E. Rowell: The progressive left in Israel, serving in the defense and intelligence agencies, defanged the Israeli fighting forces so successfully that despite all the high tech military technology and intelligence capabilities, the 7th of October massacre occurred. Progressives on the Israeli Supreme Court made the Kach party illegal. Whatever the merits or demerits of the Kach Party, this article speaks to the need for Israel’s national security to be much stronger on offense. Jews cannot survive against genocidal enemies by playing defense all the time.
The existing parties won’t save Israel. The country needs roaring lions, and it needs to find them. Here’s how. Op-ed.
By Dr. Elliot Resnick, INN 30 May 2024
Knesset Plenum/Danny Shemtov, Knesset spokesperson
Israel’s war again Gaza is going as planned. Many Israelis, however, would prefer a harsher campaign. They would love to find a way to obliterate Hamas in a fire-and-brimstone operation that future Arab generations will only speak about in hushed tones. Alas, Israelis can’t vote for that kind of fight, as the only party that would wage it was banned by Israel’s Supreme Court.Many Israelis would love to find a way to obliterate Hamas in a fire-and-brimstone operation that future Arab generations will only speak about in hushed tones. Alas, Israelis can’t vote for that kind of fight, as the only party that predicted what happened on October 7th and represented this kind of thinking was banned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1988.
I’m speaking about Kach, founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. If Kach were legalized and headed by a sober-minded, statesmanlike, but tough fighter, it could easily win anywhere from 10-30 seats in Israel today. Even if it didn’t immediately become the largest party in the Knesset, its very presence there would put enormous pressure on Netanyahu to finish the job.
But right now, Israelis can’t vote for Kach. The party is illegal.
Some may argue that the Right doesn’t need Kach. It can found a new party or appoint a Kahane-like figure to head one of the existing parties.
It won’t work. Why? Because, currently, anyone who has seeks to fill the Kahane vacuum inevitably censors himself in an effort to escape being banned. That means they can’t speak the plain truth, and if you can’t speak the plain truth, the masses won’t vote for you.
The existing parties won’t save Israel. The country needs roaring lions, and it needs to find them and lifting the Kach ban will inspire such lions to step forward. Right now, thousands of proud Israelis never even consider running for office because they know they’ll be branded racists and banned if they try. If the Kach ban is lifted, these Jews will rush forward to give the people a real alternative. Maybe under a different banner. It doesn’t really matter.
I personally believe a separation of the Jewish and Arab populations is the only recipe for long-term peace in Israel (as do leftists, incidentally, regarding Judea and Samaria, except that they want to expel the Jews whereas Rabbi Kahane wanted to help the Arabs leave).
But for the moment, I – and I assume almost every Israeli – would be ecstatic just to return to the Israel of 1974 or even 1984. An Israel in which rockets from Gaza didn’t rain down on cities. An Israel in which Jews could walk into Arab markets in the ‘West Bank’ without fear of being lynched. An Israel without a maze of bypass roads. An Israel where Hamas would not have dared to cross the border.
To return to such an Israel, though, requires teaching the enemy we mean business and that our values include winning a war we never wanted. No one who currently sits in the Knesset can perform this task. That’s why the ban must be lifted.
More fundamentally, though, the argument for ending the ban is simple: Israelis should be allowed to vote for whomever they wish. If they don’t want a Kahane-like figure in charge, they don’t have to vote for one. But they should at least be given the choice. Isn’t that what democracy is about?
In 2001, Ariel Sharon ran for prime minister. For decades, political pundits had declared him unelectable. He was too hawkish, they said. But the Second Intifada changed minds. Sharon won in the biggest electoral landslide in Israeli history (and then betrayed his voters).
Israelis want to crush Hamas and their supporters. Both rightists and leftists. They cannot stop thinking about the rapes, the burned babies, the tortured women. They’ve had enough. They want revenge – in the holiest sense of the word. Most will vote for a leader who reflects their inner rage.
But they can’t because such leaders aren’t permitted to run. It’s unconscionable. Particularly in the wake of October 7.
The ban on these leaders must be lifted.
Elliot Resnick, PhD, is the former chief editor of The Jewish Press, a podcast host, and the author/editor of seven books, including, most recently, “America First: The Story of Sol Bloom, the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust.”
The Truth, The whole Truth, and nothing but the TRuth. Torah Truth. Only Kach/Torah can save Israel
I agree with all of it except the part about giving them first priority for visas for the west, for obvious reasons. Biden is trying to bring Gazan refugees here. It’s not that times have changed. They were genocidal even then. Remember who assasinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy over his support for Israel (and one of the reasons I don’t like RFK, jr. is that he tried to free him, saying he didn’t believe he did it after talking to him? “Come on man.”)
PM Golda Meir, in her interview with Orianna Fallaci, an excerpt from I posted here, said back in the early ’70s how dangerous they were as they were heing taught math from an early age using killing Jews as the examples.
No, almost 90 percent of the Jews in the world live in the U.S. and Israel and we are seeing these migrants at work.
“Overview
Learn more
…
As of 2023, the world’s core Jewish population is estimated to be 15.7 million people, or about 0.2% of the global population. The countries with the largest core Jewish populations are:
Israel: Has the largest core Jewish population in the world with 7.2 million people, and is the only country with a Jewish majority
United States: Has 6.3 million core Jewish people
France: Has 440,000 core Jewish people
Canada: Has 398,000 core Jewish people
United Kingdom: Has 312,000 core Jewish people
Argentina: Has 171,000 core Jewish people
Russia: Has 132,000 core Jewish people
Germany: Has 125,000 core Jewish people
Australia: Has 117,200 core Jewish people”
Left out
“Present-day Jewish community. Brazil has the 10th largest Jewish community in the world, about 107,329 according to the 2010 Brazilian Census. The Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIB) estimates that there are more than 120,000 Jews in Brazil, with the lower figure representing active practitioners.
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › H…
History of the Jews in Brazil – Wikipedia”
and more detail on Argentina
“As of May 29, 2024, Argentina’s Jewish population is estimated to be around 175,000, which is 1.1% of the country’s total population. This makes Argentina’s Jewish population the largest in Latin America and the third-largest in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. Most Jewish Argentines live in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Rosario. “
@Edgar
All quite true.
Kahane wasn’t so radical but he was the first Israeli to propose this and in greater detail than all the pundits who are reinventing the wheel, today. .It’s long. I typed what Kahane wrote from the book which I own and which I suggest you get. Amazon has it. I hope it passes muster. If not, well, “c’est la guerre.”
Read what he wrote in 1981 and then this comment from one of the Congressmen who passed the Palestine Mandate resolution UNANIMOUSLY in 1922:
PJBAR-
The Israeli govt should have annulled, rescinded that Kach ban many years ago, it should never have been instituted. Typically they were “hot and cold”.
Israel’s palpably vain and foolish persistence in “bending over backwards” to see a peace-loving “palestinian” population blinded it from reality, amid the steady flow of Jewish blood, defensively suffering ox-like, a malignant, permanent blood-thirsty enemy.
(I haven’t heard anything about Baruch Marzel for some years, Is he still with us??)
Rav Kahane was highly perspicacious, and should have been a prominent Knesset MK for a lifetime. I supported him fully and (much but not ALL)
agreed with his ideas. I found his attitude on religion far too restrictive.
I recall hearing him speak at least twice, and listening to a “militant Jew” was thrilling .. I was proud. I happened to be in Montreal staying with my cousin one of those times.
OSLO The mistake of the Century, made by Presidents and Prime Ministers and close cronies, who really deserved to be put up against a wall and shot.
Never more timely
https://barbaraginsberg-kahane.blogspot.com/2012/12/israel-us-and-stinking-fish-1976.html
It all goes back to the concept explained in Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall speech which he made a hundred years ago. While the Arabs maintained their rigid adherence to our destruction, we Jews made accommodations which only served to complete our determination of gaining victory over our enemies. Indeed, we gave up sacred lands to our enemies, empowering a terrorist enclave without even an adjustment to their charter calling for our destruction. We armed them even as we keep our own public unarmed, and we facilitated vast sums of cash with which they payed those who slaughtered our own people. So as Israel made the these concessions to our enemies to appease foreign powers, our enemies saw no Iron Wall opposing them. In fact, the political shenanigans which kept Kahane out of govt just when his need was the greatest, made our present predicament a certain inevitability, and yet, it did not have to be this way, just as it does not need to stay this way. All that is required is for the Israeli people to undergo a formative and permanent change, in heart and mind, and to accept the reality that an Iron Wall is all that might gain us a certain victory. The fallout from October 7 is still falling out, so we will see what comes, but if there is no Iron Wall, there can be no victory, and a lack of victory will only lead to greater and greater slaughters as we have seen culminate last fall.
100% correct. I did not support Rav Kahana until now. His views were far more accurate than those of Ben Gurion or P M Begin.
I think benGvir is the man of the hour. yes, he airbrushed his past affiliation with Kach to some degree, but he’s still hardcore and is increasingly popular. the US and Israeli media dump on him endlessly– I think it makes his followers more resentful and loyal to him. However, he has yet to come out like a roaring lion and push for a Dresden-like all-out war against the amalekite Hamas nazi leaders– and the pro-Hamas “civilian” population which Biden is forever yapping about .