They Must Go

by Meir Kahane

Remarkably, nearly a quarter of a century after being written, this book is still supremely relevant. This classic was written by Rabbi Kahane in 1980 while he was serving a prison sentence in Israel for essentially warning his people about the very dangers they are today experiencing! The book outlines the problem posed by the Israeli-Arab minority, the failure of successive governments to solve the problem, and the one solution.

Genres: History, Politics, Israel, Nonfiction, Judaism, Historical

282 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi and founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Israeli Kach party.

Kahane and his organisations are considered to be jewish extremists and his Israeli Party "Kach" was banned in 1994 in Israel after it was linked to anti-arab terrorist attacks.

In 1990 Kahane was shot after giving a speech urging Jewish-Americans to emigrate to Israel. Some of his supporters claim he was the first victim of Al-Qaida.

The Jewish Defense League is still an active organisation.

Reviews

[سارة بوكحيل · Rating 1 out of 5]

علمت عن هذا الكتاب عن طريق مقطع فيديو انتشر عبر وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، عن مذيع إذاعة أمريكي اتصلت عليه امرأه وكانت تدافع عن الصهاينة الأمر الذي دفع المذيع للرد عليها بطريقة حازمة ثم الطلب منها قراءة كتاب (they must go)
أصابني الفضول فقمت بشراءه، أستطيع القول أني ندمت فوراً على ذلك، بعد ان اكتشفت أن الكاتب حاخام صهيوني متطرف، فكرت في مصير أموالي التي دفعتها لقاء هذا الكتاب، وندمت كذلك أني اعتمدت على كلام المذيع دون أن اقرأ عن تفاصيل الكتاب كعادتي..
ثم استغربت بعد ذلك من سبب دعوته للمرأة المؤيدة للصهوينة لقراءة الكتاب خاصة وأنه يهاجم الفلسطينين ، ثم أدركت سبب ذلك ..
في هذا الكتاب يتبين للقارئ ضحالة الفكر الصهيوني ، وضحالة الأسباب والمنطق والتناقض في الصهاينة، ومعاناة فلسطيني ٤٨ .
كما يبين كيف أن المقاومة الفلسطينية بدأت من فترة طويلة منذ بداية الأستيطان الصهيوني وأدراكهم للقصد منه، كما يجعلك ترى أن الفلسطينين المسلمين والمسيحين كلاهما يد واحدة في مواجهة المحتل ..
الكتاب يجعلك تقدر أهمية عرب ٤٨ ، أهمية وجودهم في قلب الأراضي الخاضعة للسيطرة الصهيونية ، تجعلك تدرك أن وجودهم هو لحكمة يعلمها الله سبحانه ولكن القارئ للتاريخ يعلم أن الأقلية هذه قد يبعث منها الله سبحانه وتعالى شخص يخلص أرض فلسطين من المحتلين، وأن وجودهم هو الشوكة في خاصرة المحتل والسرطان الذي سوف ينهش بجسد الصهاينة حتى ينهيهم..
فلسطين والقدس نستودعك وشعبك الله الذي لا تضيع ودائعه

[Arthur Read · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rabbi Meir Kahane left a legacy of being an "extremist", but he and other "far-right" Zionist provocateurs are simply more honest than the mainstream Jewish establishment, who prefer obfuscation to avoid bad publicity but more or less desire the same goals. After reading this virulent screed, one can easily understand the cause of the hatred these people have engendered for over two millennia.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kahane's doom scenario of an Arab majority Israel. From his own perspective it perfectly sense. Nice read for people interested in zionism and jewish extremism.

[PRINCESS · Rating 3 out of 5]

THE AUTHOR WROTE:
“LONG BEFORE THE NAME "PALESTINIAN" WAS INVENTED, THE HEBREW PEOPLE, children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, lived in Hebron. There Abraham purchased the cave of Machpela, and there the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the nation were buried. Hebron was the city given unto Caleb, the son of Jephune, for his faith in God. There David ruled as King for seven years before going to Jerusalem, and there Jews and Judaism were entwined for 3,500 years.”

I would like to say my opinion as well not to object him nor to correct him but;
I totally agree when he mentioned that children of Abraham, Isaac and David; the great messengers of Allah lived on Land of Hebron for many years (if I am a true believer then I have to admit and accept all the messengers before Prophet Mohammad) but we should not forget as well that later their entire nation scattered.

BUT BEFORE SAYING “Long before the name "Palestinian" was invented” let me explain:
The Palestinian word is derived from the ancient Palestinians, the name of a non-Jewish group residing in the small region of South Beach called Phylista. The borders of the Phyllis are located near the Gaza Strip and include five Gaza cities, Ashkelon, Ashdad, Akron, and Jet. In Egyptian works, people who were called pliers were among those who attacked Egypt under the rule of Rameses III. This is likely to refer to the Palestinians. The word optometrist is usually translated into philistine in English and used in the Bible (Pəléshseth in Jewish) to refer to the southern coastal region. In the Assyrian kingdom, Sargon II, the word "Pleshto" was used for the same meaning. In the Persian era, the Greek version of its name was used by Herodotus in the fifth century BC for the first time to refer to a region of Syria called Palaistinêi. In the Roman period, the Jewish area included most of Israel and the territory of Palestine. In the Byzantine period, the whole region (including Syria, Palestine, Samaria and Galilee) was again called Plastina. From the Byzantine period, the Byzantine borders of Plastina (1st and 2nd) were used to refer to the geographic region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.


Let’s read the STORY OF CHILDREN OF JACOB (ISRAEL) THROUGH THE EYE OF HISTORY:
שָׂרָה : Defeated
אֵל : God
Prophet Abraham was resident of Ur (south of Iraq) and then he and Lot relocated to the land of Canaan. Lot lived in two villages under the name of; Sodom and Gomorrah (Dead Sea) and Abraham went to Hebron (Al Khalil). Years passed long and Abraham got old in age and God gave him Ismail (mother: Hagar, they lived in Macca) and after a period gave him Isaac (mother: Sara) and then Jacob was born from Isaac.

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إِنَّ أَوَّلَ بَيْتٍ وُضِعَ لِلنَّاسِ لَلَّذِي بِبَكَّةَ مُبَارَكًا وَهُدًى لِلْعَالَمِينَ
(Quran): The first house was placed for the people, which is blessed and blessed to the worlds.

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Placed in Arabic word does not have same meaning of built, on the contrary it means set and located therefore it means the house was built from before. Abraham and Isaac rebuilt the Sacred House; there is no argument on that for sure. Jacob or as he was called; Israel (and his people The children of Jacob/Israel) left his fatherland and went to his uncle in Iraq (Torah) and got married (two wives) and came back to his fatherland. He was blessed to have 12 sons, most notable Joseph; who lived in Egypt. If you have read the story of Prophet Joseph, you would legalize that they were living near the border of Egypt (when his brothers left him) and when he reunited with his family later on, Jacob and his sons relocated to Egypt to be with Joseph. Duration between the entry of The children of Jacob/Israel to Egypt and their departure was four hundred years till God sent Prophet Moses to Pharaoh and his people (and Shuaib to Midian). Moses left Egypt to Midian (near the Red Sea, not far from Dead Sea) after killing an Egyptian. Moses stayed for long time in Midian and decided to come back to Egypt with his family (wife). The revelation was given to Prophet somewhere between Egypt and Canaan (at the valley shore, near the Red Sea). We all know what happened to Egyptian during the time of Pharaoh. Moses and his people departure to the sea (inspired by God), and were saved from oppression.

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ادْخُلُوا هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ فَكُلُوا مِنْهَا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ رَغَدًا
(Quran): Enter this city and eat from it wherever you will in [ease and] abundance.
The similar verse has been mentioned in Quran twice, once to Adam when they entered to Paradise and second time to Moses while entering Midian. That means the land was temporary place to stay.

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Samuel, Talout and David were sent after Moses. Together with David, they fought (their first battle) against Goliath (Commander of the Canaanites). They won and entered the Holy Land (Jerusalem). The kingdom was shifted to David. He built the first kingdom for Children of Jacob/Israel. Based on the Law brought by Moses, The Judgment (kingdom), The Prophecy (revelation), The Capacity for Sustenance and The Preference for choosing them having The Heavenly Message at that time, Children of Jacob/Israel were gathered. When King Solomon replaced David:
قَالَ رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَهَبْ لِي مُلْكًا لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِي إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْوَهَّابُ
(Quran): He said, "My Lord, forgive me and grant me a kingdom such as will not belong to anyone after me. Indeed, You are the Bestower."
He was given of property, power and governance such as the flow of the wind by his command, ruling the Jinn and using them in constructions, diving, fights and industry, the ability of communicating with animals and Jinn and the power to dissolve the copper and reforming it and having large number of soldiers from Jinn, human and birds. He built the city of Jerusalem and Edifice which now is called; Al-Aqsa Mosque. The construction material consisted of copper, glass and other materials other than stones, and it included niches, statues, small copper pots, and huge water basins or ponds made of Copper, jewels and treasures of pearls, coral, etc., which were extracted by demons/Jinn from deep sea. The Edifice was huge and tall building; the rock was in its center, surrounded by a large square, polished glass floor, through which water was seen below (Perhaps this legendary edifice is what prompted the owner of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, to raid the Children of Jacob/Israel in the first time to loot its contents).

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وَأَوْرَثْنَا الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا
(Quran): And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed.
That means they owned it and were residents after the expiration of the years of prohibition (forty years). And the blessed land is the current Palestine (The names "Palestine" and "Palestina" occur four times in the Old Testament portion of the King James Bible: Joel 3:4a = 4:4a Heb / Exod 15:14 / Isa 14:29a / Isa 14:31a)

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That the next prophet after Solomon is Zachariah and after him Yahya, the last of whom was Jesus, peace be upon them all. The three prophets were sent in succession and held each other, long after the death of Solomon; historians estimate that the period between Solomon and Jesus was more than 900 years. What was the resurrection of Jesus, only to renew the law that Moses, after the children of Jacob/Israel lost the Torah and disagreed on it:
أَفَكُلَّمَا جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ بِمَا لَا تَهْوَى أَنفُسُكُمْ اسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ فَفَرِيقًا كَذَّبْتُمْ وَفَرِيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ
(Quran): But is it [not] that every time a messenger came to you, [O Children of -Jacon-Israel], with what your souls did not desire, you were arrogant? And a party [of messengers] you denied and another party you killed.

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مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ, أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَلَقَدْ جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِنْهُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فِي الْأَرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ * إِنَّمَا جَزَاءُ الَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَنْ يُقَتَّلُوا أَوْ يُصَلَّبُوا أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ مِنْ خِلَافٍ أَوْ يُنفَوْا مِنْ الْأَرْضِ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْيٌ فِي الدُّنيَا وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ
(Quran): For this reason, we have prescribed to the Children of Jacob/Israel that anyone who has killed a human being without committing self-destruction or corruption on earth is as if he had killed all people, and whoever saved a human being from death is such that It seems that all the people have come alive, and certainly our prophets came to them with clear proofs; yet many of them were subsequently raped and spoiled on earth. For those who fight against God and His Messenger, and who seek to corrupt the earth, it is only that they are killed or hanged, or that their hands (the right) and the feet (their left) are cut off one by one, or from They will be exiled to their land, this is their scandal in the world, and in the Hereafter will have great chastisement.
They were punished with the divine decree:
وَقَطَّعْنَاهُمْ فِي الأَرْضِ أُمَمًا مِنْهُمُ الصَّالِحُونَ وَمِنْهُمْ دُونَ ذَلِكَ وَبَلَوْنَاهُمْ بِالْحَسَنَاتِ وَالسَّيِّئَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
(Quran): And We divided them throughout the earth into nations. Of them some were righteous, and of them some were otherwise. And We tested them with good [times] and bad that perhaps they would return [to obedience].
After their diaspora at the first time they did not have the rise and they were not gathered of diaspora, which is one of the conditions and specifications of the second promise

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THE AUTHOR ADDED:
“There, in 1929, occurred a massacre that took more Jewish lives than Kishinev. “
I do not call myself a human right activist but I’m totally against massacre no matter how wrong you think a person or a nation is but Allah has not given you the right to go and massacre them. You can’t just decide to go and kill, rape, torture or injure people. If you believe you are right and you need to defend your right, Allah has kept ways and indeed massacre is not one of them.

After 1929 massacre, all survivors left the city and the Jewish community moved to Jerusalem. In 1931, an attempt was made to establish a Jewish community of Hebron again but all Jew left the city once more (in 1936) following the resumption of tension between Muslems and Jews in Palestine.

But let’s see what was the real story behind THE EVENT OF 1929 MASSACRE!
Arthur James Balfour; a British Political man who had a vision to establish a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. He was impressed by the personality of Zionist leader: Chaim Weizmann (first Zionism leader and the inventor of acetone used during the First World War. He treated as a force that can influence international foreign policy, particularly its ability to persuade US President Wilson to participate in World War I alongside Britain. He issued his vision known as Balfour Declaration in 1917. His letter was sent a month before the British army occupied Palestine. At that time the Jewish population in Palestine was no more than 5% of the total population. If you have read the letter, you will notice;
1. There is a Government that it is sympathetic to the establishment of a national homeland that will include the "Jewish people”, which it recognized the Jews not as poor refugees or oppressed.
2. The Government that made the promise will not only be satisfied with the wishes but will do its utmost to facilitate the achievement of this goal.
3. A promise that will not harm the interests of non-Jewish groups residing in Palestine or the interests of Jewish groups that do not wish to contribute to the Zionist project, but would like to continue to enjoy their social integration and mobility.
4. The promise did not talk about how to guarantee these rights!


He concluded:
1. Israel is indestructible. It is unique, it is holy, it is the Chosen of the Lord; it has a reason for being. Its national uniqueness is built on an idea, on an ideology, that it alone has. That is, indeed, reason to be different.
- The Abrahamic religions and/or holy religions and/or divine laws; all are unique and built on an idea and ideology and all have reason to be different but after each holy religion for a reason of progression of the pervious religion or the guidance of their people, another Prophet was sent with a new Sacred rules and/or books.


2. It is impossible to CREATE a holy, unique people that dwell as a minority within lands that belong to others.
- Create: to make something new, or invent something - Meaning to say it did not exist before!


3. Such a state is reserved to the nation to which it was given for ITS PARTICULAR GOAL AND DESTINY.
- Don’t you believe that every single belief has its own particular goal and destiny? I


4. And as the Torah clearly commanded: "And you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you. ... But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those which you let remain of them, shall be thorns in your eyes and thistles in your sides and shall torment you in the land wherein you dwell. And it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them" (Numbers 33:52-56).
- The Israelites needed but to trust in Him and fight with His help. Yet, they were warned against failure. They did not drive them out (Canaanites). The holy verse is about past not now!


5. Who blinded us and blocked from our memories the existence and power of the God of Israel?
- Faith, if we have it then we should believe that He is the Creator and He is and shall remain everyone’s God not only for one nation and not only one belief.

God is the most Merciful Compassionate, Forgiving and Just and when Adam was created, His spirit was blown in him therefore those characteristics were gifted to us and if it happens and one moment of our life will be empty of these characteristics then we are no longer human.

[Da1tonthegreat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Though this work by Meir Kahane is focused specifically on the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is an excellent case study on the need for ethnonationalism more generally. He argues passionately for Israel as a Jewish nation–ethnically, religiously, linguistically, and culturally. Naturally, Arabs have no more place there than, say, Jews in Germany or Indians in Canada. Regardless of your opinion of Israel's history (and its corrupt government's international web of spies, assassins, dual citizens, and lobbyists), the indisputable fact of geopolitical reality is that it is now a Jewish state offering automatic citizenship to all Jews from Yemen to Brooklyn, Moscow to Morocco, London to Ethiopia. A fresh Jewish immigrant from any of those places is more of an Israeli than a Palestinian born in Jerusalem.

Kahane knows that demography is destiny. Like the white man in the West, the Jew in Israel is being outbred. Look what happened to the Palestinians – dispossesed by a growing and hostile minority (the Zionists) and reduced to second-class citizens. The Israelis understandably don't want this to happen in reverse, but, to Kahane's chagrin, will not enact the harsh policies necessary to remedy the situation. If the Israelis must be made to feel sorry for this, then so too must Americans weep for the conquered Indians and give them back their land.

Since Arabs hold Israeli citizenship, once they breed a majority, they could literally vote Israel out of existence. We see this threat to the West's existence as well, promoted and sponsored by Kahane's diaspora co-ethnics. Blood is sacred. Modern ideological constructs like universal suffrage democracy and constitutions and geography-based citizenship are not, in fact they are an active threat. Kahane catalogues numerous cases of ethnic and religious tension in places such as pre-Partition India, Yugoslavia, Ireland, Malaysia, Lebanon, and the United States among many others. These are not always even clashes of civilizations, merely smaller disputes over language and custom. Multiculturalism is always, without exception, a force of entropy. Segregation is not enough. Only total geographic separation is sufficient. To that end, Kahane argues, "They must go," all Arabs must be expelled so that Israel can become a Jewish theocratic-ethnostate with citizenship based on belonging to the Jewish people, not on happening to live between certain lines on a map. Though parts of this book are specific to the Talmudic Zionist worldview, there is much that is applicable to all ethnic conflicts. I would recommend it to any ethnonationalist.

[Yair · Rating 2 out of 5]

Given the Hell between Israel and Gaza at the moment, I'll keep this brief. Kahane may have wanted what he viewed as 'the best' for the Jewish people, but this book despite its occasions of logic is just religious lunacy otherwise. Never does it once occur to Kahane or his Muslim or Christian counterparts that imaginary fathers in the sky and belief in magic dirt is one of the root causes of these repeated nightmares. And Meir should keep his mouth shut about blood purity considering the history of our people with that lovely little idea.

Read if you're curious about extremist views, otherwise, don't bother.

[Xavier Alexandre]

I would hate to put any star on this book, written in anger and full of anger, but it does raise uncomfortable questions. In essence, it conveys the message we hear from populist politicians today: a nation is made of people with some kind of inalienable identity and others can't be allowed to co-exist with that nation, as violence and strife are then inevitable.

It is a message of profound pessimism about the ability of humans to become more like each other over time. As they will never become alike, they should separate.

We have seen numerous examples of the above proposition, in old and recent history, and many are listed in the book.

I prefer to believe that men can indeed learn to live together over time. But yes, the question raised by the book will keep coming back, and back again.

[Mahmoud Amr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kahane was a lunatic monster, but at least he was honest and correctly understood what zionism really entails; he just took things to its ultimate conclusions: The concept of the jewish contradicts the notions of equal rights and democracy. Kahane is true authentic voice guiding what Israel is doing today in Gaza and the West Bank.

[phil · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oy vey, it's like the next SHOAH: The book.

[Steven H · Rating 1 out of 5]

THE CONTROVERSIAL RABBI’S ‘SOLUTION’ ABOUT THE ARABS IN ISRAEL

Meir Kahane (1932-1990) was an American-born Orthodox rabbi, who was a cofounder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), and in 1971 co-founded Kach, an Israeli political party; in 1984, he became a one-term member of the Knesset. He was assassinated in November 1990.

He wrote in the Introduction to this 1981 book, “the Yom Kippur War produce[d] a major psychological change in Arab thinking. In the aftermath of that war, vast numbers of Arabs, who in 1972 were … convinced that Israeli sovereignty could not be destroyed, are just as convinced today that time is on their side, that it will not be long before the Zionist state collapses. Then they… will hold sway over all that will be ‘Palestine.’… BUT THEY MUST GO. It is in order to convince the Jew of this that I have written this book… There is an ultimately insoluble contradiction between a Jewish state of Israel … and a state in which Arabs and Jews possess equal rights---including the right of the Arabs democratically and peacefully to put an end to the Jewish state… The reality of the situation is, therefore, clear. The Jews and Arabs of the Land of Israel ultimately cannot coexist in a Jewish-Zionist state… the Arabs believe that the Jews … stole their land… They will surely make violent demands for more power, including ‘autonomy’ in various parts of the land. Eventually, the very majorityship of Jews will be threatened by the Arab birthrate. The result will be bloody conflict.” (Pg. 6-7)

He continues, “I am committed to Judaism … and every word in this book---disagreeable as it may be to most---is Judaism… But the Arab problem will not go away, because the very existence of the Jewish state creates it… I do not wish to lose the Jewish state through either war or peace. I do not wish to see Arabs or Jews killed in the Land of Israel, but many, many will die, I fear… let every Jew ask himself or herself this question: Am I prepared---given … an Arab… majority---to allow that majority---democratically---to change the name of the state to ‘Palestine’; to abolish the Law of Return… and to end---peacefully and democratically---the Jewish state?” (Pg. 8-9)

He asserts, “There never was anything but bitter Arab hostility, resentment, and hatred of the Jewish stranger… In 1921, in 1929, and in 1936-38 there were no Jewish ‘occupation’ troops patrolling ‘the West Bank.’ There was no such thing as ‘occupied Arab lands of 1967.’ All the reasons for bloodshed, violence, war, and hatred that today’s Arabs and confused Jews point to as being ‘at the heart’ of the Arab-Jewish problem did not exist then… In fact, there was not even a Jewish state in existence, and by all logic the ‘Palestinians’ should have coexisted peacefully and in friendship with the Jews. They did not. And it is important to recall the reality of the Palestinians’ ‘coexisting’ with their Jewish cousins BEFORE the ‘Zionist aggression of 1967.’” (Pg. 25)

He argues, “The State of Israel came into being as the JEWISH state, the sovereign homeland of the Jewish people… the Jewish conviction that ‘Never Again!’ is a concept that can be realized only in a land where Jews control their own destiny… The State of Israel is the Jewish demand for a land in which Jews can preserve and create their own specific traditions and way of life free of the spiritual and social assimilation of foreign abrasive culture. The State of Israel is the Jewish demand for what every other people sees as its natural right… There is nothing to be ashamed of.” (Pg. 55)

He acknowledges, “The Arab of Israel sits in a land in which he was once the majority, which he controlled, which was Arab, which was his. The Jew came---from Russia, Poland, Morocco, and Brooklyn---and took it from him. That is how the Arab sees it… How do we expect him to feel and react, this man who feels robbed and bitter and alienated? That is the source of the problem, and it is insoluble… one does not buy the national aspirations of a people with indoor toilets… material goods, electricity, or higher education.” (Pg. 59)

He suggests, “The great Arab weapon in the battle against Jewish Israel is babies… The Arabs… have babies at an explosive rate… The huge birthrate has itself produced the phenomenon of the youngest community in the world. Nowhere does one find such a high percentage of young people as among the Arabs. The median age for Arabs in Israel is fifteen… The implication for future generations is obvious…” (Pg. 99-100)

He observes, “There is nothing for which the Jew need apologize. A people that has suffered ecumenical agony and that has been deprived of the rights that other nations demand for themselves owes no one an explanation. The Middle East sees Islamic republics in which the Arabic quality and the Muslim character of the state are inscribed in the constitution; who shouts about Arabic ‘racism’? Africans insist upon the blackness of their state, and exclusiveness of culture and identity are the foundations of scores of nations. Who apologizes?... Moreover, the Jews constituted a unique people in that they were at one and the same time a religion and a nation… which had lived as a unique society and culture in its own land---Eretz Israel… The Jews learned a bitter lesson in their twenty centuries of being strangers. The lesson? It is not good to be a stranger. Never be a minority. Never again!” (Pg. 117-118)

He states, “The Jew has no moral right to an Israel that is a non-Jewish state. But in a Jewish state let no one insult the Arab by insisting that he is equal and that it is ‘his’ state too. It is this ultimate contradiction between the Jewish character of Israel and the democratic right of the Arab to aspire to all the rights that Jews have… that will never give the Arab rest or allow him to accept the status quo.” (Pg. 120)

He asserts, “the true absurdity in this is that the Arabs do not want partnership in the land they sincerely believe is theirs, especially when they believe that time and conditions are on their side… [which] convinces them that the Jews are fearful of the future, for otherwise why should they---who control the state---bother to try to make the Arabs ‘partners’? Certainly they, the Arabs, would never do such an insane thing if they were a majority. The Arabs do not want… partnership; they wish to control the land they will call ‘Palestine.’” (Pg. 135) Later, he summarizes, “No two peoples so different in every way can possibly share the same country.” (Pg. 139)

He proposes, “There is nothing novel in the concept of removing a hostile minority from a land to which it poses a dangerous, irredentist threat. It has happened before.” (Pg. 173) Later, he states, “as they grow in population, the Israeli Arabs will push ever more stridently for … the return of their property which is now in Jewish hands. They will rely on United Nations resolutions giving those ‘refugees’ the right to choose between compensation or return. No matter that the Arabs themselves contemptuously rejected the United Nation’s original partition scheme in 1947… Again, Israel will be faced with the specter of more Arabs entering the land as part of the Israeli Arab program to destroy the Jewish state from within.” (Pg. 202)

He contends, “The angry Arab shout over the expropriation of land is in reality a tactic to cover the incredible amount of state land stolen by Arabs over the years, thanks to Israeli fear of provoking incidents. Not only have literally hundreds of thousands of dunams of state land been stolen through Arab squatting, but the illegal building of Arab houses… has reached the epidemic stage.” (Pg. 208)

He concludes, “All the ‘peace’ in the world on the part of Egypt or Syria will not save Israel from the cancer raging within… Every day, the Arabs of Israel move closer to that majority. Is there, then, no answer? … Of course there is an answer… the reality is, indeed, depressing and painful. But escape from reality does not make reality disappear or less painful… Is there hope? Of course: IF we have the courage to be JEWISH and sane. IF we can throw off the needless and false burden of guilt and … twisted concepts that are so wrongly called ‘morality’ but constitute the worst kind of immorality… Our answer, our hope, is to remove the Arabs of Eretz Yisreal from the land.” (Pg. 224-225)

Obviously, those of us hoping for ‘Peace’ in the Middle East, will not be persuaded by Kahane. But his perspective still appeals to some people involved in the debate.

[Moses Bakst · Rating 4 out of 5]

They Must Go reminded me of Machiavelli’s The Prince . Not through their content, I’m not at all interested in analyzing and comparing their realpolitik lenses. Both books obsess over a tiny sliver of the world. The Prince fawns over 15th-century Italians, and They Must Go micromanages 1975-1981 Israel.

Besides that, I enjoyed the shoutouts of the words "Moshe", "Brooklyn" and "Mabruk."

Alright, now time for the meat.

Here is everything I know about Kahane:
• A few of my friends from college hate him
• “Kahane’s JDL was violent” - as his ideas were not adopted, I can see the ‘logical’ connection to “ok now we will take matters into our own hands”
• “Ben-Gvir is a Kahanist and keeps going onto the Temple Mount”

I also learned:
• He was assasinated
• He was an alumni of my elementary school
• He got a seat in the Israeli knesset and was removed for being a racist

That’s everything. Which, thinking about how many of his ideas have been repeated to me before, and how geographically close his American support base was to my family and community 40 years ago, is so so surprising.

Here is Kahane's central argument: A Jewish democracy only works in a majority Jewish state. Therefore, the Arabs must go.
Kahane first claims that eventually, there will be more Arabs in Israel than Jews.
(By Arab, he includes Muslims, Christians, Beduin, Druze. Anyone in Israel who isn’t Jewish.)
His prediction of 75% Jewish to 25% Arab pop. in 2000 didn't quite come true, but it is true today in 2025. On this track, with high Arab birthrates and slowing aliyah (Jewish immigration), eventually the Arab population will overtake the Jews.

(This happens without including the disputed territories; Israel + West Bank + Gaza + Golan Jewish : Arab population is now about 1:1.)

So the idea is that the way things are going, the equal citizen Arabs will just vote for the country to become Palestine. Either that or we could do Apartheid for real.

Would that vote happen? It is hard to argue otherwise. Ultimately if the Jewish state is majority non-Jews, why would those citizens want to keep the state Jewish? Keep streets closed on Shabbat and sing about a “2000-year hope” in the national anthem? Kahane cites a 1979 survey where a majority of Arab respondents disagree with Israel’s right to exist, support the repeal of the Law of Return, etc. etc. Can’t blame them.

Ultimately, how many binational states have succeeded in history? I guess Belgium, Canada, UK come to mind. But politics in all of those countries are dominated by those internal divisions.

Post WWI, the “mutual population transfer” was seen as a solution to the time immemorial tradition of killing everyone or converting them. That’s what ancient peoples used to do! It wasn’t just mindless brutality. It was “I care about eliminating even the smallest threat to myself and my people more than I care about your whole life, so I will kill and destroy you.”

And the Arab countries understood this, as soon as the Jews of Israel became the prime enemy, they got rid of all of their Jews. Hundreds of thousands of them. They laugh at me when I say I’m Syrian: No, you aren’t, you’re Jewish. But Israel did not get rid of all of the Arabs.

Israel is already a miracle of a nation coming home after a bimillenium-long wandering, so maybe it can be the first successful binational state.

Kahane doesn’t think so, he says: They Must Go. To the West or to other Arab countries.

Later I will start picking at flaws I see in the assumptions leading up to this point of the argument. But here I see the first flaw in its construction.
“They Must Go” would not work. Kahane wrote of so many events in the decade leading up to this book, did he just forget Black September, 1970? Where Palestinians almost took over Jordan? If there were more Palestinians in Jordan, how would that go? Or if they were in destabilized Syria or Lebanon? Egypt doesn’t want them, they closed their border with Gaza. And assuming Western countries would want more Palestinian refugees, would they they just settle into their new houses quietly, or would they want to go home?

It seems to me that “sending the Palestinians somewhere else” is just another step on Kahane’s checklist of things people say to cope. Wherever they go, they will just wait until they can come back. We waited 2000 years and we think they’ll get to Saudi Arabia and forget?

This takes the real implementation of Kahane’s views to an even darker place, and anyone can see why people call him a Nazi.

“They Must Go” is a solution borne of utter mistrust and absolute power fantasy. And it wouldn’t even work on its own principles.

And for a peek into other deconstructions of the argument:
• The state does not need to be Jewish, it can be a home for all who wish to be there
• A constitution can ensure the Jewishness of Israel even with a future non-majority
• The status quo of making the Arabs feel second class and apartheiding the West Bank is working fine
• If Palestinians have a Palestine (Jordan, while majority Palestinian, is Hashemite) then they would just be a neighbor of Israel
• It is not Jewish to hate gentiles so evicting them would in itself destroy a true Jewish state

Unfortunately, all of those ideas expressed that succinctly are not very convincing. I hope to read more about modern counterpoints to Kahane, and analyze how post-publication historical events have changed the playing field.

I want to have a real, airtight opinion on how to save Israel. I’m obviously not reading The Hundred Years' War on Palestine , but Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn (almost never says the word Palestine or Palestinian in the whole book) is just as similarly useless. It’s time to get real.

With the Jewish world obsessing over protests and statements, legality, legitimacy, documents and encampments, cherry-picked cases and diatribes --- this manifesto was a breath of honesty, passion, and fear. I don’t agree that “they must go.” But among all of the two-state diplomats, status-quo can-kickers, and coexist dreamers, none express themselves like Kahane.

[David]

Throughout history, Palestine has been ruled by numerous groups, including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Fatimids, Seljuk Turks, Crusaders, Egyptians and Mamelukes. I don't see any reference to Jewish culture, religion. https://www.history.com/topics/middle...

[Oren Mizrahi · Rating 2 out of 5]

written in prison, rambling and poorly edited. there’s a good long history of yishuv-era attacks on jew but nothing much more.

kahana’s whole perspective is to project onto the entire arab population the worst crimes and opinions among them.

let us learn the lesson: we should resist doing this every day.

[Shaneshay Salawasna · Rating 5 out of 5]

its real

[Jacob Barton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hard to keep reading, he makes the same point over and over again

[Jack Goldman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based.
Great points and analogies and some actually heart breaking accounts of the overall happenings in the region for pushing 100 years now, it's hard to be passive and dismissive after reading this.
Rabbi Meir Kahane didn't hate arabs he just really loved Jews.

[daniel dirnfeld · Rating 5 out of 5]

A genius of a person like this rabbi to save israel

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