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Why not Redeploy to All of YESHA?
Gary Cooperberg
December 28, 2003
Ever since the miraculous Six Day War of June, 1967, the genius leaders of Israel have been seeking to undo the miracles. And, what is even a greater miracle, they have consistently failed. One would imagine that, after thirty six years of trying to give away parts of our homeland to those who refuse to accept anything less than all of it, we would finally realize that we have only one option . . . to win the war.
Actually, the people of Israel overwhelmingly voted for Ariel Sharon because they decided that it is time to stop playing peace and start winning the war. Had Sharon acted as his electorate hoped he would, the Jewish state would be stronger and safer than ever. Instead, we find that Sharon has become, as all the other genius leaders of Israel, a negotiator with those who seek nothing less than our total destruction.
There are so many brilliant politicians who have come up with incredible plans for our salvation. The money being spent on a gargantuan wall, which may impede terror, but never stop it, could be far better spent on a plan to destroy our enemies. Sharon and Olmert's "new idea" to "redeploy" is but the latest version of the continued effort to deny our destiny which every Israeli government has sought to do. What is most painful about this stupidity is the fact that it only reinforces the claims by our enemies that we are usurping the rights of Arabs.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has declared that it is unacceptable for Israel to impose a solution by unilateral action. Yet isn't that precisely what the U.S.A. did in Iraq? Why does Israel not have a right to unilaterally redeem her own homeland? By what right does the American Secretary of State dare dictate to a sovereign nation what it can and cannot do to preserve its sovereignty? Had we a normal government Powell's statement would have been condemned as belligerent interference with the sovereignty of the Jewish State.
Because of the cowardice and dishonesty of our own leaders an entire generation was nurtured upon a lie. This lie was perhaps the most effective propaganda weapon ever employed in the history of nations. Today most people in the world actually believe that there is a nation called "Palestine" which was displaced by Israel and that this nation should be restored to its ancient homeland. The Knesset of Israel has actually helped to perpetuate this myth. It is this fact, more than any other, which has caused so many innocent people to have been murdered by acts of terror in the Jewish State.
Why are we so afraid of the truth? Why is the government of Israel accepting and even promoting a lie which actually denies her own sovereignty? One needn't be a historian to know that there never was a "Palestinian" people or country. Arab nomads who happened to live in the Land of Israel were never citizens of a country called "Palestine".
It was the stupidity of the leaders of the new-born Jewish State which included such nomads as citizens which sparked the idea of using the principles of democracy to destroy the Jewish State from within. Nearly all of the problems we now confront would have been avoided had those Jewish leaders simply defined Israel as the Jewish State, whose citizenship, by definition, would be limited to Jews. Others who wished to live here as alien residents, who obeyed the law of the land and accepted exclusive Jewish sovereignty, could live here with us in peace. Instead, we nurtured a separate "peoplehood" on the part of our Arab "citizens" which today is an ever growing Trojan horse threatening to destroy us from within. To this day most of our governmental leadership refuses to recognize this very real threat. When Mr. Olmert talks about separation, it never would occur to him to include Arab citizens of Israel. Yet, the vast majority of such Arabs consider their own identity as "Palestinian", and thus are just as much enemies of the Jewish State as are those from whom the minister would have us separate.
It is true that we cannot live in peace with our Arab enemies. It is true that we should separate from them. But that does not mean we should retreat and surrender to them! For all these years we tried to live in peace with our enemies. We even made them citizens of Israel, some of whom are actually sitting in our Knesset! In return we got a revolution which is still going on. This revolution has seen our civilian population murdered in a war to liberate Israel from the Jewish people. Were we a normal country we would fight back and obliterate our enemies. Instead our leaders have chosen to "negotiate" with them. Menachem Begin once termed such negotiations as, "Negotiating the terms of our self destruction". This is precisely what our leaders are doing today!
By what right do those who seek our destruction deserve to be given a sovereign state upon Jewish Soil? To do so would be like paying "protection" to the mafia. "If you give us a state, we will stop murdering you." But the problem is that even were we to give them such a state, it would only be used as a springboard to take the rest of our country from us. How can any normal self-respecting Jewish citizen, much less elected leader, enter into such negotiations?
Abie Nathan, the famous "peacenik" had a slogan, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." It sounded so reasonable, even if it was deceitful. Yet for fifty five years we did it his way. We gave what he and his ilk called "peace" an infinite number of "chances" and the results were that real peace is farther away than ever, and thousands of innocent men women and children found early graves.
Why can we not, for once, give war a chance? Every war that we fought in the past was initiated by our enemies and prematurely stopped by our "friends". We have consistently shown our enemies that it pays to attack Israel. If they win, the Jewish State will be destroyed. If they lose, America and Europe will prevent Israel from winning. Yet this doesn't need to be so. The war to destroy Israel is so far gone as to demand that we win it. Rather than get permission to protect our nation, it is our obligation to obliterate our enemies and extend our sovereignty over all the Jewish Land under our control. Rather than retreat and force Jews from their homes, we should attack and force our Arab enemies from their homes. To call retreat and surrender a tactic for peace is cowardly and dishonest.
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