Gary Cooperberg, November 25, 2004

Both Great Britain and the United States have sent emissaries to Israel to "encourage" the Jewish State to withdraw from Arab populated towns in order to enable a smooth election process for the PLO. Israel, of course, needs no such encouragement as she is very desirable to see a new PLO leadership to whom it can surrender more Jewish land.

It boggles the mind to consider that a nation which came into being against the will of the majority of the nations of the world; which faced a war on all of its fronts when it had almost no ability to stand up to any army; which, at that time had no defensible borders, yet took on the entire world rather than accept defeat; would today, when it has one of the greatest armies in the world, stand on its head to surrender to a non entity which seeks her destruction!

Why did we let Arafat die a natural death when we should have tried and executed him?

Why are we still active accomplices in the perpetuation of the lie of a legitimate Arab nation called "Palestine"? Especially in the face of an outright war of terror which has taken the lives of so many innocent Jewish civilians by Arabs who chose to become human bombs, how is it thinkable that we still treat such monsters as having legitimate claim to any part of our homeland? Menachem Begin thought he was expressing an exaggeration when he asked, "What are we to negotiate, the terms of our self destruction"? Yet that is precisely what we have been doing and are continuing to do.

And how is it that the likes of an Ariel Sharon could be leading us down the path to self destruction? One needn't be a genius to see the madness here. It is a madness of our own making because we have refused to recognize the G-dly nature of the Jewish State. We have been working feverishly to prove to the world, and to ourselves, that we are just like all the other nations of the world. This is not only a waste of time and energy, it is the source of the tragedy which we have been suffering. The Arabs are not the problem. They are merely our punishment for failing to act like Jews.

If we had a truly Jewish leadership the first thing they would do would be to declare the Oslo agreements illegitimate. No Jewish leadership has the right to negotiate Jewish Land with anyone. . . much less a non-entity. Secondly he would physically redeem those parts of our homeland which are under PLO control and use the full power of the IDF to obliterate any resistance with no regard whatsoever for civilian casualties. The concept of "Palestine" or "Palestinian", other than in historical context when it once referred to Jews, should be made illegal. Anyone claiming such identity would be subject to execution.

It is we who taught the USA and Great Britain and the nations of the world that there is legitimacy to such an entity. And it is we who must reeducate the world to the reality that such an entity is nothing less than a strategic effort to destroy the Jewish State by creating a new "legitimate" people by which to replace it with an Arab state. The Jewish State will never agree to be an accomplice to our own destruction, nor can we tolerate efforts by "friendly" nations to interfere with our legitimacy by making nationally lethal demands of us. We don't need a Jack Straw or a Colin Powell to tell us how to conduct our internal affairs. And we certainly will not accept their suggestions to give aid and comfort to our enemies.

Where are the Jewish voices screaming out, "Not One Inch!"? Where are the enraged cries of "There is no such thing as Palestine!"? Have we forgotten our two thousand year dream of Zion? Have generations of Jewish martyrs given their lives so that we can help the PLO take our homeland from us? Why can we not see the madness?

Gary Cooperberg is a resident of the Jewish community in Hebron, Israel.

Copyright © 2004 Gary Cooperberg