The extremist rabbi proposed every non-Jew wishing to become a naturalized Israeli would have to pledge to ‘the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.’
IOA Editor: Indeed, the differences between Kahane and Barak are far more of style than substance. Israel’s political spectrum, from the Labor “Left” to the “extreme” Right, wishes to do away with the Palestinians, whether via a massive transfer, a creeping process of ethnic cleansing, or when “the opportunity arises.”
By Chaim Levinson, Haaretz – 15 Oct 2010
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/kahane-s-vision-for-loyalty-oath-was-not-so-different-than-barak-s-1.319174
The extremist rabbi proposed every non-Jew wishing to become a naturalized Israeli would have to pledge to ‘the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.’
More than a quarter of a century before Labor Party chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed that non-Jews seeking citizenship should pledge allegiance to the Declaration of Independence, Rabbi Meir Kahane did the same in the political platform of his Kach party in 1984.
Kahane was elected to the Knesset in 1984, but his party was disqualified for being racist when it sought to run again in 1988.
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