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Police raids radical Jewish Web sites

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 29 (UPI) -- Police Monday raided two apartments in which an outlawed Jewish nationalist group allegedly managed its Web sites.

Six activists allegedly affiliated with the Kahane Chai movement were detained in the raids in Jerusalem and Kfar Tapuah in the West Bank, Ha'aretz reported.

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The Web sites, in Hebrew, English and Russian, presented the group's ideology. One of the sites contains a Frequently Asked Questions section that "explains the importance of revenge in Judaism," Ha'aretz said.

The sites are still active because they operate through servers located abroad, the newspaper added.

Kahane Chai is one of the offshoots of a movement established by Rabbi Meir Kahane who advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel. An Egyptian extremist assassinated him in New York in 1990.

Kahane Chai was outlawed after an extremist Jew assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 in an attempt to scuttle the peace process.

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