TERRORISM IN THE MIDEAST -- ISRAELI TERRORISTS

Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear within a given population and thereby bring about a particular objective. In many cases, the terrorists are seeking more than one objective and may also have agendas that are hidden from public scrutiny. All terrorist groups have the same basic ideology: “the end justifies the means.” Simply put, terrorist groups will pursue their goals using any and all methods possible with no consideration of the moral consequences. Their actions are justified as necessary evils.
Islamic Arabs are not the only terrorist and extremists operating in the Middle East. Kach and Kahane Chai are two American-trained Israeli organizations that have used terrorism to achieve their objectives of expanding Jewish rule, control, and religious culture across the West Bank; and expelling the resident Palestinians. Although the Israeli terrorist groups have not received the same media attention from the American and European press that the Islamic terrorist groups have received, the Kach and the Kahane Chai, never-the-less, are just as active. Many other splinter groups have formed; but all still fall under the direction, guidance, and financial influence of these major factions.
Martin David Kahane was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in1932. His Hebrew name was Meir Kahane. As a teenager, he joined a quasi-military group that was affiliated with the “Revisionist Zionist” movement. This movement wanted Jewish state occupation in all of the presently British-ruled Palestine. In 1968, Rabbi Kahane, who was previously trained as a lawyer and a rabbi, formed the Jewish Defense League (JDL). This militant group advocated and promoted Jewish vigilantism and urged American Jews to arm themselves under the slogan “every Jew a 22.” The JDL was initially organized to combat African American anti-Semitism, but later increased the scope of their objectives and targeted bigger institutions.
Attorney Rabbi Kahane immigrated to Israel in 1971. He took his “Jewish-power” philosophy to the Israeli scene and formed the terrorist group Kach, endorsing it with the ideology of using “terror against terror,” which would be represented by the Hebrew acronym “TNT.” He advocated the formation of a “worldwide Jewish anti-terror group” that would be organized, aided, and operated in exactly the same manner as Islamic Arab terrorist. Financial aide was not only to be solicited from private individuals, but from various corporations and governments. In 1984, Kahane was elected to Israel’s parliament.
Under Kahane’s direction, many innocent Islamic Arabs were murdered, beaten, kidnapped and tortured. Many Islamic Arab Mosques were utterly desecrated and destroyed. Arab schools were bombed, killing hundred’s of innocent children. In some instances, foreigners and Christians were killed with the Islamic Arabs. There were other bombings, grenade throwing, shootings, and arson-related fires. Each incident was justified as a retaliatory strike.
Kahane increased the scope of his objective to include the removal or extermination of neighboring sovereign Islamic Arab states. He fought tooth-and-nail against any peace efforts with neighboring Islamic Arab countries. His genocidal ideology spread quickly throughout Israel, with staunch supporters located in Europe and the United States. In November 1990, Kahane was assassinated in New York City by an Islamic Arab.
Amid the squabbling that arose in the Kach after Kahane’s death, Kahane’s son, Benjamin or as in the Hebrew tongue – Binyamin, became the leader of a splinter group called Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives). Binyamin was killed by an Islamic Arab on the disputed Israeli occupied West Bank in December 2000. The differences between the Kach and the Kahane Chai revolved around personal conflicts, not ideology, and those differences have almost completely eroded since the death of Binyamin.
The Kach and the Kahane Chai have a large following in Israel and many sympathizing supporters throughout Europe and the United States. Various intelligence surveillances have estimated their following to be in the thousands. Recent reports show the Kach and the Kahane Chai having an overlapping core membership of committed high-level government supporters positioned in strategic locations throughout the world. Many of their fund-raising constituents have been arrested for a variety of felonious criminal activity, including counterfeiting, drug trafficking and money-laundering.
The Kach and the Kahane Chai are now classified as terrorists and their type of terrorism can be considered one of the most dangerous. It represents multiple forms of contemporary terrorism ideologies. It has the “Revolutionary Terrorism” ideology by aiming to replace existing governments with a regime that have political and religious views acceptable to them. It has the “Political Terrorism” ideology by engaging in a campaign of violence designed to destroy those who are in opposition to their social, political, cultural, and religious ideologies. It has the “Caused-Based Terrorism” ideology by directing their activities against individuals and governments of whom they object to on social, cultural, and religious grounds. With its illegal fund-raising techniques, it also has the “Criminal Terrorism” ideology. This ideology is suspected as their hidden agenda, known only to the groups’ top level officials.
Many Europeans and Americans are in agreement with the “eye-for-an-eye” tactics of the Kach and Kahane Chai, and revere them as anti-terrorists. However, terrorism and anti-terrorism are both inherently evil. There is little difference between the ideology of terrorism and the ideology of anti-terrorism when innocent lives become the ponds sacrificed to obtain an objective…