Take this with a grain of salt because it’s been a few years, but I recall hearing from a close talmid of the Rosh Yeshiva ZTZ”L of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir Hakohen (AKA Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim) in the Rosh Yeshiva’s name that R’ Kahane’s philosophy was basically correct, but his methods were not. In other words, his ideas about expelling the Arabs and the risks that foreigners in the land posed were ideal and true, but the methods he pushed were not practical. I don’t want to say more in someone else’s name if I don’t remember the details. R’ Kahane was definitely one of the good guys.
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