With every passing day , as murderous Arab terrorist attacks continue to accelerate here in Eretz Yisrael, that which was once believed to be unthinkable, the massacre of Jews in the Jewish homeland, is becoming bitter reality. Despite the determination of Israelis like myself who refuse to remain virtual prisoners in our homes and continue to travel regardless of the ominous fear of more impending suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings, the general mood is, as we say in Hebrew is al hapanim - wretched.
What will be? When will it end?
These questions are being asked daily, as politicians, talk show personalities and ordinary grass-roots citizens grapple with solutions that will stop the violence, which has claimed hundreds of innocent Jewish lives and injured thousands more, many of whom are still hospitalized with serious wounds. Compounding the already volatile situation created by the myriad of Arab terrorist groups masquerading as 'liberation movements', running the gamut from Hamas to Yasser Arafat?s Fatah - who vie with each other to 'claim responsibility' (sic) for slaughtering Jews, is the shocking recent arrest of a number of Israeli Arab citizens for allegedly planning acts of destruction against the State of Israel.
Shocking?
Not to those of us who early on recognized the outstanding leadership of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, and agreed with his visionary point of view. He clearly foresaw and expounded upon the radicalization of Israeli Arabs. He claimed that they would increasingly identify with their Muslim brethren in his classic book, They Must Go. Tragically, the many warnings of this great lover of Zion, which were shouted down and 'democratically' banned by the powers-that be during his lifetime, are today being vindicated. How well Rabbi Kahane understood that the conflict between Arabs and Jews is not political, it is a religious war between Judaism and Islam. His plan to transfer the hostile Arab population to their 22 sovereign countries was not racist, but realist.
In his magnum opus and last legacy to Am Yisrael, The Jewish Idea, published after his brutal murder in New York by an Arab assassin, Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote these prophetic words, "Those who contest Torah law are lawbreakers. When they decide to oppose the law of the Jewish people and to forbid that which is required and to require that which is forbidden, it is they who undermine the rule of law and disturb the peace. It is they who bring tragedy and divine punishment upon the Jewish people.? In ignoring this sage admonition , the ?madness and blindness and confounding of the heart? described in Deuteronomy 28:28, which causes Israel's leaders to call for renewed 'peace negotiations' with the so-called 'Palestinians' despite their overwhelming support for continued suicide bombings and other nefarious acts of terror, only brings us closer, G-d forbid, to such ?tragedy and divine punishment.?
(August l, 2002 would have been Rabbi Kahane's 70th birthday.)
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Shifra Hoffman is a noted journalist, founder of Victims of Arab Terror International and Executive Director of SHUVA (The Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement). She can be reached at hoffmanshifra@hotmail.com.
What will be? When will it end?
These questions are being asked daily, as politicians, talk show personalities and ordinary grass-roots citizens grapple with solutions that will stop the violence, which has claimed hundreds of innocent Jewish lives and injured thousands more, many of whom are still hospitalized with serious wounds. Compounding the already volatile situation created by the myriad of Arab terrorist groups masquerading as 'liberation movements', running the gamut from Hamas to Yasser Arafat?s Fatah - who vie with each other to 'claim responsibility' (sic) for slaughtering Jews, is the shocking recent arrest of a number of Israeli Arab citizens for allegedly planning acts of destruction against the State of Israel.
Shocking?
Not to those of us who early on recognized the outstanding leadership of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, and agreed with his visionary point of view. He clearly foresaw and expounded upon the radicalization of Israeli Arabs. He claimed that they would increasingly identify with their Muslim brethren in his classic book, They Must Go. Tragically, the many warnings of this great lover of Zion, which were shouted down and 'democratically' banned by the powers-that be during his lifetime, are today being vindicated. How well Rabbi Kahane understood that the conflict between Arabs and Jews is not political, it is a religious war between Judaism and Islam. His plan to transfer the hostile Arab population to their 22 sovereign countries was not racist, but realist.
In his magnum opus and last legacy to Am Yisrael, The Jewish Idea, published after his brutal murder in New York by an Arab assassin, Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote these prophetic words, "Those who contest Torah law are lawbreakers. When they decide to oppose the law of the Jewish people and to forbid that which is required and to require that which is forbidden, it is they who undermine the rule of law and disturb the peace. It is they who bring tragedy and divine punishment upon the Jewish people.? In ignoring this sage admonition , the ?madness and blindness and confounding of the heart? described in Deuteronomy 28:28, which causes Israel's leaders to call for renewed 'peace negotiations' with the so-called 'Palestinians' despite their overwhelming support for continued suicide bombings and other nefarious acts of terror, only brings us closer, G-d forbid, to such ?tragedy and divine punishment.?
(August l, 2002 would have been Rabbi Kahane's 70th birthday.)
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Shifra Hoffman is a noted journalist, founder of Victims of Arab Terror International and Executive Director of SHUVA (The Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement). She can be reached at hoffmanshifra@hotmail.com.