How Can Israel Survive Her Leaders?

Gary Cooperberg
October 24, 2006

There is no greater miracle than the State of Israel. Its so-called leadership hasn’t the slightest idea how to lead a nation. Our enemies are poised to destroy us and we are poised to negotiate with our would-be annihilators. There is no such precedent in the history of nations. No nation ever arbitrarily expelled its own citizens from their homes and then handed over a large chunk of its land to its enemies. This brilliant scheme was designed to make the rest of Israel safer. Instead it strengthened our enemies and gave them a foothold inside our country. In spite of the fact that the PLO is receiving enormous amounts of weaponry from Egypt to the autonomous Gaza enclave via tunnels, Israel has no plans to retake this strategic area under its control. The IDF uncovered numerous tunnels, destroyed them and then left! It doesn’t take a genius to know that these tunnels will soon be rebuilt.

It is bad enough that we have so many Arab neighbor states which seek our destruction. But how dare we permit an entire enemy population to live within our borders, both with and without Israeli citizenship? Why is it so difficult to see that these people also seek to destroy our country? Why has it become an axiom that Israel has no choice but to live with its enemies in its midst?

The bottom line is that we are, indeed, at war. The problem is that although the Arabs know this, our leaders refuse to accept this fact. When you are engaged in a war of ideologies negotiation is not an option unless one party actually wins the war. It is the loser, having no better choice, who appeals for negotiations. When Israel seeks to negotiate with her enemies she is taking the position of a loser. Such a posture is not lost on our enemies who eagerly use this weakness as another tool in their war against us.

We have nothing to negotiate with the PLO. Our leaders have as their primary obligation the need to defend the nation and its citizens. Those Arabs who consider themselves “palestinians”, by definition, are our enemies. Their goal is to turn Jewish Israel into Arab Palestine. This is not a matter to negotiate. It is our obligation to make it clear that such a goal will never see the light of day. Instead our leadership has made consistent policies to encourage our enemies to achieve their goal! While they may honestly believe that their overtures to appease our enemies will bring peace, the truth is that all they accomplish is to convince the Arabs that they can eventually achieve their goal to destroy Israel!

Unless we find a leadership that openly declares the fraudulence of negotiating with the PLO and initiates a policy of removing our enemies from our homeland we will never have true peace with any nation, nor respect from nations who seek our friendship.