The Biden administration is expected to remove the Kach movement from the list of terrorist organizations
The US State Department has informed Congress of its intention to remove from the list the organization founded by Rabbi Kahana, along with 4 inactive organizations.
A source from the subject told Walla!
That the decision was supposed to be made during a wall guard but was delayed due to the involvement of elements identified with Kahana in the violence in the cities involved
Lightning Ravid
15/05/2022
Sunday, 15 May 2022, 20:14 Updated: 21:36
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In the video: Rabbi Meir Kahana (Gideon Natzner)
The US State Department is expected to remove the so-called movement from the list of US terrorist organizations.
U.S. officials told Walla!
Because the reason is that the organization is no longer active in the way it was active when it was first included in the list of terrorist organizations.
The Associated Press has for the first time reported on the planned move to remove Kach along with four other inactive terrorist organizations from around the world that are expected to be removed from the list
. Rabbi Meir Kahana, the decision is also expected to be made against the Basque underground that operated in Spain, the Egyptian al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, whose activist assassinated President Anwar Sadat, the Slavic organization Shura al-Mujahideen, which, among other things, claimed responsibility for rocket fire at Eilat in 2013. Another organization that is expected to be removed from the list due to inactivity is the Japanese sect Umm Shinrikio.
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His organization is inactive in the configuration in which he was previously active.
Rabbi Kahana (Photo: Gideon Centner, Gideon Centner)
Sources in the US administration said the decision came after a periodic review of the US terror list that is required by law to be carried out once every few years.
The exam revealed that the organization is no longer active in the configuration in which it was included in the list and should therefore be removed from it.
A source close to the issue said that the decision was supposed to be made a year ago, but was delayed during Operation Wall Guard, due to the involvement of elements identified with Rabbi Kahana's teaching in violent incidents in the cities involved.
Thus, which Rabbi Kahana founded in the early 1970s, called for the enactment of a transfer law for the Arabs of the Land of Israel, arguing that there was a fear that they would become a majority and put an end to the Jewish state.
Rabbi Kahana even ran several times at the top of the Knesset list and was even elected in the 1984 election. In the following elections, in 1988, the court disqualified the party for inciting racism. Outlawing after the massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994, carried out by Baruch Goldstein, who was a member of the party.
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