An article about Rabbi Kahane (Zt'l) from INN:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10857#.Umrmq3VDsjgOp-Ed: And Then There Was One: Remembering Rav Meir KahanePublished: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:10 AM
He had the courage to say that the Jewish people must act against the dangers and hatred surrounding them. For saying this, like prophets of old, he suffered criticism and contempt. Looking around us, his words echo as many of them come true.
In the annals of Jewish history, it is a known fact that great people are often unrecognized and even villified during their lifetime.
Much to the detriment of the generation in which they live, their dire warnings about an impending disaster that loom ominously for the Jewish people, go unheeded, and ironically becomes the cause of much personal suffering for them.
Looking at Jewish history from the Biblical Prophet, Jeremiah, to the modern visionary Jabotinsky, one sees over and over that such leaders' burning desire to save Jews from the disastrous fate they so clearly perceived, was ridiculed and ignored. Only when tragic events that they predicted became a reality, did history discover their greatness.
In our generation, there was one courageous leader who despite being villified, imprisoned and beaten in futile attempts to silence him for exposing the truth concerning the dangerous policies of successive Israeli governments regarding Arab enemies in Israel and anti-Semites in the Diaspora - relentlessly continued his often lonely battle to warn of the dangers that Jews are now facing throughout the world.
His courage to be politically incorrect and eventually exiled from mainstream political life stemmed from his deep love for the Jewish people and his inability to bend his truth to be palatable to the powers that be.
In his last address, given just before being murdered by a bestial Arab terrorist more than two decades ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane z"l, Hy"d (may G-d avenge his blood, the Jewish epitaph for martyrs including IDF soldiers, ed.) implored American Jews to leave the United States because of predictions of the rising tide of anti-Semitism which he clearly saw would make them the scapegoat once again for the economic, racial and social problems facing the society in which they lived.
"Come home to Israel before it's too late" was the last warning of this most noble Torah-true Jewish leader of our time.
Today, as we witness global news media reporting the growth of Jew-hatred, with Jewish neighborhoods in America targeted with swastikas, the torching of Jewish owned automobiles and graffiti promising another Auschwitz; with movements such as 'OCCUPY WALL ST' brazenly exhibiting protesters holding aloft signs blaming Jewish bankers for the economic crisis , only those Jews afflicted with "madness and blindness" choose to remain in the United States and refuse to see that Rabbi Kahane, unfortunately, is being proved right !
In the more than two decades that I had the great "zchus" [merit, ed.] to work closely with Rabbi Kahane of blessed memory, his last request of me was to head the Emergency Aliya Movement, SHUVA (Return) that would spotlight the need for immediate mass emigration of the American Jewish community to Israel. (website:www.shuva.net)
At this significant moment marking the 2lst Yahrtzeit of his having been taken from us, I pray that with G-d's help, Rabbi Meir Kanane's sacred legacy will enable me to continue expressing his warning and influencing Jews to return to Eretz Yisrael,the Jewish homeland - where their lives will become meaningful by joining and actively affecting Jewish history - before it's too late.
Shifra Hoffman
Shifra Hoffman, founder of the Victims of Arab Terror International organization (VAT), is a noted journalist and executive director of Shuva (Return), the Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement.
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