Rabbi Meir Kahane: A Retrospective with Steven M. Goldberg (56:48 - 58:21)

Geert Wilders: ‘Israel is the litmus proof’ (video) In a recent speech about the future of Western civilization, Geert Wilders singled out Israel for praise and attention

In the coming weeks and months, I will try to see as many patriot leaders in Europe as possible. And I always ask them for their views on Israel. Because Israel is the litmus proof.

The Jewish people did exactly the opposite of what the Europeans did after the Second World War. They drew the right conclusion. They realized that without a nation-state of their own there could be no safety for their people.

Without a nation-state, without self-governance, without self-determination there can be no security for a people nor preservation of its identity. This was the insight that led the Zionists to strive for the re-establishment of the state of Israel. Theodore Herzl said that there had to be a Jewish state in order to ensure – I quote – “a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.” – end of quote.

Indeed, a soul needs a body. The spirit of a people cannot flourish outside the body of the nation-state. The nation-state is the political body in which we live. We must preserve and cherish it. So that we can pass on to our children our national identity, our democracy, our liberty.

My friends, what we need today is Zionism for the nations of Europe. The Europeans need to follow the example of the Jewish people and re-establish their nation-state.

And that, my dear friends, is why every patriot, apart from being a democrat, by definition also has to be a true friend of Israel. A patriot cannot be anti-Semitic.

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Translation:

Tuesday the 18th of Chesvan 21 years since the murder of the holy leader of Israel

Rabbi Meir David Kahane (my God avenge his blood)

Today everybody knows:

Rabbi Kahane was right!

The ascent to his grave on Har HaMenuchot at 4 PM.

The Central Memorial Gathering

Will take place on Tuesday the 18th of Chesvan (15.11.11) at 6:00PM

at the Heichal David Hall

14 Oholiav St. Jerusalem, near the Central Bus Station

With the participation of

MK Dr. Michael Ben Ari

Family, rabbis, and public officials

Those interested in holding a memorial where they live please call 02-5823540

www.rabbikahane.org

Ariel Zilber: Kahana Was Right

Ariel Zilber was a leading name in Israel’s performance industry until he became frum and right-wing that is. For a performer’s point of view he has paid a heavy price, attacked by his ‘fellow artists’ and frequently banned or boycotted by the left-wing entertainment industry.

That said, Zilber is not lamenting his move to yiddishkheit, and he uses every opportunity he can to spread the word, the words of adherence to Torah and Mitzvos as well as the importance of realizing the kedusha of Eretz Yisrael.

In a message released by Zilber, one already labeled “not politically correct” by many, he states that now, he is more convinced than ever that “Kahane was right”, so much so that this is the name of his latest album, “Politically Correct”.

Coinciding with the 21st yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D, Zilber released his album which contained a song to the late rabbi and MK. He unabashedly tells people “buy only from Jews” and “only hire Jews”, statements that are not overly popular among his previous followers in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
He begins the video with Kahane’s nemesis, MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi, telling the media the words and tune for the song “came to me”.

Interviews for Rav Kahane Memorial

RABBI MEIR KAHANE debates RABBI DAVID AXLEROD

Rabbi Meir Kahane, ZT'L HY'D, speaking at Thunderbird Motel with Hebrew Subtitles

Meir Kahane Speaks in Minnesota

Rabbi Meir Kahane against Michael Lerner

RABBI MEIR KAHANE at NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

Rabbi Meir Kahane Remembered

Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought - Volume One: 1932-1975

In Memoriam: Rabbi Meir Kahane by Shifra Hoffman

(Israelnationalnews.com) In this generation of fleeting allegiance and loyalty, particularly in the realm of Jewish leadership, it seems inexplicable that today, years after the brutal murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane, he is mourned by so many Jews throughout the world. The phrase coined so as to perpetuate his ideas as well as his memory is“Kahane tzadak” (Kahane was right [i.e.his predictions were correct]).

Having worked closely for more than two decades with this self-sacrificing Jewish leader, both in the United States and in Israel, I feel impelled, on the l9th anniversary of his murder, to relate a few little known insights about the man behind the headlines.

Although demonized by both left- and right-wing Israeli governments for his prophetic warnings concerning the rise of Arab nationalism and the dire consequences of making concessions to these implacable enemies, Rabbi Kahane remained undaunted. In his view, the Torah was the only timely and relevant ‘road map’ for the Jewish people.

During his election campaign for the Knesset, despite an Israeli Court decision that obliged television and newspapers to cover him as they did all other candidates, these ‘democratic media outlets’ refused to do so. This compelled the Rabbi to travel to speak each day in communities throughout Israel, often returning late at night in a state of complete exhaustion. Against all odds, he was elected to the Knesset. and following his unexpected success, began to use the Knesset podium to sponsor the exact legislation upon which he based his pre-election platform. This, as we know, is an unusual phenomenon in Israel, where once elected, politicians feel they have the right to diametrically change their policy.

Rabbi Kahane believed that the only solution that could prevent a repeat of the Holocaust “final solution” in the Jewish state is the separation of Arabs and Jews.

To underscore his commitment to this belief, he announced that he would go to Um El-Fahm, a hotbed of Arab terrorists and their supporters, to suggest that they leave the Jewish State, offering them compensation for their property. This was despite the fact that Jews received nothing when they were ‘transferred’ from the homes in Arab lands that they had lived in for generations.

The reaction to Rabbi Kahane’s first Knesset speech in which he presented this plan was hundreds of phonecalls that I received, many of them from “closet Kahane supporters” (as he used to refer to those Jews that secretly held his views, but feared to openly express them), urging me to implore the new MK to “tone down his rhetoric and change his image”, now that he was an official member of the Government of Israel.

Knowing what his answer would be, I nevertheless dutifully related their requests. “Change my image,” he replied as an amused smile crossed his face. “I worked too long and too hard to present this image. I want the citizens of Israel to know I am the same Meir Kahane they voted for.”

He then travelled to Um El-Fahm to deliver his message.

A lesser known facet of the Rabbi’s boundless ahavat yisrael, the overriding love and compassion for the Jewish people, was a special charity fund from which he distributed thousands of shekels to hundreds of poor and often hungry Jews who came to his door each week. Those Jews shed bitter tears at his funeral, lamenting, “Who will help us now that Rabbi Kahane is gone?” The Chassdei Meir Fund established in his memory currently enlists dedicated volunteers who continue to provide and deliver large cases of donated food to poverty stricken Jewish families.

A further tribute to the Rabbi’s influence can be found today in the hearts and minds of the young courageous Jews in Israel, who make their homes in caravans on the hilltops the Land of Israel, and who, at great personal sacrifice, defend the right of Jews to settle anywhere in our G-D given homeland.

There are countless tales that deserve to be told about the life of this noble Jew, the personification of the Jewish scholar warrior in the tradition of the Biblical King David.

However, the legacy which Rabbi Meir Kahane left the Jewish people and the world are his penetrating, insightful thoughts, expressed in the many popular books he authored. Among them are: Never Again, Why Be Jewish?, Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews, Our Challenge, They Must Go.The Story of the Jewish Defense League, Forty Years, and his magnum opus, The Jewish Idea, written shortly before his murder by an Arab terrorist.

In one of the volumes he signed for me personally, is an inscription I treasure dearly: “In every generation, there are always a few who understand; Always understand… even if you remain among the few.”

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Shifra Hoffman is a journalist, Founder of the VICTIMS OF ARAB TERROR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (VAT) and Executive Director of SHUVA (Return) the Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement. She can be contacted at: hoffmanshifra@gmail.com

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Rabbi Kahane in the Knesset 1984

Rabbi Kahane in the Knesset 1984