"Gentlemen cry, Peace, Peace, but there is No Peace"
Gary Cooperberg
January 24, 2002
The recent incursion into Shechem proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the capabilities of the IDF. There can be no question but that Israel has the capacity to take back all of the lands which were given over to PLO control as a result of the Oslo fiasco. What our leadership seems not to understand is the fact that it has an obligation to do this. The so-called "peace process" is not only dead, but clearly was never a peace process to begin with. How many more bombs and bullets must we suffer before we discover this reality? The time for equivocating is long over. There is no longer a need to prove anything to anyone. It is the sacred duty of any sovereign nation to protect the lives and safety of its people as its highest priority.
I was incensed to listen to Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, addressing the media in the wake of the most recent shooting in the middle of town. Rather than calling upon the government to take back our country and destroy the terrorists, the mayor suggested that this is an impossibility and that we have no choice but to be steadfast in the face of terror. In other words, rather than destroying those who come to destroy us, we must learn to live with terror and thus show the murderers that even after we are murdered we will keep coming back.
This kind of thinking is reminiscent of the days when Israel was under British occupation. We are no longer ruled by Great Britain. We are allegedly an independent Jewish State. Our people are being murdered in cold blood all over our country by terrorists whom our leaders armed and invited into our homeland. We are being murdered with guns which our government gave to Arafat, allegedly for peace. Why is this so difficult to see? Upon what basis does our present leadership still feel obligated to permit these murderers to continue living in any part of our homeland?
In reaction to the assassination of one of his ministers, the Prime Minister demanded that Arafat arrest the murderers. He even went so far as to send in troops to try to find them. The answer is not to demand anything from Arafat and his murderers; it is not to act as Arafat's police force; it is not to order more bullet proof buses; it is not to have a policeman or soldier on every street corner; it is not to have people terrorized and told to live with it. What Sharon should have done then, and still should do now, is react as if the PLO is at war with the Jewish State and immediately obliterate it and take back all of our homeland. This will take maybe three days to a week to accomplish. CNN and BBC will not hate us any more than they already do, but at least we will be able to put an end to the daily shooting and bombing of our citizens.
Avrum Burg, who is defying the government by making plans to visit with the PLO, should be tried for treason. The attempt to make peace with murderers was always a non-starter. To insist that we continue on this path of self-destruction is nothing less than treason. Why are people afraid to say this? Is it so complicated to see that the only goal of the PLO and those who support it is the destruction of the Jewish State? As former Prime Minister Menachem Begin once asked, "What are we to negotiate, the terms of our self-destruction?" Yet that is precisely what Burg, Beilin and their ilk are trying to do. And, what is worse, that is even what our present government is actually doing as long as they refuse to recognize the enemy and destroy it.
And when American Ambassador to Israel, Dan Kurtzer, suggests that Israeli citizens pressure their government to make compromises with the PLO, he should be sent home for interfering in the affairs of a sovereign state. What would President Bush do should a foreign ambassador in Washington publicly suggest that the American people pressure their leaders to negotiate with Bin Laden?
The only reason we suffer terrorism in this country is because our leadership is afraid to destroy the terrorists. They are even afraid to call them terrorists! No other country in the world would willingly aid and abet a murderous enemy in its midst. How much worse for a country which was miraculously reborn to serve as an example for all of the nations of the world to do so. The function of the Jewish State is to serve G-d, and the nations of the world, by being such an example. By failing to live up to this holy obligation we desecrate our G-d and bring needless tragedy upon ourselves.
One of the reasons I have chosen to attend the upcoming National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville next month is so that I can try to express to leaders in the Christian media the need to publicly express the Biblical element in what is called "the war on terror". If the United States is to emerge as a true leader of nations it will need to recognize that, despite attempts by Jewish leaders, in Israel and elsewhere, to portray that country as merely another democracy, the State of Israel is, indeed, the beginning of fulfillment of Biblical Destiny. The United States should not support Israel because she is a democracy. She should support it because its very existence is designed to bring blessing to all of the nations of the world. Those who seek to endanger the Jewish State, in reality are only endangering themselves. When Divine Judgment comes those who stood with the Jewish State will be rewarded, and those who sought to interfere will get their just reward as well.
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