Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 15)
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Zionist society, Kahane and KACH have
gained more and more prominence.
Their arms supplies have hardly
diminished since it is known they are
deeply involved in the terrorist under-
ground responsible for so many attacks
on Palestinians.
When Kahane was released from
jail, he capitalized on the impending
withdrawal from the Sinai to promote his
ideas and movement. His followers
gathered in a hotel in the Sinai dubbed
«The Suicide Hotel» and participated in
the mock battle between the Israeli
authorities and the settlers who refused
to withdraw. The situation gave Kahane
a golden opportunity to speak about the
softness of the authorities and promote
the idea of need for a more radical, i.e.
fascist leadership.
One more terrorist among
Israeli officialdom
All this time Kahane had also been
trying to gain a place within the offical
institutions of ‘Israel’. For this purpose,
his movement was transformed into a
political party, called KACH, in order to
run for the Knesset and use it as an addi-
tional platform for his ideas. Kahane ran
for the Knesset three times before he
was able to attain a seat. In 1973, he
received only 1,281 votes; in 1977, he
received 4,396 and in 1981 he gained
5,128 votes. This year his support
skyrocketed to over the 25,000
minimum votes required for a Knesset
seat. Kahane’s victory at the polls is one
indication of the rise of overt fascism in
the Zionist entity.
The similarities between Kahane
and Hitler are not a mere coincidence.
Kahane calls for the implementation of
racist laws against Arabs similar to the
laws enacted against Jews in Nazi Ger-
many. He openly advocates the expul-
sion of all Arabs from ‘Israel’ and the
1967 occupied territories. Leaflets are
distributed with contents that mirror the
racist demagogy espousedby Hitler in
Arabs», «The Israeli people are alive»
and «Death to the traitors»; these are
not much different than Hitler’s: «Go out
you Jews», «Rise up Germany» and
«The government is treacherous».
A leading member of KACH, who
considers Kahane too «moderate»,
expressed his views on how KACH
should be organized as follows: «The
movement should organize a group of
individuals operating in a way like the
Kahane’'s followers in their uniforms
Black Shirts functioned in Mussolini's
army.» (In August 1921, Mussolini
founded fascist fighter units in the party
and provided the members with black
military outfits.) Kahane took the advice
on the shirts, only modifying the colors to
black and yellow, the color which the
Nazis made the Jews wear.
Further, this leading member of
’ KACH elaborated on the function of the
group, Stating that: «It should be able to
destroy the state's institutions in order to
enact a coup d'etat. The KACH move-
ment should have a group that works
openly and a clandestine group that
uses violent means to expel the Arabs
from Israel and the occupied territories
immediately.»
This way of working is characteristic
of fascist and neofascist groups: A polit-
ical organization that attempts to
strengthen its positions within the state
structure and laws, and at the same time
a secret organization aiming at reaching
their goals by means of terror, violence
and crimes.
For several years now, the Zionist
state has been experiencing a con-
stantly aggravated political, social and
economic crisis. Just as fascism arose in
Germany in the context of the economic
crisis of the twenties, the crisis in ‘Israel’
has provided a climate for the growth of
fascist trands and organizations, like
KACH, Gush Emunim and Tehiya. It is
typical for fascist forces to try to show the
masses that the prevailing social and
economic problems are not related to
the state structure and economy, but are
rather caused by «the enemy within» - a
social or ethnic group that can be made
out as a scapegoat. The Jews in Ger-
many were blamed for the problems of
the German people. In ‘Israel’ the Pale-
stinian Arabs are singled out as the
cause of the Zionist state’s problems.
With this line of thinking, Kahane and
other racists call for mass expulsion of
the Arabs - the final solution, as Hitler
envisioned for the Jews. To this end,
ultraright Zionists call for a «strong
leader» to reorganize the whole social
structure, in this case presupposing the
murder and expulsion of the unwanted
population. This is the essence of racism
and fascism. The concept of a pure
Jewish state upon which ‘Israel’ was
founded provides fertile ground for such
fascist tendencies to flourish.
Note: Most of the facts about Kahane
presented in this article were printed in
«Haolam Hazeh», and then published in
Arabic by Dar El Jaleel Publishing and
Press Agency in Amman, Jordan. @
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