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A hard, honest and gripping look at the truth, March 22, 2000
This review is from: Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews (Hardcover)
This masterpiece takes a hard look at the demons that possesses the State of Israel, Zionism, and Word Jewry. Rabbi Kahane intelectually exposes the lies and fraud of the establishment that lays claim to the representation of Jews and Israel. Hard questions posed to them such as 'do the Arab citizens of Israel, under the current form of western democracy have the legal right under a majority to peacefully remove Jews from power by way of vote? And if so, does that not contradict the true ideals of Zionism (the right for Jews to establish a homeland in Israel)?' Is Israel a Jewish state or a state of Jews? Indeed, those contradictions as well as the the gripping tragedy of a bankrupt ideal which is secular Zionism which has caused urban strife, intermarriage, crime and worst of all..self hatred v.s. religious Zionism based on the everlasting, authentic ideals of the Torah are exposed to the max. It goes to the root of the problem and once exposed, he offers his soloution. Once the reader gets a clear insight to the tragic truth, and understands that the answers to these questions pose a direct threat to the power of the armchair establishment of Israel and American/World Jewry, then he understands why Rabbi Kahane was consistantly slandered and unjustifiably banned. Undoubtably the most misunderstood man of our time. This is a must read book for anyone who wishes to learn the truth and distinguish the lies.
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Words of Wisdom from a True Visionary, February 3, 2004
This review is from: Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews (Hardcover)
Rabbi Kahane was a true visionary, thoroughly imbued with an unshakeable love for the Jewish people, the Land of Israel, the G-D of Israel, and the Torah.
He was hated for many simply because his no frills and brutal honesty hit too close to home.
In this work Kahane outlines what needs to be done to save Israel and the Jewish people. He rebukes the leftist establishment that claims to represent Jewry, as well as successive Israeli governments. Kahane points out that only a total removal of the Arabs form Israel can stop them from perpetrating genocide against the Jewish people.
Indeed the Arabs have been consumed by the drive to annihilate all the Jews living in the Land of Israel for over 80 years, and have been engaging in killings against the Jewish people in the Jewish homeland since 1920, when they embarked on pogroms in the Old City of Jerusalem against the Jews living there, followed by pogroms against Jews in Israel, in 1921, 1929 and 1936-1939.
Today they vehemently reject any accommodation with the Jewish State, and it is clear that the recent war against Israel by the `Palestinians' is simply another drive for genocide of the Israeli people.
Kahane highlights some example of the hate and genocidal intent of many Arabs in Israel, which is not a new phenonmenon.
He cites an article in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot in May 1977 about an Arab wedding in the Lower Galilee village of Rumana in which the crowd cheered a song that included the lines "We will slaughter the children of the Zionists...We will trample with our feet...their Torah."
This book was written in 1987 just before the "First Intifada" and Kahane cites some of the attacks that took place in the 1980s on Jewish civilians in Israel such as the murder of eight year old Jewish child Nava Elimelech, in 1982, whose dissected body was found on the beach near her Bat Yam home. The authorities revealed she had been murdered by Arabs as an initiation into the PLO.
Or of girl soldier Hadas Kedmi who disappeared in November, 1984, while hitching a ride in Haifa.
Her body was found 12 days later. she had been repeatedly gang raped.
In this book, Kahane rebukes that leftist, Marxist, secular humanist, `progressive' leftwing Jews who prevent Israel from doing what is needed to prevent the Arabs from realizing their dreams of genocide, and also for secularizing the Israeli youth leading them to be lost and rootless.
He provides a moving expose of the situation of millions of Sephardic Jews (Jews from North Africa and the Middle East), whose Jewish culture was in some cases brutally removed from them by the leftist Marxist establishment who laid claim to leadership of Israel (the same ones who bend over backwards to accommodate the bloodthirsty Arabs) , and how this community with it's rich culture and history suffers from so much poverty, and how too many young Sephardic Jews have fallen into the cruel trap of drugs, crime and prostitution, the tragic victims of the secular, leftist establishment.
He also condemns the violent persecution in Israel of his supporters- the persecution by the establishment in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, of anybody suspected of harbouring right-wing, nationalist sentiments.
He skilfully captures the essence of the modern left by remarking 'Ah, how quaintly clever the liberal totalitarian mind. Having stated the axiom that "fascism" has no right to demand freedom of democracy, all that remains is to describe anyone we oppose as being a "fascist".'
His aim was to save the Jewish people from physical genocide by their enemies, (such as the Arabs and their backers whose aim is genocide of the Israeli people) as well as those elites in Israel who are robbing young Jews of their traditions, pride and religion, and of their true Zionism. These elites are so concerned with making Israel a western humanist democracy that they forget about Israel rich Jewish soul , and about true Zionism , which could truly make Israel strong!
Kahane makes it clear that of course G-D loves all human beings who are not wicked and states that all men are created in the image of G-D. And, of course, Judaism enjoins us to deal decently and properly with the non-Jew. and of course, the Jew is enjoines us not to harm, and indeed to help the worthy non-Jew, but that this has nothing to do with the fact that the Jews were created for a special mission and role by G-D, distinct from that of the other nations.
We need to seriously listen to what this great sage said. So much of what he has predicted is now happening.
G-D Bless Israel Forever!
G-D Bless the Children of Israel!
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