A "Higher" Morality?
Gary Cooperberg
June 19, 2002
Although occasional shootings, stabbings, and even bombings with few casualties, seem to pass relatively unnoticed, when a city bus loaded with school children is blown to smithereens, murdering nearly twenty people and injuring nearly fifty others, it cannot help but have an impact upon us. For nearly two days our politicians will be issuing strongly worded comments, including brilliant "new" ideas as to how to prevent such tragedies in the future.
Then, once the wreckage is cleared away, the blood hosed off the streets, and the dead buried, it is back to life as usual. One cannot help but wonder just how much tragedy we must be made to suffer before it becomes so intolerable that we put an end to it by any and every means at our disposal. Clearly we haven’t even come close to that point yet.
Ever since the establishment of the State our leadership found a way to explain its cowardly policies toward our enemies. Although blissfully ignorant of most of the basic tenets of the Jewish religion, suddenly they become Jewish scholars. "Judaism teaches a higher morality," they proclaim. And then they use that vague and undefined terminology to justify national cowardice. The real and honest explanation as to why we refuse to destroy our enemies is not because it is a "higher morality", rather because we are afraid of what the United States might do. Our actions are based upon our fear, not either "morality" or Judaism.
It is amazing to watch our leaders come up with the most ridiculous proposals to end Arab terror. On the left, of course, the goal is to stop terror by giving the Arabs what they want. What these people refuse to understand is that the Arabs want to destroy the Jewish State. Giving them Judea, Samaria, Gaza and even Jerusalem will never be enough. But better to dream of an easy solution than honestly face the reality that nothing will satisfy our enemies short of our self-destruction.
Those who are referred to as "right wing" are just as self-deceptive. They have ideas which range from deporting Arafat to targeted killing of key terrorist leaders. Now we are told that our government has decided to get even tougher and "reoccupy" area "A" until terror stops. If terror does stop then they will leave and we will be back to square one. If it doesn’t stop what then? Either way we do not solve the problem. We refuse to identify the real problem which is why it cannot be addressed by any of the silly solutions proposed, such as building a great wall to keep out terror. Maybe we should make a lot of little walls around each and every Arab.
The problem is not Arafat. Should he mysteriously disappear tomorrow nothing will change. The problem is that we refuse to recognize that Islamic ideology cannot and will not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish State of any size in the Middle East. One does not negotiate religious ideology, unless of course he is a Jewish leader who hasn’t the slightest idea of what Jewish ideology is.
The Arabs are sending their children to kingdom come for "religious" reasons. To them they are serving Allah by fighting the Jewish infidels in an extreme effort to remove us from our homeland. When people have so clearly demonstrated that they are prepared to die for their beliefs, how can we continue to assume that we can in any way influence them to change their ideology? Certainly now, after all we have been through; after all of our self-sacrificing and self-destructive efforts to prove the above axiom wrong have failed, how can we still feel the need to find a way to live with those who seek our destruction?
There is only one solution to end the murder of our children in the streets of our cities. It is the solution which all of our politicians are afraid to even whisper, for fear of being called a racist. Unless all Arabs, on both sides of the so-called "green line", are removed from our land, our children will continue to be murdered in pizza parlors, shopping centers, and on buses on their way to school. If our "morality" dictates that it is more important to allow Arabs to live in Israel than to protect our own children, then clearly, there is something wrong with that morality. Just to set the record straight, it is certainly not Jewish morality. Jewish morality requires us to remove our enemies, not to live with them. And Jewish morality forbids us to negotiate with those who seek to take our homeland from us. It certainly forbids us to even consider permitting any foreign entity, friend or foe, from establishing sovereignty over Jewish Land.
So those who claim to pursue peace by violating Jewish morality, are either liars or fools. It will only be as a result of our conforming with true Jewish morality that we will achieve the peace we all seek.
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