"Bring just one of our slaughtered children back to life and we will release all 8,000 of your bloody terrorist murderers from our jails!"



That would be my answer to Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, the new president of the Palestinian rat pack, who had the audacity to say that Israel's offer to release 900 of their jailed butchers is an 'insult'.



Instead of telling him to go to hell, our sick-in-the-head prime minister sent Dov Weisglas, his partner in grime, to meet with two of Abbas' henchmen in Cairo to 'negotiate' the prisoner release issue.



You and I know what that means. It means we will release many more than 900 killers, so they can quickly return to murdering Jews.



And what will we get in return? Nothing. Zip. Nada. As usual. The same nothing that we are getting for Ariel Sharon's crazy plan to expel 8,500 Jewish men, women, and children from their homes and communities in Gaza; communities built on empty sand dunes that were owned by no one, occupied only by cacti and moles.



Why are we the only ones that must constantly make 'goodwill' gestures? Did we start this bloody four-year war? Did we send suicide/homicide bombers to blow up their buses, their pizza parlors, their hotels? Are we the ones who have shot 5,000 rockets and missiles into their cities, targeting their kindergarten children - an act of war that continues to this day despite talk of cease-fires?



The new American Secretary of State, anxious to make herself popular with the Arab world, tells Israel, even before arriving, that Israel must be ready for the 'hard decisions', must give the Palestinians a contiguous state, which means the splitting Israel in two; and she warns Israel that the Arabs will never make peace unless we give them the sort of state they demand. Can you believe such chutzpah? And our heroic government trembles in its boots, awaiting the fall of the Bush/Rice Sword of Damocles.



We announced that Egypt will be guarding the Philadelphi route. This is the border with Gaza where hundreds of tunnels have been dug in the last few years to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt into Gaza. Egypt has always known about these tunnels on their land, but did nothing to prevent them or close them down. So now we are supposed to trust these foxes to guard our hen houses? Are we nuts? The moment we pull our army, every terrorist on earth will be digging bigger and better tunnels, and bringing in everything from missiles to blockbuster bombs.



What the hell kind of unbalanced, brain-dead negotiator is this Sharon? How many more of our children and women must lay shredded into bits and pieces in the street before he gets it? The Palestinians have declared war on us, deadly terrorist war; and what they can't win by war, Sharon is now ready to hand them on a silver platter? Alice in Wonderland is more logical than this!



And we, the citizens of this beleaguered land, sit on our hands doing very little to stop this madness.



"Well, what can we do?" I hear you saying. You can't do anything until you get it through your heads that we, the six million Israeli citizens own this nation, not a small group of people who sit around a table figuring out what more they can hand to the enemy.



We need to take this nation back. We need, hundreds of thousands of us, to bring this nation to its knees with the greatest non-violent demonstration ever seen. We need to bring all industry to a halt, stop traffic on every main artery from north to south, and east to west. We need to say to Sharon and his lackeys, "Enough is enough. For years you have given land, turned over cities, released thousands of murdering terrorists, and what do we have to show for it?



We have 1,500 slaughtered women, children, men, young and old.



We have 12,000 wounded, maimed, crippled; amputees by the hundreds, some as young as five.



We have an economy lacerated by the cost of defending against terrorists for four years.



We have 720,000 children who don't get enough to eat because all our money and energy is being wasted trying to get a bunch of Jew-haters to accept our right to exist here in our ancient homeland.



We have a billion dollars in blown up buses.



We have lost the respect of much of the world because we have become weak appeasers.



What we don't have is a moment's peace, because our enemies don't give a hoot about a state of their own, or about the borders, or about fences. All they give a damn about is breaking our spirit, demonizing us to the world, and whittling us down to an indefensible size so that, in the next major Arab war, they will finally defeat us and throw us into the sea.



And if you don't believe me, try listening to their speeches in Arabic, their sermons every Friday in ever mosque. Read their newspapers, listen to their radio stations, watch their TV programs.



They have never made a secret of what their goal really is - the elimination of Israel and the death of as many Jews as they can get their bloody paws onto.



If our prime minister and his crew of nation-wreckers won't protect us, we must do it ourselves - and damn soon!



Copyright © Mike Levine 2005