Interview on Kol Yisroel with Dr. Prof Ben Ari - Cut off by Kol Yisroel Arieh Golan

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Attached please find the short video clip.

I listened to a clip of an interview with Arieh Golan  of Kol Yisroel and Prof Dr. Ben Ari MK National Union.  This is more or less what I heard.  The translation is not exact but you can get the general gist  It started with Arieh Golan saying "Shalom Dr. Professor Michael Ben Ari, MK of National Union"  and asked him, first of all "on what was your doctorate".  Dr. Michael Ben Ari answer that his doctorate was on Archeological boundaries around Har Habayit and if Arieh Golan would want a lecture...

Arieh Golan replied "Of course not, there's no time for that. You are a
Kahana supporter.  What is the significance of being a Kahana supporter afterr so many years?".  Dr. Ben Ari said now that's a wonderful question.  How would Arieh Golan like it if someone would call him devout Ish Gush Shalom.  Arieh Golan answered that he is not a devout Ish Gush Shalom and by suggesting such a thing Dr. Ben Ari is besmirching Arieh Golan's name and is a liar.  In response Dr. Ben Ari asked Arieh Golan that perhaps by calling him a Kahanist, Arieh Golan is besmirching Ben Ari's name ... Arieh Golan interupted and said "so if you are not a Kahana supporter then say so but don't lie about it: As Prof. Ben Ari tried to explain his position, Arieh Golan  said "Thank you very much, have a good morning, good luck in the Knesset together with Itamar ben Dvir" and then Ben Ari said Yala and disconnected him.

I am not a Kahanist.  However, the name Kahana has become to be synonymous with racism.All Kahanists are perceived as religious fanaticism, and extremists and lawless people that wish to take the law into their own hands.

 After reading what Kahana wrote and calling him a racist and after reading portions of the Torah, one can logically conclude that the Torah is also racist, undemocratic, archaic, terrorist inciting piece of literature.  After all, the passages about how G-d commands the Jews to destroy Amalek, man women and child is contrary to what any civilized nation in a democratic society.  It is pure racism against the Amalekites.  After all, what did the little Amalekit babies do to harm anyone.  Even worse.  what did their sheep do to deserve annihilation. 

The Torah is quite racist against Homosexuals as well.  The Torah is quite explicit in describing the Gay lifestyle as abominable.  After all the Torah as a classic should have known better then to single out one group of individuals and discriminate against them is such a politically incorrect explicit  manner.

The Knesset  voted that Kach, Rabbi Meir Kahana's ob"m party was racist.  However, if one takes the Torah at its word, then by extension, the Torah is also a racist book and therefore by extension believers in the Torah are also racists and not only followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahana should be labeled as racists

The reality is that Arieh Golan is unwilling to explore honestly a possiblity that might lead him to conclude that  Kahana's beliefs are not necessarily racist but actually follow Torah law.  It is unexplored  territory that is better left unexplored lest Arieh Golan himself is forced to admit that perhaps some of Rabbi Meir Kahana's teachings are not racist but based on what is written in the Torah. 

 Arieh Golan is not brazen enough to call the Torah racist so rather he will call Prof. Michael Ben Ari a Kahana supporter knowing fully well the stigma attached to any Kahana supporter.It is no surprise that Prof. Michael Ben Ari does not wish to be labeled a Kahanist since that by extension also makes him to be a racist.

Rather than address the modern day issues of the ongoing missile attacks from Gaza after having giving away our stategic strongholds,namely  the settlements,  Arieh Golan wants to lalbel Prof. Ben Ari as a Kahanist which puts him in the category of "racist"  rather than as someone concerned with securing our borders and our population from missiles and terror attacks.

Well if ARieh Golan is forcing the issue then maybe the time has come to honestly reexamine the Knesset's decision to outlaw the Kach party as a racist party.AFter all, who is not allowed to buy property from an Arab? Isn't it racist that Jews are not allowed to buy propert from Arabs but Arabs can buy property from Jews? 

This Knesset decision has been a defamation of character of the late Rabbi Meir Kahana ob"m.

Sincerely, Robin Ticker