceremony was held at Yad v'Shem with all the
top governmental officials and holocaust survivors and their families in attendance.  There was
more than a feeling of sadness and anguish in the air.  There was a silent, unspoken recognition of
the bond of Judaism which connects all of the Jewish people.  It is a fact that every Jew alive today
is a survivor of the holocaust.  It was Hitler's plan to methodically destroy every Jew in the world--- including those living in the United States.
       Even before the Jewish State was reincarnated, the condemned residents of the Warsaw
Ghetto understood the bond between the holocaust and the Land of Israel.  They literally turned
their ghetto into a model of the Jewish homeland renaming the streets after towns and cities in
Palestine.  Any serious student of this unfathomable phenomena called the holocaust cannot help
but recognize a supernatural element which united all Jews and separated them from their
neighbors.  We were never meant to blend in with the nations to which we were exiled.  
       And, after considering the "kindness" shown us by every nation on the face of the earth,
when the question was not loan guarantees, or expulsions of terrorists, rather the lives of countless
Jewish men women and children, it is an obscenity for a Jew to choose to live anywhere other than
the Jewish State today. We know today that the United States government pursued a policy of non
involvement when much could have been done to save innocent lives.  We see in America and all
nations of the world today a very clear trend of increasing antisemitism.  
       Our Jewish leaders recognize this frightening fact and have embarked upon a ridiculous
program of "educating" the goyim.  We will teach them to love us.  Elections are coming.  Perhaps
we will find a presidential candidate who will be good for the Jews in America.  Never in the
program for Jewish survival will any of our leaders dream of suggesting the one and only way to
guarantee Jewish survival---aliyah.
       And, in the Jewish State, we also have blind and foolish Jewish leaders who cannot
grasp the awesome miracle which encompasses them from all sides.  They view themselves as
subjects of the United States living in an American ghetto, albeit on the other side of the world.  
       It is in fear of what they view as American public opinion that they feel the need to
endure an internal war with our local Arab enemies without taking steps to win it decisively.  It
was this pathetic Americaphobea that caused our founding fathers to insert the absurd premise in
our declaration of independence that Arabs can be equal citizens in a Jewish State.
       It may sound ridiculous for me to point out my observation that, at the ceremony
commemorating the holocaust, not one Arab was present.  Why would you expect to see an Arab? 
It was the Jews who suffered in the holocaust, not Arabs.  Indeed, one might well expect that the
Arabs were holding an entirely different kind of celebration in commemoration of this day.
       But that is exactly the point!  Just as any normal person would never expect to see an
Arab at a holocaust remembrance ceremony, no normal person should expect to see an Arab
celebrating Jewish Independence day, nor should it be logical to find Arabs voting in our elections
or sitting in our Knesset deciding upon such matters as "who is a Jew"!
       Yet such is the case in our Jewish State today.  How more outrageous can you get than
to have an Arab take part in the official celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut?  Do our President and
Prime Minister honestly believe that any Arab can sing Hatikva, the hope of the Jewish People to
return to the Land of Israel (which the Arab considers to be his homeland), and joyfully celebrate
recalling his defeat?
       The redemption progresses every day and we foolish Jews close our eyes and refuse to
see.  The G-d of Israel is driving us out of the lands of our exile and we fight to remain there.  He
has hardened the hearts of our Arab enemies, making it a very easy and natural reaction to simply
throw them out of our country as a matter of self preservation, and we insist upon treating them as
equal citizens.
       If we would but open our eyes and look around us we can easily see the direction in
which world events are leading us.  If we would but align our behavior in accordance with the very
real facts of growing worldwide antisemitism and a very dangerous and increasingly hostile Arab
population in Israel, and react to those facts by coming home in great numbers and throwing out
our Arab enemies, we could speed up our redemption and avoid untold tragedy.  If we choose to
ignore reality then it doesn't take a genius or a prophet to see the horrors in store for us.
