Oh, fear and trepidation! The Great White Father in the White House has spoken!



In a recent, widely publicized address to the United Nations, George Bush, president of the United States - Israel's ostensible loyal ally and best friend - excoriated the Jewish State for "humiliating" the "Palestinian people". Moreover, he forcefully declared that Israel must stop building settlements, and dismantle the "illegal" outposts that have been built.



Of course, our Foreign Minister assured him this would be done immediately.



"Mida K'neged Mida." ("Measure for Measure")



Were we not warned in our holy Torah that G-d would angrily turn His face against us if we refuse to follow His 'Road Map', which admonishes the Jewish people to put our faith and trust in Him alone?



"If you follow My statues... I will bring peace in the Land... and if you do not listen to me... I will bring upon you disaster." (Leviticus 26:l4, l6)



In what is perhaps the most blatant Hillul Hashem since the abomination of the Golden Calf in Biblical times, the mad scramble by a succession of Israeli government 'leaders' to appease the gentile world has succeeded in causing the universal humiliation the Jewish people is currently experiencing.



It is they, the leaders of Israel, who resurrected Yasser Arafat and in the ill-fated handshake ceremony in Washington (presided over by that 'paragon of moral virtue', Bill Clinton), provided the chief PLO murderous terrorist with legitimacy on the world arena. It is they, the leaders of Israel, who acquiesced in freeing Arab terrorists, the killers of innocent men, women and children, in giving them weapons and allowing them to become "Palestinian police" (sic; very sick). Those "police" have utilized those weapons to murder Jews.



It is they, the leaders of Israel, who continue to rip away part and parcel of Eretz Yisrael, ceding our hallowed soil to the implacable Arab enemies who have vowed to continue their 'uprising' against Jews in the Jewish homeland by ongoing homicide bombings, shootings, stabbing and other nefarious acts of terror.



And it is they, the leaders of Israel, who at the expense of countless deprived Jewish citizens, including many needy suffering bereaved families of terror victims, regularly transfer millions of shekels to the coffers of Arafat's henchmen, a.k.a. the Palestinian Authority. The PA, as reported in the media, is largely channeling funds for further murderous terrorist attacks.



Why, therefore, the shock and anger at Bush's statement?



By what rationale can Israel fault the nations if those who were chosen to lead the Jewish nation after two millennia of Crusades, Inquisitions, pogroms, and the unspeakable Holocaust, continue, by their policy of appeasement, to convey the self-deprecating message that we are humiliating the "Palestinians"?



As we approach the holiday of Sukkot, the ancient Festival of Tabernacles, when the Jewish people is commanded to "dwell in booths" in commemoration of our wandering in the desert and the great Redemption by the Al-mighty in bringing us to the Promised Land, it behooves us to remember the two-thousand years of wandering and persecution we endured when we did not have our one Jewish country. And in these precarious days, when a Jewish government plans to uproot the courageous Jews in Gush Katif, may all Jews return to G-d's Torah, leave the exile, and settle every part of Eretz Yisrael.



Thus can the humiliation of the Jews be obliterated.