Rabbi Meir Kahane Speaks at Faith Baptist Church in Sarasota, Florida

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Meir Kahane’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Thank you, gentlemen. In the year 1938, 1 year before the Holocaust, one of the greatest of the Zionist leaders, Zev Jabotinsky, stood and looked about Europe at the Jews of Europe, knowing that a a terrible tragedy looms, looms, knowing that he was opposed bitterly by the Jewish leaders, knowing that he was abandoned in synagogues, organizations, and he sought some way to persuade the Jews of Eastern Europe to flee before the flood of fire came over them. And he wrote an article, and he spoke of the tragedy in the form of a parable. of a parable. And he wrote, "Europe is a stagecoach, and the driver is normal, and the horses are racing wildly towards the precipice. And in the coach sit passengers eating, drinking, and laughing, talking, as if nothing is happening. And one of the passengers turns to the others and he says, 'Let us do to the others and he says, 'Let us do something. Let us stop the horses.' And they continue to eat, to drink, to laugh, to live as if nothing is happening. Jabotinsky was unable to stop the horses. And the coach that was Europe went over the precipice and carried with it its 6 passengers. In great measure because Jewish leaders in terror and fear of the message of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik refused to allow him to speak. I came to this city because once again we are in the ballast. And the driver has fallen asleep. And the coach of the Jewish people in the state of Israel is racing madly towards a terrible terrible precipice. And once again Jewish leaders

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