Meir Kahane Quotes
The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.
Kahane, Meir. Listen World, Listen Jew. Institute of the Jewish Idea, 1978.
This was a practical argument to justify government paying for religious education.
People of this era not only saw epidemics as the wrath of God, but also saw military catastrophe, invasion and raids as a punishment of God for the sins of the people of the area.
This sura has justified major discrimination against non-Muslims so that they should never appear “preeminent” over the faithful. See for example, {617157} and {617160}.
His perception that the loss of the war for the South was God’s retribution for Southern Slavery and treason was very common in the North. The young man was shocked at the difference between the educational levels of he and his Michigan comrades vis a vis their Southern counterparts. The Southern slave-centered economy didn’t provide a very good education, even for its own white citizens. 150 years after the Civil War, the South was generally behind the rest of the country in average educational.achievement.
Rabbi Meir David HaKohen Kahane was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset. A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League and founder of the Israeli political party Kach, he espoused militant views and actions to combat anti-Semitism that led to a 1971 criminal conviction in the United States for conspiracy to manufacture explosives intended for the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York City, and in Israel for plotting to blow up the Libyan embassy in Brussels in revenge for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich; in each case he received a suspended sentence and probation.
