\"The right wing has no alternative to Oslo.\" With these words, Israel\'s left wing consistently challenges the nationalist camp to come up with a solution to the \"problem\" of the Israeli conflict with the Arabs. Arutz-7 Israel National Radio, rising to the challenge of formulating such an alternative, brought together over 20 leading thinkers of Israel\'s nationalist camp and asked them to articulate their substitute for the Oslo process. Several responses were excerpted here earlier this week. Additional excerpted answers appear below; stay tuned for more in coming days.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed - founding Rabbi of Beit El, Dean of Beit El Yeshiva Center Institutions, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arutz-7:
\"Specifically, the following must be done: \'Turn away from bad:\' Nullify the Oslo Agreements, take the weapons from our enemies, smash the terrorist leaders and those who dispatch the murderers, expel the terrorist leadership, and don\'t sign any agreements with them. Then, \'Do good:\' Strive to strengthen our hold on the Old City of Jerusalem, act to reduce the Arab presence on the Temple Mount with the goal of closing off the Mount totally to everyone until the arrival of the True Redeemer.
\"We must strengthen the settlement enterprise in Yesha... with a willingness to pay a price for our progress, and not to be deterred from constantly advancing.
\"We must stand strong in the face of international pressure... At this stage there is no diplomatic solution. We must increase our deterrence power until our enemies are defeated, until they understand that the price they will pay for each strike against us will be too high for them to pay... When the Arabs conclude that they truly want peace with us, on the basis of \'peace for peace,\' without any concessions on our part, we will make peace with them.
\"Arabs who wish to remain here under Jewish rule will be granted personal freedom to live as they wish, but those who wish to undermine the Jewish rule in the Land of Israel will not be able to remain. The land will be divided into municipally-governed districts, and those with Arab concentrations will be run by them. The central government will be Jewish, however, and the State will be a Jewish one. Whoever wants to live under Arab rule will have to leave for an Arab country, and will even receive initial financial aid to help him settle in the country of his choice.
\"In short, our alternative is to remove from our agenda the attempts to compromise and the efforts to reach agreements with the Arabs. We must place on the top of our agenda the striving for Redemption and full national revival. We must work to build up the entire Land, the entire nation, and the entire Torah. The problems of Arab terrorism and the dispute with the Arabs shall be dealt with by the relevant departments in the Foreign and Public Security Ministries, whose job it will be to prevent the Arabs from disrupting us on our path to Redemption. And we shall go in the Name of G-d and be successful.\"
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed - founding Rabbi of Beit El, Dean of Beit El Yeshiva Center Institutions, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arutz-7:
\"Specifically, the following must be done: \'Turn away from bad:\' Nullify the Oslo Agreements, take the weapons from our enemies, smash the terrorist leaders and those who dispatch the murderers, expel the terrorist leadership, and don\'t sign any agreements with them. Then, \'Do good:\' Strive to strengthen our hold on the Old City of Jerusalem, act to reduce the Arab presence on the Temple Mount with the goal of closing off the Mount totally to everyone until the arrival of the True Redeemer.
\"We must strengthen the settlement enterprise in Yesha... with a willingness to pay a price for our progress, and not to be deterred from constantly advancing.
\"We must stand strong in the face of international pressure... At this stage there is no diplomatic solution. We must increase our deterrence power until our enemies are defeated, until they understand that the price they will pay for each strike against us will be too high for them to pay... When the Arabs conclude that they truly want peace with us, on the basis of \'peace for peace,\' without any concessions on our part, we will make peace with them.
\"Arabs who wish to remain here under Jewish rule will be granted personal freedom to live as they wish, but those who wish to undermine the Jewish rule in the Land of Israel will not be able to remain. The land will be divided into municipally-governed districts, and those with Arab concentrations will be run by them. The central government will be Jewish, however, and the State will be a Jewish one. Whoever wants to live under Arab rule will have to leave for an Arab country, and will even receive initial financial aid to help him settle in the country of his choice.
\"In short, our alternative is to remove from our agenda the attempts to compromise and the efforts to reach agreements with the Arabs. We must place on the top of our agenda the striving for Redemption and full national revival. We must work to build up the entire Land, the entire nation, and the entire Torah. The problems of Arab terrorism and the dispute with the Arabs shall be dealt with by the relevant departments in the Foreign and Public Security Ministries, whose job it will be to prevent the Arabs from disrupting us on our path to Redemption. And we shall go in the Name of G-d and be successful.\"