There is no choice. We must return the State of Israel to the Jewish People -- before it is too late.



Last week, Israel's daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported that Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh served as an advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group appointed by President George W. Bush. Sneh verified his involvement and expressed satisfaction with the study's results. The Study Group essentially recommended buying quiet for the Americans in exchange for Israel's existential assets.



The implications of the report are that Israel will be forced to destroy its settlements in the Golan Heights and to surrender the Heights to Syria -- all the way to the banks of the Sea of Galilee. In addition, Israel will have to agree in principle to "the Right of Return" for the Arabs who lived in Israel until 1948 and negotiate the details with the terror organizations. Clearly, the "Right of Return" is contingent on full acceptance of the Convergence Plan. In other words, Israel will destroy Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and relinquish the entire region to the terrorists -- a direct continuation of the ethnic cleansing that Israel perpetrated against the Jews of Gush Katif and northern Samaria.



America never distinguished between the areas that Israel officially annexed after the Six Day War and those settlements that were never officially annexed. Whoever thinks that the fact that Israel has declared sovereignty on Jerusalem's post-Six Day War neighborhoods improves their international standing is mistaken. Israel has also annexed the Golan Heights. That does not seem to impress anybody: not the Arabs, not the Americans and, most importantly, not Israel's leadership. In short, this is the partial significance of the proposal that Deputy Defense Minister Sneh helped to compile.



In an article on the precise cost of the Disengagement, economist Nachum Tavyumi estimated that the cost of expelling the Jews of Judea and Samaria from their homes -- if the compensation scale of Gush Katif were to be applied -- would be more than one and a half trillion shekels (the exact figure is 1,650,447,000,000 shekels). This sum is three times Israel's entire GNP. Obviously, Israel is totally incapable of paying it. The US did not pay a cent for the expulsion of the Jews of Gush Katif and will certainly not pay such a fantastic sum, or even part of it.



The conclusion is simple. The Convergence Plan and the Baker Report that complements it mean the expulsion of all the Jews of Judea and Samaria and turning them into refugees with no compensation or housing and employment solutions. The International Court in The Hague has already ruled that a person who settles in occupied territory is a war criminal. Since, for all practical purposes, Israel has accepted the claim that the territory is occupied, the refugees will all be designated "war criminals" who deserve no compensation.



The half -million refugees from Judea, Samaria, Gush Katif and the Golan Heights who will converge into the borders of pre-1967 Israel will have to share the space with a torrent of Arab refugees from 1948: "Palestinians," their descendants, their children's children and other Muslims will all join the free-for-all. Clearly, this process means the quick destruction of the State of Israel without even one shot being fired. Even today, Israel plods along without even the most basic survival instinct that is a prerequisite for any national organism. Even today, a great majority of Israelis no longer believe that Israel will exist in the not-too-distant future. But it seems that most Israelis do not quite understand the personal price that they will be paying for the holocaust that traitorous leaders like Ephraim Sneh are bringing upon them.



As expected, Israel's media has warmly adopted the Baker plan. "Implementation of the report will be good for the US, but it will also be good for Israel," gushed Orli Azulai, the Yediot Acharonot reporter in Washington. In a rerun of its approach toward the Oslo Process, the flight from Lebanon, the Disengagement and the Convergence Plan, Israel's media hurriedly rejoices at the prospect of destroying the settlements in Judea and Samaria -- even if our past experience and a simple analysis of the present clearly show that the entire State of Israel will be swept away along with the settlements.



Denial of our Jewish identity, and hatred of the settlers and Biblical Israel are more powerful factors in Israel's media than the most basic survival instinct.



Ephraim Sneh, though, has reached new depths of perfidy. Sneh is not just another left-winger who suffers from periodic hallucinations. He is the deputy defense minister of the State of Israel, a calculated and thinking man. He understands the clear significance of the Baker Report for Israel. But even if we assume that Sneh doesn't quite grasp that the Report will lead his country to a holocaust, G-d forbid, even if he believes that the "Right of Return" will be a great boon for Israel, Israel's government still defines the idea as unacceptable. If so, we can simply say that the deputy defense minister of the State of Israel was traitorous to his country when, by his own admission, he helped a foreign country to design a policy that will lead to the destruction of the State.



The problem is that Sneh is not alone. Perfidy pervades current Israeli culture and rears its ugly head in both private and state affairs. It is accepted and rationalized by Israel's ruling minority. But it is destroying us.



It is urgent to replace the culture of perfidy with a culture of loyalty: loyalty to our spouses, to our family, to our Jewish heritage, to our Jewish identity, to our Land, to our fellow Jews and to our G-d. This is nothing short of a revolution. Manhigut Yehudit has provided the key with which to create the revolution. Now it is in your hands.



Your presence at the Manhigut Yehudit Chanukah Conference this Tuesday evening, the 28th of Kislev, at the Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem, will help to jump start the revolution. You owe it to yourself, your children and your People to be there.