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stalemate in US-Soviet relations. He
then associated with the Mafia, estab-
lishing contacts to the famous criminal
Joe Colombo who headed a Mafia front
organization: Organization for Italian
American Rights. Colombo was later
shot to death in a Mafia dispute. Kahane
was standing beside him but was not
hurt. The media , however, picked up on
the relationship and this caused some
friction between Kahane and the US
authorities.
The KACH movement's finances
are kept secret. Kahane solicits the bulk
of his funds in the US, but the sources
are not published. One cannot rule out
that he still receives CIA funds for his
activities.
Terror - from New York to
Palestine
In 1968, Kahane took advantage of
the increased militarism generated in
the Zionist community by the 1967 war
and occupation, to establish the Jewish
Defense League, the fascist style
Organization based in New York. Aside
from threat letters to leftists champion-
ing the Palestinian cause, the JL is most
noted for its bomb attacks on the Soviet
mission. The rationale for such attacks is
to protest restrictions on the emigration
of Soviet Jews, but such actions also fall
neatly in line with recurring anti-com-
munist Campaigns launched by the US
itself.
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In the same period Kahane wrote a
book entitled Never Again,the Zionist
version of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Here he
formulated the theory justifying the need
for violence to enforce Zionist aims.
According to Kahane, Jews everywhere
in the world are facing another extermi-
nation attempt, this time by joint US-
Soviet collaboration (sic). In the face of
this supposed threat, he claimed that the
existing Jewish organizations had
become corrupt and betrayed their
people. On the other hand, he presented
himself as the saviour, a descendent of
the Maccabees and other heroes from
past Jewish history.
In 1969, Kahane again went to ‘Is-
rael’ and became one of the founders of
the extremist newspaper, Jewish Press,
which is still in operation. More impor-
tant, only days after his arrival he
initiated a new movement in Jerusalem
called Doof, which in Hebrew means
repressing the traitors (a reference to
fellow Jews including Zionists who are
«too soft» according to Kahane’s stan-
dards). One of the movement's main slo-
gans was «A clenched fist from within
David's shield», the same used by the
Jewish Defense League. This move-
ment is KACH's origin.
On his second immigration to ‘ls-
rael, Kahane was accompanied by a
small number of followers from the USA.
He received much attention and was
considered a nationalist figure among
right-wing circles. He chose the univer- .
sity grounds as his first battlefield on
which to attack Palestinian Arabs and
Jewish leftists. The Israeli government
overlooked his terrorist activities until he
was caught in the act of shipping
weapons to the JDL in September 1972.
Yet he has never been tried for this inci-
dent.
In the late seventies, Kahane
initiated a series of activities attesting to
his adoption of the Nazi slogan: «The fist
and the gun». In February 1979, Kahane
organized 30 of his followers to violently
disrupt a meeting on Jewish-Arab
Brotherhood, held in the Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem. After this, Uri Avneri,
editor of Haolam Hazeh, who was
attending the meeting, shouted «Hail,
Hitler». Six months later Kahane carried
out a revenge operation against the
magazine's office. He arrived carrying
the bloody head of a camel as a punish-
ment for the editorial board's positions
against terrorism.
In May 1980, Kahane and his
deputy, responsible for operations in the
US were arrested and detained for six
months. One of the main reasons for
their imprisonment was the large
amount of weapons possessed by
KACH and stored throughout ‘Israel’.
since the two were the main contacts to
the US from whence KACH draws its
funds, some thought the organization
would be greatly weakened. However,
the opposite has proved to be the case.
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