Dear Arik:
As I prepare myself mentally, emotionally and physically for the High Holidays, and as I distribute my New Year?s wishes to my friends and family I felt it appropriate to send you this very special Rosh Hashanah card. My thoughts on this day range from deep and boundless thanks to the Almighty for all that He has given me - to unending feelings of pain and anguish for my brethren in Israel and especially the hundreds murdered and thousands wounded by Arab terror.
First, my expression of thanks to you for having replaced the Ehud Barak, who was willing to give away the heart and soul of the Jewish people and its history (part of Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, etc.); who by withdrawing our troops from Lebanon ?like a thief in the night? gave the impression to the terrorists that they can win; who by his offer alone (made at Camp David and Taba) created the impression, that once again, the ghetto Jew was the only Jew.
Second, thank you as well for having the clarity of mind to stick to your principles by not meeting with the mass murderer Arafat at any point in your term of office. I also thank you for your strength during those intermittent periods of time when Arik Sharon was the Arik Sharon of old, the Arik Sharon my father was proud to call his friend.
Now the hard part Mr. Prime Minister, I must admonish you for what you did not do. You did not act the way you were expected to act when the Israeli people elected you by the largest majority in this history of Israel. They elected you to protect your people in the way that America protected the American people when they were attacked at Pearl Harbor and again in the attack on the World Trade Center with all the might necessary to defeat the evil enemy. You did not follow the example of your Party?s forerunner, Menachem Begin, who believed and said that each Jewish life taken is worth ten, perhaps a hundred, maybe even a thousand lives of the enemy that wants to destroy us. You have allowed Jewish life to continue to be devalued by those who want to destroy us. You also did not follow the principles of your friend and ally US President George W. Bush who refused and refuses to back down on his promise to destroy the evil in this world.
You permit a shadow government led by Shimon Peres, the architect of the Oslo disaster, and his henchman Yossi Beilin, to continue to prop up the mass murderer Arafat, even after the American President labeled him a has-been and wrote him off the charts. You continue to be swayed by your Labor Party Defense Minister ?Fuad? Ben-Eliezer, whose ambitious drive to take over your chair overrides his concern for the interests of the country and the lives of its citizens (see e.g. the ?Gaza and Bethlehem first? sick joke). Each time you respond to a terror attack by merely bombing an empty building, each time you let your government ministers meet with the murderers, each time you withdraw from a position of strength and thereby show weakness, you endanger Israeli lives, as well as lives of Jews all over the world, whether in Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles or New York.
Mr. Prime Minister, re-conquering Israeli towns currently occupied by Arabs is an important first step in turning back the Oslo clock. But you cannot stop now you must stay there; you must take back the guns given to the Arabs to ?uphold the peace?; you must arrest and try the murderers at all levels, including those who continue the incitement.
Most important of all, Mr. Prime Minister, you must let us win the War Against the Jews. May the Almighty give you strength and courage in the New Year.
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The author is the Chairman of American Friends of Likud, a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the Chairman of Media Watch International.
As I prepare myself mentally, emotionally and physically for the High Holidays, and as I distribute my New Year?s wishes to my friends and family I felt it appropriate to send you this very special Rosh Hashanah card. My thoughts on this day range from deep and boundless thanks to the Almighty for all that He has given me - to unending feelings of pain and anguish for my brethren in Israel and especially the hundreds murdered and thousands wounded by Arab terror.
First, my expression of thanks to you for having replaced the Ehud Barak, who was willing to give away the heart and soul of the Jewish people and its history (part of Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, etc.); who by withdrawing our troops from Lebanon ?like a thief in the night? gave the impression to the terrorists that they can win; who by his offer alone (made at Camp David and Taba) created the impression, that once again, the ghetto Jew was the only Jew.
Second, thank you as well for having the clarity of mind to stick to your principles by not meeting with the mass murderer Arafat at any point in your term of office. I also thank you for your strength during those intermittent periods of time when Arik Sharon was the Arik Sharon of old, the Arik Sharon my father was proud to call his friend.
Now the hard part Mr. Prime Minister, I must admonish you for what you did not do. You did not act the way you were expected to act when the Israeli people elected you by the largest majority in this history of Israel. They elected you to protect your people in the way that America protected the American people when they were attacked at Pearl Harbor and again in the attack on the World Trade Center with all the might necessary to defeat the evil enemy. You did not follow the example of your Party?s forerunner, Menachem Begin, who believed and said that each Jewish life taken is worth ten, perhaps a hundred, maybe even a thousand lives of the enemy that wants to destroy us. You have allowed Jewish life to continue to be devalued by those who want to destroy us. You also did not follow the principles of your friend and ally US President George W. Bush who refused and refuses to back down on his promise to destroy the evil in this world.
You permit a shadow government led by Shimon Peres, the architect of the Oslo disaster, and his henchman Yossi Beilin, to continue to prop up the mass murderer Arafat, even after the American President labeled him a has-been and wrote him off the charts. You continue to be swayed by your Labor Party Defense Minister ?Fuad? Ben-Eliezer, whose ambitious drive to take over your chair overrides his concern for the interests of the country and the lives of its citizens (see e.g. the ?Gaza and Bethlehem first? sick joke). Each time you respond to a terror attack by merely bombing an empty building, each time you let your government ministers meet with the murderers, each time you withdraw from a position of strength and thereby show weakness, you endanger Israeli lives, as well as lives of Jews all over the world, whether in Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles or New York.
Mr. Prime Minister, re-conquering Israeli towns currently occupied by Arabs is an important first step in turning back the Oslo clock. But you cannot stop now you must stay there; you must take back the guns given to the Arabs to ?uphold the peace?; you must arrest and try the murderers at all levels, including those who continue the incitement.
Most important of all, Mr. Prime Minister, you must let us win the War Against the Jews. May the Almighty give you strength and courage in the New Year.
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The author is the Chairman of American Friends of Likud, a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the Chairman of Media Watch International.