In September of 1939, exactly 64 years ago, World War II began. Millions of Allied forces died in that horrific war against the German Nazis. Virtually all of European Jewry was murdered in Hitler's death camps. Six million Jews - men, women, children and babies - were shot, gassed and burned to death by the Nazis.
Were there no warnings of this holocaust? Since 1933, there had been numerous clear warnings in Germany. Signs in public parks proclaimed, "Jews and Dogs not allowed." Jewish businesses were confiscated. Jews were made to scrub pavements with a toothbrush to the amusement of bystanders. And Jews were beaten by the SA and SS squads, while the German populace cheered.
Nonetheless, the mainstream and left-of-center Jewish establishment ignored all these warnings. Only Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky passionately urged his fellow Jews to wake up and to heed what was happening. Very few people wanted to listen to him in Germany or in adjoining Eastern European countries, which were also rife with virulent anti-Semitism.
Less than four months before the Blitzkrieg, Jabotinsky addressed a Warsaw audience and answered his numerous detractors' accusation that he was cruelly robbing Jews of hope.
Jabotinsky contended that:
"Sometimes bold, fervent desperation can constitute a legitimate response. Worse than that is what I see among Eastern Europe's Jewish masses - equanimity, fatalism. People behave as if they've been condemned and sentenced. I know of nothing like this in history and haven't encountered such surrender to destiny in novels.
"What's this like? It's like shoving 12 million educated, experienced people into a wagon that is hurtling toward an abyss. And how do these folks behave? One cries, one smokes cigarettes, some read newspapers, another sings. Don't bother looking for one person to take over the controls and reroute the wagon. That's the mind-set. It's as if a great enemy came and chloroformed everyone's brains.
"I come to you in one last attempt and call upon you: Put a stop to this.
"Try to halt this wagon. Try to jump off. Place obstacles in its course. Don't go like sheep to the wolf. In nature, when the wolf devours one sheep and then another, the remainder at least quake and take fright and flight. Yet here, it's one huge graveyard."
The Arabs make no secret of their true intentions. Their ultimate goal is the complete destruction of Israel. Rockets are fired into the industrial area of the large Israeli city Ashkelon, from Gaza. Drive-by shootings claim victims every few days. Suicide bombers murder civilians as part of a "Holy Mission". In the latest suicide bombing, on August 19 in Jerusalem, 22 were killed and over 100 severely wounded. And what is the reaction of "moderate" Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen? "Such a bombing is not in the Palestinian national interest." Iran is relentlessly pursuing a nuclear program that could pose a mortal danger to Israel. Iran means business. Its leaders want to destroy Israel, and they say so without any qualms.
In spite of all this, US Secretary of State Colin Powell warns Israel against ending the "Road Map". Powell told reporters after a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York: "The alternative is more death and destruction and letting the terrorists win and letting those that have no interest in a Palestinian state win. That is not an acceptable outcome." Colin Powell, in effect, equates Bible-believing Christians and Jews, who oppose the formation of another Arab State in the Land of Israel, with Muslim terrorists.
In the same statement, Powell publicly called on "the Chairman" Yasser Arafat to work with Prime Minister Abu Mazen and to make available "those security elements under his control so that they can allow progress to be made on the ?Road Map? and terror and end this violence".
And naive people, like you and me, dear friends, thought that the US Government had declared Arafat to be "irrelevant" and that it wasn't going to deal with him anymore.
As far as US Secretary of State Colin Powell wanting once again to be buddies with Arafat, that does not surprise me one bit. After all, Colin Powell, not too long ago, declared to a Congressional committee: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." He was speaking about Yasser Arafat.
Make no mistake, the Oslo Accords and the "Road Map", what the world euphemistically calls a "peace process", is actually a holocaust in progress.
Unfortunately, Israel has been consistently outmaneuvered, especially since the Oslo Accords, and the adoption of the "Road Map". The "Road Map" is a continuation of the Oslo Accords, but even more detrimental to Israel's survival.
The Arabs, and a world again openly hostile to the Jews, have learned that Israel has no red lines that cannot be erased. Our leaders continually signal that nothing is sacred, that our homeland is negotiable real-estate that Israel can't win, that a second Palestinian Arab State (in addition to Jordan) is acceptable, that Jerusalem can be divided, and that we are not even willing to fight for our holiest site, the Temple Mount.
We must internalize the bitter lesson of the millions of Jews who were brutally murdered during World War II by the Nazis, while the rest of the world stood passively by.
Let us not delude ourselves! A second holocaust is already in progress! We must heed the warnings of revisionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky: "Try to halt this wagon, hurtling toward an abyss. Try to jump off. Place obstacles in its course. Don't go like sheep to the wolf."
Were there no warnings of this holocaust? Since 1933, there had been numerous clear warnings in Germany. Signs in public parks proclaimed, "Jews and Dogs not allowed." Jewish businesses were confiscated. Jews were made to scrub pavements with a toothbrush to the amusement of bystanders. And Jews were beaten by the SA and SS squads, while the German populace cheered.
Nonetheless, the mainstream and left-of-center Jewish establishment ignored all these warnings. Only Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky passionately urged his fellow Jews to wake up and to heed what was happening. Very few people wanted to listen to him in Germany or in adjoining Eastern European countries, which were also rife with virulent anti-Semitism.
Less than four months before the Blitzkrieg, Jabotinsky addressed a Warsaw audience and answered his numerous detractors' accusation that he was cruelly robbing Jews of hope.
Jabotinsky contended that:
"Sometimes bold, fervent desperation can constitute a legitimate response. Worse than that is what I see among Eastern Europe's Jewish masses - equanimity, fatalism. People behave as if they've been condemned and sentenced. I know of nothing like this in history and haven't encountered such surrender to destiny in novels.
"What's this like? It's like shoving 12 million educated, experienced people into a wagon that is hurtling toward an abyss. And how do these folks behave? One cries, one smokes cigarettes, some read newspapers, another sings. Don't bother looking for one person to take over the controls and reroute the wagon. That's the mind-set. It's as if a great enemy came and chloroformed everyone's brains.
"I come to you in one last attempt and call upon you: Put a stop to this.
"Try to halt this wagon. Try to jump off. Place obstacles in its course. Don't go like sheep to the wolf. In nature, when the wolf devours one sheep and then another, the remainder at least quake and take fright and flight. Yet here, it's one huge graveyard."
The Arabs make no secret of their true intentions. Their ultimate goal is the complete destruction of Israel. Rockets are fired into the industrial area of the large Israeli city Ashkelon, from Gaza. Drive-by shootings claim victims every few days. Suicide bombers murder civilians as part of a "Holy Mission". In the latest suicide bombing, on August 19 in Jerusalem, 22 were killed and over 100 severely wounded. And what is the reaction of "moderate" Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen? "Such a bombing is not in the Palestinian national interest." Iran is relentlessly pursuing a nuclear program that could pose a mortal danger to Israel. Iran means business. Its leaders want to destroy Israel, and they say so without any qualms.
In spite of all this, US Secretary of State Colin Powell warns Israel against ending the "Road Map". Powell told reporters after a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York: "The alternative is more death and destruction and letting the terrorists win and letting those that have no interest in a Palestinian state win. That is not an acceptable outcome." Colin Powell, in effect, equates Bible-believing Christians and Jews, who oppose the formation of another Arab State in the Land of Israel, with Muslim terrorists.
In the same statement, Powell publicly called on "the Chairman" Yasser Arafat to work with Prime Minister Abu Mazen and to make available "those security elements under his control so that they can allow progress to be made on the ?Road Map? and terror and end this violence".
And naive people, like you and me, dear friends, thought that the US Government had declared Arafat to be "irrelevant" and that it wasn't going to deal with him anymore.
As far as US Secretary of State Colin Powell wanting once again to be buddies with Arafat, that does not surprise me one bit. After all, Colin Powell, not too long ago, declared to a Congressional committee: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." He was speaking about Yasser Arafat.
Make no mistake, the Oslo Accords and the "Road Map", what the world euphemistically calls a "peace process", is actually a holocaust in progress.
Unfortunately, Israel has been consistently outmaneuvered, especially since the Oslo Accords, and the adoption of the "Road Map". The "Road Map" is a continuation of the Oslo Accords, but even more detrimental to Israel's survival.
The Arabs, and a world again openly hostile to the Jews, have learned that Israel has no red lines that cannot be erased. Our leaders continually signal that nothing is sacred, that our homeland is negotiable real-estate that Israel can't win, that a second Palestinian Arab State (in addition to Jordan) is acceptable, that Jerusalem can be divided, and that we are not even willing to fight for our holiest site, the Temple Mount.
We must internalize the bitter lesson of the millions of Jews who were brutally murdered during World War II by the Nazis, while the rest of the world stood passively by.
Let us not delude ourselves! A second holocaust is already in progress! We must heed the warnings of revisionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky: "Try to halt this wagon, hurtling toward an abyss. Try to jump off. Place obstacles in its course. Don't go like sheep to the wolf."