In the annals of Jewish history, it is a known fact that great people are often unrecognized and even villified during their lifetime.
 
Much  to the detriment of the generation in which they live, their dire warnings about  an impending disaster that loom ominously for the Jewish people, go unheeded, and ironically becomes the cause of much personal suffering for them.
 
Looking at Jewish history  from the Biblical Prophet, Jeremiah, to the modern visionary Jabotinsky, one sees over and over that such leaders' burning desire to save Jews from the disastrous fate they so clearly perceived, was ridiculed and ignored. Only when tragic events that they predicted became a reality, did history discover their greatness.
 
In our  generation, there was one courageous leader  who despite being villified, imprisoned and beaten in futile attempts to silence him for exposing the truth concerning  the dangerous policies of successive Israeli governments regarding Arab enemies in Israel and anti-Semites in the Diaspora - relentlessly continued his often lonely battle to warn of the dangers that Jews are now facing throughout the world.

His courage to be politically incorrect and eventually exiled from mainstream political life stemmed from his deep love for the Jewish people and his inability to bend his truth to be palatable to the powers that be.  

In his last address, given just before being murdered by a bestial Arab terrorist more than two decades ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane z"l, Hy"d (may G-d avenge his blood, the Jewish epitaph for martyrs including IDF soldiers, ed.)  implored American Jews to leave the United States because of predictions of the rising tide of anti-Semitism which he clearly saw would make them the scapegoat once again for the economic, racial and social problems facing the society in which they lived. 

"Come home to Israel before it's too late" was the last warning of this most noble Torah-true Jewish leader of our time.

Today, as we witness global news media reporting  the growth of Jew-hatred, with Jewish neighborhoods in America targeted with swastikas, the torching of Jewish owned automobiles and graffiti promising another Auschwitz;  with movements such as 'OCCUPY WALL ST' brazenly exhibiting protesters holding aloft signs blaming Jewish bankers for the economic crisis , only those Jews afflicted with "madness and blindness" choose to remain in the United States and  refuse to see that Rabbi Kahane, unfortunately, is being proved right !
 
In the more than two decades that I had the great "zchus" [merit, ed.] to work closely with Rabbi Kahane of blessed memory, his last request of me was to head the Emergency Aliya Movement, SHUVA (Return) that would spotlight the need for immediate  mass emigration of the American Jewish community  to Israel. (website:www.shuva.net)
       
At this significant moment marking the 2lst Yahrtzeit of his having been taken from us, I pray that with G-d's help, Rabbi Meir Kanane's sacred legacy will enable me to continue expressing  his warning and influencing Jews to return to  Eretz Yisrael,the Jewish homeland -  where their lives will become meaningful by  joining and actively affecting Jewish history - before it's too late.
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