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The Rabbi who must not be named -- Rabbi Meir Kahane

 This co-authored article was posted to Alex Sternberg's Time of Israel Blog .   It seems that for extreme liberal progressives, Rabbi Meir Kahane has become the “Rabbi who must not be named.” When Lizzy Savetsky, a pro-Israel social media influencer, shared a video of Meir Kahane discussing the realities of engaging with “real” Arabs in the 1970s and 1980s, it sparked a new wave of condemnations against him as well as against Lizzy. Most people today know very little about who Rabbi Kahane was and what he represented. Assassinated over 35 years ago in 1990, many individuals who now express unfounded opinions on social media were not even born when Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968. We, on the other hand, worked closely with Kahane and the JDL from 1968 to 1972, during the tumultuous four years that shaped the identity of the militant group. We spent our days and nights with him, sometimes even sharing a jail cell. We got to know him well. We a...
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The 2-State Stalemate and Abraham Accords are Linked to the Gazan ‘Day After’

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 As appeared in my Times of Israel blog . “Israel has begun to pay increasingly exorbitant prices for its hostages” writes Amit Segal, a well-respected Israeli political commentator, in his recent January 23, 2025, Wall Street Journal article. For at least the second time in less than 15 years, Israel is in the midst of an on-going extortion agreement with an Islamic Jihadist terrorist group for return of mistreated (alive and dead) hostages abducted on October 7, 2023, in return for release of a disproportionate number of convicted terrorist murderers. As was Gilad Shalit’s exchange (after more than five years of captivity), in October 2011 for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian terrorist prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader behind the horrendous October 7 th attack on Israel. To lessen the chances of this from happening once again, let’s look at two parallel subjects: The Abraham Accords and the Two-State Solution based on history, facts,...
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The WSJ Doesn’t Understand the Difference Between ‘Why’ and ‘What’

 As appeared on my Times of Israel blog.   The Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy article entitled “ Why Arab States Hate Trump’s Plan to Relocate Palestinians ” (Feb 1. 2025). It opens with an absolute correct observation: “The Arab world is pushing back, ostensibly because it would undermine efforts to create a Palestinian state. But Arab leaders have another reason to oppose providing safe haven to millions of Gazans forced from their homes: past experience. Palestinian refugees have been a headache for Arab governments since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.” Even though the headline asks “Why”, the writers answered “What” to do with the Palestinian refugee problem? Yes, the question should be “Why is there a Palestinian refugee problem?” After all, from the tens of millions of refugees from World War II, there are none remaining. In addition, there are no Jewish refugees after the shocking expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands in the early 1...
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The Roots of Revolutions -- Book Review

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  https://jewishlink.news/the-roots-of-revolutions/ and Israel National News/Artuz Sheva Linking Northern and Central NJ, Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester and CT The Roots of Revolutions By Daniel Davis | November 7, 2024 Reviewing: “Revolutions: In Their Own Words: What They Really Say About Their Causes” by David S. Levine. Published. 2024. Paperback. 275 pages. ISBN-13: 979-8991215107. It is likely many readers of this newspaper will have spent sign...
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