A Time for Peace and A Time for War
Gary Cooperberg
February 19, 2002
Jewish morality is not something to be either negotiated or legislated. The Jewish State has been subjected to a perverted morality which has been hammered into it by both the media and our legislators. The fiction of a legitimate palestinian people, a concept which was created for the sole purpose of delegitimizing the Jewish state, has won recognition even among right wing Jews in Israel. It defies the imagination that this manufactured concept has won such wide acceptance in Israel, not to mention other countries.
The fabrication has gotten so far as to find nearly everyone agree that we have no choice but to find a way to give these people a homeland on Jewish soil. Yet, if we are honest with ourselves and simply examine the true facts, it should be clear to everyone that, not only do we have no such obligation, but, quite on the contrary, we do have an obligation to remove our enemies from our midst.
Aside from clear violations of both the spirit and the letter of the Oslo agreements by our enemies, the fact of the matter is that the PLO has declared war against the Jewish State and our leaders are still lost in the dream world of an imagined "peace" process. Every child knows that the only way to win a war is to win the war. Never in history has anyone ever won a war by negotiating with the attackers. It may be true that our weapons are better than theirs, and it doesn't look nice to drop napalm on thousands of Arabs who exercise their democratic right to call for the destruction of Israel, but not to destroy such an enemy is to invite more human bombs to murder our children in the streets of Jerusalem and other Jewish cities in Israel. How dare we preach morality as we watch more and more of our precious children being butchered, and refuse to destroy the murderers out of fear of what others might think?
Mr. Sharon, of all people, should be the first to understand this situation. Yet he seems to feel a political obligation to keep this insane process going. Mr. Netanyahu, who already smells blood and a political future by preying upon Sharon's unwillingness to finish off the PLO once and for all, also fails to understand what is at stake here. The problem is not Arafat. He is not a lone evil leader among good Arabs. He is a good leader of terrorists. . . and they are all terrorists. If we get rid of Arafat tomorrow he will simply be replaced by another. We must get rid of all of them before they get rid of us, as they are presently doing only too well.
The holiday of Purim is nearly upon us. One of the lessons of this holiday is that we Jews have an obligation, from generation to generation to destroy, to blot out, Amalek. Amalek is the eternal enemy of G-d. Our rabbis tell us that when G-d redeemed us from slavery in Egypt with such magnificent wonders, the entire world feared the Jewish nation and their G-d. It was as if there was a moat of boiling water surrounding us. No one would dare attack for fear of falling into the boiling water. Amalek hated us so much that they were willing to plunge themselves into that boiling water just to cool it enough for our enemies to be able to destroy us.
Today we can clearly see a parallel to this fanatic hatred in the PLO. After trying so many times to destroy the Jewish State, only to see Israel consistently regain more of her ancient homeland, our enemies have become afraid to try to destroy us. Now, with our help, the PLO is jumping into the boiling water, This insignificant band of hoodlums is attacking the Jewish State from within. . . using their children as human bombs, just to encourage the other Arab nations to once again seek to destroy Israel.
How many such dastardly murders need we tolerate before our leadership decides to put it to an end, once and for all? What kind of perverted morality can lend legitimacy to living with terror, especially when it is within our power to stop it completely? How is it that the inconsistent and irrational logic of those leftists who tell us that it is immoral to move the Arabs out of our homeland, and, in the same breath call to remove Jews from their homes in this country is given credence?
The left in this country has been whining for so long and so loudly that the lie which declares surrender to terror as a peace process has taken hold so deeply in our society. The Arabs in Israel are nothing more than unwelcome guests. Had they accepted our hospitality graciously it may have been possible to live together with them in peace. This is no longer an option. Today the Arab of Israel considers Arafat and the PLO as his government. He has exchanged his unwanted Israeli identity with what he chooses to call a "palestinian" one. The time has come, and long ago, for us to reject this attempt to destroy us by removing our enemies from our homeland completely, and at all costs. The longer we pretend that there is another way, the more of our children will die needlessly in our streets, G-d forbid.
The above was written in the United States as I was flying from Tennessee to Florida. I only just today managed to figure out how to get my new email program working, so please forgive the delay. This article is clearly as timely today as it was when it was written. I have more to say on the more recent events and hope to issue another Voice next week.
Although I am still recovering from my recent visit to the states, plans are already underway for another visit. I have been invited to participate in a dual Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress to take place first on the West Coast, in Berkeley California from May 5-7, and then on the East Coast in Islip Long Island. I will give more details in my next Voice from Hebron.
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