At times, there is complexity in something important for a country. The issues at hand seem mixed or equally weighted on this and that side. If we take one solution, the desired results may include unwanted complications that of themselves are dangerous. Likewise on the second path. In these cases, it is hard to decide what to do.
On other instances, the need to make a wise decision, a courageous one, is clear. The importance of the goal is such that it can outweigh all other problems. At the crossroads now is the need to keep the settlements. It is not a choice, but something truly fundamental, to the utmost degree. At stake is the very life and integrity of Israel.
Soldiers who have inspected Arab houses report that in every place there is a map. It shows Palestine taking up all of Israel, from the river to the sea. In point of fact, there is no evidence of even the word "Israel." We have to understand with whom we are dealing.
In spite of Arab efforts, we will live. This means including settlements, with homes, synagogues, kindergartens, etc. What do you think Arabs would do to these places? Will they respect religious places or even Jewish cemeteries? Any and all Jews with a clear vision would agree that we must keep the settlements.
This is no exaggeration: We have to keep every place in Israel in order to actually survive. To any thinking mind, it makes sense to keep the settlements so as not to encourage the Arabs to push for more and more. They want it all, but it is not for them. It is our Land one hundred percent, by Divine decree, promised to each one of our forefathers.
At times, however, home and outside foreign pressures make certain Jews have illusions. They are as victims who identify themselves with their aggressor. This is a well-known psychological mechanism of battered and abused children and women especially. Likewise, there were victims of concentration camps who turned Nazi cruelty inwards, towards themselves. They thought that they deserved such treatment.
Similarly, in Israel's case, some individuals and groups of persons imagine things. They have delusions that the Arabs are the victims and the Jews the aggressors. Anybody with eyes who wants to see can realize that it is our buses that are getting blown up. We should feel sorry for the murdered victims and our hearts feel for the victims' families, not for the Arabs. Yet, in spite of the burning proof in front of our eyes, some of our own people believe that it is our fault that such tragedies happen.
They think that the settlers invite murderers, that they are inciting the Arabs to come and kill them. They claim that moving the settlers, this is uprooting them from their homes, will mean less expenses for the country. How can they think along these lines? Simply put, their own words, or those of others, deceive their hearts.
The settlers are true patriots; they are keeping the actual frontier at great sacrifice. They know that this is important. The reality is that we will have a frontier in any case; the budget will be needed in any case. Why bring Arabs even closer to large Israeli cities? There is nothing to be gained by retreat, nothing whatsoever.
These deluded persons have arrived at the stage of having a death-wish. In their pain, they claim that we deserve any and all such punishments. They cry out that the best path to solve problems is by giving up settlements. Let the Arabs take over Jewish homes; let us help Arabs in their aims with our own hands. Yet, it is clear that this will lead to more killings.
It is against Jewish law to give up Jews for the sake of others elsewhere.
The blood of one is as red as the other.
The issue is not a labyrinth that requires infinite wisdom to figure out how to solve it and make the right turn. It can clearly be expected that giving a reward to the aggressors will only encourage them. These are the murderers who do not hesitate to kill an innocent child in his carriage (by sharpshooters), youngsters in a discotheque or older people peacefully traveling in a bus.
We need to help our own brothers to come back to their own selves. To think straight once again in spite of their pain and mental anguish. They are intelligent and mean well, yet they are afflicted with all kinds of amnesia: the short, medium and long range kinds.
They forgot the Arab killing of Talmudic students and householders in 1929 in Hebron. They do not remember rampant murders by mobs on different occasions before Independence; the hacking up of Jews with axes, the rapes of Jewish mothers prior to killing them. The Mufti and his henchmen incited to murder then, and his descendants do so today.
Somehow, there is a blank in their minds as to the consequences of having given to the Arabs six cities that were under Jewish control. From these same places, murderers come out, lurk behind rocks and kill Jewish drivers passing by. They run back to their lairs immediately, finding warm shelter in those very cities that supposedly were given away to bring peace. All this they do with the thousands upon thousands of good and accurate riffles that the Israeli government gave them.
Our own brothers forget even the events of one or two weeks ago. The attempts by Arabs to kill more Jews, once again, in different places and with newer terrorist methods. It used to be men with bombs in their clothing. Now it is also done by women and children. The Arab religion and their leaders who promote this should not be given respect or honor. They are simply murderers, no matter by what name they promote their supposedly holy cause.
To all this, some of our own people answer: "Let us give to the Arabs even more settlements - this will surely lead to peace." Even government officials think so, and they actively promote these tragic ideas. They talk in "Newspeak", giving this potentially tragic retreat the name "separation". They give the impression that "just a few caravans" need to be uprooted, that "painful decisions" need to be taken for the sake of peace.
Yes, perhaps they will have a piece of paper with assurances. But a paper with words written in ink is not peace. Before the ink dries, it is already smudged and the paper trampled upon. It has happened and it is happening. Assurances from the Arabs or others are quite easy to give, but they do not mean a thing, not one bit. Paraphrasing Santayana: "Those who do not know or choose not to remember history are bound to repeat sundry bloody mistakes."
Some of our brothers can not see, unfortunately, the reality. Guf Katif alone comprises 8,000 people in 21 settlements. Many residents are there by actual government encouragement, to keep a frontier line against the Arabs. They were praised for making their homes in those places. It is also well known that some of the highest army officials spoke clearly against any retreat, which would only encourage terrorism against Jews.
All this does not seem to count with some of our brothers. They keep on dreaming and insist that the Arabs will be assuaged if only we give in this area and then most of Yehuda and Shomron. They delude themselves, because of their pain and suffering, that if they only will get more beaten, then the criminal will finally leave them alone.
These brothers of ours forgot the law of elementary school. We have to fight the class bully even if we get hurt when we confront him. Yes, giving in will create dependence, such that every day we will get beaten up even more. Blood can come out, but the sadist does not stop. The only way to finish the issue is to hit him hard, as hard as we can. Let us return aggression, as we are doing now, with intelligent military actions against the leaders that send the suicide bombers.
If our brothers would not be so misled in their thinking, all of us in the House of Israel could laugh. We would all agree that it was a nightmare what they wrote in the newspapers and showed on the slanted news and said on the talk-shows in favor of the Arabs.
Let us hope that this will be the case, that we will come to realize that Arab and world pressure helped some of our brothers to be deceived. Then, all together, Left and Right, religious and not-yet religious, will see the sham of Arab ideas and propaganda.
The truth now is what it always was. It is clear as the light of day, showing the path. The Jewish people is one; the Land of Israel is one. All as written in our Torah by the One Creator of mankind. We must keep Israel because it was given to us by G-d to us, forever. The people of Israel lives and exists, am Yisrael chai vekayam.
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On other instances, the need to make a wise decision, a courageous one, is clear. The importance of the goal is such that it can outweigh all other problems. At the crossroads now is the need to keep the settlements. It is not a choice, but something truly fundamental, to the utmost degree. At stake is the very life and integrity of Israel.
Soldiers who have inspected Arab houses report that in every place there is a map. It shows Palestine taking up all of Israel, from the river to the sea. In point of fact, there is no evidence of even the word "Israel." We have to understand with whom we are dealing.
In spite of Arab efforts, we will live. This means including settlements, with homes, synagogues, kindergartens, etc. What do you think Arabs would do to these places? Will they respect religious places or even Jewish cemeteries? Any and all Jews with a clear vision would agree that we must keep the settlements.
This is no exaggeration: We have to keep every place in Israel in order to actually survive. To any thinking mind, it makes sense to keep the settlements so as not to encourage the Arabs to push for more and more. They want it all, but it is not for them. It is our Land one hundred percent, by Divine decree, promised to each one of our forefathers.
At times, however, home and outside foreign pressures make certain Jews have illusions. They are as victims who identify themselves with their aggressor. This is a well-known psychological mechanism of battered and abused children and women especially. Likewise, there were victims of concentration camps who turned Nazi cruelty inwards, towards themselves. They thought that they deserved such treatment.
Similarly, in Israel's case, some individuals and groups of persons imagine things. They have delusions that the Arabs are the victims and the Jews the aggressors. Anybody with eyes who wants to see can realize that it is our buses that are getting blown up. We should feel sorry for the murdered victims and our hearts feel for the victims' families, not for the Arabs. Yet, in spite of the burning proof in front of our eyes, some of our own people believe that it is our fault that such tragedies happen.
They think that the settlers invite murderers, that they are inciting the Arabs to come and kill them. They claim that moving the settlers, this is uprooting them from their homes, will mean less expenses for the country. How can they think along these lines? Simply put, their own words, or those of others, deceive their hearts.
The settlers are true patriots; they are keeping the actual frontier at great sacrifice. They know that this is important. The reality is that we will have a frontier in any case; the budget will be needed in any case. Why bring Arabs even closer to large Israeli cities? There is nothing to be gained by retreat, nothing whatsoever.
These deluded persons have arrived at the stage of having a death-wish. In their pain, they claim that we deserve any and all such punishments. They cry out that the best path to solve problems is by giving up settlements. Let the Arabs take over Jewish homes; let us help Arabs in their aims with our own hands. Yet, it is clear that this will lead to more killings.
It is against Jewish law to give up Jews for the sake of others elsewhere.
The blood of one is as red as the other.
The issue is not a labyrinth that requires infinite wisdom to figure out how to solve it and make the right turn. It can clearly be expected that giving a reward to the aggressors will only encourage them. These are the murderers who do not hesitate to kill an innocent child in his carriage (by sharpshooters), youngsters in a discotheque or older people peacefully traveling in a bus.
We need to help our own brothers to come back to their own selves. To think straight once again in spite of their pain and mental anguish. They are intelligent and mean well, yet they are afflicted with all kinds of amnesia: the short, medium and long range kinds.
They forgot the Arab killing of Talmudic students and householders in 1929 in Hebron. They do not remember rampant murders by mobs on different occasions before Independence; the hacking up of Jews with axes, the rapes of Jewish mothers prior to killing them. The Mufti and his henchmen incited to murder then, and his descendants do so today.
Somehow, there is a blank in their minds as to the consequences of having given to the Arabs six cities that were under Jewish control. From these same places, murderers come out, lurk behind rocks and kill Jewish drivers passing by. They run back to their lairs immediately, finding warm shelter in those very cities that supposedly were given away to bring peace. All this they do with the thousands upon thousands of good and accurate riffles that the Israeli government gave them.
Our own brothers forget even the events of one or two weeks ago. The attempts by Arabs to kill more Jews, once again, in different places and with newer terrorist methods. It used to be men with bombs in their clothing. Now it is also done by women and children. The Arab religion and their leaders who promote this should not be given respect or honor. They are simply murderers, no matter by what name they promote their supposedly holy cause.
To all this, some of our own people answer: "Let us give to the Arabs even more settlements - this will surely lead to peace." Even government officials think so, and they actively promote these tragic ideas. They talk in "Newspeak", giving this potentially tragic retreat the name "separation". They give the impression that "just a few caravans" need to be uprooted, that "painful decisions" need to be taken for the sake of peace.
Yes, perhaps they will have a piece of paper with assurances. But a paper with words written in ink is not peace. Before the ink dries, it is already smudged and the paper trampled upon. It has happened and it is happening. Assurances from the Arabs or others are quite easy to give, but they do not mean a thing, not one bit. Paraphrasing Santayana: "Those who do not know or choose not to remember history are bound to repeat sundry bloody mistakes."
Some of our brothers can not see, unfortunately, the reality. Guf Katif alone comprises 8,000 people in 21 settlements. Many residents are there by actual government encouragement, to keep a frontier line against the Arabs. They were praised for making their homes in those places. It is also well known that some of the highest army officials spoke clearly against any retreat, which would only encourage terrorism against Jews.
All this does not seem to count with some of our brothers. They keep on dreaming and insist that the Arabs will be assuaged if only we give in this area and then most of Yehuda and Shomron. They delude themselves, because of their pain and suffering, that if they only will get more beaten, then the criminal will finally leave them alone.
These brothers of ours forgot the law of elementary school. We have to fight the class bully even if we get hurt when we confront him. Yes, giving in will create dependence, such that every day we will get beaten up even more. Blood can come out, but the sadist does not stop. The only way to finish the issue is to hit him hard, as hard as we can. Let us return aggression, as we are doing now, with intelligent military actions against the leaders that send the suicide bombers.
If our brothers would not be so misled in their thinking, all of us in the House of Israel could laugh. We would all agree that it was a nightmare what they wrote in the newspapers and showed on the slanted news and said on the talk-shows in favor of the Arabs.
Let us hope that this will be the case, that we will come to realize that Arab and world pressure helped some of our brothers to be deceived. Then, all together, Left and Right, religious and not-yet religious, will see the sham of Arab ideas and propaganda.
The truth now is what it always was. It is clear as the light of day, showing the path. The Jewish people is one; the Land of Israel is one. All as written in our Torah by the One Creator of mankind. We must keep Israel because it was given to us by G-d to us, forever. The people of Israel lives and exists, am Yisrael chai vekayam.
Copyright © 2004 All rights reserved