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bthroughout the country privately espoused. Therefore, I was al- blowed as many books as I wished, things that I could not have bdone without while writing my commentaries.

bAnd that is the key to the writing of this book. It would have bbeen impossible to write the manuscript, with all its facts, dates, bincidents, quotes, and names, had the prison officials not al- blowed me to bring in all my private papers and newspaper clip- bpings. It is thanks to them that this book was written, a fact they bknew about and to which they conveniently closed their official beyes.

bCell 23 in Wing Nine of Ramle Prison was, thus, the scene bof many hours each day, many days a week, more than two bcontinuous months of writing. I had no typewriter, and so each bpage had to be handwritten. Moreover, never knowing when the bauthorities might change their attitude and confiscate the work, bI smuggled out each chapter as it was finished and thus never bhad the opportunity to look back at what I had written. Never- btheless, I gained strength through the encouragement of the oth- ber prisoners. On the door of my cell I had placed a large Hebrew bsign that read: “How good it is to be a good Jew.” Every time ba prisoner passed, he would shout the message out to me and bsmile. Indeed. “How good it is to be a good Jew.”

Meir Kahane

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