The latest spokesperson for the State Department's long-term agenda against Israel has clarified for all concerned the far-reaching, but familiar, goals of the "land-for-peace" process: to return Israel to the three scarcely-touching bits of land proposed in the Peel Commission partition proposal of 1937 and again, with a few more dunams thrown in on account of the six million murdered, in the United Nations partition plan of 1947.



The progressive expulsion of Jews from northern Samaria facilitates nipping the narrow neck of Israel near Netanya, separating the Galilee and Golan from the rest of the Land. The "contiguous Palestinian State" now demanded by the State Department, through the Bush administration, includes a corridor that will sever the Negev from the rest of the nation -- just as in the two early partition plans noted above. Somehow, it would be fitting to paraphrase the Latin: "Omnia Iudea era divisa in partes tres...."



No one should say that the fashioners of a new, Israel-cleansed world order have no taste for history. Indeed, they are tenacious pursuers of one of the oldest geopolitical games on record: "'Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, that Israel's name not be remembered anymore!'" (Psalms 83:5)



And when the UN piles on and participates, usually quite vigorously, in this game, another verse applies: "The nations take counsel all together, they forge a covenant against You [Hashem]." Nor do they seem much concerned about the sequel mentioned in the psalm's closing lines, about the nations suffering divine "whirlwind" and "fury".



By striving to prevent, and then to roll back and destroy (though processes of ceaseless vilification, homicidal slander in the media, arming and inciting hostile neighbors, etc) Jewish sovereignty, the nations, led by the greatest powers in the world, have for a long time been engaged in a process of de facto de-legitimization, even banning, of Judaism: Religious bigotry, anyone? Under Western pressure, exerted through local stooges, Muslims control or ban Jewish worship at Judaism's holiest sites. "Ethnic cleansing" - remember that watchword of anathema? The nations intend that more and more of Israel be made Judenrein. How quaint, how supremely cynical, that this is concomitant with their crocodile (and very belated) tears about Auschwitz.



Let's be clear. In instituting and sustaining, by all means short of nuclear war, a process that prevents Jews from settling their land, the nations reject the bedrock of Judaism and deny the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and that means to the Scriptures in which His promises to them are recorded. True, intact Judaism is to be erased. As Hannah Newman so succinctly stated: "Some people are working for a world that is free -- free of Jews."



The State Department, through the Bush administration, demands a contiguous state for a non-nation that has never existed except as an imperial Roman piece of spin. Yet, it simultaneously forces Israel toward a position in which Israel will not have territorial contiguity, much less sovereignty, in most of its promised Land. Nor for that matter, will it have sovereignty over more than a small fraction of the land designated in the Mandate given by the League of Nations to Britain in 1920.



While proclaiming freedom in a very loud voice for the brand new nation of "Iraq", the government of America is practicing vivisection on the ancient nation of Israel - to which America, more than any nation in the West, owes its moral and legal fabric, its most influential literature by far, its very being. Read John Winthrop's famous essay [actually a lay sermon] on Christian charity, delivered on board the Arabella in Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Despite its title, it is pervasively and explicitly rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures, which Winthrop quotes extensively, especially the Book of Deuteronomy. Yet now, the ruling, shadow elites of Western civilization destroy that civilization's own roots. And a branch that attacks its roots is a branch that will wither and die.



Who is more evil, more hostile to the Jews, Bill Clinton or George Bush I, John Kerry or George Bush II, or Rodham or Carter or Ford, etc.? My dear old thing, with the State Department un-purged, it makes no difference. There will be dubious freedom at great cost for "Iraq"; for Israel, tyrannically imposed cleansing of Jews.