THEY MUST GO (Front Cover) HOW LONG CAN ISRAEL SURVIVE ITS MALIGNANT AND GROWING ARAB POPULATION? THEY MUST GO BY RABBI MEIR KAHANE IN THIS MANIFESTO, RABBI MEIR KAHANE SETS FORTH THE ONLY PLAN FOR ISRAEL'S SALVATION. ii (Back Cover) HOW LONG CAN ISRAEL SURVIVE ITS MALIGNANT AND GROW ARAB POPULATION? JANUARY 28, 1980 -- WISE AUDITORIUM -- HEBREW UNIVERSITY -- JERUSALEM: The hall is packed to overflowing with more than six hundred students who are on their feet, singing the anthem. The auditorium fairly shakes as the loud, proud voices sing: In the name of freedom, we shall give outlives, Arab Palestine Is the land of our struggle. We have seen the path from the Negev to the Galilee, Our front will be triumphant, - The song: Not the ''Hatikva,'' but the Fatah (FLO) national anthem. BINYAMIN GUR-ARYE, Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "All the talk about radicalization of Israeli Arabs in their relation to the state of Israel is baseless.” PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN, 1976: "The majority of the people living in a Jewish state must be Jewish. We must prevent a situation of an insufficient Jewish majority and we dare not have a Jewish minority.” NA'AMA SAUD, an Israeli Arab schoolteacher: "Today I am in the minority. Who says that in the year 2000 we Arabs will still be the minority? Today, I accept the fact that this is a Jewish state with an Arab minority. But when we are the majority I will not accept the fact of a Jewish state with an Arab majority.” RABBI MEIR KAHANE, founder of the Jewish Defense League: THEY MUST GO iii (Inner Cover) THEY MUST GO BY RABBI MEIR KAHANE "Every day," writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, "the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to push Israel closer to the abyss?” According to Rabbi Kahane, Israel can only be sustained by a permanent Jewish majority and a small, insignificant, and placid Arab minority. But the Arab population continues to grow quantitatively and qualitatively. They feel no ties for a state that breathes Jewishness. They mockingly accept moneys from the National Insurance Institute for medical services, tuition, and social welfare; yet they pay little or no tax. Even worse, they openly vow to destroy the Jewish state -- not with bullets or bombs, but with the democratic vote. Is there a solution? Rabbi Kahane insists, "Yes.” In this explosive manifesto Rabbi Kahane sets forth the only plan to save Israel. Israeli Arabs would be given the options of accepting noncitizenship, leaving willingly with compensation, or being forcibly expelled without compensation. Controversial? Yes. Could the Arabs be convinced to leave? "We will not come to the Arabs to request, argue, or convince," says Kahane. "For Jews and Arabs in Israel there is only one answer -- separation. Jews in their land, Arabs in theirs. Separation. Only separation.” They Must Go was written in 1980 while Rabbi Meir Kahane was jailed in Ramie Prison by the Israeli government under an unprecedented administrative detention order that imprisoned him without a trial, without his being informed of any specific charge, and without opportunity to know or to question any alleged evidence or witness. His crime: his philosophy concerning the danger that exists to the state of Israel by the very presence of its large and growing Arab population. Rabbi Kahane's ideas were suppressed, twisted, defamed, and subjected iv to emotional and hysterical diatribes by people who were too frightened to consider them intelligently or to debate them intellectually. Is there a time bomb ticking away relentlessly in the Holy Land? Can Arabs and Jews ultimately coexist in a Jewish-Zionist state? Rabbi Kahane's only answer: " They Must Go .” Rabbi Meir Kahane is an internationally known theologian, founder of the Jewish Defense League, columnist for The Jewish Press, and author of several best-selling books, including Never Again! v Contents Preface Introduction Arabs and Jews -- Only Separation Chapter 1 Togetherness in Israel Chapter 2 Coexistence with the "Palestinians” Chapter 3 On Declarations and Independence Chapter 4 Israeli Arabs: Fathers and Sons (and Daughters) Chapter 5 The Demon of Demography Chapter 6 The Ultimate Contradiction Chapter 7 One Worlds Chapter 8 Our Fathers' Children Chapter 9 Time Runs Out Chapter 10 Separation -- Only Separation Conclusion But There Is a G-d in Israel Copyright (c) 1981 by Meir Kahane [Text taken from http://kahane.hameir.org/] vi Preface Ramie city. A motley mix of some 40,0000 Middle Eastern residents, all but 5,000 of whom are Jews from Arab lands. It is not a pretty city, and the main street is a garish potpourri of fast-food shops with loud music blaring from loudspeakers. Off toward the edge of the city, where it meets its sister town of Lydda, stands the Ramie prison. It is the maximum security prison in Israel, and its grim gray walls with barbed-wire coils at the top are capped by sentry boxes set every fifty yards. In this prison, with its more than 700 murderers, rapist, robbers, and Arab terrorists, I wrote this book. It was on the evening of May 13, 1980 that they came for me: four plainclothesmen with a piece of paper, an unprecedented Administrative Detention Order mandating my imprisonment for six months without trial or charges. And so Ramie Prison, the prison I had driven past so many times, the one vaguely suggesting a Hollywood movie prison out of the thirties and forties, became my home. My particular "home" was a tiny cell, some six by nine feet in size, in Wing Nine. My immediate neighbor to my left was a veteran Yemeni Jewish criminal named Adani, who was serving the last part of a fifteen- year sentence for armed robbery. On my right was a Bedouin Arab, imprisoned for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl in the Negev area of the country. The possibility of his having been apprehended would have been slim if not for the fact that he added greed to his original sin. Having buried the body in a well, he applied for the reward by contacting the police to say he had "discovered" it. Incredibly, his life sentence had been reduced, and he was preparing to go home after having served a mere eighteen years. There were some seventy prisoners in the wing, fifty-eight of them Jewish. Of those, the overwhelming majority were Jews from Eastern or Arab lands, Sephardim. Perhaps more than anything else, this is the accusing finger that points at the Israeli Establishment, for what the Muslims could not do during more than 1,000 years of domination of the Jews in their lands, the Jewish Establishment of Israel accomplished in less than 25: the spiritual destruction of hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews who came to the Holy Land with their religion, Zionism, and basic Jewish values. Less than three decades later, they were deep into crime, violence, drugs, prostitution, and pell-mell emigration from the country. In my wing alone there were four Yemeni Jewish murderers. I doubt that there had been a total of four Jewish murders in the 2,000 years of exile in Yemen ... vii The greatest enemy of modern man is boredom. In prison, it can drive men mad. And so I instituted a stiff, disciplined daily regimen of study and writing that would keep me busy from early morning (4:30 A.M.) until lights out (midnight). This schedule included regular study not only of Bible, Talmud, and Law, but also of other writings of various kinds. I have, for example, been creating a biblical commentary for the past ten years, and, ironically, never did I have so much time - and peace and quiet - to work on it as in prisons. It is a labor of love, and I spent many hours on it, daily, while in Ramie. That in itself gives more than a passing clue to the attitude of the prison guards and officials toward me. It goes without saying that the Jewish prisoners treated me with respect and admiration. Not only did I represent, in the eyes of these Jews from Arab lands, opposition to the Establishment they so hated, but they had a genuine gut feeling that the Arab poses a terrible threat to Jews within Israel. No Ashkenazic Jew from Europe can really appreciate this, for he has not lived with an Arab majority. He has not tasted the bitter dregs of Jewish minority status under Muslim rule. Even more significant, the average guard was overwhelmingly sympathetic to me. It was clear to all that was not an ordinary criminal and that I had been imprisoned for my ideas - ideas that so many of those guards, as well as Jews throughout the country, privately espoused. Therefore, I was allowed as many books as I wished, things that I could not have done without while writing my commentaries. And that is the key to the writing of this book. It would have been impossible to write the manuscript, with all its facts, dates, incidents, quotes, and names, had the prison officials not allowed me to bring in all my private papers and newspaper clippings. It is thanks to them that this book was written, a fact they knew about and to which they conveniently closed their official eyes. Cell 23 in Wing Nine of Ramie Prison was, thus, the scene of many hours each day, many days a week, more than two continuous months of writing.