All our wishes are coming true, but we are in a state of despair. We are receiving everything we demand, but, even so, the situation is getting worse. What is happening here?
We wanted a Rightist prime minister and we received Sharon, whose contribution to building and defending the homeland is unrivalled. We wanted the IDF to enter area "A" and it has done so. We demanded the collection of the rifles supplied to the terrorists and this is being done, together with explosives and other weapons. We demanded the arrest of the wanted terrorists and they are being collected like mushrooms after the rain. We said that it is necessary to enlarge the Rightist faction in the government and the National Religious Party has now joined the government and will be followed by the other parties of the Right. We demanded that Binyamin Netanyahu be appointed Foreign Minister. It seems highly probable that after the Rightist faction in the government is strengthened Sharon will do this. We demanded that Peres be removed and this will also certainly happen at the same time as Netanyahu's entry. Perhaps, even Efi Eitam will replace ?Fuad? Ben-Eliezer as Defense Minister. We demanded that Arafat be removed and it is reasonable to assume that in the next army operation Arafat will be expelled to honorable exile in Paris or some Arab country.
In short, events are taking place in accordance with the hopes of most members of the Likud and of the National Camp, but, even so, Israel's situation is progressively deteriorating. Terrorism is on the increase, the international pressure has reached new heights, the anti-Semitic genie has been openly let out of the bottle, the economy is in ruins, the national mood is one of deep depression and the Left, as usual, is exploiting the blood and demonstrating in the streets. If all our demands are being met and the situation is not improving, then perhaps we are not demanding the right thing. The truth is that victory in the Temple Mount War (the ?El-Aksah Intifada?) does not depend on any military move. It is possible to release the reserve forces, to return the army to its normal training routine, to store the tanks in the emergency bases and to take a break?
The great military show of force that we demonstrated against Arafat has no significance in this war. It is being waged on other fronts, using different codes and with different aims. The basis of the dispute between Israel and the nations of the world in the Temple Mount War is the question: To whom does this country belong? The Intifada broke out after many years during which Israel refused to exercise Jewish sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza - in other words an Israeli failure to recognize our ownership of the region. The Intifada intensified into a situation of gunfire and the daily slaughter of Jews when Israel gave up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, thus demonstrating that it has no moral claims to the country. Even the place most sacred to the Jewish people was thrown to the Arabs as if it were an unwanted thing. This is not just a war over territory. This is a war about who is in the right, in which the winner will be the one who believes that justice lies with him. As of now, Israel has totally abandoned its belief that it is in the right and has shown by its actions that, in fact, it recognizes that justice lies with the enemy. In order to win this war action must be taken indicating that we have returned to our belief that we are in the right. This action involves three simple steps that require virtually no use of force:
1. Eliminate Arafat.
2. Return to the Temple Mount.
3. Bring the Oslo criminals to justice.
These steps alone will take the wind out of the enemy's sails and will bring us total victory. Any military action, however great, that does not include all these three elements will, in the medium and long term, be a total failure.
Arafat must be killed because he symbolizes the Arab struggle for Eretz Israel. He is not the leader of a neighboring country with which we have a border dispute. He claims full ownership of our homeland. Giving immunity to Arafat means agreeing that the very heart of Eretz Israel belongs to another nation. As long as we fail to smash the head of this snake we can win a thousand battles, but lose the war. We must return to the Temple Mount, because that is where we lost our feeling of being in the right. When we ran away from there, we showed the whole world that "we have no God". If we do not believe in our own sacred values, if we give up to the Arafats the heart of Eretz Israel, then it seems that we also believe that this country belongs to them. If so, why should we complain if the world understands from this that the Arabs are in the right. The Oslo criminals must be brought to trial, not from a feeling of revenge, but, as in the other steps, to restore our belief that we are in the right. As long as these criminals who, in violation of the law, met with members of the PLO, undermined Shamir's regime and brought this death to our doorsteps are not brought to justice, this is an admission of the legitimacy of their acts. The Oslo death process will then inevitably continue and even intensify.
If this is so easy, if we don't need the army in order to win, why doesn't the Likud take these steps? The reason is that the Likud is itself entrapped by the deceitful Oslo conception. The Likud has never presented a real alternative to the ideology of the Left. The Likud, also, regards peace as the ideal and thus finds itself realizing the visions of the Left. The Camp David Agreement, the destruction of Yamit and a whole region of settlements in Sinai, the continued implementation of the Oslo agreements, the Wye agreements, the handing over to Arafat of most of Hebron - all these actions were carried out by the Likud. Can the Likud today come up with a solution that differs substantially from that of the Left? Can the Likud today come up with this three-point program and save the lives of hundreds and thousands of soldiers and civilians? The answer is definitely not. For this, the Likud needs leadership of a totally different kind. The Likud, followed by the National Camp and followed by the State of Israel, needs leadership based on the eternal values of the Jewish people. Only leadership of this kind is capable of restoring our belief that justice lies with us, thus ensuring victory.
When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met with Menahem Begin he told him that he was prepared to sacrifice a million Egyptian soldiers in order to regain the last grain of the sacred earth of Sinai. What happened? At Camp David, Sadat received the last grain of Sinai without sacrificing a single soldier. Sadat, of cursed memory, did not talk in terms of democracy or peace. Certainly not! He spoke in totally different terms ? about holiness, justice, and sacrifice. The very concept "to return" derived from his subjective feeling that he was in the right. Our acceptance of this concept meant agreement with this apparent Egyptian justice. We can learn something from the enemy. This is the kind of leadership that we now need in Eretz Israel: leadership based on values of holiness, Jewish justice and sacrifice. This is the sole kind of leadership that is capable of extricating Israel from the blind alley in which it finds itself. This is the sole kind of leadership capable of achieving victory.
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Moshe Feiglin, founder and head of Manhigut Yehudit, The Jewish Leadership Movement, led the campaign of mass civil disobedience against the Oslo accords.
We wanted a Rightist prime minister and we received Sharon, whose contribution to building and defending the homeland is unrivalled. We wanted the IDF to enter area "A" and it has done so. We demanded the collection of the rifles supplied to the terrorists and this is being done, together with explosives and other weapons. We demanded the arrest of the wanted terrorists and they are being collected like mushrooms after the rain. We said that it is necessary to enlarge the Rightist faction in the government and the National Religious Party has now joined the government and will be followed by the other parties of the Right. We demanded that Binyamin Netanyahu be appointed Foreign Minister. It seems highly probable that after the Rightist faction in the government is strengthened Sharon will do this. We demanded that Peres be removed and this will also certainly happen at the same time as Netanyahu's entry. Perhaps, even Efi Eitam will replace ?Fuad? Ben-Eliezer as Defense Minister. We demanded that Arafat be removed and it is reasonable to assume that in the next army operation Arafat will be expelled to honorable exile in Paris or some Arab country.
In short, events are taking place in accordance with the hopes of most members of the Likud and of the National Camp, but, even so, Israel's situation is progressively deteriorating. Terrorism is on the increase, the international pressure has reached new heights, the anti-Semitic genie has been openly let out of the bottle, the economy is in ruins, the national mood is one of deep depression and the Left, as usual, is exploiting the blood and demonstrating in the streets. If all our demands are being met and the situation is not improving, then perhaps we are not demanding the right thing. The truth is that victory in the Temple Mount War (the ?El-Aksah Intifada?) does not depend on any military move. It is possible to release the reserve forces, to return the army to its normal training routine, to store the tanks in the emergency bases and to take a break?
The great military show of force that we demonstrated against Arafat has no significance in this war. It is being waged on other fronts, using different codes and with different aims. The basis of the dispute between Israel and the nations of the world in the Temple Mount War is the question: To whom does this country belong? The Intifada broke out after many years during which Israel refused to exercise Jewish sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza - in other words an Israeli failure to recognize our ownership of the region. The Intifada intensified into a situation of gunfire and the daily slaughter of Jews when Israel gave up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, thus demonstrating that it has no moral claims to the country. Even the place most sacred to the Jewish people was thrown to the Arabs as if it were an unwanted thing. This is not just a war over territory. This is a war about who is in the right, in which the winner will be the one who believes that justice lies with him. As of now, Israel has totally abandoned its belief that it is in the right and has shown by its actions that, in fact, it recognizes that justice lies with the enemy. In order to win this war action must be taken indicating that we have returned to our belief that we are in the right. This action involves three simple steps that require virtually no use of force:
1. Eliminate Arafat.
2. Return to the Temple Mount.
3. Bring the Oslo criminals to justice.
These steps alone will take the wind out of the enemy's sails and will bring us total victory. Any military action, however great, that does not include all these three elements will, in the medium and long term, be a total failure.
Arafat must be killed because he symbolizes the Arab struggle for Eretz Israel. He is not the leader of a neighboring country with which we have a border dispute. He claims full ownership of our homeland. Giving immunity to Arafat means agreeing that the very heart of Eretz Israel belongs to another nation. As long as we fail to smash the head of this snake we can win a thousand battles, but lose the war. We must return to the Temple Mount, because that is where we lost our feeling of being in the right. When we ran away from there, we showed the whole world that "we have no God". If we do not believe in our own sacred values, if we give up to the Arafats the heart of Eretz Israel, then it seems that we also believe that this country belongs to them. If so, why should we complain if the world understands from this that the Arabs are in the right. The Oslo criminals must be brought to trial, not from a feeling of revenge, but, as in the other steps, to restore our belief that we are in the right. As long as these criminals who, in violation of the law, met with members of the PLO, undermined Shamir's regime and brought this death to our doorsteps are not brought to justice, this is an admission of the legitimacy of their acts. The Oslo death process will then inevitably continue and even intensify.
If this is so easy, if we don't need the army in order to win, why doesn't the Likud take these steps? The reason is that the Likud is itself entrapped by the deceitful Oslo conception. The Likud has never presented a real alternative to the ideology of the Left. The Likud, also, regards peace as the ideal and thus finds itself realizing the visions of the Left. The Camp David Agreement, the destruction of Yamit and a whole region of settlements in Sinai, the continued implementation of the Oslo agreements, the Wye agreements, the handing over to Arafat of most of Hebron - all these actions were carried out by the Likud. Can the Likud today come up with a solution that differs substantially from that of the Left? Can the Likud today come up with this three-point program and save the lives of hundreds and thousands of soldiers and civilians? The answer is definitely not. For this, the Likud needs leadership of a totally different kind. The Likud, followed by the National Camp and followed by the State of Israel, needs leadership based on the eternal values of the Jewish people. Only leadership of this kind is capable of restoring our belief that justice lies with us, thus ensuring victory.
When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met with Menahem Begin he told him that he was prepared to sacrifice a million Egyptian soldiers in order to regain the last grain of the sacred earth of Sinai. What happened? At Camp David, Sadat received the last grain of Sinai without sacrificing a single soldier. Sadat, of cursed memory, did not talk in terms of democracy or peace. Certainly not! He spoke in totally different terms ? about holiness, justice, and sacrifice. The very concept "to return" derived from his subjective feeling that he was in the right. Our acceptance of this concept meant agreement with this apparent Egyptian justice. We can learn something from the enemy. This is the kind of leadership that we now need in Eretz Israel: leadership based on values of holiness, Jewish justice and sacrifice. This is the sole kind of leadership that is capable of extricating Israel from the blind alley in which it finds itself. This is the sole kind of leadership capable of achieving victory.
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Moshe Feiglin, founder and head of Manhigut Yehudit, The Jewish Leadership Movement, led the campaign of mass civil disobedience against the Oslo accords.