CROSSFIRE - "Rabbi Meir Kahane". 1985

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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.

From Washington, The host for Crossfire, on the left Tom Braden. On the right, sitting in for Pat Buchanan, Richard Allen. In the Crossfire, Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League. Good evening and welcome to Crossfire. Let me introduce you tonight to an American who is also one of the new members of the Israeli Knesset or Parliament. Israel's Interior Minister Joseph Burg has called our guest a lunatic. Mayor has called our guest a lunatic. Mayor Koch of New York has called him the Jewish Farrakhan. Israeli President Herzog has called him a racist, but Rabbi Kahane continues his campaign to expel all Arabs from Israel. Last month, he took that campaign to the nation's largest Arab village where both Jews and Arabs threw stones at him in an effort to keep him out. Welcome Rabbi Kahane to the peace and quiet of Crossfire. Thank you. And may I say this to you, uh, the last time, uh, we talked, uh, the last time, uh, we talked, you promised that you would return to Crossfire as a member of the Knesset. So, I am forced to congratulate you while at the same time I ask you now that you are a responsible member of government, why do you continue to behave in a fashion which in this country we would associate not with the responsibility in government, but with the, say, the Ku Klux Klan? First of all, let me just state that your, you know, introduction was typical. I think it was just it it was really

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1. 0:00From Washington, The host for Crossfire, on the left Tom Braden. On the right, sitting in…
2. 2:04country. Well, if you want to say that those that those people who voted for me…
3. 4:07do the Arabs of Israel, in theory, have a right to become a majority democratically and…
4. 6:09really are thieves and when we become a majority, we will turn it democratically and peacefully…
5. 8:10to believe Oh, yes. Oh, do you have contempt for the Arabs? You know who I…
6. 10:12either uh either immigrate or we'll drive them out. Mr. Braden, my greatest dream would be…
7. 12:15the law they have to show that any action I took was done with the intent…
8. 14:18are people who make up many hundreds people voted in Israel in the last election? How…
9. 16:19We'll see in the next election. You claim to have inspiration from Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the great…
10. 18:21They're they are two different different people. Wait a minute. You said that Jesse Jackson was…

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