Imagine that we were back in the 1930s again. Before the millions of people who were killed in World War II. Who in the world would have killed Hitler and his cohorts? How many times did that opportunity arise?


But that would not have been civilized. Ask the British. What of the world’s priorities: could lives have been saved

Negotiation with evil has led to more and more bloodshed of innocent people.

bombing the railway lines carrying Jews to the death camps? Ask the Americans. The mandate was there in writing for years: a detailed plan to get rid of the Jews. The whole world knew the principle, the details and what to do to prevent it.


It was no different from when my grandparents’ families fled Russia as the mobs were murdering them just twenty-five years earlier. Just as my husband’s family and other Jews fled Arab countries.


That same evil exists today, when Jews are slaughtered in cold blood. The stated purpose of Hamas, Hizbullah and whatever they choose to call themselves is specifically the obliteration of the Jewish people - not only in Israel, but wherever Jews may be. Just as in the days of Haman.


All of this is public knowledge. Negotiation with evil has led to more and more bloodshed of innocent people. Should evil be allowed to live?


”Lest we forget” was the mantra that I grew up with. But the world has forgotten, as killing Jews becomes the norm. Photos of the piles of dead in Auschwitz flash before my eyes, as does the Yad Vashem exhibit of the huge pile of dead children’s shoes from the concentration camps. Maybe it is time to put these images up again so that the nations will remember. They obviously have short memories, or they care only about themselves.


There comes a point when there are no answers except to confront evil. Israel may be known as a stable democracy, but it is now getting to a stage where it is questionable if its army can be restrained. The Israeli Defense Forces have been stopped in their tracks time and time again by politicians from unleashing their superior power, yet unused. Israel may have all of the trappings of a country where the politicians are the decision-makers, but if all-out war begins, not merely a controlled exercise into Gaza or Lebanon, heaven help those sheltering the army of terrorists within residential areas. All the care that Israel has taken to try to protect the innocent has been counterproductive.


The Israeli Defense Forces are a people’s army, an army that goes to the heart and soul of the families of Israel. The enemy’s policy of picking off Jews one at a time, of sending rockets into residential areas, and of using Arab citizens of Israel to kill Jews and effectively form a fifth column has been tolerated for years. The political

No sane government can allow continuous rocket fire into people’s homes and schools.

limitations will not last forever; when the IDF unleashes its full strength, virtually every single Jew in the country will be behind it.


No sane government can allow continuous rocket fire into people’s homes and schools, nor can they allow a situation to develop whereby Arab citizens can abuse the privilege of having Israeli citizenship to commit wholesale murder.


The Israeli media may very well be mostly controlled by a minority of well-educated leftists prepared to kowtow to the aims of the nominal peace process, but this policy has only brought death. Middle Israel is not accurately represented in these publications and Israelis are now calling for the wholesale expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. Tolerant and peace-loving citizens have crossed over to the right as they witness the blood of children, teenagers and the innocent shed as they go about their daily lives.


What the world does not understand is that Gaza is one with Hamas and Lebanon is one with Hizbullah. The vast majority of Arabs and their leaders within Israel, including Arab members of the Knesset, are part of a fifth column, in bed with the enemy.


Our Torah tells us quite clearly how to deal with evil. Not with well-meaning politicians, nor with peace marches. Not by supplying them with fuel to build weapons to fire at us, nor by shaking the hands of their leaders. Those who are evil and come to kill us fall into the category of Amalek. We know very well what to do with them.


They are the ones who should not sleep at night.