Where is he wrong in his assertions about people like Ben Gvir and others who have seem to have dropped the ball? Were they right to back draconian, antidemocratic measures to the hilt? Was it really necessary for you to imply that Weissman is a homosexual or a deviant of some sort simply because he's single and a YU alumnus?
Where he went wrong was confusing the actions and statements of a couple of idiots with the entire Kahane movement.
If Ben Gvir is an idiot does that mean all kahane's followers--a group vastly larger than he believes--are the following:
"washed-up Kahanists with their bombastic statements, belligerent fantasies, cult of personality, and a religion that revolves around watching videos of their long-dead leader, Jewish gangs, and nuking people, if only they could, with cherry-picked Torah sources on waging all-out war against our enemies the extent of their actual Torah knowledge, and, really, all they wish to learn about.
It's no coincidence that Kahanists failed the Covid test — the real Covid test — miserably.
There's a reason why this movement burned out after the death of their leader and failed to inspire another generation.
When you raise these concerns with Kahanists, they will react with belligerence and senseless arguments, for they have no real depth or compass. They are unable to be introspective and consider the possibility that their movement failed in large measure because of its own fatal flaws.
One-dimensional people with lots of passion and a penchant for violence, but little actual Torah grounding or yearning for it, are irrelevant at best and potentially dangerous. They will not lead us to a better future.
If you believe that all Kahanists are one dimensional people who invented their own religion, who have a penchant for violence, whose movement failed, who have little torah grounding, who are unable to be introspective, who have no depth or compass, who failed the covid test, who have belligerent fantasies, etc. then we have nothing to talk about.
If, on the other hand, you believe that Rabbi Kahane's followers are NOT monolithic, not all the cartoon characters that Weitzman makes them out to be, then you'll agree that his piece was neither level-headed nor thoughtful. It was a hate piece, based on G-d knows what.
The Kahanists that I know in Yehuda and Shomron don't fit the mold that Weitzman wants to stuff them into.
But if he wants to play a smear game because one or two people he's acquainted with are not to his taste, or fit the radical description he's tried to depict here, then two can play at that game.
I once knew a homosexual from RIETS. All RIETS graduates are therefore homosexuals.
You don't seem like you're very familiar with any of Chananya Weissman's writings.
Au contraire. Very familiar.
You don't seem to be familiar with the screed he wrote on Kahanists. See the link, above, or try HERE:
https://habayitah.blogspot.com/2023/11/rabbi-weissman-intelligence-agents-and.html
Read it and you'll understand perfectly what I wrote.
Best,
Dean Maughvet
Where is he wrong in his assertions about people like Ben Gvir and others who have seem to have dropped the ball? Were they right to back draconian, antidemocratic measures to the hilt? Was it really necessary for you to imply that Weissman is a homosexual or a deviant of some sort simply because he's single and a YU alumnus?
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Where he went wrong was confusing the actions and statements of a couple of idiots with the entire Kahane movement.
If Ben Gvir is an idiot does that mean all kahane's followers--a group vastly larger than he believes--are the following:
"washed-up Kahanists with their bombastic statements, belligerent fantasies, cult of personality, and a religion that revolves around watching videos of their long-dead leader, Jewish gangs, and nuking people, if only they could, with cherry-picked Torah sources on waging all-out war against our enemies the extent of their actual Torah knowledge, and, really, all they wish to learn about.
It's no coincidence that Kahanists failed the Covid test — the real Covid test — miserably.
There's a reason why this movement burned out after the death of their leader and failed to inspire another generation.
When you raise these concerns with Kahanists, they will react with belligerence and senseless arguments, for they have no real depth or compass. They are unable to be introspective and consider the possibility that their movement failed in large measure because of its own fatal flaws.
One-dimensional people with lots of passion and a penchant for violence, but little actual Torah grounding or yearning for it, are irrelevant at best and potentially dangerous. They will not lead us to a better future.
If you believe that all Kahanists are one dimensional people who invented their own religion, who have a penchant for violence, whose movement failed, who have little torah grounding, who are unable to be introspective, who have no depth or compass, who failed the covid test, who have belligerent fantasies, etc. then we have nothing to talk about.
If, on the other hand, you believe that Rabbi Kahane's followers are NOT monolithic, not all the cartoon characters that Weitzman makes them out to be, then you'll agree that his piece was neither level-headed nor thoughtful. It was a hate piece, based on G-d knows what.
The Kahanists that I know in Yehuda and Shomron don't fit the mold that Weitzman wants to stuff them into.
But if he wants to play a smear game because one or two people he's acquainted with are not to his taste, or fit the radical description he's tried to depict here, then two can play at that game.
I once knew a homosexual from RIETS. All RIETS graduates are therefore homosexuals.
You didn't get it.
No idea if he will, either.
His hatred and his anger run very deep.
I hope his new wife will put up with him.
I'm familiar with it.
Chazak!
If he has any sense at all, he'll apologize for the stupidity of his remarks.
Moreover, if he has an issue with Sackett and Ben Gvir, let him confine his rant to them.
The rest of us also have issues with them.