The Authentic Jewish Idea: Policies And Programs
Rabbi Meir Kahane

1. THE JEWISH PEOPLE IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER. It is a Divine, special, holy and different
nation, chosen by the Al-Mighty at Sinai to live a specific life under Jewish law and
commandments. Jewish destiny - that which will be - depends on one thing only: Jewish
adherence to their special mission of obedience to that Law. There must be a return to
Jewish faith and observance, or tragedy will strike regardless of whether Right or Left
guides the Jewish ship of state.

2. A JEWISH LEADERSHIP THAT IS OVERWHELMINGLY AND SO OFTEN WILLFULLY
IGNORANT of Judaism and lacking in faith and belief in Judaism, whose policies have
destroyed Jews, spiritually and physically, today presides over potential disaster for the
Jewish people. That leadership must be rejected and its place taken by leaders dedicated to
Jewish faith and observance, and who are selected not because of wealth or connections
but because of their knowledge and commitment to the G-d of Israel and His decrees.

3. THE JEWISH PEOPLE WAS MADE TO BE DIFFERENT, SEPARATE, set apart from all the
others. Not assimilation or amalgamation or integration with the nations is the Jewish role
but rather the creation of a separate people, living in a separate state, and building a
separate and special society. That is the Jewish injunction and that is the true meaning of
the Jews as "a light unto the nations". The Jewish people must, thus, be isolated from
foreign cultures that corrupt and destroy the authentic Jewish Idea.
There must be an unrelenting campaign to make intermarriage and assimilation anathema,
with no compromise on rejection of the concept of marrying out of the faith. In particular,
no Jew who is intermarried shall be allowed to hold a Jewish leadership post.
And Jewish policy must also be one of isolation from a corrupting world political process. To
that end, the Jewish state must leave the United Nations, a band of international
desecrators of the name of the L-rd. No fear of isolation! We are a people that dwells alone.

4. LOVE OF JEW FOR JEW. The Jewish nation is one. There are no boundaries that separate
the Jews and the pain of one is the pain of all. There is an obligation to rush to save
oppressed and suffering Jews, wherever they may be and in whatever way is necessary. The
weak Jew who is threatened must be rescued by the Jew of strength. Jewish power, in such
a case, is an obligation.
It is unacceptable to speak of internal affairs of any country in which Jews are threatened.
In particular, while Jews remain in the Exile and are endangered by Jew-haters, it is the
role of the State of Israel to do all in its power to defend them and to put an end to attacks
on Jews. Israel was established as the Jewish State, as the trustee and guardian of Jews all
over the world. It must live up to that obligation.
For the Jew, there are no permanent allies except the Jew himself and the Al-mighty. For
the Jew, Jewish interest comes first, for who will care about him, if not himself? Public
Jewish funds must stop going to non-Jewish causes and a new order of priorities must be
established that set Jewish education - the real and substantive kind, the Jewish day school,
the yeshiva - as the most important of Jewish projects. Public Jewish funds must be set
aside, not for community centers with huge numbers of non-Jews as members, but for
Jewish defense, aliya - immigration to Israel - and Jewish centers that are truly Jewish and
not just centers.

5. NO GUILT. To be Jewish is to be the Chosen of the L-rd and Jews must rid themselves of
the guilt, self-hate and inferiority that grip so many today. Not guilt but pride; not self-hate
but intense love; not inferiority but the knowledge that Jews have been chosen from all the
nations upon the face of the earth to receive the Divine truth. Jewish pride! But combined
with the humility of bowing to the will of G-d.
What is moral and ethical, what is just and merciful, must be based not on western and
gentilized concepts but on Divine values that can be derived only from the sources of Jewish
Law. The concept of the yoke of Heaven must be accepted and must be the only yardstick
for Jewish values regardless of how they differ from western and gentile ones. Jews must
become conceptually Jewish, with Jewish public funds allocated primarily for real
substantive Jewish education that produces proud, knowledgeable and observant Jews. In
the Exile this will put an end to the curse of the Melting Pot, the public school and the
Interfaith that Jewish leaders have foisted on Jews that have caused the loss of an entire
generation.
In the State of Israel it will put an end to the spiritual tragedy of the destruction of Jewish
values among the young, particularly the Sefardi Jews who lived for centuries under
Moslems but with Jewish values that preserved them, only to come home to Israel and be
robbed of those values. The cancers of crime and emigration that beset Israel are directly
due to gentilization of the Jewish State and substitution of the values of Dizengoff Street
and America, for those of Judaism. Every public school in Israel must devote a major part of
its curriculum to Judaism and to Jewish values and commandments. A Jewish state that is
not bound by basic Jewish values and laws, courts Divine anger and tragedy. All national and
public services must be committed to Sabbath observance, and the definition of a Jew must
conform to that of Torah law.

6. THE ESSENCE OF JUDAISM IS FAITH. Faith in a G-d of the Jews who is Omnipotent and
who holds the world in His hands. The sadness of our times is the lack of true faith that has
gripped all section of Jewry, including the Orthodox, so many of whom believe in
commandments but not really in G-d.

7. THE JEW MUST THROW OFF HIS FEAR OF THE GENTILE and the tragic misconception
that his future depends on the love and support of the nations. The Jewish people is
indestructible and the Jewish State that arose after 19 centuries of agony in the Exile, can
never go under. It is not the gentile who holds the Jewish destiny in his hands but only the
Jew. Fear of the gentile betrays lack of faith in the G-d of Israel and in His power to
determine history. Furthermore, to violate Jewish law because of that fear is to desecrate
the name of the L-rd.

8. ISRAEL IS THE HAND OF G-D. It was created as proof of His existence and power to a
world that had looked upon 1900 years of Jewish suffering and impotence as evidence of the
non-existence of the G-d of Israel. Jewish weakness is the essence of the desecration of the
name of the G-d of Israel. In the eyes of the gentile it is the weakness of the Jewish G-d.
Jewish strength and victory, on the other hand, are proof of the existence, power and
Omnipotence of the G-d of Israel. They are the sanctification of His name. Because of this,
it is a national injunction and imperative to follow an ongoing policy of sanctification by
never retreating before the gentile and by never hesitating to act according to Jewish Law
because of that fear.

9. JEWISH STRENGTH, NOT WEAKNESS. Jewish strength is not only a sanctification of the
name of the L-rd, but an imperative to save a Jew who is oppressed and suffering. What
immorality cloaked in hypocritical "ethics" it is, to condemn violence when someone else is
suffering! Violence is tragic but sometimes tragically necessary, and when it is necessary, it
is obligatory. The dream of Israel is for the nations to beat their swords into ploughshares,
but while our enemy still has his sword, let us not have a ploughshare.
Let the Jewish response to any Western threat to cut off conventional arms sales be the
production and deployment of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that will, at the
same time, equalize any arrogant threat by any arrogant superpower.

10. JEWISH POPULATION EXPANSION, NOT JEWISH NATIONAL SUICIDE. Let there be an
end to practices which numerically diminish and weaken the body of the Jewish people, who
will be needed in coming generations to sanctify His name and build and sustain the Jewish
state. In place of abortion anarchy, planned childlessness and other incremental and
insidious forms of Jewish national suicide, let there be mass Jewish population growth in
accordance with Jewish law. The social fabric of the Jewish people and the national policies
of the Jewish government of Israel, alike, must encourage each Jewish mother and father to
raise the maximum feasible number of Jewish children within the framework of halacha.
This will insure a population large enough to secure the Jewish people, populate and defend
Eretz-Yisrael, and compensate numeric losses of the Holocaust and assimilation.
At the same time, let us end the disgrace of unwarranted Jewish abortion, which is nothing
less than murder. Throughout Jewish history, the act of destroying the fetus in the womb
has been singled out as one of the "abominations of Egypt" which Torah has enjoined us to
suppress. Feticide, except where birth endangers the life of the mother, is forbidden by
halacha; its practice must be eliminated in the Jewish state.

11. THE STATE OF ISRAEL MUST ELIMINATE THOSE FOREIGN ABOMINATIONS THAT
DESECRATE THE NAME OF G-D and turn it into a gentilized, westernized country rather
than the Jewish state it is meant to be. These include:
a. THE DISGRACE OF MISSIONARIES AND PAGAN CULTS who destroy the Jewish soul. The
Jew is, indeed, destroyed equally through the ovens of Auschwitz or through the loss of the
Jewish soul to the missionaries and cults. They must be banned from Israel.
b. THE DISGRACE OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT where Moslem mosques are built on the holiest
site in Judaism. A synagogue built on Islam's holiest site in Mecca would lead to world
Moslem outcry. Jewish silence in the face of the desecration of Judaism's holiest site is
inexcusable and a disgrace. The Moslems and their mosques must be removed from the site
of the holy temples of Israel.
c. THE DISGRACE OF INTERMARRIAGE AND SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN JEW AND
GENTILE. This has been an abomination and desecration since the birth of the Jewish nation
and has always been forbidden and prohibited by Jewish governments. Once again, the laws
of the Jewish state must put an end to it.

12. THE ENTIRE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, ALONE. There are no
other legitimate claimants. It is the holy land, the land of G-d, given by Him to His holy
people for the purpose creating a holy society, therein. Because of this, none but the Jew
can have a role in the destiny and political affairs of the state. The non-Jew can live within
the Jewish state only as a "resident stranger" who enjoys his personal, social, cultural, and
economic rights but with no citizenship, no political representation, no membership in
government service, and no say in the destiny of the country. Those who are not prepared
to accept this, cannot remain.

13. THE ARABS LIVING IN ERETZ-YISRAEL MUST BE REPATRIATED. The Arabs of Israel,
specifically, will never consider themselves an integral part of a country that is legally
defined as a Jewish state. They can never feel love and empathy for it. Only those who live
contempt for the Arabs cannot and will not see this. Only they believe that national pride,
dignity and self-determination can be bought in exchange for economic benefits. The Arabs
who refuse to live as resident strangers - and the numbers of these must be limited so as to
endanger neither the security nor the economy of the Jewish state - must be given a choice
of leaving willingly with full compensation for their property or being compelled to leave
without compensation.
The truth is that there is a contradiction between the concepts of a Jewish state and a
western democratic one. We must choose a Jewish state.
The transfer of Arabs will complete the exchange of populations begun 1948, after which
almost one million Jews fled Arab countries with no compensation. These Jews were
integrated into the Jewish state of their brothers and sisters. Let the same be done for the
Arabs Israel by their brethren. Social support payments which the government of Israel has
squandered on Arabs and other enemies must be directed to help needy Jews, and
especially, Sefardi and oriental Jewish communities in various development towns and
economically disadvantaged 'shikunim' (neighborhoods) around Israel. >From those Arabs who
receive compensation, a percentage will be taken off the amounts to compensate Sefardi
Jews who received nothing when they were expelled from Arab countries.

14. THE JEW IS FORBIDDEN TO GIVE UP ANY PART OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL. The land
belongs to the G-d of Israel and the Jew, given it by G-d, has no right to give away any part
of it. All the areas past liberated (including those currently under the "Palestinian
Authority"), or areas which may be liberated in the future, must be annexed, made part of
the State of Israel, and populated by Jews as rapidly as possible. Jewish settlement in every
part of Eretz-Yisrael, including cities that today are sadly Judenrein , must be unlimited.
Maximum continuous expansion of Jewish settlement must be encouraged by wellcoordinated
national policies binding upon all agencies of the State of Israel and all related
Jewish institutions with authority or influence over urban and rural development, housing,
agriculture, transportation and industrial investment.

15. THERE IS NO "PALESTINE" OR "PALESTINE PEOPLE." They are Arabs, part of the Arab
nation that lives in many countries, and to the Arabs of Eretz-Yisrael must and will be
repatriated. The Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the name of our land from Judea - the
land of the Jews, to "Palestina" - the land of the Philistines, after crushing Bar Kochba's
revolt. It was the Roman design to destroy the Jewish people by erasing the name of our
homeland. Now the Philistines, the Roman Empire and even the Latin language are as dead
as Babylon. But the Jewish people never died, and the Jewish State is alive and the Jewish
army stands guard over it. Israel will live forever; "Palestine" was never even born.

16. THE ARABS DO NOT WANT PEACE. It is illusion and delusion to believe the Middle
Eastern problem is a dispute over the occupied lands of 1967, or the creation of a "Palestine"
that would exist next to Israel. Those who understand the Arabs and are free of contempt
for them know the essence of the problem is the Arab belief that the Jews have stolen the
entire land from them. Arabs went to war with Israel in 1956 and 1967 when the "occupied
lands" of today were in their hands. Arabs turned down the United Nations' 1947 partition
plan and went to war then, too. Arabs murdered Jews in the 1920's and 1930's when there
was no Jewish state and no "Zionist occupation force".

17. THERE ARE NO ARAB MODERATES. Witness the Jordanian "moderate" who in 1967, in
possession of the lands of Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") and East
Jerusalem, went to war, and who openly sided with the Iraqi aggressor during the Gulf war.
The Arabs differ in tactics, not goals. Foolish Jews who call for concessions have already
cost us dearly and we will pay terribly for those concessions that were made on the
assumption that Arab "moderates" would seek peace with Israel and be its allies. Similarly, it
is mad delusion to insist that Arab terrorists do not represent the "Palestinians". Of course
they do, because the "Palestinians", as a whole, are committed to the destruction of an
Israel they see as a robber state.
The true issue is the refusal of the Arabs to recognize a Jewish state of any size or shape for
any permanent length of time. It Is not an Arab-Israel issue but an Arab-Jewish one and it Is
more than a political dispute; it is a religious war. We should not be surprised that
Christians and Moslems who kill each other join against the Jews or that a Pope meets with
Christians and Moslems, who kill each other, join against the Jews or that a Pope meets with
Moslem terrorists. The very existence of the Jewish state is proof of the truth of Judaism, a
thing that neither Islam nor Christianity can accept. Peace is not possible under the above
circumstances but Jews need not weep or wail. Zionism, from the first, was not created
primarily for peace but for a Jewish state. Hopefully, it was believed, this could be
accomplished by peace. But with or without peace, the primary goal was a Jewish state.

18. THE COMMANDMENT TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL BRINGS WITH IT THE THREAT
OF MASS TRAGEDY FOR THOSE JEWS WHO REFUSE TO LEAVE THE EXILE. The Jewish state
is the sanctification of G-d and to remain in the Exile, the embodiment of desecration, at a
time when it is possible to return home, is to consciously choose to reinforce the
desecration. The Al-Mighty will never allow it and the Exile is being ended whether the Jew
agrees to it or not. The signs are already plentiful as Jew-hatred and world political
conditions combine to shake the ground under the feet of the Jew in continent after
continent. The Exile will end, either in glory through mass, voluntary Jewish coming to
Israel, or through terrible tragedy, G-d forbid. There simply cannot be coexistence between
sanctification and desecration.
The Jews of the Exile, including those of the United States, face a horrible growth of Jewhatred
that will be triggered by economic and social upheaval in the world. Before it is too
late, they must leave the graveyard and return to Israel. It is the obligation of Zionist
leaders in the Exile to take the lead by emigrating to Israel.

19. TIME RUNS OUT. Since the State of Israel arose, not because of Jewish merit, let it be
clear that this beginning of the final redemption is merely the start of a process whose end
will be determined by Jewish actions. If the Jew returns to G-d, that final redemption will
come instantly and gloriously. If Jews, however, continue to be blind to Jewish reality, it
will come only after terrible and needless suffering, G-d forbid. The choice is in Jewish
hands.