'Kahane event would hinder peace'

Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/11/09 | REBECCA ANNA STOIL AND TOVAH LAZAROFF

[Nachum]

Any commemoration in the Knesset of the anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane's assassination would be harmful to the peace process, the US Embassy told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.

The American comments came after the Post obtained a series of e-mails in which an embassy official told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin's office that the possibility of such a ceremony was "something that Senator [George] Mitchell and his team are following with concern."

Following a Post report describing Rivlin's denial that he had allowed MK Michael Ben-Ari to commemorate Kahane in the Knesset plenum, the US administration contacted Rivlin's office to keep abreast of further developments.

[Nachum]

Well, in that case, make a country-wide celebration. Then, send Obama and Mitchel CD of all the festivities.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[SatinDoll]

Is anyone else as horrified as I am over this gross violation of another nation’s sovereignty by the Obama administration? Didn’t they say they wouldn’t do that anymore?

We have no right to interfere in what Israel does or does not do vis a vis Rabbi Kahanes’s assassination. It isn’t any of our damn business if the Knesset wants to honor a murdered rabbi.

[goldstategop]

Rabbi Kahane was demonized by Israel's Left and caricatured as a racist and extremist. He was the exact opposite - and he and his family were all murdered by Arab terrorists. Yes, he deserves to be remembered for holding true to the idea Israel should be a Jewish State worthy of the Jewish people. Its about time a good man receive his due.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[CondorFlight]

What business is it of ours if they decide to honor him?

(Have we criticized China for honoring Mao?)

And does anyone really believe that Israel’s honoring Kahane will affect the so-called “peace process” in any way?

[gigster]

P!ss off! Mitchell, and Obama!

[NativeNewYorker]

Mitchell is a bitter, vicious man. F him.

[SunkenCiv]

would be harmful to the peace process

That's strange, because Kahane's book was titled "They Must Go" -- the very idea that Zero and Hitlery and the rest of the Demwit criminals have been applying to home improvements in Israeli towns.