Chapter 3

The Bulldozers of HateThat is the background.

That is the record of the people and parties who screech in hate against Kahane. And it is that background and that record that help so much to explain the sickness of soul and the capacity of these people today. Those who killed and trampled on Jews yesterday are clearly capable of repeating it today in their unadulterated, blind, psychopathic hatred of Kahane and of what has come to be called "Kahanism." Not the slightest effort to reason; not the slightest attempt to debate; not the slightest willingness to meet and intellectually discuss the very real issues. Hate, only hate. And murder, in the eyes and in the souls of the haters. The hate and murder that come from a long left-liberal-humanist tradition. The hate and murder that blind and block all reason, logic, normalcy. The hate and murder that turn man into a savage beast, lusting and yearning to lash out and kill. The hate and murder that lays bare the sheer hypocrisy of "democrats" who call for the shutting of mouths and the utter fraud of "humanists" calling for physical violence against those they oppose. The naked contradiction of soul of liberals who call for the end of rights and freedoms fort hose they consider dangerous to their views. And so, the Kach Movement prepares for its annual convention. It applies for a hall in Jerusalem's Convention Center, owned by the Jewish Agency, the public body set upto coordinate Zionist activities between Israel and Tews in the Exile. Arye Dulzin, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, a corpulent, wealthy Mexican Jew, refuses the application. He bitterly differs with Kach's policies. He will not allow the public hall to be rented by a Zionist Political party that sits in the Knesset. The night before the scheduled convention, the Communist Party has the hall for a concert featuring a Soviet Moslem singer. No doubt a radical Zionist. The court forces the Jewish Agency to rent the hall. That, it turns out, is the easy part. The second half of the problem, the storm troopers of the left, is not so easily disposed of. Large ads appear in all the papers. They read: "There is no place for Kach in our country." Peace Now and a host of other leftist groups, including one called Ma’ane — an umbrella group formed to fight Kahane — openly proclaim their intention to stop the convention; thousands of leftists are bused in from kibbutzim and other cities. A large PLO flag is carried as well as banners against Kahane, Kach and "racism." Leftist and Arab Knesset members speak; Teddy Kollek brays. The message is the same: Stop the "fascists." As Kahane arrives, the leftists grow mad with rage. The police succeed in getting Kahane through the crowd into the hall but Kach members are attacked and physically beaten. The police, after an hour of indifference, now give the Border Patrol, the tough special police force known for its sympathy to Kahane, orders to push the leftists back. In a letter to the Histadrut paper, Davar, one of the leaders of the anti-Kahane crusade, veteran leftist Dov Yirmiya writes: "Iam a criminal; I broke the law when I burst the barriers near Convention Center to stop the arch-racist. I broke the law and am proud of it." Gideon Rafael, former director-general of the Foreign Ministry writes in the Jerusalem Post, calling for mass violation of the law in order to stop Kahane. He says: "Ahuman wall of non-violent but steadfast resisters can make the slogan, 'Kahane shall not pass', an irresistible reality, a wall that stands firm even if confronted by baton-wielding mounted police." And Rafael exemplifies the babbling and dangerous "progressive democrat" as he continues: "It is unthinkable that the political authority responsible for the police would permit it to trample down nonviolent defenders of Israel's democracy." Translation: Since we have decided that Kahane is dangerous, we expect the political minister who runs the police to give orders to them to allow us to break the law and prevent Kahane from speaking. A leaflet at a Kahane rally, issued by the Israeli Socialist left, is headed: "He has no right to speak!" Its operative sentence reads: "Preventing Kahane and his associates from their racist incitement is a remarkable example of civic action and no factor, government or other, has the right to stop us." Young children are mobilized by the leftists to come to Kahane rallies with whistles and to shout him down. Leftist writer Teddy Preuss, writing in the newspaper Davar, says: "In view of the apathy of the Knesset, citizen organization is the last barrier to fascism. By organization, I mean the taking of steps more practical than whistles. How the mounted police will behave is not difficult to imagine, butt his is the danger that the supporters of democracy must take upon themselves. "The call is to smash the law and destroy the opposition. All this I have seen. The twisted faces, the obscene gestures, the curses, the hate. The face of those who want a civil war. Once again, the face of The Season. How important, how terribly important it is for all to know them, as they truly were, as they truly are. No one can even begin to understand their awesome sickness of soul and thus learn to discount their vicious lies and wild, savage defamation, unless he really knows their past, their awful crimes, their terrible readiness to stop at nothing to crush those who stand in their way. And those in the Exile. The Jewish leaders, the feudal barons of the Exile. How they hate and fear Kahane and move heaven and earth to silence him there. How they frantically use their awesome money and power that has created such a feudal empire, to attempt to prevent Kahane from appearing before Jews. They who control Jewish public funds and dispense to only those institutions they see as acceptable (read docile and accepting). Through the weapons of fear and monetary blackmail, they rule unfettered, never elected by the community, never questioned by the bleating flocks. Benevolent despots, they move patronizingly among their fawning serfs, dispensing favors and honors, sure of both their own power as well as of the timidity, apathy, fear and docility of the serfs. But when a rebel rises up and when he dares to cry out the truth of their nakedness, their ugliness, their threat to the very existence of the sheep, the flocks, the Jews —then the fangs are bared, the ugliness revealed. Then the fascists arise! They are frozen at the thought of Kahane describing their own Establishment's emptiness, of their having sat quietly by during the Holocaust, of their apathy concerning Soviet Jewry, of their Policies of "the melting pot" and interfaith and all the rest that led to the spiritual destruction of hundreds of thousands of Jewish youth. They are terrified at having Jews asked by Kahane the simple question: Do you agree that Arabs have the right to democratically, peacefully, quietly and non-violently become the majority in Israel and vote the Jewish state out of existence? They shudder at Kahane describing the weekly murders of Jews in Israel; the incredible assimilation and growth of intermarriage in Israel between Jews and Arabs; the clear, logical, painfully obvious fact that Arabs in Israel do not want to live in a Jewish state and will do everything possible to make sure that their national anthem will not bethe "Hatikva" that speaks of "the soul of a Jew yearning. "They resent Kahane's laying out of the basic contradiction between western democracy and a Jewish state. Above all, their blood chills at the Kahane message to his Jewish audience: Who elected your Jewish leaders? Who elected the feudal barons who control Jewish funds, allocate Jewish moneys, run the community as their fiefdom? They, who are so bankrupt, can never allow Kahane to tell the Jewish community: Your Jewish leaders are bankrupt! And, so they must attempt to silence Kahane, and the methods they use do not matter. You ask: If Kahane is so insane and sol wrong, why not debate him and, before millions of people, .destroy him once and for all? A magnificent question. Why not debate Kahane and destroy him intellectually? But of course, they can never debate Kahane; he will destroy them. And so, when Kahane comes to any Jewish city and demands a debate or meeting, they run in terror. Of course they tell the news media that their reason is that they do not wish to "legitimatize" Kahane. But the truth is clear. The same ones who will meet with Arabs because "one must meet with those with whom we differ . . ."; the ones who, if Farrakhan wrote and asked for a meeting to "dialogue," would fall all over themselves —these can never meet with Kahane. For the Arabs and Farrakhan are really not threats to the Jewish feudal barons. Kahaneis. He rips away their pretensions. He tells the sheep: Look at your shepherds, your murderers. . . .And so, in Los Angeles, one Rabbi Harold Shulweiss, famous in the San Fernando Valley, esteemed by the masses as a "scholar," has had an Arab Knesset member speak in his temple. The Arab won fame for his desire to fly to the PLO conference in Amman (against Israeli law); bu the is welcomed. Kahane, despite a barrage of advertisements in the local L.A. press, is verboten in the castle of the Baron of Shulweiss. . . . Not one temple in the Valley (or on the mountain) will have Kahane. Not one Jewish leader will speak with Kahane on the issues. But that is only the beginning. The Jewish establishment bulldozer attempts to insure that the Jewish community will not hear Kahane at all. Let me tell you a story. A story about the feudal barons,the fat the powerful, the frightened — in Houston, Texas. Houston, Texas, a powerful land, a powerful state, rolling in wealth and arrogance; as Heine said, "as the Christian, so the Jew." The arrogant Jewish feudal baronsare suddenly shaken as they hear that "Kahane is coming. "The local Kach chapter, under Dr. Richard Rolnick, a physician at the Baylor College of Medicine, has a signed, paid-for contract with the Marriott Astrodome Hotel to have Kahane speak. Rolnick sits down with the Jewish Herald-Voice, the local paper, and they work out with him an advertisement. It is paid for, set to go into that week's paper. The democratic way of life is proceeding smoothly in Houston, Texas. Enter the Jewish barons. The Greater Houston  Jewish Federation and the American Jewish Committee now contact the Marriott. The usual is said: "You could lose Jewish business," "Possible violence." The Marriott understands the facts of life. It cancels a signed contract. That same day, the Jewish paper which was so happy to take the ad suddenly contacts Rolnick. It cannot. The bulldozer of fascism has crushed the little people. Rolnick finds another hotel, the Astro Village. Its owners, not Jewish, do not give into pressure. Ellen Cohen of the American Jewish Committee tries the same tactics: "You may lose Jewish business." The answer: "We have no Jewish business." "There could be violence." "We can handle violence." When the newspapers contact the embarrassed Jewish barons, they are forced to admit that they did contact the hotels, but only to make clear to them that Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Knesset in Israel is not the local rabbi, Moshe Cahana (that is how he spells his name)of Houston! The lies are so grotesque that even the newsmen laugh. By now it emerges that the Israeli Consulate sent a man down to the local Jewish paper to make sure that no ad would appear. Rolnick has the facts on tape. Needless to say the two Jewish merchants who originally were eager to sell tickets for the speech suddenly call and say they don't agree with Kahane. . . .The feudal barons are terrified of Kahane. The thought of the Knesset member being heard by Jews is so nightmarish to them for the sublimely simple reasons that they know that once Kahane has an opportunity to meet and speak with Jews, the ugly and false image that has been so perfidiously constructed will melt away as snow in the warm spring sun. The fat, the powerful, the frightened. Kahane frightens them more than any Jew since the rise of Israel. For  he speaks of a total change in society. Not merely a politic alone, but the total redoing of society. The remaking of Israel into a Jewish state. The permanent remaking of values in Jewish ones, the creation of a new and permanent generation of Jews. The promise that the feudal barons, the Hellenists, the mixed multitude, the Hebrew-speaking gentiles in Israel and the foreigners in Jewish Establishment clothing in the Exile will be forever thrown out of power. That is the greatest of all fears, and as we see that fear oozing out of their pores, the vicious smell of their natural reaction, fascism, fills the air and the nostrils. They will stop at nothing. They have in the past murdered, bodies and souls. Why not the same now, when their very kingdom is at stake? The haters who comprise the power structure have poisoned millions of Jews, have injected them with their poisonous hate. Millions who have never heard Kahane speak, have never read a book of his, have never had the slightest contact with him or his views, hate and despise him. They are victims of the haters with their immense power over the news media, their intense supporters within that news media. If in centuries past, Alexander Pope could write of a social gathering as a place where "with every word a reputation dies," can one imagine the awesome power of apolitical machine-television-radio-newspaper conglomerate that can destroy a reputation in the minds of tens of millions with every broadcast or telecast or issue? The average person is the daily victim of the awesome power of a political-economic machine that controls communications, that shapes him, that directs him, that makes him. He is the victim, he is the lamb led to intellectuals laughter. The feudal barons of Israel and the Jewish Establishment leaders in the United States and other parts of the Exile, control the Jewish community in a way that is almost breathtaking in its awesomeness. They use this power to put into motion their drive to smear, defame and destroy Kahane in the eyes of the Jew and gentile alike. And their most powerful of weapons, the one they count most upon to assure their control of the mind and pocketbook of the Jew who lives outside of Israel, is their knowledge of his psychological dependence on Israel. Not one in a thousand western Jews will ever willingly goon aliya, emigrate to Israel. But millions of Jews need aJewish state, need to believe in it. For most western Jews believe in nothing that is Jewish, except Israel. For millions, it is Israel that is the cornerstone and totality of their "Jewishness." They are not observant Jews and therefore Judaism for them is, at best, the Reform and Conservatism that allows them to play with Judaism as much or as little as they care to. They do not really believe in the G-d of the Jews, but lacking the courage to state their atheism, they create a G-d, a comfortable G-d in their own image, cut to garment center proportions. What, then, can give them practical and concrete expression of their "Jewishness?" What can give them the identity they so desperately need and seek? Why, only Israel.51It is Israel that can make the Jew feel strong in the face of gentile contempt for Jewish "weakness." It is Israel that makes him its partner in swift vengeance against Arab armies and terrorists so that a Six Day War finds the Jew of Cleveland or Chicago basking in the deflected sun of gentile awe. It is Israel that allows him to see a Jewish tank, a Jewish gun, a Jewish jet —all things that in his heart of hearts, even the most liberal and progressive Jew secretly loves. And it is Israel that is his insurance policy against the anti-Semitism he may publicly pooh-pooh, but which in his secret chambers he deeply worries about. He loves this Israel, and his check to the UJA or Israel Bonds is a cheap enough price to pay for the vicarious benefits it gives him. And this being so, he is willing, indeed, eager, to hear only good about the Jewish State. He does not want to visit Israel and hear about the real problems. He does not really want to visit the real Israel; his is the world oft he tourist that has about as much connection and relevance to the real state of the Jewish State as does the Statue of Liberty to the reality of United States economic, social and political problems. He knows nothing about the real, critical problems and less about the political machine that is the power in Israel. He knows nothing and does not want to know! He wants to celebrate and be happy when he comes to Israel or attends lectures about Israel in his temple or community center. He wants to feel good and wants to listen to people who will make him feel good. Israel is his vicarious escape into the world of pride and strength and he is not about to bedisillusioned.52But such a person does not love Israel. He loves only himself. Those who love someone or something do not run from the terrible realities that afflict the one they love. They seek to look, diagnose and cure. That is why this is written. To give concrete form to the words of the rabbis:" All love that does not have with it criticism, is not real love." He who truly loves Israel, the Jewish state, lives there and says the difficult things that will not only make it better, but will help it to survive. The difficult and so-uncomfortable things! Things like: A Jewish state, a Zionist state, stands in stark contradiction to western democracy.