It's the same in any lingo

בַּת-בָּבֶל, הַשְּׁדוּדָה: אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם-לָךְ-- אֶת-גְּמוּלֵךְ, שֶׁגָּמַלְתּ לָנוּ
אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת-עֹלָלַיִךְ-- אֶל-הַסָּלַע


How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when? ~ Rav Hillel, Pirke Avot

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06 October 2009

An Open Letter To The World

The text of this letter was written by Rav Meir Kahane HY"D, who was gunned down in 1990. It is not odd, nor coincidental that the text of this letter is still valid today as it was when it was first written. And its validity will continue to remain as long as the Arab continues to dream of destroying Israel and killing its Jews. It's validity will continue as long as the rest of the world continues to try and prod Israel and her Jews, to our collective death.

So, here's a finger in your eye to the Arab League, Richard Goldstone and friends, OPEC, the UN, the EU, the mullahs of Iran, every Arab in Israel who calls Israel Independence Day the "Nakba," Hamas, Fatah, the PFLP, the PLO, Hezbollah, Marack Blowbama and his entire administration of kapo douchebags, and every liberal Jew hating douchebag that openly or secretly curses the "Zionists" because they don't have the balls, integrity, or conviction to say "Jews."

The text is reproduced below the video. Enjoy world. And then kindly go blow it out your ass.



Dear World,

It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over us here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and outraged. Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph, and who therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily.

Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we the Jewish people upset you. We upset a German people, who elected a Hitler and we upset an Austrian people, who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians.

And we go back a long, long way in history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki, who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders, who on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for centuries, a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through Inquisitions. And we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.

It is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish State. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you - and have you love us? And so we decided to come home, to the same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.

Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and Holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you.

You are upset that we repress the Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.

Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929.

Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because of Arab upset over 1967? And when you, World, proposed a U.N. Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then?

The Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "idbah-al-yahud" - "Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel.

What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should not "repress" them. Dear world, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.

And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us.

In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.

Rav Meir Kahane (Z"L)

10 comments:

Logistics Monster said...

What an excellent letter, and it is amazing what one learns if one studies history. Thanks for this Shtuey - fills in some blanks for this ignorant pagan.

Anonymous said...

...and here is another Jew in Israel who couldn't care less

12tequilas said...

I am somewhat afraid of posting this comment in this forum, knowing I might get rotten tomatoes, or worse, thrown at me. However, I feel I should mention that when I pulled up this blog and saw the name "Meir Kahane" I started shaking. When I was very young it was drummed into my head that Kahane was a Bad Guy. The reasons for this are fuzzy but I think it was either that he was extreme and seemed to actually be racist, advocating driving every Arab/Palestinian out of Israel and, I guess, kill them if they wouldn't go? Or kill them outright? Or maybe it was that he had a very serious problem with any Jew that wasn't a Zionist and advocated some sort of not-nice treatment for them as well? I know you're going to tell me I was totally misinformed by ignorant people but nevertheless, this is the reaction I had.

Shtuey said...

Your reaction is in fact a bit misinformed, but this is not a surprise considering the weak, apologetic nature of the Jewish people that we acquired in exile, and that caused such visceral reactions to Kahane's message.

I received the same distorted views of his philosophies when I was young. What I have found is that, without any propagandizing by anyone, just my own vision of the facts on the ground, I have come to adopt his line of reasoning.

Above everything but my relationship with Hashem I place the safety and well being of the Jewish people. We are obligated to defend ourselves from our enemies. Failing to do so is chilul Hashem; an affront to G-d. When an enemy has plotted and is coming to kill us, we must kill him first. This is Torah, this is Judaism...not Kahane (as he said repeatedly throughout his life).

I believe there is no place in Israel for Arabs who mark Israel Independence Day as the Nakba. If it's such a catastrophe they can get the hell out of my country. I've said it on my blog many times. That is my belief. Turns out it was Kahane's too.

There are elected officials in the Knesset who are nothing more than mouthpieces for the PLO. They have no place in the parliament of a Jewish state. They should be banned from the Knesset. Kahane, a Jew, was banned. It's a disgrace that Jews are banned, but Arabs who support teaching the Nakba in Israeli schools are not.

Kahane advocated a population exchange as was done in India. Israel took in 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands. The Arabs can have theirs. He offered a subsidy as compensation for land to all who left voluntarily. Those who didn't leave voluntarily would be forced out with no compensation.

I recently watched a video where he said that Arabs who did in fact desire to stay, and leave peacefully, could do so, but they would have no rights as citizens. They would not be allowed to vote or hold office, but they would have complete personal rights. The Torah actually talks about this status for "strangers." Israel is a Jewish state, for the Jewish people. It doesn't exist to accommodate the civil liberties of those who want us destroyed. Only the stupid idiots on the left like Shimon Peres think that.

Kahane was called a racist, compared to Hitler, etc. I don't think Kahane was racist. He understood that for Israel to fulfill its purpose it must exist for the Jews as our state. Judaism is not a western democracy. Yes, the Sanhedrin was democratic...but it did not seat goyim.

Kahane was not Hitler. Hitler advocated the genocide of the Jewish people. Their extermination. Kahane did not advocate the genocide of the Arabs. He wanted them living in one of their 22 states in peace and prosperity. He just didn't want them in Israel.

Kahane was gaining in popularity in Israel which is why he was banned. Now, nearly 20 years since his death, Israelis are realizing the Arabs don't want peace, there is no partner, and making concessions only makes things worse.

My personal feeling is that the Israeli government should declare war on Fatah and Hamas, eradicate them utterly until these armed thugs are all in jail, fleeing the country for their lives, or dead. Judea and Samaria should then be annexed. Then the remaining Arabs can decide what to do. They can take financial compensation (I've heard the figure of $250,000 has been offered as a number), and leave, or they can stay as non citizens.

In 20 years no one has offered a better solution. Creating a Palestinian state? We know that's a joke and they only want that as a platform for killing us. Eretz Yisrael is ours, and it's about time we started acting like it.

12tequilas said...

Just to be clear, it isn't that I don't agree. It's just that I haven't heard that name in so long. In 1990, I was 20 years old, but I'm certain that this came from when I was much too young to understand, and I just went with it. It didn't come up again until now, as I recall.

Swannie said...

Lovely letter...
I recently watched the video of the Palestinians celebrating wildly on 9/11 as the twin towers came down ..
and now a Jew has won a Pulitzer prize in chemistry

There is a poem by LI PO the ttranslation is in an out of print Peter Pauper Press Book titles THE JADE FLUTE

The World Around Us
Dread Lord do not wave your scepter: it is bejeweled. Dear dancer, do not whirl your scarves: they are orchid flowered. Pale poet, do not flaunt your heart, it is radiant with love.
Our world cares only for unenchanted things

Shtuey said...

12, the mainstream Jewish reaction to Kahane really proved his point. We became so infected with guilt in Diaspora that the thought of Jews defending themselves, of being proud, of demanding full sovereignty in our homeland, as our traditions deem, was antithetical to everything that the majority of Jews felt about themselves. After being beaten down for so long we forgot how to stand up. Kahane was a call to Am Yisrael to stand up. But there were many on the Left in Israel, and in America, who had a vested interest in silencing his message, and keeping him out of power. Now, 20 years after his death, the problems are worse, the enemies are the same, but it is much harder now to silence what is fast becoming the collective will of the people of Israel. The evacuation of Gush Katif woke up a lot of people, as did Oslo and the second intifada. The genie is out of the bottle. Jews are waking up and finding they are strong. And the Left isn't happy about it.

Swannie; thank you for sharing the poem. No, the world likes breaking things, while saying they are fixing them.

To paraphrase Kahana, I'd rather see the world hate an Israel that is alive, than love one that is dead.

Swannie said...

To paraphrase Kahana, I'd rather see the world hate an Israel that is alive, than love one that is dead.


Shtuey, I know I said this before, but I really really like the way you think :)

As for the poem , you are more than welcome . I am happy to share with someone who can put up with my fascination for ancient chinese poetry ;)

Shtuey said...

"Ancient Chinese secret, huh?"

I think I just dated myself.

Swan, I love everything you deem worthy to share.

Logistics Monster said...

Shtuey - fuel for your fires:

http://www.breitbart.tv/barney-frank-compares-american-immigration-policy-to-holocaust/