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This week's issue of The New
Republic, the weekly magazine
which has been criticized in
some circles for its alleged
"knee-jerk" support for Israel,
certainly doesn't pull any
punches regarding its opinion of
Meir Kahane. The cover of the
Nov. 11 issue features a photo of
a snarling Kahane, his face
tinted a bright red, and a
headlne that reads: "KAHANE.
The Making of a Jewish Mons-
ter."
The lengthy article, by the
magazine's brilliant Literary
Editor Leon Wieseltier, himself
a former member of the Jewish
Defense League, describes
Kahane in the strongest terms
— a "foul man" who "deserves
to be denounced as the national
disgrace of the Jewish people"
— and explores the reasons for
the rise of Kahanism in Israel.
Kahane is not the real danger
to Israel, argues Wieseltier, but
is rather the symptom of a
dangerous shift towards "radical
and freqently racial
nationalism." Wieseltier agrees
with Kahane's thesis that Israel
may be destroyed demographi-
cally, with Arabs, primarily on
the West Bank, outnumbering
Jews. But rather than forcing
the Arabs out, suggests Wiesel-
tier, a realistic solution may be
giving up territory with large
numbers of Arabs. "In the real
world, then," he writes, "the
choice before Israel is not be-
tween a small Jewish state with
a democracy and a large Jewish
state with a democracy; it is be-
tween a small, democratic state
with a Jewish majority or no
Jewish state at all."
A small state with a Jewish
majority can still be consistent
with democratic ideals. But that
would not do for Meir Kahane,
who says all Arabs must go. The
roots of this solution to the Arab
question are based, says Wiesel-
tier, on virulent racism on
Kahanes's part and his fun-
damentalist religious beliefs
that focus on Jewish superiority
rather than Jewish justice.
But Wieseltier suggests that
"the phenomenon of Kahanism
must be uderstood in the context
of a seismic shift in the political
culture of Israel ocasioned by
the rise to power of Menachem
Begin and Ariel Sharon." Con-
tributing to this transformation
were three factors, he says: rad-
ical nationalism, with its
Likud-inspired emphasis on
militarism and evocations of the
Holocaust; miitant mil-
lenarianism, with its mes-
sianism, exemplified by the
Gush Emunim's claims in set-
tling the West Bank; and social
resentment, characterized by
Sephardic grievances for the
way they were treated as
second-class citizens.
Recalling his own attraction
to Kahane's JDL movement as a
Brooklyn high school student in
1969, Wieseltier reflects that
Kahane "seemed to hit every re-
sentment, every fear of inade-
quancy, every fantasy." His skill
was "to make us feel more pow-
erless than we were and then to
make us feel that we had more
power than we did."
Wieseltier concludes with his
fear that Kahane is contributing
immeasurably to the poisoning
of relations between Arabs and
Jews. "Kahane is not Israel," he
asserts. "He will never come to
power. But even his limited suc-
cess will aid and abet the forces
in Israel Aiat may land Israel
with a problem it will not be
able to solve."
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