Sarasota Herald-Tribune · 12 February 1980

CP-1980-004

No Compromise At Kiryat Arba

Israel’s Unyielding Settlers

Robert Friedman

Transcribed from the clipping

“Rabbi Meir Kahane, former head of the Jewish Defense League in the United States and now head of Israel’s Kach Party, thinks that Haetzni’s good-neighbor policy is ‘crap.’ ‘You can’t buy Arab love with indoor toilets and good health care,’ he said. ‘Israeli Arabs and West Bank Arabs identify with the PLO. Moreover, they multiply like rabbits. At their rate of growth, they will take over the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) in 25 years. I am not prepared to sacrifice Zionism to democracy. There is only one solution: The Arabs must leave Israel.’ When asked how he would implement such a policy if he were prime minister, Kahane… said, ‘I’d go to the Arabs and tell them to leave. I’d promise generous compensation. If they refused, I’d force them out.’… ‘Arabs can live on the West Bank,’ said Gush leader Levinger, ‘but they will have no political rights.’ Mamoun el Sayyed, the editor of El Fajar, an Arab-language newspaper published in East Jerusalem, summed up the Arab attitude toward Kiryat Arba: ‘Haetzni reminds me of a liberal plantation owner in the American South prior to the Civil War,’ he said. ‘Rabbi Levinger is writing his own version of the Nuremberg laws. Kahane is inclined toward deportation and genocide.’”

Context added by this archive

A named Palestinian editor, in a Florida paper in 1980, using the word in his own name and about a named person.

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"No Compromise At Kiryat Arba," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 12 February 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-004

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