When, in the 1980s, the ultrareactionary rabbi Meir Kahane ran for the Knesset, observers considered his emergence to be a fringe phenomenon. After his party won a single seat in the 1984 elections, ...
"Liberals accused him of promoting the forcible 'transfer' plan, akin to ethnic cleansing, proclaimed by a rabbi, Meir Kahane, who vilified Arabs while calling for a pure Jewish state." Those days are ...