Just imagine the following scenario: You and your husband are happily married for many years. You have a few kids. You live in an apartment building, and one day, into the apartment across from yours, on the same floor, move new tenants. The new neighbor tells your husband that he has a crush on you and starts saying clearly that he wants to take you from your husband, for him and his sons. The pressure is unbearable- the neighbor first threatens, then starts using violence. First he smashes your car windows, then burns your car, then puts a bomb in the building - killing one of your own kids and a few other tenants in the building. He wants your husband to give you up and he will not stop till your husband lets him have you.
The residents of the building itself and of neighboring buildings start pressuring your husband to find a solution - they are worried that they will be the next target. After two years of violence, terror and incredible pressure, your husband says: "Well, this indeed cannot go on. People have been killed because of this problem. OK. I am willing to consider the idea of giving my wife away, but I will make very strict conditions: the neighbor has to promise to stop all violence; he has to promise to only want my wife and not my daughter; he has to make reforms as to how he keeps his household - he has to keep kosher and the Orthodox restraints relating to family purity, etc." And to you, his wife, your husband says, "Don't worry. I am making such strict conditions in order to please the other neighbors in the street. I know that the neighbor will never accept those terms. So don't worry, I don't really mean it."
Would you stay with such a man, or would you immediately divorce him? For he has betrayed you and basically agreed to give you away? What does it matter at what price? He has agreed on the principle. You had expected from a loyal husband to tell the entire street - with banners and posters, ?I will never give away my wife. Let's fight together to kick that bully neighbor and his entire family off of our street.?
This is my answer to all those who try to rationalize Ariel Sharon and YBA (Yisrael Ba'aliyah), who ?just say? they are for a PLO state, but put such strict conditions "that anyway it will never happen." Just uttering the words that you favor giving away one inch of Judea, Samaria and Gaza - Israel's biblical heartland - is a betrayal of Eretz Yisrael and nobody should give those people their votes. How many times do we have to repeat what David Ben-Gurion said in 1937: No Jew has the right to give away one inch of Eretz Yisrael to strangers, for all of Eretz Yisrael belongs to the People of Israel for all generations. Only saying that you favor the idea is no different than actually giving it away.
Ariel Sharon is not young and I wish him until 120 in good health. But after 120, when the day comes and he leaves this world, do you think that anybody will remember his "strict conditions" for the creation of a PLO state? They will just say "Sharon was for a PLO state. Yalla, if he was, then we can do it too". The same with YBA. The moment you agree to the principle, it is just a matter of time until you will do it; therefore, it is of utmost importance to vote for parties whose platform not only simply opposes the creation of a PLO state west of the Jordan, but who vow to actively fight the very idea and clearly have written in their platform: "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel based on the Torah of Israel."
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Nadia Matar is co-chairwoman of the grass-roots activist organization Women for Israel?s Tomorrow (Women in Green). The Women in Green radio programs can be heard, on demand, in English at IsraelNationalNews.com, or in Hebrew at A7.org.
The residents of the building itself and of neighboring buildings start pressuring your husband to find a solution - they are worried that they will be the next target. After two years of violence, terror and incredible pressure, your husband says: "Well, this indeed cannot go on. People have been killed because of this problem. OK. I am willing to consider the idea of giving my wife away, but I will make very strict conditions: the neighbor has to promise to stop all violence; he has to promise to only want my wife and not my daughter; he has to make reforms as to how he keeps his household - he has to keep kosher and the Orthodox restraints relating to family purity, etc." And to you, his wife, your husband says, "Don't worry. I am making such strict conditions in order to please the other neighbors in the street. I know that the neighbor will never accept those terms. So don't worry, I don't really mean it."
Would you stay with such a man, or would you immediately divorce him? For he has betrayed you and basically agreed to give you away? What does it matter at what price? He has agreed on the principle. You had expected from a loyal husband to tell the entire street - with banners and posters, ?I will never give away my wife. Let's fight together to kick that bully neighbor and his entire family off of our street.?
This is my answer to all those who try to rationalize Ariel Sharon and YBA (Yisrael Ba'aliyah), who ?just say? they are for a PLO state, but put such strict conditions "that anyway it will never happen." Just uttering the words that you favor giving away one inch of Judea, Samaria and Gaza - Israel's biblical heartland - is a betrayal of Eretz Yisrael and nobody should give those people their votes. How many times do we have to repeat what David Ben-Gurion said in 1937: No Jew has the right to give away one inch of Eretz Yisrael to strangers, for all of Eretz Yisrael belongs to the People of Israel for all generations. Only saying that you favor the idea is no different than actually giving it away.
Ariel Sharon is not young and I wish him until 120 in good health. But after 120, when the day comes and he leaves this world, do you think that anybody will remember his "strict conditions" for the creation of a PLO state? They will just say "Sharon was for a PLO state. Yalla, if he was, then we can do it too". The same with YBA. The moment you agree to the principle, it is just a matter of time until you will do it; therefore, it is of utmost importance to vote for parties whose platform not only simply opposes the creation of a PLO state west of the Jordan, but who vow to actively fight the very idea and clearly have written in their platform: "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel based on the Torah of Israel."
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Nadia Matar is co-chairwoman of the grass-roots activist organization Women for Israel?s Tomorrow (Women in Green). The Women in Green radio programs can be heard, on demand, in English at IsraelNationalNews.com, or in Hebrew at A7.org.