Volume 41, Number 12 · June 23, 1994
The Brooklyn Avengers
By Robert I. Friedman
On November 16, 1992, almost two years to the day after Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in midtown Manhattan, four Jewish teenagers threw a hand grenade into the shop of an Arab shoemaker in East Jerusalem's Old City, killing him and wounding ten others. The boys, who called themselves the Revenge Commandos, told Israeli police investigators they had thrown the grenade for no other reason than to kill Arabs. Police later learned that the young terrorists were members of a small Jewish extremist group called Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), which is based in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Tapuach, a collection of shabby prefabricated dwellings situated about fifteen miles south of Nablus on the West Bank. 'It's unfortunate that more people aren't attacking Arabs,' David Cohen, a leader of Kahane Chai, told me during a recent visit to Tapuach. 'As long as the Arabs are fighting us, there has to be a response. The Arabs have no right to be here. Revenge is ours.'
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