The
Left lives by slogans. Since the Communist Manifesto with
its brilliant verse "You have nothing to lose but all your Handcuffs", the herd
is racing after empty political slogans, the fruit of the philosophy of the brainwashing
wizards and psychological warfare. The Israeli Left is long gone from being the
socialistic Left and the socialist. It has become bourgeois and rich, but their
ideological fervor and the passion for debate and controversy has not been lost.
The spiritual homeland is no longer the Soviet Union, rather Palestine and the focus
is on the new controversy – their desire to divide the country, not the Capital.
They also need, as always, someone they can denounce as a reactionary, the man
of yesterday's world, the subject of hate. In the past it was the monstrous
capitalist - nowadays it is the settler, and the place of the red faith took a new
church its worship is - Peace under the terms of the enemy.
As they are accustomed to, they found an appropriate
slogan for their new faith: "land for peace", but this slogan died and
was buried in the sands of Gush Katif, there the Israel public learned to know that
the real payoff to "land" is the rule of Hamas and rockets, not
peace. But there is no lack of slogans, and so we experienced the "Shall
we live by the sword for eternity?", the "Horse and its rider", "Make
peace with your enemies", "The window of opportunity", "There
is no free lunch" and the "Demographic demon." In the meanwhile,
these passwords eroded and facts slapped on their face and only one remained, to
which TV channel Arutz Sheva devoted a special program: the threat, if the
country will not
be divided, Israel will be a "bi-national state." Yossi Sarid
expressed this in the program with the words "the end of the Jewish
state" and Meron Benvenisti followed him and said: "The train has already
left the station."
Is there any justification for this panic?
If the anxiety is that perhaps the country will lose its Jewish
majority, the question
is first of all demographic, and in this matter the last few years have
actually brought us good news. Unlike the previous half century picture of six more
children in an Arab family compared to a Jewish family, today the Arab birth
rate fell to an average of three children per family, and among the Jews the
birth rate increased and has reached about 3 children per family. Moreover, among
the Jewish women, the multiple procreation is on the rise, while among the Arab
women the process is on the decline, and that is the situation in almost the entire
Middle East. By us, this phenomenon is characteristic not only to our religious
circles, but also among the secular public, and that in contrast to a reverse trend
of a decline in the birth rate in the entire Western world.
Today,
46 years after the unification of the country, the Jews are still the majority
in all of the western part of the state of Israel, including the Gaza Strip,
and no imminent danger is posed to this majority.
Moreover, we do not have to give all of the Arabs in
Judea and Samaria Israeli citizenship with voting for the Knesset rights, and
as long as we did not citizenized them, the talks about "the end of the
Jewish state" are demagoguery. With a solid Jewish majority in the
Knesset, the country is Jewish.
Here
the Left brings up the argument that if we do not give the Arabs of Judea and
Samaria citizenship, our country will cease to be democratic and the world will
not tolerate forever a state of 'occupation' without granting rights. This
claim requires a serious discussion. We begin with the fact that as far as the
Arabs are concerned, already today there in no occupation in Judea and Samaria. Only
the Jewish settlers are still controlled and dominated by the 'military
government and its laws, meaning they are under occupation. All the Arabs, even
those who are living in Area C, are subjected to the Ramallah-based Palestinian
Authority. Indeed, the Arabs living in Area C are managed by the Israeli Civil
Administration in matters of planning, construction and transportation, etc.,
but in essence their lives are managed from Ramallah. More so, there is no
dispute among the Jewish public that if Israel will annex area C, it will allow
the Arab residents to receive Israeli citizenship. Their estimated number is
about 70,000, and they certainly will not endanger the Jewish majority.
About half of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria live in the
Gaza Strip and in fact live in a kind of a separate state. You cannot say that
'Hamastan' is under Israeli occupation, on the contrary: there is has been
fulfilled, on miniature scale, the dream of the Left of dividing the land.
Therefore, their minds must rest. Gaza definitely does not reduce the
Jewishness of the state.
Even in areas A and B Israel does not control. While the
IDF stops there sometimes when asked, but that they do well beyond others
issues, simply because the PA has systematically violated its obligation
according to Oslo to stop terror suspects by herself.
There
Arabs in Judea and Samaria have a parliament, government, flag and anthem,
representation offices all over the world including the UN, they have security
forces who hold automatic weapons, including machine guns and basically also armored
vehicles, they have completely independent television and radio broadcast
stations and total economic freedom. Their ministries are controlling every
area possible. What do they not have? Heavy military arms and control over some
400,000 Jewish settlers. The border crossings are under Israeli control, and so
are skies, and also they are not allowed to sign international agreements
sensitive as far as Israel is concerned. The reasons are clear: without these
restrictions, we would see Iran's Revolutionary Guards on the border of Petah
Tikva, a military alliance would be forged between Ramallah and Tehran, and at Ben
Gurion airport no aircraft could take off or land. The current government in
Ramallah to call autonomy. Even the promiscuous Oslo Agreement was careful not
to give the PA an independent sovereign status. Nominal, the military
government was not dismantled, it only "retreated."
Therefore rather limited glimpse remains for Israel. Is she
endangering the Jewish character of the State of Israel? Claptrap!
And still they will make it difficult for us, why the
"Palestinian people" in Judea and Samaria, in addition to their domestic
affairs for which, according to Oslo, they were given fully democratic
government, do not also receive full political sovereignty - a state and not
only autonomy?
For this there is a simple answer: because they already
have a state, but they chose to call it - "Jordan."
The area "Palestine", on which the League of
Nations gave the British a mandate, the mandated authority to manage it for the
purpose to build a "national home for the Jewish people", stretched from
the Mediterranean to the Iraqi border, and that included all the Hashemite
Kingdom of today Jordan.
But, a few months after the approval of the mandate, the
British asked the League of Nations permission, and were granted, to take the
'Trans-Jordan' territory out of the "Jewish Home" in order to secure this
area in favor of the Arabs, who already then rebelled against the very idea of a
Jewish national homeland. Britain owed the Hashemite dynasty, who fought
alongside her against the Turks, and so she gave the Hashemite elder brother the
Iraqi throne and to his younger brother Transjordan, that was defined as' Emirate'
and the new ruler Abdullah received the title, Emir (later he became king). The
area was closed to immigration and Jewish settlements, and as an emirate
resembles, Sir Alec Kirkbride, wrote in his memoirs – ii was designed to
provide the Arab national aspirations which has just started to wake up and
were expressed by bloody riots.
Thus, here supposedly, the foundation was built to realize
the grand vision of the Left (and Benjamin Netanyahu): "two states for two
peoples", one west and one east of the Jordan river. And in this vision of
the Arab people – later called himself Palestinian – was not at all deprived, because
the east part of the state of Israel extended on over three-quarters of the
mandate original area and what they have left for the Jews, the area between
the sea and the river, was only a quarter of it.
At that time the Arabs of the land of Israel came up with
two ingenious inventions:
A). They invented themselves as a separate people, that was
named after the British Mandate of Palestine - 'the Palestinian people'.
B.) They created out of thin air additional national
entity, they named after the new Jordanian Emirate, "the Jordanian people.
From here on, despite the fact that the Arabs of Jordan continue to define
themselves as Palestinians, at the same time they claim to be the people of
Jordan. And so it happens, whoever wishes to fulfill the vision of a Palestinian
nation state in trans Jordan, immediately they throw at him/her that he/she
wants to take this land away from its owners, the Jordanian people! Against his/her
will he/she has to look for the Palestinian people "lacking homeland"
a place for a state inside the meager quarter of the mandate territory the British
left for the Jews, that is, to divide the country a second division, which will
call into question the very survival of the Jewish state and will make it into
a caricature.
It is also important to note that in Jordan lives only
one People who identify themselves as a "Palestinian. There are also the Bedouin,
but they do not see themselves as a separate People. The outcome is that in a
territory that historically is the land of Israel, and what they call 'Palestine',
resides a nation who defines itself as "a Palestinian", and yet – it is
Jordan, and thus the Palestinians have no home, and the Jews are the ones who
must provide it out of their meager land that was left to them.
If there are still Jews in Israel who are not willing to
participate in this comedy and say enough of the demand to divide the Land of
Israel, then are called extremists, messianic, delusional, and even - fascists.
Well, I'm willing to risk all this by saying that all the
Arabs of the west part of Eretz Yisrael, on both sides of the Green Line, can
live a full life under Israeli rule, but some will enjoy their own national autonomy
and will not make their national vote for the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, rather
for the Land of Israel East – whether they call it 'Jordan' or they change its
name to 'Palestine'. Even the scholars of Oslo discovered this trick, when they
allowed the Arabs of the East part of Jerusalem, who were annexed to the state
of Israel, to vote in the Palestinian Authority election in Jerusalem, in the
post office in Salah-a-Deen street, the same way American, French and Russian
citizens vote here in the general elections held in their countries.
Will the result of this be that the State of Israel will
lose its Jewish character? You make us laugh.
****
This
is the plan Obama/Kerry and the Jew-fools are pushing.
Suicidal
plan for Israel
The
Two-State-Solution: A fatal trap
John
Forbes Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States
on February 1, 2013. Kerry now is set, since assuming office, to embark on his
fifth visit to Israel and to
the so-called Palestinian Authority to push for a Two-State-Solution.
But
this is yet another appalling euphemism which in reality will spell out the
eventual destruction of the reconstituted Jewish state and the extermination of
its people by a Muslim world that will never accept a non-Muslim nation and
will wage eternal war against it - the Dar al-Harb - until it is utterly
destroyed. This is what Islam requires of its adherents. Remember that other
evil euphemism – the Final Solution? There is no difference in what it portends
for the Jews. The Nazi’s “Final Solution” served to usher in the Holocaust. The
“Two-State-Solution” ushers in the eventual destruction of the Jewish state.
Of
course the morally compromised world opinion would consider that if Israel
declared its justified rejection of the Two-State-Solution, such a statement of
the truth would be considered inflammatory and guaranteed to provoke another
Palestinian Arab outburst of violence and bloodletting (dignified by the Arabic
term intifada). But isn’t that what is happening on the roads of Judea and
Samaria (the West Bank) with
almost daily outrages committed by Arab thugs against Jewish civilians?
The
over 3,000 year old Hebrew and biblical names, Yehuda and Shomron, (Judea and
Samaria), are given to the heartland of the modern reborn Jewish homeland. But
a malevolent world prefers to call the territory the West Bank; the mere 19
year old Jordanian name applied to the land after it and much of Jerusalem was
illegally occupied by Jordan from 1948 until 1967.
The
Jordanian Arab Legion after invading and occupying the territory immediately
began desecrating Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives, using the headstones to
build latrines for their troops, destroying 57 ancient synagogues and holy
sites, and forcibly expelling Jewish residents from their villages and their
ancient homes in Jerusalem’s
Old City.
As
a good friend, Robert Vincent, has written in an open letter to Israelis: “The
world must be told that Jordan - a country named after a river, not a people -
is the true Palestinian state, with her Palestinian Arab majority. The world
must be told that only through democratic reforms in Jordan can the Palestinian
Arabs be true masters of their fate in a home
of their own worth living in. The world must be told that if Palestinian Arabs
insist on living in Judea/Samaria, that is fine from a human rights perspective,
they can do so, but only under Israeli law and sovereignty. If they prefer to
live in a “Palestinian state”...then they can move next door.”
In
other words, all who know history know that Jordan sits on four fifths of what
was until 1922 the entire Palestine Mandate. The Arabs who call themselves
Palestinians already possess, de facto, a state on the east bank of the River
Jordan, which in size dwarfs tiny Israel. There already has thus been a
Two-State-Solution in existence now for some 91 years.
According
to Israel National News, “The peace talks between Israel and the PA broke down
in 2010, but not because of Israel. The talks broke down because PA Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate with Israel even though it agreed to his
precondition and froze construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem for
10 months. Instead, he has continued to impose preconditions on talks with
Israel, including a demand that Israel release terrorists who were jailed
before 1993, freeze construction for a second time and even present a map of
the future Palestinian state before any negotiations take place.” But the
reality is that Abbas does not want a state side by side with Israel: he wants
a state in place of Israel. That is why breathtakingly generous – nay, suicidal
Israeli offers – are always rejected.
Kerry
has now regurgitated the shameful and deeply unjust demand that “Israel freeze
construction east of the 1949 armistice line so the talks can resume.” Prime Minister Netanyahu has not responded
to that suggestion, nor should he. After all, the Arabs continuously smother
the land with illegal buildings and the world remains deathly quiet. Only when
an Israeli family dares to add a room on their tiny home or some new apartments are built within the ancestral homeland or
in Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem, does the same world scream bloody murder!
Secretary
Kerry even suggests giving an immediate $4 billion of U.S. taxpayer’s money to
the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians but as Yoram Ettinger, retired Israeli ambassador and
leading demographer, has written:
“Kerry
overlooks the impact of the $400 million in annual US aid which has fueled an
all-time-high Palestinian corruption (Mahoud Abbas’ nickname is “Mr. 20%), hate
education, terrorism, anti-US incitement, oppression, in general, and
discrimination against Christians, in particular, and the Palestinian affinity
toward America’s enemies and adversaries: Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Russia,
China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. The PA follows in the footsteps
of previous Arab leaders who sided with the Nazis, the Communist Bloc and
Khomeini.
“Why
don’t the Arab oil-producing countries provide $4 billion to the PA, which they
could easily afford in view of their robust $100 per barrel economy?”
Some
time ago I wrote an article titled, Joseph
Trumpeldor’s Message. In it I recounted the history of one of the towering
figures in the Zionist cause; Zionism being the self-determination of the
Jewish people and their national liberation movement.
Born
in 1880, Joseph Trumpeldor grew up in the small town of Piatigorsk in the
Caucasus region of Russia. Young Joseph’s father was forcibly conscripted into
the Czarist army for 25 years. This was the cruel policy implemented by a
succession of Czars who hoped that the length of time away from home and family
would erase any Jewish identity in the hapless soldiers. But Joseph
Trumpeldor’s father remained firm in his faith and love of his Jewish ancestry.
This proved to be a major influence on young Joseph.
In
1920, Trumpeldor, whose military prowess and heroism during the Russo-Japanese
War in which he lost an arm had made him a legendary figure, arrived at a tiny
embattled outpost in upper Galilee. The place was called Tel Hai, which
translated from the Hebrew means Hill of Life. Tel Hai had been under severe
assault for some time by large numbers of attackers from the nearby Arab settlement of Hulsa. Trumpeldor
himself arrived under fire and immediately set about organizing Tel Hai’s
defense.
Confronted
with a relentless barrage of superior firepower and frequent waves of attacks,
the defenders fell one by one. And on a Galilean spring day in early March,
Trumpeldor himself fell mortally wounded, fighting to the end.
His
dying words were in Hebrew: Ein
davar. Tov lamut be’ad artzenu. Translated into English: “Never
mind. It is good to die for our country.”
Joseph
Trumpeldor’s grave lies near Tel Hai, now a commemorative site adjoining Kfar Giladi. Not long
after his heroic death a Jewish village was reborn at the foot of Mount Gilboa
where 3,000 years earlier other Jewish military heroes, King Saul and his son,
Jonathan, so beloved of his friend David, fell fighting an ancient enemy. That
village is named in Trumpeldor’s honor: Tel Yosef.
So
what would Trumpeldor’s message be today to the embattled Jewish state? It
would probably be this: Fight, fight and fight again. Self-restraint never
works in the face of an implacable foe. Build, build and build again throughout
the ancestral homeland.
Indulging
in self-imposed building freezes to placate enemies, and so-called friends
alike, while the Arab enemy constructs thousands of illegal buildings with
impunity, is insanity.
Defend
Israel, for to lose the precious homeland again and return to the horrors of
exile is beyond imagining.
Similarly,
Yigal Alon writing in the October, 1976 edition of Foreign Affairs titled,
Israel: The case for defensible borders, exposed the critical defects in the
armistice lines existing on June 4, 1967 - the same lines with minor
adjustments that John Kerry would have the Jewish state shrink to. Such a
withdrawal contradicts the very meaning of U.N. Resolution 242. As Alon wrote,
…”For Israel, a military defeat would mean the physical extinction of a large
part of its population and the elimination of the Jewish state. To lose a
single war is to lose everything.”
Without
retaining the hill country, that runs like a spine north and south through
Judea and Samaria, Israel’s pitifully narrow 9 mile wide coastal plain, which
includes Netanya, Ben Gurion airport and Tel Aviv, will be at the mercy of the
Palestinian Arab thugocracy just as southern Israeli towns and villages endure
relentless aggression from the Hamas occupied Gaza Strip. That is why the
Two-State-Solution peddled by the EU, the UN, the Obama Administration and much
of the world will usher in a new Final Solution.
John
Kerry works at the pleasure of President Barack Hussein Obama whose outreach to
the Muslim world has been an unmitigated disaster for the West, the Free World
and particularly for the State of Israel. Obama has more than likely prevented
Israel for the last five years from effectively nullifying the existential
nuclear threat that the genocidal Iranian regime poses to the Jewish state.
Kerry’s boss has allowed one red line after another to disappear like invisible
ink.
But
it is the fraudulent Palestinian narrative that the world has fallen for that is
the most pernicious to Israel’s image. It allows an uninformed world to embrace
the falsehoods of an Arab people who call themselves Palestinians and creates
an atmosphere where the embattled Jewish state is unjustly and grotesquely
demonized, allowing such foul anti-Israel movements as the Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions (BDS) organization to continue its dirty work.
That
the conflict is not territorial but based upon the Muslim refusal to accept a
Jewish state, whatever its borders, in territory once conquered and occupied
under the banner of Islam is lost on the functionaries who inhabit the
international corridors of power. And sadly too many Israeli leaders refuse to
accept the obvious, preferring to believe that the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians
can ever be anything but serial Jew haters. Most diplomats, with few
exceptions, still harbor the illusion that territorial compromise will satisfy
the Arab and Muslim world. So again and again the discredited corpse known as
the Two-State-Solution is exhumed and presented as the fall back default plan.
And
this is the same suicidal
plan for Israel that the current Secretary of State, at the behest of
President Obama, is bringing for the fifth time.
It
was Albert Einstein who said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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