Michael
After much discussion, many hissy-fits, and a few drunken brawls, we at Israel Thrives are endorsing Meir Kahane for the Presidency of the United States.
After many long nights eating pizza and yammering at one another in the Israel Thrives offices here in beautiful downtown Yuma, Arizona, Doodad, Oldschool, Daniel, and myself have, after much back and forth... as well as the occasional threats of violence... come to a decision.
Meir Kahane for President!
We honestly believe that Meir Kahane, though long dead, is the best man to lead the United States going forward. Not only is he the quintessential Washington, DC, outsider, his honesty, his wit, and his gentleness are a joy to all of us.
Meir Kahane is beloved throughout the land. His peacefulness, grace, and startling good looks make him unquestionably the best man to be President of the United States... of America.
Please note that I do question the authenticity of his birth certificate, but other than that.....
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This makes me feel so old. Two marriages, two grown kids, seven cars, countless drunken stupors, acid trips, conversions and transitions and pretty damn close to 35 years since this notion crossed my mind. Since I was among those, who called him a prophet, and I asked him what was true. I may still have my membership card, or maybe it got destroyed in a paranoid rush.
ReplyDeleteSo, you met the guy personally?
DeleteIn Israel or New York?
Met would be an exaggeration. But we were in the same room. And neither NY nor Israel, but it was a couple years after he moved to Israel. He wasn't quite so famous or infamous then.
ReplyDeleteStuart,
Deletewill you write about this?
About your time close to that movement?
In the present day and age of internet communications, rest assured that someone will use this as a sword, despite that it is snark intended to show how foolish this all can get.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt. Beware those with no sense of humor. Something very dark lurks within them.
DeleteYeah. Because my name is on the Masthead, I am somehow responsible for ever utterance you make. Or so I am told.
DeleteNot only are you responsible for this reprehensible display of insensitivity, I intend to tell people that it was your idea.
Deletebtw, am I to understand that I have a moral obligation to have hatred for Kahane? It's not enough to disagree on policy, but we're supposed to spit hatred at him whenever his name arises?
I'm just not feeling it.
I don't hate Kahane.
I don't hate Sharon.
I don't hate Begin.
I don't Jabotinsky.
It sometimes troubles me the number of people who I have no hatred for.
I kinda hate Arafat, tho.
{Is that wrong?}
You are not responsible for what I say. Hell, I am not responsible for what I say, having had a bad childhood and all. lol
DeleteSpeaking of hate, is it OK to hate Jimmy Carter?
ReplyDeleteI never used to think so.
DeleteBut are we not talking about the former US president who met with Hamas, who validated BDS by calling Israel "apartheid," and who now claims that a nuclear Iran is just A-OK?
Perhaps even the guy, as Dershowitz has suggested, that advised Arafat not to accept the Oslo agreement.
I don't hate the guy, but I can certainly understand how any conscious Jews might.
Michael, in response to your request that I write about a time very long ago, I respectfully decline, maybe we can talk about it in another setting.
ReplyDeleteExcept to say that it was very different than today. It was about soviet jewrry. And it was, from my perspective, other than the issue of soviet Jews, it was solely about domestic anti-semitism. It wasn't about Arabs or Muslims, and it certainly was not about Palestinians.