           In the traditions of Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                     by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                        January 23, 1992
                         Jews for Jews

       We Jews make great lawyers because we really care about people.  Unfortunately
that caring often gets carried away to a point that we are so worried about the rights and
feelings of others that we end up trampling on ourselves.
       One very sick example is the Jewish lawyer Kunstler who defended the rights of an
Arab murderer to the degree that he may well have set the pace for a new open season on
Jews.
       On another level, perhaps slightly more subtle yet even more dangerous, we find the
head of the American Jewish Congress leading a delegation of his pseudo leaders to, of all
places, Saudi Arabia.  After this charade, which clearly reinforced the puffed up self image of
this would-be representative of Jews, this fellow comes to Israel and is given time on Israeli
radio to tell the Jewish people how much Saudi Arabia wants peace!  If it weren't such a
tragedy it would truly be laughable (although I am sure the Saudis are rolling on the floor) to
listen to this nice Jewish boy acting in the place of the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia!  The
Arab could not have delivered his propaganda more effectively himself.
       What is the matter with us?  I doubt that twenty percent of those who read this
column can tell me the name of the president of the World Jewish Congress who claims to
speak in their name.  By what right, what authority, and what credentials does such a person
presume to act on behalf of those who don't even know who he is?  Is there something wrong
with David Levy, the Israeli foreign minister, that he is not capable of communicating with the
Saudis without this illustrious mediator coming in between?  Can he not see that he is actually
reinforcing the Saudi non-recognition of Israel?
       We are so worried about pleasing the goyim that we find, even in Israel, lawyers
and politicians who are so concerned about Arab rights that they lead the fight to deprive Jews
of theirs.  Rather than offend those who murder Jews, these crusaders for equal rights actually
work to try and remove Jews from their homes in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  They advocate
keeping only Jews away from their most holy site, the Temple Mount, where all religions have
freedom to pray except one, Judaism. 
       While, in the United States, we Jews, more than any other minority, have
championed the rights of all citizens to freedom of expression, that concept has been twisted
out of shape in this country.  It has literally gotten to the point where dazzled Jewish
proponents of democracy have permitted their warped interpretation of the American Dream
to act as a knee-jerk axiom which demands their allegiance to the rights of "downtrodden"
Arabs even when that means taking actions which are harmful both to Jewish lives and the
Jewish state!
       Let us understand once and for all, Israel is not the United States.  Our Arabs have
absolutely no correlation to your Negroes.  Israel was created to be a Jewish State and, as
such it is a contradiction in terms for a non Jew to have citizenship here, much less establish a
foreign state on our soil.  Our Arabs identify as a foreign entity whose very definition conflicts
with our very right to exist.  As such we have an obligation to rid ourselves of that very real
threat in any way possible.
       Let us at long last let our enemies fight their own battles and let us Jews
concentrate on solving the myriad challenges which face our people.  Saudi Arabia is quite
capable of communicating directly with Israel, without the "help" of self-proclaimed
representatives of the Jewish People interfering.  The so called, "palestinians" have shown
themselves to be very eloquent in presenting their case without Jewish representatives
interceding for them.  And the Jewish State, which belongs to the Jewish People also has its
Jewish holy places.  It is about time that we begin to take our own best interests into
consideration above that of foreign ones.  It is time to clear the Temple Mount and the Cave
of Machpela of foreign elements and restrict prayer there to Jews only.  The time is long
overdue for all Jews to concern themselves with Jews first.