           In the traditions of Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                      by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                        January 31, 1992
                      Rabbi Kahane Was Right
           BUT it is Impossible to get rid of the Arabs

       Oh if I had but a nickel for every time I heard that statement.  The fact is that
everyone agrees that it would be best to be rid of our local Arab enemies.  The only problem is
that no one is prepared to as much as say so out loud, and while all would like to be rid of
them, no one is prepared to get rid of them.  
       If it is impossible to remove our Arab enemies, there is only one reason, the
collective paranoia of the Jewish people.  On the left we see Jews fighting for the rights of
Arabs in Israel to live in a Jew free environment, while attempting at the same time to deprive
Jews of their natural right to live wherever they want in their own country.  And on the right
we have a strange perverted "morality" not to deprive Arabs of their "right" to live in Israel.
       We Jews have always been in the forefront in the civil rights movement in the
United States, I daresay more to prove to the goyim that we are not prejudiced, and therefore
hope that they would love us, or at least wouldn't hate us, than out of genuine concern for
their plight.  
       Time and again we have seen how our efforts have been paid back in rabid hatred of
the Jew.  In the Exile of the United States, it may be understandable to find the need among
Jews to fawn upon others in order to try and stem antisemitism, futile though that effort might
be.  But in the Jewish State such behavior is an obscenity.  What are we trying to accomplish,
to turn Arabs into Jews?  They do not want to be Jews.  They consider us beneath them.    
       And, on the right we have political groups whose only policy is increased Jewish
settlements.  This is a relic of an ideology which was necessary during British occupation in
order to achieve our independence.  It is ridiculous and counterproductive to continue such a
policy which pits Jews against their own government.  If we had a real Jewish government
which put the interests of the country first there would be no need for a "settlement
movement" because that very government would develop all of our land for us.  
       These same groups who deplore Arab violence and call for better military
protection, fall short of the mark and refuse to say "They Must Go".  The same ghetto
mentality which finds the left worried that maybe America will think that we are prejudiced
against the Arab minority, plagues the right in this country too.  
       So, rather than risk being called "racist", we harbor our own executioners.  The
problem is strictly a Jewish one.  Would that we had a national psychiatrist to guide us out of
our phobia of being called "racist".  We had a brilliant and very clear thinking leader who gave
his life to try and guide us out of our self delusions.  Now that he is gone there is no one to
take his place.  Instead events will prove that he had always been right, and find even leftist
leaders taking the very steps they deplored when Rabbi Kahane, z"tl, H"yd, outlined them
years ago.
       Zeevi would like to be rid of the Arabs.  But even he has never been willing to say,
"They Must Go".  He endorses the absurd concept of "voluntary transfer" of Arabs in Judea
Samaria and Gaza.  He hasn't even addressed the far more serious problem of our Israeli Arab
citizens who are eating us alive from within.
       Techiya would like to find a nice way to address the problem; but there is no nice
way.  Only "terrorists" should be dealt with.  Why can they not see that those whom we call
terrorists are looked upon as heroes by the "quiet and peaceful" Arabs?
       The Arab holds us in contempt as a pagan entity which defiles "his" land.  He will
never accept us as an independent sovereign nation.  He will continue to murder Jews to undo
the abomination of a Jewish State of any size on what he sees as Moslem soil as long as he
thinks he has a chance to succeed.  This is Islamic ideology, not the fanaticism of fringe
elements in the Moslem world.  Religious ideology can never be reconciled or compromised if
its practitioners honestly believe in it, be they Moslems or Jews.  Our real problem is that there
are a majority of Jews who do not even understand that Jewish ideology mandates our return
to the land and that we maintain Jewish sovereignty over it.  It is those Jews who hasten to
compromise on their own birthright and don't even know what they are doing who prolong
Arab terror.
       Israel is our country.  It came into being to be a haven for the Jewish People.  Here,
of all places in the world, we were meant to be a free people in our own land.  We have a
government.  We have an army, and a good one.  We have a working economy which can be
molded into being a self supporting one.  We need not consult with any outsiders on matters
concerning our fate.  
       Why then do we willingly tolerate an enemy nation, which we ourselves created, to
continue to take the lives of our citizens and threaten our very existence?
       Is it impossible to get rid of our internal Arab enemy?  If it is, it is not because of
Bush, nor because of the Islamic World.  The only one we can honestly blame is ourselves for
being afraid to just stand up before the world and be proud Jews, facing the issue head on. 
Not only is it possible to rid ourselves of our cancer within, it will be done.  If not today, by a
courageous Jewish government, then tomorrow, by a cowardly one.  But at what price? 