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poor neighborhoods and
among the Soviet Jewish
immigrants.
If he can get on the ballot,
Rabbi Kahane predicts that
he could win 20-25 Knesset
seats and the prime min-
istership. And if he wins the
election, changes will be
made for Israel's Jews as
well as Arabs.
Rabbi Kahane would end
acceptance of U.S. economic
aid, "which makes us a
vassal and dependent. It
stops Israel from doing what
it has to do with the intifada
(the Arab uprising), which
could have been ended in
two days. Without U.S. aid.,
maybe we would stop impor-
ting German cars and color
TV sets," he says.
Without aid, Israel would
become a free enterprise
state, Rabbi Kahane says.
"It would open the doors
wide to private investment:
Israel would be like Taiwan,
Singapore and Korea, rather
than a synagogue running
around with a charity box in
hand."
Other changes he wants to
implement include a five-
day work week, with
Shabbat and Sunday off, and
instruction in Judaism in all
schools. All restaurants
would be kosher.
The rabbi says no one
would be forced to be obser-
vant, "but everyone would
know about Shabbat. We
would make it a Jewish
state, not just a state of
Jews."
During his speech this
week, Rabbi Kahane offered
his conventional wisdom to
the audience:
• "I would end the intifada
in 48 hours. The army of
Israel defeated the Arabs in
six days, just like God cre-
ated the world, and the army
can end the intifada. I would
close the territories to the
media, just like Margaret
Thatcher in the Falklands,
Ronald Reagan in Grenada
and our democratic friend
Gorbachev in Russia."
• "The Middle East is not
the Middle West. The Arabs
understand only one thing:
If you're strong you live; if
you're weak you die ... We
should live together in
peace? Like in Beirut?"
• "I believe in land for
peace. I will keep the land
and give them all the peace
they want. They had oppor-
tunity after opportunity to
have the land they call
Palestine . . . Jews suffer
from a specific form of AIDS
— guilt. The 'poor Palestin-
ians' have been trying to kill
us for 70 years. What is more
moral: shoot two of them
every day and break their
bones or transfer them and
let them live with their own
people?"
• "Arabs are people with
national pride. Don't play
games with them like the
Jewish liberals. I respect
Arabs, and I would throw
them out . . . In my Jewish
state, I would not allow my
country to be at the mercy of
Arab bullets or Arab
ballots."
At other points in his
speech, Rabbi Kahane
returned to favorite themes.
...—
Rabbi Kahane:
Seeking referendum.
He says Israel has "a Jewish
problem. If we were the kind
of Jews we should be, there
would be no problems in
Israel."
He lambasts Jewish
leaders as inept and non-
observant Jews, who pur-
chase their community posi-
tions with donations and
who would prefer to meet
with PLO Chairman Yassir
Arafat, Jesse Jackson and
Louis Farrakhan than with
him. He also blames U.S.
Jewish leaders for the Holo-
caust, saying they were
afraid to confront Roosevelt
in fear of making World War
II a Jewish war and igniting
anti-Semitism in the United
States.
Rabbi Kahane blames
Jewish leaders and the Jew-
ish community for losing a
generation of Jews. " 'Thou
Shalt Melt' was the 11th
Commandment," he says.
"Send your children to
public school, to the melting
pot. Use community money
to fight to get into Christian
country clubs and to fight
against federal dollars for
yeshivas. Then cry out when
your sons bring home non-
Jewish girls. Parents are
emotional Jews — not real
Jews." He warns that smug
American Jews will be in for
a shock, thinking that the
HolOcaust cannot happen
here. "I've never seen so
much anti-Semitism as I've
seen today," he says.
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