Mr. Sharon, What are you Waiting For?
Gary Cooperberg
January 7, 2002
When you went to Wye with Netanyahu, a fiasco which you actually endorsed, you told Mrs. Albright that Yassir Arafat is a terrorist murderer. When she asked you why then are you negotiating with him, you had no answer.
When you were elected Prime Minister of Israel, you maintained your distance from Arafat, and we all hoped that you would end this Oslo disaster and return self-respect to the Jewish State. Instead you appointed the chief architect of Oslo as your foreign minister and permitted him to continue his treachery. You also sent your son to see Arafat as well.
Perhaps it was a political ploy or perhaps you were serious, but the very idea of offering to reward Arafat for seven days of refraining from murdering Jews is a shameful concept. Are you so afraid of the United States government that you feel the need to lend your backing to the lie of the fraudulent "palestinian" entity? Do you not realize that by not fighting our enemies with every tool at your disposal you are actually aiding them?
How many times have you told us that this struggle will be a long and painful one? Might I suggest to you, Mr. Prime Minister, that, although it certainly has been very painful, perhaps we could have made it a lot shorter, and thus, in the end, a lot less painful?
You have made many needless sacrifices of Jewish lives since your short term of office began. You started a one-sided cease-fire which saw the PLO murder us without reprisals. Eventually you began to act with a bit more courage when you targeted terrorist leaders. But you fell short of the mark by suggesting that we can still negotiate with those who seek our destruction. You should know better than most how futile it is to negotiate with those who are willing to sacrifice their own children in order to destroy us.
When your friend and colleague, Rahavam Zeevi, was assassinated before his intended resignation from your government, although you did respond forcefully, once again you fell far short of the mark. One would have expected you to honor the memory of this fallen hero by immediately declaring Oslo null and void and removing all of our enemies from our midst. Instead you settled for a few military adventures and a demand that Arafat arrest the murderers, sic.
When the United States became an intimate recipient of the results of terror you had a golden opportunity to destroy our enemies and end the Olso tragedy swiftly and completely with the blessing of the President of the United States. But you faltered. You contented yourself with a few military gestures which never came close to destroying our enemies. You even went so far as to suggest that you did not want to recover those parts of our homeland which were given away to our enemies. These lands were never intended as gifts to the PLO. They were merely placed under a status of PLO autonomy under overall Israeli sovereignty. When the PLO arbitrarily treated these areas as sovereign to them, we had a mandate to take it all back and throw them out. Instead we have given license to thievery! And you, Sir, have added your voice to the rest when you say that you do not seek to take back that which by all rights belongs to us.
And now, to add insult to injury, you have uncovered incontrovertible proof that Arafat and the PLO not only are planning to go to war with Israel in another attempt to destroy us, but that he is aligned with Iran and international terrorist organizations. You have clearly set this evidence before the world press and, rather than use this incredible opportunity to simply wipe out the PLO and cancel Oslo, you are still offering Arafat a return to his status as respectable diplomat if he merely refrains from murdering us for seven consecutive days! Not only are you prepared to forgive him for murdering our people, but you are prepared to reward him as well!
Why have you permitted Peres to suggest that there is still a chance to sit with Arafat or any other PLO representative? Why did you permit Zinni to leave without knowing that Oslo is finally over for good? Mr. Sharon, if you felt the need to wait until you had world opinion, or even a majority of Jewish opinion on your side before acting as a self respecting Jew, well you will never have a better opportunity than you have right now. If you fail to act swiftly and decisively at this time you will have to live the rest of your life with the fact that history will record you as the Prime Minister who threw away a unique opportunity which was paid for in the blood of hundreds of Jewish victims. You have the choice to avenge their blood, or, G-d forbid, let it soak wastefully as water in our holy soil. No other Jewish leader has had such an opportunity as this since the rebirth of the Jewish State. You have the strength and stature to do what must be done. Your ancestors who lie in Machpela are watching and hoping that you will make them proud of you. So are we.
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