I'm of the opinion that, deep down, this woman knows that Rabbi Kahane was right. But for one or more reasons, she won't associate herself with Rabbi Kahane. This is a tragic situation. I'm convinced that there are many more people like this woman.
I agree.
The Israeli establishment has relentlessly demonized Kahane. But there is a deeper reason for Kahane's rejection. During the nineties, the Israelis got weary of fighting all the time. As a result, they fooled themselves into believing that there could be peace with the Arabs and that the Arabs could be trusted. They were so weary so that they were ready to give away their land and return to indefensible borders, in the vain hope that this would appease the Arabs and that the Arabs would become reasonable. Meir Kahane tried to warn them that this was a grave illusion, that such a suicidal policy would only incite the Arabs to lust for more, that it would be perceived by the Arabs as weakness and vacillation. Meir Kahane, of course, was right. But most of the Israelis preferred to cling to their illusions and they resented Kahane for telling the truth.
Also, a lot of Israelis simply could not get Kahane's message, because of the censorship in Israel, because of all the lies and fabrications about him in the mainstream media, because of the power of the leftists in Israel who rushed to ban Kahane because they were so scared to lose their power.
Now, after all the disillusions that followed the Oslo Accords, the Israelis are more inclined to embrace Kahane's ideas. However, the majority of the Israeli society is still very "liberal" and biased against Kahanist ideas. That is why I strongly believe that it is a big mistake for JTF to associate itself with individuals or groups that can give the impression that JTF is somehow racist or hateful or that it promotes violence.
Whether you like it or not, the Israeli society is vastly liberal and westernized. If you really have the survival of the Jewish state at heart, you have to know how to talk to these people who do not think and feel like biblical Jews. You must not scare them away by letting them believe what the left wants them to believe - that Kahanists are racists, fascists, Jewish terrorists, and all other sorts of nonsense.
Good post, yaakov mendel!
In addition to what you mentioned, I think one of the major problems in convincing people that Israel needs a " real right" wing government is that most Israelis probably don't know what the religion of Islam is truly about. The leftist media in Israel , which is the vast majority of the media in the country, certainly isn't going to expose the truth about Islam.
On a positive note, I'm encouraged with what Chaim has mentioned in that the % of Israelis who have turned away from the Left, has grown considerably. The problem though is most of them have not been exposed to JTF's message and if they were exposed to JTF message, its only been once or twice. That's not enough. The message of JTF must be reinforced to these people, who have been brainwashed by the left for their entire lives. Basically, these people are realizing that something is truly wrong with the current system of the major political parties in Israel. But they don't know of a viable alternative. And in some cases, they hear about the JTF or a related Kahanist alternative. But they are uncomfortable to be associated with the Kahanism for one or more reasons. Some that were touched on by a number of people in this thread.
The bottom line is that all of us have to continue to make a difference in JTF growing. The future of Israel, the United States, and the world could easily depend upon it.
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