Talk:Meir Kahane

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Talk:Meir Kahane/Archive 1 (2001 - August 2006)

Why is he listed in the category "American Criminals"? 148.78.243.121 04:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Nosair was aquitted? 2 Edits since May 1st 2007 3 NPOV 4 Intro.

[edit] Nosair was aquitted?

"Kahane was assassinated by El Sayyid Nosair in Manhattan in 1990 after concluding a speech in a New York hotel"

El Sayyid Nosair article states: "He was also charged by the State of New York as the gunman who killed Rabbi Meir Kahane...While acquitted of that charge Nosair was convicted of weapons charges"

Wikipedia find Nosair guilty as charged? I'm sure his lawyers will find that interesting.

Placed requests of sources on all the assertions of Nosair being convicted of murder that I noticed. The editor with such a casual disregard for the facts even had the gall to place this in the so-called encyclopedia!!! LOL -> "Nosair was acquitted of murder because no witness had actually seen him pull the trigger." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.29.224.251 (talk) 01:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

One doesn't need an eye witness to find a murderer guilty of murder. He was seen immediately after firing the shot with the smoking gun, he ran away and shot some one else. The reason he was acquitted was because his liberal Jewish lawyer tricked the predominantly black jury into believing that Kahane hated blacks (which he did not). The judge rightfully criticized the not guilty verdict as being inconsistent with the evidence. (David Kessler) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.97.121 (talk) 21:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edits since May 1st 2007

Or there abouts. If you look at the differences, there seems to be quite a bit of difference. Can anybody look at all the changes and see what is what. I remove a little bit about Goldstein. Thanks! --Tom 13:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC) I sorry, but you forgot towrite down an Israeli and a Jewish Nazi, it is much more relevant then describing him as an activist.

To call him a Nazi is both silly and dishonest. There is no record of killing any Arabs, although he did advocate expelling them. (David Kessler) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.97.121 (talk) 22:00, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

There are language issues with this article. For example referring to Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane's assassins as "terrorists" or "murderers". This was a political assassination of a leader of an extremist organization that was both banned in the US and Israel, not to mention a settler in an illegal colony.

OK, if the assassin wasn't a terrorist or murderer, what is he? Also, do folks agree that Kahane was assassinated or should it be murdered? Thanks, --Tom 17:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

• Just because the man was murderer you can't call the responsible a terrorist. Just called it responsible/s.190.173.223.91 19:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Clearly, this was an assassination and should be called so. Kahane was a political activist, a leader of a nationalist movement, if you will. Since the nature and purpose of the killing was definitely political based on religious motives, the responsible is to be called terrorist Ehud 04:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intro.

'I edited expansions in the intro. which is not supposed to contain them. The second contains this material, which is regiven below in the appropriate section dealing wih Kahane's death. It can't stay in both places, and should not be in the intro. since that deals with Kahane not with Al Qaeda, and terrorist incidents:-

'El Sayyid Nosair later stood trial for the murder in state court and was acquitted of murder, though convicted of firearms possession. Later he faced Federal charges including Kahane's murder as part of the 1993 al Qaeda terrorist truck-bombing of the World Trade Center and plots to bomb the United Nations building and to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.^[1] He was convicted on these Federal charges and is serving a life sentence. 'Nishidani 15:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)