Rabbi Meir Kahane: What If?

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I found a web site with Rabbi Meir Kahane's writings Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2672202/Uncomfortable-Questions-for-Comfortable-Jews-by-Meir-Kahane

It is not Kahanism that the neo-Hellenists attack when they hysterically condemn his war on intermarriage, but Judaism, and, though it is excruciating painful, let the truth be known. Intermarriage is the Waterloo, the Valley of Death, for the desperately confused Jewish Hellenist and defamer. And Judaism's clear and unmistakable total opposition to it, more than any other thing, marks the secular Jewish Hellenist as standing outside the pale of that Judaism which, to his horror, is the "Kahanism" of his grandparents as far back as Sinai. And never was there a mightier Tower of Jewish babbling than this Hellenistic edifice complex.Breathes there a Jewish leader with soul so dead who does not pay homage and obeisance to Judaism and its great books? Is there an Israeli Prime Minister, Knesset member, Reform rabbi, Federation head, Jewish Congress (American, Canadian,World!) president who does not respectfully rise in respect and salutation to the Book of Books, the Holy Bible? Search if you will, as for leaven on the eve of Passover, and you will never find a Jewish humanist, liberal leader who does not shower us with praise of the Bible and its Judaism of "ethics, morality and brotherly love."And so, let me suggest a game. It is called: "What If?"It is really a rather simple game. One simply opens the ethical and humanistic Bible and chooses a passage or event. Then, he selects a modern-day Jewish leader or leaders, and asks the sublime question: What if? What if they had lived at the time? What would their reaction have been? Such a simple game. And with such momentous implications. Let us begin. What if. . . ?What if Shimon Peres, the Israeli Knesset, the World Jewish Congress, the Reform Rabbinate, the B'nai B'rith and the Jewish Federations had been in the desert when Moses, fresh from Sinai, declared: "Neither shalt thoumake marriages with them (the Canaanites); thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son" (Deuteronomy 7).Can one even begin to imagine the vitriolic condemnation on the part of all the above-mentioned"progressives" against this racist, Kahanist decree?And then, what if they had been in the desert when Pinchas (Phineas) rose out of the congregation: "And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses..." (Numbers 25).The man is Zimri, prince of the tribe of Shimon, leader of Israel, respected, honored, famous. The woman is agentile, well-born, daughter of a king of Midian. He has relations with her—not only a victimless crime, but he may, in fact, love her. What is the reaction of Pinchas?"And when Pinchas saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly ...