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Speaking:US-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Kach party in the Israeli Knesset. Assassinated in New York City on November 5th, 1990 by the Egyptian Islamist El Sayyid Nosair.Kahanism is an right-wing Zionist movement which some consider to be an extremist fringe movement, named after one of its major proponents, the Rabbi Meir Kahane. Following Kahane's assassination in 1990, the movement was split in two. One splinter group is headed by Kiryat Arba settler leader Baruch Marzel, while the other by Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane of Kfar Tapuach, who was assassinated in 2000.
1 Premises
The major premise of Kahanism is that the Arabs seek to exterminateGenocide has been defined as the deliberate killing of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, or (sometimes) politics, as well as other deliberate actions leading to the physical elimination of any of the above categories. There is the Jews, and that a Greater Israel, absent of the hostile Arab population, should be created in at minimum present-day IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. including the West BankThe West Bank is a territory in the Middle East constituting the area west of the Jordan River annexed by Jordan at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The territory formed part of Jordan from 1948 through 1967, after which it was captured by Israel in and Gaza StripThe World Factbook. The Gaza Strip is a narrow strip of land just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. At the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War it was occupied by the Egyptians, under which it remained until it was claimed by Israel during the Six-Day War of. Some Kahanists also argue that such a greater Israel should be ruled according to theocraticTheocracy is a form of government in which the governmental rulers are identical with the leaders of the dominant religion. In a theocracy, governmental policies are either identical with or strongly influenced by the principles of the majority religion, law, or include presently- JordanThe Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan commonly called Jordan is a country in the Middle East. It is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, and Israel and West Bank to the west. It shares the coastlines of theian territory on the East Bank of the Jordan RiverThis article is about the Jordan River is western Asia. For other meanings, see Jordan River (disambiguation The Jordan River seen from spaceNASA photo''Northern Part of the Great Rift Valley The Jordan River is a river in western Asia flowing through the.
2 Outlawed
The State of Israel has outlawed groups espousing Kahane's ideology, and forbids their participating in the Israeli government. The Kach party was banned from running for the Knesset in 1988, while the existence of the two Kahanist movements formed following Kahane's assassination were proclaimed illegal terrorist organizations in 1994.
3 Alleged Kahanist actions in Israel and the West Bank
3.1 Illegal Jewish West Bank Settlements
Kahanists have built over 100 Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal under Israeli law.
