Rightists mark Kahane murder
Far right leader Meir Kahane assassinated by Arab in U.S. 15 years ago; settlers, far-right figures take part in ceremony, slam IDF, State
Kahane followers were joined by evacuated settlers, settler youth movements and right wing activists, to vow the continuation of the struggle against government plans to close down the Jewish market in Hebron and the evacuation of illegal outposts.
Kahane was assassinated by an American citizen of Egyptian origins in the United States fifteen years ago.
Over 18 ceremonies were held across the country Saturday evening in commemoration of the Rabbi, to whom followers paid their tributes during prayers by his burial site on Givat Shaul in Jerusalem this evening.
'Israeli law is like Sodom'
A spokeswoman for the former settlement of Sanour in the northern West Bank delivered a speech in which she said: “We need to form an alternative to the courts - the court for the people and the State has to be the alternative to the current deceptive court, and its mission will be to indict Sharon and his partners for the evictions.”
She also called for mass evasion of military service, proposing the Israel Defense Forces be replaced by an army “that defends the people and the land.”
Right-wing activists Itamar Ben-Gvir and Noam Federman, who was recently released from administrative detention, also spoke during the ceremony, with Ben-Gvir saying, “Israeli law is like Sodom.”
In her speech, the Sanour spokeswoman added: “There is no time for mourning and cries, we need to prepare for the second struggle. The State of Israel belongs to people fighting and struggling for the future of the land and the people of Israel.”
Activists shouted the names of religious judges who handed down sentences against right wing activists and drew loud boos.
Kahane books and anti-pullout T-Shirts were sold throughout the evening, as well souvenir medallions with the inscription ‘We won’t forget, we won’t forgive’ in honor of evacuated settlers.
Organizers screened a film taken twenty years ago in which Kahane calls for the establishment of the “State of Judah.” Kahane was also heard saying: “We would have preferred a truly Jewish State, yet when there is no choice and the IDF is abandoning real Jewish settlements, with all hope lost, we will not flee the Arab enemy yet will establish a Jewish State that will seek to defend the State of Israel.”
