           In the traditions of Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l
                      by Gershon Ben Shabtai
                         April 3, 1992
               When is the Minister of the Interior
                Left Standing outside in the Cold?

       Israeli Minister of the Interior, Arye Deri, is a religious man.  He dons two separate pair
of tfillin every morning as he offers his prayers before his maker.  The minister has, of late, begun
a new personal tradition of joining a large group of Breslever Chasidim as they pray vatiken at the
Cave of Machpelah every erev Rosh Chodesh.  
       The way one can tell that such an illustrious individual is among the other worshipers is
by noticing a young strapping man dressed in a suit and tie, usually with a paper yarmulke on his
head and, what appears to be, a hearing aid in his ear.  This fellow is not involved at all in prayer. 
He is the personal body guard of the minister.   
       On Friday, April 3, 1992, it was erev Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the month heralding Jewish
redemption.  As always the Chasidim from Jerusalem made their trek to Machpelah in the predawn
darkness to pray for a good month.  Only today was to be different.
       It seems that the Moslem holy day of Iddl fidr also fell out on this day.  As such
thousands of Moslems descended upon the Machpelah building to celebrate.  The Israeli
government, in its infinite respect for the religious sensitivities of Moslems, stationed Jewish
soldiers at the entrance to the building to forbid Jews from praying inside!  After all, there were so
many Moslems that room could not be made even for the Israeli Minister of Interior to pray inside!
       So it was that a large minyan of Breslevers and residents of Kiryat Arba, together with
Minister Deri, conducted shacharit prayers at the degrading "seventh step", as hundreds of Arab
men, women and children contemptuously marched inside the building to celebrate in a Jew free
environment.
       While it is, indeed, true that overwhelming numbers of Moslem worshipers do arrive at
our holy site to celebrate their holiday, how is it conceivable to use that fact as a reason to deprive
Jews of at least equal rights to pray there?  
       Were we to take this "logic" to its absurd conclusion, we should leave Hebron and all of
Judea, Samaria and Gaza simply because there are many more Arabs than Jews living there!  And
further, when the day comes that Arabs outnumber Jews in the rest of Israel, we should just pack
up and leave.  Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"tl, Hy"d, saw this so clearly that he did not hesitate to tell us
the only way to solve this problem.  We must remove all Arabs from the Jewish State.  There is
simply no other solution.
       The mentality of the so called Jewish leadership in this country has created a situation
which clearly accepts reverse discrimination against Jews, while labeling any effort to preserve
legitimate Jewish rights, as opposed to those of Moslems, as "racism".
       Clearly our religious Interior Minister is no racist.  He has full respect for the religious
rights of our Moslem neighbors. Surely the countless Moslems who filed past into the building, and
watched him praying outside in the dirt had deep respect and admiration for his understanding of
their needs.