Kahane

[Yehoshua]

Has anyone body come across the videos, sound files, floating across the net? Opinions?

[HaNotsri]

About R' Meir Kahane?

You can go to http://kahane.blogspot.com/ to get divrei Torah by Yehuda Kroizer (who is the R"Y of Yeshivat haRa'ayon haYehudi) and also some other members of the remnant of the Kach (or Kahane Chai movements). It also has videos as well.

You can also visit http://www.kahane.org/ and http://www.revava.org/ but be sensitive there when talking about certain topics (especially if you're a Messianic/Christian), they are hostile to Christ and Christians. Don't get offended by some of the things you say, try and understand where they come from. A lot fo them can seem to be a little racist as well. Also the two groups one led by Yekutiel (Mike) Guzofsky (sp?) and the other one run by David HaIvri have a lot of tension and differences between them as well.

[HaNotsri]

I think R' Kahane is a man who really loved his people and was willing to do or suggest anything to protect them. I think on principle his ideas for solving the problem would work, however I've always had a bad feeling about it. Especially after the Holocaust, I'm at qualms as to how the Jewish state would justify deporting entire an entire people (even if it were just the hostile element...which again, seems to be all of them). You couldn't do it without bloodshed and with tensions and hatred the way it is over there, you couldn't do it humanely. Kahane also suggested that Israel should pay the Arabs to leave which I think is good and probably should be encouraged as well. Israel has banned any parties that remotely suggest these ideas from the Knesset as racist. Kach is also an illegal organization in Israel (and is classified as a terrorist organization by the US).

[HaNotsri]

I think we can all get very heated about Israel and her right to defend herself, that at times we forget about the Palestinian Arabs and their suffering as well. They have a corrupt leadership and have been led to believe quite a bit of untruths.

Every year during the Seder we drip 10 drops of wine from our fingers in rememberance of the lives of the Mitsrim that were lost as a result of the plagues. Lives that were sacrificed for freedom to come to the Jewish people.

I always add a little note at my Passover Seder about remembering the Palestinians who are caught in this mess, remembering their suffering in all of this as well. They are like the Mitsrim of today.

We have to remember that there are plenty of Palestinian believers out there and there are plenty of Palestinian ministries seeking to bring the light of the world to them.

Michael