Meir Ettinger: The face of Jewish terrorism

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The Shin Bet describes him as a central figure in Jewish terrorism, 'a violent and dangerous ideological criminal,' while his friends tell of a quiet and pleasant young man who became a leader merely because of his writing skills; somewhere on the way, between the outposts he's been living in since he was 15, to his administrative detention following the Duma murders, Rabbi Meir Kahane's grandson has formed a radical and anti-Zionist ideology.

Two days after thearson at the Palestinian village of Duma, Meir Ettinger was arrested in Safed. Ettinger was considered by the Shin Bet as the number one target of the agency's Jewish Division, the "ideological director" of the perpetrators of Jewish terror attacks, the one who charts the way the wind would blows and pours in Halachic arguments to justify it, which he bases on the writings of rabbis.

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"The man leaves no impression, he is the opposite of charismatic," says a lawman who spoke to Ettinger in the past year. "But when you start talking to him, you discover a very sharp young man, with extensive Torah knowledge, who talks to you about Jewish philosophy on a level that surpasses anyone his age.

Protests against Ettinger's detention (Photo: Avi Mualem)

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But while Meir Kahane was a Zionist who supported the State of Israel, his grandson, born a year after he was murdered and named after him, believes the State of Israel must be destroyed, or, in his own words - to be gently dismantled.

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Meir rejects the State of Israel. He believes it is a stumbling block to everything that is holy, like the land of Israel, Shabbat, and Judaism. And in his opinion this stumbling block must be moved. This is what he puts on the table, thanks to his great ability of expression, to try to convince everyone. He knows how to express his ideas and that's why the Shin Bet wants to shut him up."

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His friend Melet says Ettinger was not gifted with technical abilities. "He has two left hands. Meir is the kind of guy that you give him a book and he doesn't need anything more. He already finished reading the Shisha Sedarim (Six Orders of Mishnah and Talmud – ed.) several times. It's not that he didn't also help to physically build structures at outposts, but he doesn't have technical abilities. He's more of a man of ideology than a man of action. He thinks we need to do, not talk. He's a joyful believer that you can learn how to follow the truth from."

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"Unfortunately, the Land of Israel is dominated by a government that is not loyal to the laws of Torah and the commandments, for which the sanctity of the Land of Israel is foreign, and the fact it is called a Jewish state is merely lip service. This is the situation that brought me to stand here, in front of this court, that in my eyes is the same as those who are barring me from my home and the land of my ancestors, whose goal is to promote assimilation and erase the unique nature of the people of Israel, and to whom the state's security is not the same as the security of Jews."

 

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》This, for example, is what Ettinger wrote about the arson at the Church of the Multiplication: "What fire trucks could put out this raging fire that will set a spark in the heart of one Jew? There is hope, there is a chance, do not despair. My heart has been set aflame, what about you? Light it up quickly, before they can put us out."

 

And a day before the terror attack in Duma he wrote: "There is no terror organization, but there are a lot of Jews, a lot more than some think, whose values are completely different to those of the Supreme Court or the Shin Bet, and who are bound not by the laws of the state - the broken ignorance - but laws far more eternal and true, from the wellspring." 《

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So is he anti zionist because the state is too secular for him? or because it was not given by the Messiah? Those fanatics are interesting in a way but it's so scary

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1 minute ago, TiphEret said:

So is he anti zionist because the state is too secular for him? or because it was not given by the Messiah? Those fanatics are interesting in a way but it's so scary

It's too secular, as I understand.

It's interesting that he differs there with his grandfather but both are extremists.