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Naomi Ragen
Naomi Ragen is a best-selling novelist and columnist who has lived in Israel since 1971.
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    Published: 10/07/03, 7:06 PM

    The Left's Real Agenda

    by Naomi Ragen
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    In the beginning, I didn't understand. I thought that there were people with different political viewpoints in this country of ours, a vital democracy. Of course, I thought that the policies of the Labor Party and Meretz, exemplified by Yossi Sarid and Shimon Peres, were totally wrong. I thought that they and their supporters were mistaken in their honest, but misguided, search for a peaceful solu

    In the beginning, I didn't understand. I thought that there were people with different political viewpoints in this country of ours, a vital democracy. Of course, I thought that the policies of the Labor Party and Meretz, exemplified by Yossi Sarid and Shimon Peres, were totally wrong. I thought that they and their supporters were mistaken in their honest, but misguided, search for a peaceful solution to the problems with our Arab neighbors.

    But now, three plus years into the Intifada, when, as a direct result of their policies, over 20,000 terrorist attacks have killed our children in the streets, and caused thousands of injuries, destroyed our once-thriving economy and put people in line for soup kitchens, not to mention an unprecedented outpouring of hatred all over the world not only for Israelis, but all Jews, I must admit the truth to myself. These people really will not be satisfied until they destroy the Jewish State. That is their real agenda.

    I give you the fabricated "pilots' revolt," carried out in conjunction with Israel's Channel Two and the Yediot Acharonot newspaper, both of whom apparently coordinated the release of this trumped up traitors' list, which includes reserve pilots who haven't been in a cockpit in years, as well as those who aren't at all involved in targeted terrorist killings anyway. They will "refuse orders" they tell us; the orders they don't get anyway. Hundreds of pilots signed counter petitions, but you will not hear about that. Just as you will not hear about the thousand people who stood across the street from Shimon Peres' birthday extravaganza paid for by the impoverished Israeli people (and don't tell me it was privately funded. I know who did the catering at the President's House, and that alone cost 80,000 shekels, and the people of Israel are paying for it).

    And now we have the "writers and intellectuals" who have taken the army to the Supreme Court, charging them with a criminal act in targeting Hamas Chief Salah Shehadeh, killed by Israel in July 2002. Shehadeh was responsible for hundreds of terrorists attacks and hundreds of Israeli deaths. In killing Shehadeh, civilian bystanders, including children, were also killed, the regrettable outcome of fighting an enemy who hides behind children and old ladies. This is the "crime" the army is accused of by two Arab writers and their Jewish colleague. I myself once personally witnessed Shulamit Aloni fawning all over Muhammad Bakri, who put together that web of filthy lies he called a "documentary" about Jenin, a film that Goebbels would have given the Third Reich's highest award.

    Self-hating doesn't begin to explain these Israelis. They don't hate. They actively support and encourage the enemy to destroy their fellow citizens.

    So let us see how their campaign is going so far. Bring in Arafat from Tunis and let him rearm and then give him a private enclave where his terrorists can set up camp, joined by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Make it a safe haven for bomb-building and a launching pad for attacks against Israelis by taking to the streets any time the IDF tries to stop their activities. Then, let them bomb away. Let them kill your fellow Jews at their Passover seders, at their bus stops, in cafe's, in playgrounds. In short, make Israel an unlivable place. Certainly, a place no tourist in his right mind would want to visit.

    And then, when you are voted out of office by the hoodwinked masses, rally your leftist leagues once again. You've already got all of your people into key positions in Israel's newspapers, and most of its radio and television news programs, so that they report what you want and ignore what you don't want. Use them to fight the elected government (not hard; they are mostly corrupt, spineless jellyfish anyway). And, having accomplished that, go all out after the last bastion of resistance to your plans, the Israeli Defense Forces, those ordinary patriotic citizens willing to die for their country, those people who man the thin red line between Israelis and the murderous hordes of barbarians chafing at the gate.

    And because we are not allowed to call anyone a traitor in this country; and because no one wants to be labeled a right-wing fanatic (although no one worries about being called a left-wing suicidal lunatic), you will get away with it. And the last stage in the destruction and the demoralization and impoverishment of this country can take place.

    There is only one thing wrong with this plan. Israelis love life. And they understand when they've been taken for a ride. And they have no faith in the press, and have stopped buying Yediot Acharonot (before the holiday, my supermarket was giving it away for free...) and watching the news.

    But the time has finally come when we have no choice. All those of us who want to stop this plan have got to begin to fight our fifth column, our own Israeli media and our own media darlings, the way we once fought CNN and the New York Times. The enemy within our gates has had enough tolerance. We need to use our democratic rights to defeat them, by exposing them and boycotting their propaganda organs. We need to rout them before they complete their agenda.

    May God help us.

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