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Beilin Won!
Gary Cooperberg
November 25, 2003
This morning it was announced that the Yesha Council, in conjunction with several Likud MK's, has formulated a counter proposal to the infamous Road Map in order to block Sharon from dismantling settlements. Although the plan has yet to be revealed, initial comments indicate that it proposes that: Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza will be given the option of getting Israeli citizenship; the PLO authority will be dismantled; no Jewish settlements will be dismantled; there will be no "palestinian" state; only a Jew could become prime minister, but his deputy could be an Arab; there would be some kind a way to permit the Arabs self rule without the possibility of statehood.
These efforts are declared to be a right wing response to pressures upon the Prime Minister to cave in to leftist peace proposals. Yet the fact that an entity which is alleged to represent a religious, nationalist position, has shown itself prepared to make very real concessions to the enemies of Israel only strengthens Beilin's treasonous actions. Clearly it would be in Israel's best interest had such proposals not be offered. In effect these people are trying to outBeilin Beilin!
Israel does not need more negotiators. We already have too many. What we need is an ideology. . . a Jewish ideology to replace the foreign values we have imbibed from every source other than our own Torah.
When those who claim to represent the "settlement" movement react to Yossi Beilin's Geneva plan by offering, what they feel, is a safer plan to protect the settlements, what they have really done is to give credence to Beilin's attempt to deny the Divine Plan for Israel's future. And more than this, when the Yesha Council suggests that we formulate a plan which gives Arabs rights in Israel, yet limits those rights in deference to Jewish ones, they are repeating the same error which started this problem. If we are already making plans which are utopian in nature, why not at least be honest. No self respecting Arab wants to be a token citizen in a land which he feels belongs to him. And no honest believing Jew can suggest that we have the right to give even symbolic partial sovereignty over Jewish soil to a foreign entity, even were it truly a peaceful one.
Any plan which:
- does not openly and clearly close all doors for autonomous self-rule in Israel by any foreign entity;
- does not allow for Jewish development upon all lands under Israeli control;
- calls for any kind of recognition of "Palestinian" peoplehood for Arabs;
- does not find a way to remove the hostile Arab population among us from Jewish soil;
is not only doomed to failure, but will, in and of itself, propel us into the most ferocious war we have ever fought.
So let us stop trying to out Beilin Beilin. Let us, at long last just be honest and Jewish.
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