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Ghost of Kahane Haunts Washington
“Kahane, I thought this guy was kinda dead”
The recent U.S. meddling into MK Michael Ben Ari’s attempt to eulogize his fallen mentor and former Knesset member Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D from the Knesset podium was reminiscent of the bizarre statement made by former President George Bush (Sr.), in 1993, when “Kahane Chai” activists managed to hold a protest on a boat off the shore of the President’s home in Maine. As the protesters in the boat held signs that read “Kahane Chai”, President Bush, who was then walking with Prime Minister Rabin, said, “Kahanee, I thought that guy was kinda dead.” The president’s comment about Kahane was broadcast on BBC and other major media outlets who were on hand to cover the Bush-Rabin beach stroll.
Indeed, it’s hard to believe that 20 years after the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the American government would make an official request to the Israeli Knesset not to hold a memorial speech for the martyred Rabbi who was born in America and murdered by an Arab terrorist on American soil.
The name “Kahane” literally sends shockwaves through corridors of power in both the U.S. and Israel to this day, two decades after his assassination. Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered, his son Binyamin and daughter-in-law were later also murdered, and his political parties were outlawed. But the name lives on as a threat to the current plans attempting to force Israel to capitulate to suicidal international dictates. If “Kahane” means to “them” resistance to national suicide, then indeed, Kahane must live on. If anyone had any doubt as to how right Rabbi Kahane was, the effort to squelch the very mention of his name 20 years after his death is only further proof of the man’s greatness and the rightness of his cause.
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EVENTS
• Shiurim of Rav Richter in Tapuach Hiltop
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