Abandoning our Jewish Obligations is the Real Cause for Terror

Gary Cooperberg
May 12, 2004

Yet in reaction to far many more acts of inhumanity and cold-blooded murder, Israel is expected to negotiate with her enemies and give them parts of our own homeland! It would be bad enough if only our enemies would make such an outrageous suggestion. But those who claim to be our friends, and even many of our own governmental leaders are also doing so. Shimon Peres, after hearing the grisly news of the murder of our soldiers, had the nerve to state, “We have nothing to do in Gaza. We should just leave.” Such a statement is a reward to both those who bombed our soldiers, as well as the “heros” who murdered a pregnant mother and her four little daughters in cold blood for the “crime” of choosing to live in that part of our homeland.

Simple common sense would dictate that if someone comes to steal that which belongs to you, you fight to keep what is yours. Why would it enter anyone’s mind to negotiate with or, even worse, give away parts of our homeland to thieves who seek not only your land, but your very existence? We choose to forget some very basic facts in the war for our survival. First and foremost we forget that there is no such thing as a “Palestinian” people. Those who masquerade under that pseudo identity all came from real Arab nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This new peoplehood was concocted in a very effective propaganda effort to deny the legitimacy of Israel. It has worked so well that even our present Prime Minister has suggested to build a “Palestinian” state upon Jewish soil in the futile hope to placate our enemies and so-called “friends”. What our leaders refuse to admit to themselves, aside from the fact that these Arab impostors have absolutely no valid grounds to dema

nd any Jewish Land to create yet another Arab state, is that such a move will only serve to further endanger the Jewish State and encourage even more terror against our people.

Yes, indeed, the Gaza Strip is overcrowded with a huge Arab population. This problem was begun by Egypt, prior to Israeli liberation in 1967. It was the mistake of this country not to have forced Egypt into caring for their own brothers by removing them to the Egyptian side of the border at that time. Meanwhile an entire generation of poverty-ridden Arabs has been nurtured on the lie that Israel has stolen their land! Israel has never sought to rule over Arabs. She did seek to welcome them into Israeli society and help them raise their standard of living. Instead of accepting the welcome, the Arabs only recognized Israel as an oppressor and sought to destroy her.

It would seem that Israeli leaders read in the Bible that it says when you are slapped in the face you should turn the other cheek. What they failed to realize is that this particular adage is not to be found in the Jewish Bible. In our Bible we are admonished, “When someone comes to murder you, rise up and kill him first.” It may not sound very nice, but that is just the way it is. Here in Israel we have an entire population who not only comes to murder us, but has already done so on countless occasions and in the most barbaric manner. How dare our leaders so much as suggest negotiations with such people? The only rational response. . . the only Jewish response, is to destroy our enemies completely before they murder any more Jews. Peace will never be achieved by negotiating with such people. We have tried this too many times only to discover that it really doesn’t work.

If Sharon has, at long last, returned to his senses, (and I truly doubt this), he would launch an offensive in the Gaza Strip which will completely route our enemies and enable us to rebuild all of Gaza as a Jewish neighborhood to help ease the absorption of millions more Jews who are about to return home from all over the world. There is no moral imperative to live with our enemies or to reward them by abandoning our obligations to our homeland. Indeed, it is a sin to even consider such actions. It is for the sin of Oslo that so many of our innocent civilians have been murdered. Terror is our reward for abandoning our Jewish principles. Only by returning to those eternal principles will we succeed in uprooting terror and bring genuine peace both to our homeland and the world.

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