Kahane was right: They must go.
By Gerald A. Honigman April 29, 2007
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Recently, a group of Jews having an Independence celebration picnic were surrounded by thousands of Israeli Arabs threatening them with violence, waving Hamas and PLO flags, and so forth. And Olmert's government did nothing.
A bit earlier, the same thing happened to Jews in Jaffa.
These stories -- like those involving actions against the state by Arab members of Israel's Parliament, the Knesset -- have been on the rise and not uncommon for many years.
Decades ago, the late Rabbi Meir Kahane warned of such things and the need to take solid action and was branded a racist and extremist.
He was as correct then as he is now.
What nation would put up with the events mentioned above committed by its own citizens ... in this case, the freest Arabs anywhere in the Middle East? Over twenty thousand Arabs who opposed Hafez al-Assad in Syria were eliminated in short order in his Hama Solution. Ditto in Iraq and all over the Arab world ... and those folks just opposed the regime -- not the very state in which they lived.
The time is running out for the Israeli Left's delusions and cowardice to continue.
The time to act -- and act decisively -- is now.
Israel must unabashedly confront this problem head on.
It must try its best to reason with its Arab citizens. Some will undoubtedly prove to be loyal.
Many, indeed, know how good they have it -- especially when glancing at what Abbas and Hamas have to offer.
But, for those who take aim at their Jewish neighbors and the very state in which they live, the time for play has passed.
Arabs have almost two dozen states to date, conquered mostly from non-Arab peoples.
Trials for treason must be forthcoming with expulsion as the punishment. These are long overdue.
Let the guilty choose from those above states or the Palestinian Arab territories where to go.
Jews just have one, tiny, reborn state -- and they don't need to be intimidated in it by fellow Arab citizens who have more rights in Israel than they would have in any Arab and/or Muslim state.
Just as half of Israel's Jews are from refugee families who lived in so-called Arab states, Israel's Arab citizens live in a Jewish state. Why is it alright for the one but not the other?
No nation would tolerate a potentially deadly fifth column openly aiding and abetting avowed enemies sworn to that very nation's destruction. Putting these folks in jail will just cost the Israeli taxpayer money and will be yet more temptation for the blackmailers.
I don't care how politically incorrect it sounds ... As Kahane wrote decades ago, They Must Go.
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