There
is a specter haunting
Israel and its American Jewish supporters. It
is called guilt. Guilt over the "repression of
Palestinian human rights". Guilt over the refusal to
remove "the main obstacle to peace in the
Middle
East -
the occupation of the Arab land seized in 1967". Guilt
over the unwillingness to give the "Palestinians"
their own state in the "occupied lands". And now,
guilt over the killing of "Palestinians" and
innocent civilians in the "Occupied territories".
It is a powerful weapon, this guilt; Jews have a difficult
time coping with it.
People that have been the most debased of losers for 2,000
years finds it difficult to cope with victory. It finds it
extraordinary difficult to remain normal. It inherits
insecurities, complexes, guilt. It begins to believe its
enemies' slanders. It loses its self-respect and longs for
the love of a hating world. That is especially true for the
Jewish liberal! It is important that those who have retained
their self-esteem and sense of Jewish survival speak out
against the disease of guilt and moral insecurity. No
guilt.
Are
the lands of 1967, "occupied" by the Jews, the
main obstacle to peace? Is the year 1967 the origin of the
conflict? How peaceful it must have been in 1966 when Sinai
and Gaza were in Egyptian hands and the Golan was
possessed by the Syrians to shell, for 19 years, the Jewish
settlements below, and when Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem were in the hands of the
"moderate" King Hussein. Why did they go to war?
What did they want then? When they had all the
"occupied lands" before they were
"occupied"? When one has East Jerusalem and attacks
Israel, can it be that he desires
West
Jerusalem ?
And Tel Aviv? And can it be that that is what they really
want again? Now? And why did the "innocent Palestinian
women and children" take to the streets then, in 1967,
when Jordan and
Egypt ruled them to call for
"Israel in the sea"? What "occupied
lands" did they want back then? And could it be that
that is what they want now?
And
what did they wish in 1947 when they rejected the
"Palestine " state offered them by the United
Nations and went to war, killing fully 1% of the Jewish
population? And what did they wish in the riots of 1936-38
when there was no country called
Israel and they murdered more than 500
Jews?
And
in 1929 when no "Zionist occupation troops" were
in Hebron , why did the "Palestinians"
rise up to murder 67 Jews in one day? And why the pogroms in
Jerusalem and Jaffa
in 1920 and 1921? (continued - see below)
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Food for Thought
by
Steven Shamrak
At the time when Israel's President
Shimon Peres has begun celebrations of his upcoming 90th
birthday it is conveniently forgotten that it is he who
during the Israel's War of
Independence, when Israel was in urgent need of weapons to
resist the invasion by seven Muslim countries, gave an order
to Ytzhak Rabin to sink a cargo ship, the Altalena, which was
carrying arms smuggled by Irgun for fighters of the
newly formed state. The thugs of the self-serving leadership
of Avoda, the Labour party, betrayed Jewish patriots who
were fighting British occupation. Even now, being the
President of Israel, Shimon Peres has
been systematically undermining the sovereignty of Israel and the right of the Jewish people to live on
the ancestral land!
As the United Nations
urges countries to do more to help refugees - MK Shimon
Ohayon (Yisrael Beytenu) had a message for the UN: Don't
forget the Jewish refugees from Arab lands (850,000) ,
far more numerous than the much-worried over Arab refugees
(460,000) who fled the Land of Israel before
Israel's establishment in 1948 (following orders of their
masters).
Israel Must Make Peace to Survive?
Former president Bill Clinton is
urging Israel to
make peace with the Palestinians in order to survive as a
Jewish and democratic state. He spoke yesterday in central
Israel at a
conference honouring President Shimon Peres, who is turning
90. (Israel has been 'surviving' for over 60
years - it is not enough! 'Friends of
Israel lecturing the Jewish state about
'survival', but not living. They do not visit Muslim states
and demand the end of Islamic terrorism against
Israel and the world's democracies. I
would like to see Clinton in
Saudi
Arabia preaching recognition of
Israel!)
Speaking at the Washington
Institute of Near East Policy, Yaalon said, "The Arab
peace initiative is a spin. Prime Minister Netanyahu has
said that Israel is ready to return to the negotiating table
without preconditions and dictations, but the Arab
initiative is a dictation - first we need to give up
territory, then the Arabs would consider (when pigs fly) a relationship with
us."
United Nations
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon slammed Israel's plans to
increase construction in Judea and Samaria. ('Useless Nothing' may changed its
leader but retains its anti-Israel
nature!)
1.
France's
National Electric Company has invested $400M in
Israel' s
solar market.
2.
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the largest investment
fund in the world (funded by Norway's oil explorations), has
invested $686M in the Tel Aviv stock exchange, $552M during
the last four years. (
Israel is a global leader in
communication, computer, biotech and defence. Not bad for
"a little sh*y
country"!)
Russia will
"defend Russian Citizens" in
Syria
Just one day after the G8
Summit ended in the failure of Western leaders to overcome
Russian resistance to a resolution mandating President
Bashar Assad's ouster, Moscow announced that it will
dispatch two warships carrying 600 Russian marines to
Syria. They were coming, said the official statement,
"to protect the Russian citizens there."
(Any
spin works, even the idiotic one like this, when a
government confidently ignores international opinion. It is
time for Israel to set national objectives and start to
implement them. It is easier to 'spin' ideas which have well
justified merits!)
Quote of the Week:
"It is better to deserve honors and not have
them than to have them and not to deserve
them." - Mark Twain -
Re: Shimon Peres' birthday celebrations.
Self-Destructive Jewish Guilt -
Part2
by
Rabbi Meir Kahane (January, 1988)
What
troubles the Arabs is the very presence of large numbers of
Jews in the land, and
Israel of any size, Zionism. That is what
troubles the Arabs. That is the obstacle to peace. Let us
inscribe that on our hearts lest we open the doors to a
repetition-on a grand scale-of that which the Arabs have
done to Jews since 1920. A horror of slaughter by knives and
axes and the bearers of guilt would do just
that.
No
guilt. There is one sublime reason why we should not give up
a
centimeter of land... it belongs to us. If we have no right to Judea and Samaria and Gaza, then we indeed have no right to Tel Aviv. Abraham did not walk on Dizengoff street nor did our ancestors live in Israeli cities that were built in the 20th century. But Abraham, who lived in Hebron, and Jacob who lived in Shechem, now Nablus, and David in Bethlehem are the sole legitimate reasons that Jews can lay claim to a Tel Aviv and the kibbutzim of the guilt-ridden Left. The land belongs to us because the G-d of Israel, creator and Titleholder of all lands, gave it to us. No guilt.
centimeter of land... it belongs to us. If we have no right to Judea and Samaria and Gaza, then we indeed have no right to Tel Aviv. Abraham did not walk on Dizengoff street nor did our ancestors live in Israeli cities that were built in the 20th century. But Abraham, who lived in Hebron, and Jacob who lived in Shechem, now Nablus, and David in Bethlehem are the sole legitimate reasons that Jews can lay claim to a Tel Aviv and the kibbutzim of the guilt-ridden Left. The land belongs to us because the G-d of Israel, creator and Titleholder of all lands, gave it to us. No guilt.
There
is no such thing as a "Palestinian people". They
are Arabs, part of the Arab nation, possessor of 21 lands.
Let them live in peace in any or all of them. But there are
no "Palestinians". It was the Roman emperor
Hadrian who, after the Jewish revolt against the Romans,
angrily erased the name of the state,
Judea, and invented the name
"Palestine " after the Philistines. In every
normal case an existing people gives its name to a land. The
Franks named it France and the Angles,
England, and the Germanics,
Germany . Only in this ludicrous case does a
Roman invent a name, give it to a land, and the arriving
Arab trespassers become "Palestinians". One
presumes that had Hadrian not changed the name,
Israel today would be fighting Yasir Arafat
and the Judean terrorists. There are no
"Palestinians" and there is no
"Palestine" in the
land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael. No
guilt.
The
"Palestinian" civilians in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and
Lebanon cheered and supported every P.L.O
murder and terror of Jews. They are united in hatred of
Israel . It would be nicer if they did not
stone our soldiers and try to kill Jews. It would be nicer
if they did not rise up in revolt in order to force us out
of Judea,
Samaria and Gaza as the first step to the elimination
of the State of Israel. But since they do, let Jews not
allow themselves to be destroyed by "Palestinian"
women and children. And if the only way to survive is to
take the lives of people who attack us we have no choice. I
wonder how many Americans and British and French mourned and
protested the killing of German civilians during World War
II bombings of Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden?
There is nothing ethical about dying or anything moral about
another holocaust. There is nothing immoral about winning
and nothing necessarily noble in a loser. Let us cast off
the chains of guilt and reject the accusations of its
bearers. The greatness of Judaism is its spirit, but no
spirit can survive without a living body. If we do not want
to kill Arabs - and we don't; and if we want to put an end
to the nightly television pictures of violence; and if we do
not want to see those pictures tomorrow inside Israel
itself, with Israeli Arabs fighting soldiers; and if we do
not want to see the threat of Arab demography destroying the
Jewish State - then let us have the courage to take the one
difficult but immutable step that will free us of all this
and guarantee a Jewish State: Remove the Arabs from the land
and let them live with their brothers and sisters in any of
the 22 Arab states. Anything short of that will see the
horrors of today escalated a hundred-fold tomorrow. And let
us not fear the world. Those who stood by during the
Holocaust and when
Israel faced destruction in 1948 and 1967 have
nothing to tell us.
"Faith in the G-d of
Israel and a powerful Jewish army are the
only guarantors of Jewish survival". Let us not fear
the world. Far better a Jewish State that survives and is
hated by the world, than an Auschwitz that brings us its love and sympathy.
No guilt Rather faith in G-d and a return to authentic Torah
laws; rather pride and strength, and the love of our people
rather than the enemy that would destroy us. That is sanity;
that is Judaism.
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