5 Marcheshvan 5785
The 18th of Marcheshvan (Nov. 5, 1990) is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Meir David Kahane, ztz"l, Hy"d. Today, a day following the Gregorian date, the Jerusalem Post has published a typically scathing op-ed taking Rabbi Kahane's name in vain. The hatred still expressed with such venom 34 years after his assassination is testimony to the real reason behind it - the threat posed by Torah Judaism to the Greek ideas of democracy.
The 25th Knesset and the 37th government of the State of Israel have presented us with a series of unprecedented events, decisions, and phenomena that pose a significant threat to Israeli democracy and the future of Israeli society.The most severe of these is the entry of Kahanism into the mainstream of Israeli politics and the legitimacy this ideology is gaining among large segments in politics, even in unexpected places. For example, with a young secular woman from Tel Aviv.Last week, Social Equality and Women’s Advancement Minister May Golan – a member of Likud, once the party that led the boycott against Meir Kahane in the Knesset – delivered one of the most embarrassing displays seen in the plenum, as she shouted and waved her arms seeking to defend the tarnished honor of Michael Ben-Ari, a declared Kahane supporter disqualified from running for the Knesset.[See further here: Political Trial of Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari Began Today]...What is required of us today is no longer a “battle of containment” but a concerted effort to push this dangerous phenomenon from the center of Israeli existence to the extreme and illegitimate margins to which it belongs.The writer is a Labor Party MK.
The hysterical fear and loathing for Torah is on full display in this diatribe. Like the Arabs with their 22 other countries, this scared little rabbit can choose from many democratic countries to live in with democratic ideals. Israel is supposed to be the one and only JEWISH country where we can have JEWISH government and JEWISH life. If it's not Torah-based and Torah-centered, it ain't JEWISH at all.
When it comes right down to it, Jew-hatred is really hatred for the Torah and for HKB"H Himself. It's bad enough that we have to put up with it from the world. Why should we continue to contend with it from within our own ranks?
It's high time, and even well past it, "to push this dangerous phenomenon" of Torah-hatred completely out of Israeli existence.
Edom's just punishment is civil war.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens, happens to the jews first. We have ours now and it's making more sense on the world stage. It will end, of course. And these readers are on the Right side of history and on Hashem's side...sooo...we wait.
-leah
The Jer. Post is now a completely leftist rag! The G-Dless radicals are really all running scared. They sub-consciously understand that their evil ways will soon be gone; the world is changing and the air of Moshiach will soon fill the earth and no one will be able to change that.
ReplyDeleteTruth will shine forth for every living being to see, hear, feel and know.
Those who go against G-D who is All Truth are very afraid deep down.
As Dovid HaMelech says to Hashem - 'Those who hate YOU, I hate them with a boundless hatred' and so every real Jewish neshama should feel the same as our beloved king David. The Jewish people have to wake up and realize our worst enemies come from within.
They cause more harm than anyone or anything else.
It's time the good and real Jews wake up and realize that if
we want to have no outside enemies, first we have
to work on fixing the problem from within. It's our negligence from within that brings external enemies upon us. There never would have been an Aravi problem if we would heed G-D's Commands by adhering to the teachings of our real Torah leaders.
Tzion