Quotes by HaRav Meir Kahane

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Quotes by HaRav Meir Kahane, Zecher tzadik livracha

"Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength."
Meir Kahane

"Ignorace and arrogance are the poisons of the Liberal Mind."
Meir Kahane

"Those who cannot debate, defame."
Meir Kahane

"What is tragedy? The Liberal Jew."
Meir Kahane

"I prefer a powerful Jewish State hated by this World over an Auschwitz loved by it."
Meir Kahane

"The Arabs are cancer, cancer in the midst of us... There is only one solution, no other, no partial solution: the Arabs out! Out!...Do not ask me how...Let me become Defense Minister for two months and you will not have a single cockroach around here!  I promise you a clean Eretz Israel! Give me the power to take care of them!"
Meir Kahane

"When morality becomes extremism, I am proud to be an extremist."
Meir Kahane

"And I am afraid, for the first time, that we are in the hands of people so blind and so mad and so un-Jewish that we may not be able, G-d forbid, to avert the catastrophe."
Meir Kahane

"But the Jew is not a cripple. G-d made him with two legs, and the authentic healthy Jew walks on both of them."
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"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable."
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"Every man sees as his goal in life the target that he deems to be most desirable."
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"For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d."
Meir Kahane

"Human rights - especially those of non-Moslems or non- Arabs - simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West."
Meir Kahane

"I am afraid that the Jews of insanity who run this land will destroy us, even as all the impossible Herut fools in the United States continue to write columns attacking the PLO."
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"I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets."
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"I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government."
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"If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists."
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"It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves."
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"Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city."
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"Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are."
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"Life is essentially a question of values."
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"Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge."
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"Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity."
Meir Kahane

"No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place."
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"One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent."
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"Only a G-d who Creates, directs, decrees, shapes and ordains the present and future is worthy of being worshipped, is deserving of being a G-d."
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"Only a people that believes that its G-d called the world and its inhabitants into being and controls and decrees their destiny, has any logical and intellectual reason to worship Him."
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"Out of the ashes of a Holocaust that seared the flesh of the nation and burned out of its midst one in every three, from the trash heap of history, arose the Third Jewish Commonwealth.
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"Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago."
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"Thanks to the Exile, we have lost sense of the original, authentic, Divinely ordained and ordered concept of what is a Jew."
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"The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand."
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""The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty."
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"The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid."
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"The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel."
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"The G-d of Jews is the G-d of History."
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"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
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"The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him."
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"The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people."
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"The modesty of holiness is contemptuously abandoned and the nation wallows in the nakedness of gentile culture."
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"The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence."
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"The true believer is the Jew whose values are clear and unpretentious, with knowledge of what is finite and infinite, important and meaningless, permanent and transitory."
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"The victory of injustice and wickedness is ostensible proof of G-d's absence from the world, and there is no greater profanation of G-d's name."
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"There is nothing that they can do to smite a Jewish nation that believes in the G-d of History."
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"There is rhyme and reason, direction and purpose to history and the Jew has a clear and direct place within that history, direct and central for he is the tool of the L-rd, G-d of history, the central player in the drama."
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"There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah."
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"This is the real struggle - the war of ideas, of values, of civilization."
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"Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing."
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"We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud."
Meir Kahane

[Noachide]

"You follow Torah, halakha and if the Satmar rebbe is right then you follow him. He has a far greater right to speak to you than Gandhi does."
Meir Kahane

"A religious Jew that follows a party which is not a Torah party is as a Jew that doesn't know what he is doing."
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[Israel Chai]

Defamation is the last refuge of non thinkers

When a dog barks, I don't bark back.

Whatever his exact words were when he called guilt Jewish aids.

Whatever his exact words were when he said Jews used to have faith in a burning Bush, now they have faith In George Bush.

(WHEWW) I understand him [arab terrorist] and he understands me and neither of us understands the leftist.

There are lots that set your soul on fire in his speech given at a yeshiva, and lots in his books. I want to put some from Jewish idea, but technically we jist have the Hebrew and the english is a translation sp you don't get his real style from it.

Ill be back with a few more, to really analyze and come out with the top 200 quotes pay me ill work a week.

[Ulli]

If he would live today and would see the world, he would really have something to say.

[Nachus]

                                                                                                                        

Right Ulli, without any question!
                                                                 

[Israel Chai]

One that makes Chabadniks giggle is "join Chabad. I'm not a chassid, but they're honest".

I can't find the one where he essentially says the head of Satmar is murdering Jews with his mouth in an internal thing, but it's easy to find the one where he spoke against the protests against the Satmar Rebbe, said this is an internal Jewish issue and had some lines against it.

A whole university of commies in the 70s with a screamy teacher were commying him, and he pulls out a response to some yapper like "Israel was named Palestinia by emperor Hadrian of Rome, so if we should give it back to anyone, we should give it back to the Italians", and he controlled the energy from there and they started supporting him more and more by the end.

Skokie 1977 "The only kicks Nazis should get out of being Nazis is to the head"

I forget what interview he said the Jewish liberal family is two dogs and an abortion.

I also can go get the full thing where he's like "Peres and his Peresites".

[Israel Chai]

One student complained, I don't like that you make us feel guilty over Israel, in a speech he gave to their university, and from there he kept up the add-on to "Guilt is Jewish aids" of "they feel guilty about feeling guilty", which he even said in the knesset.

I remember I told a guy Rav Kahane's line to defend artillery strikes before ground invasions, "I wouldn't trade all of Lebanon for a Jewish fingernail", he made a face so I said "what would the generals in Lebanon say?" and he calmed down and said "the opposite".

To land tribute demands to the Arabs, he would say "We'll keep the land and they can have the peace".

Nu there's some broke guy that would go one by one in the library in Hevron and get all the good ones for you with his study.