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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Do we really mean it when we say "Never Again?"
Gary Cooperberg
April 29, 2003
I just finished reading a piece by Minister of Tourism, Rabbi Beni Alon expressing his party's "alternative" to the Oslo concept. He proposes to speak for the religious right when he suggests that we apply "voluntary" transfer to encourage Arabs in Judea and Samaria to move to Jordan.
Now if one is to already begin to engage in expressing ideals which are not likely to be implemented in any event, why not at least be honest and truly idealistic? Rabbi Alon was honest enough to mention the fact that both sides of the Jordan River belong to the Jewish People. He never once mentions the fact that the concept of a Palestinian entity (not to mention the Jordanian one) is pure fiction. Neither "people" ever had an historic existence. Both were created to serve political interests which conflicted with Jewish ones. The "palestinian" concept was particularly designed to negate the Jewish state altogether. For any Jew to accept this concept is to aid and abet our enemies who seek our destruction.
Rather than stand on our heads in a futile effort to find a way to accommodate diametrically opposed interests, we would serve all interests far better were we to just be honest. Is there any normal observer who cannot see that it is impossible to live with people who are willing to sacrifice the lives of their own children in order to destroy Israel and murder her citizens? Is there any morality which requires us to endure living with such people? What other nation on the face of the earth would sit down to negotiate with those who murder their children?
Furthermore, it is not our obligation to find a new homeland for such people. Every single Arab nation has enough room in its country to create ten "palestines". How dare anyone suggest that we, the tiniest nation in the region, have an obligation to do so? Every nation in the world has one primary responsibility. It has an obligation to protect and defend its citizens. The Jewish State, no matter how hard it tries, cannot do so as long as it harbors a lethal enemy in its midst. As such, the most basic obligation of any Jewish government is to remove those enemies as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
The one benefit we should have utilized as a result of the Oslo experiment was the empirical evidence that, even after trying to accept the "palestinian" allegation and live with it by giving Arafat and his followers autonomy, the only solution our enemies will accept is the destruction of the Jewish State. This should be absolutely clear to everyone at this late date. For a Beni Alon or an Ariel Sharon to propose any form of negotiations with such people is an insult to our intelligence. Today we have more than enough justification to simply remove all of our enemies by force. Every day that we refuse to do so only strengthens the hand of our enemies and encourages the kind of pressure we are only beginning to get from both Europe and the United States.
As we gather today to remember the horrors of the holocaust and to vow, "Never Again", we would do well to consider that we dishonor the memory of the six million martyrs by failing to implement that vow right here in the Land of Israel.
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