The Geneva agreement is meaningless. No, I don't underestimate the strength of the Oslo gang: they have already demonstrated their capability of radically changing situations in a way that seemed impossible. However, just as the Road Map didn't worry me, I'm not losing any sleep over the Geneva agreement, simply because history has already overtaken those fighting to liberate the country from the Jews.
Ten years ago, during the merry days of Oslo, they succeeded, but today, the train is standing in a totally different station. Neither Sharon with the Road Map, nor Beilin with the Geneva agreement, are capable of reversing the direction of this train.
Quite clearly, nothing will come of all this noise and commotion, except for another few millions that the anti-Semites in Europe will transfer to the Oslo gang. To send the draft agreement to every home in Israel will cost many millions, apart, of course, from the high salaries, expense accounts, hotel expenses, etc.
There's nothing like the Final Solution for the problem of the Jews in Israel to open wide the hearts and pockets of the Europeans. What's more, publicity is something that can't be ignored.
It seems that the public also understands this, and, despite the tireless efforts of the media to inflate this balloon, the public refuses to take it seriously. Something in our collective subconscious has finally realized, after so many murders and horrors, that there is no one to talk to and nothing to talk about.
Three thousand Israelis this year have already tried to solve this problem finally by applying for German citizenship. However, there is an interesting, and even amusing, side to this farce.
The major personalities in this gang are people who not only do not represent the public in Israel, but have also been rejected by the circles closest to them.
Beilin, who competed for a realistic place in the Labor Party's list of Knesset candidates, reached the fourth group of ten places - an unrealistic place - by the skin of his teeth. So then, Beilin (and Yael Dayan, who encountered the same problem) employed a knightly democratic approach (after he lost!) and jumped from the Labor Party to Meretz, where he and Yael Dayan were allocated places that seemed to them to be more certain. At this point, it was already possible to learn a lot about the democratic approach of these people, their loyalty to those whose loyalty they demanded, their attitude to public opinion, etc. As is well known, their ploy was unsuccessful, and the public's flight from the Left caused Meretz to also shrink in size, and Beilin found himself outside the Knesset.
Amnon Lipkin Shahak tried his luck, with great publicity, as the candidate for Prime Minister of the Center Party (yes, such a thing once existed). The media supported him ceaselessly, but as soon as he opened his mouth and revealed his great plans - this soap bubble collapsed and vanished without trace. Shahak, despite a well-oiled and well-heeled public relations campaign, also found himself outside the Knesset.
The Right also contributed its own representation to the delegation sent to Geneva: Former MK Nechama Ronen, who also discovered on which side her bread is buttered and who receives the support of the media. Ronen began her public career as a parachute packer during her army service. This is important, since it was all that Raful (Refael Eitan) knew about her when he selected her for the Tzomet list of candidates for the Knesset. To everyone's surprise, Tzomet received eight seats.
But this was enough for Raful. Tzomet finished up just like all the other satellite parties of the Right, and prior to the following elections, Ronen realized that the entry key to the Knesset now lay in the Likud. She joined the Likud, competed for a place and, like her other companions in the Geneva delegation, failed miserably.
This is a representative sample of the signatories of the Geneva agreement, their democratic philosophy, and the broad Israeli public that they are representing.
Are they traitors? Can they be brought to trial?
Without doubt, MK Shaul Yahalom is right. According to the dry Israeli law (and its interpretation given in the past by the Israeli Supreme Court) this miserable gang may be brought to trial on the charge of treason - an offence for which the punishment is death or life imprisonment. But this is a law divorced from the Israeli reality.
It is currently impossible to betray the State of Israel, because there is no one to betray. The State of Israel has lost its internal meaning, both as a Jewish State and as a state in general. It is impossible to betray an empty framework. This is like the case of a couple living apart, where each member of the couple is living openly with another partner. They are technically married. Can they be said to be committing adultery? A state which sacrifices its basic values, trades in the land belonging to the nation, prefers the lives of its enemies over those of its own soldiers (and this is only a partial list) cannot really be called a state. Consequently, Beilin is not a traitor, because he has no one to betray.
When the State of Israel returns to its true nature, the concepts of loyalty and betrayal will once again become relevant for it.
Ten years ago, during the merry days of Oslo, they succeeded, but today, the train is standing in a totally different station. Neither Sharon with the Road Map, nor Beilin with the Geneva agreement, are capable of reversing the direction of this train.
Quite clearly, nothing will come of all this noise and commotion, except for another few millions that the anti-Semites in Europe will transfer to the Oslo gang. To send the draft agreement to every home in Israel will cost many millions, apart, of course, from the high salaries, expense accounts, hotel expenses, etc.
There's nothing like the Final Solution for the problem of the Jews in Israel to open wide the hearts and pockets of the Europeans. What's more, publicity is something that can't be ignored.
It seems that the public also understands this, and, despite the tireless efforts of the media to inflate this balloon, the public refuses to take it seriously. Something in our collective subconscious has finally realized, after so many murders and horrors, that there is no one to talk to and nothing to talk about.
Three thousand Israelis this year have already tried to solve this problem finally by applying for German citizenship. However, there is an interesting, and even amusing, side to this farce.
The major personalities in this gang are people who not only do not represent the public in Israel, but have also been rejected by the circles closest to them.
Beilin, who competed for a realistic place in the Labor Party's list of Knesset candidates, reached the fourth group of ten places - an unrealistic place - by the skin of his teeth. So then, Beilin (and Yael Dayan, who encountered the same problem) employed a knightly democratic approach (after he lost!) and jumped from the Labor Party to Meretz, where he and Yael Dayan were allocated places that seemed to them to be more certain. At this point, it was already possible to learn a lot about the democratic approach of these people, their loyalty to those whose loyalty they demanded, their attitude to public opinion, etc. As is well known, their ploy was unsuccessful, and the public's flight from the Left caused Meretz to also shrink in size, and Beilin found himself outside the Knesset.
Amnon Lipkin Shahak tried his luck, with great publicity, as the candidate for Prime Minister of the Center Party (yes, such a thing once existed). The media supported him ceaselessly, but as soon as he opened his mouth and revealed his great plans - this soap bubble collapsed and vanished without trace. Shahak, despite a well-oiled and well-heeled public relations campaign, also found himself outside the Knesset.
The Right also contributed its own representation to the delegation sent to Geneva: Former MK Nechama Ronen, who also discovered on which side her bread is buttered and who receives the support of the media. Ronen began her public career as a parachute packer during her army service. This is important, since it was all that Raful (Refael Eitan) knew about her when he selected her for the Tzomet list of candidates for the Knesset. To everyone's surprise, Tzomet received eight seats.
But this was enough for Raful. Tzomet finished up just like all the other satellite parties of the Right, and prior to the following elections, Ronen realized that the entry key to the Knesset now lay in the Likud. She joined the Likud, competed for a place and, like her other companions in the Geneva delegation, failed miserably.
This is a representative sample of the signatories of the Geneva agreement, their democratic philosophy, and the broad Israeli public that they are representing.
Are they traitors? Can they be brought to trial?
Without doubt, MK Shaul Yahalom is right. According to the dry Israeli law (and its interpretation given in the past by the Israeli Supreme Court) this miserable gang may be brought to trial on the charge of treason - an offence for which the punishment is death or life imprisonment. But this is a law divorced from the Israeli reality.
It is currently impossible to betray the State of Israel, because there is no one to betray. The State of Israel has lost its internal meaning, both as a Jewish State and as a state in general. It is impossible to betray an empty framework. This is like the case of a couple living apart, where each member of the couple is living openly with another partner. They are technically married. Can they be said to be committing adultery? A state which sacrifices its basic values, trades in the land belonging to the nation, prefers the lives of its enemies over those of its own soldiers (and this is only a partial list) cannot really be called a state. Consequently, Beilin is not a traitor, because he has no one to betray.
When the State of Israel returns to its true nature, the concepts of loyalty and betrayal will once again become relevant for it.