...or be buried in it forever.


Since last summer's disastrous war against Hizbullah, Israel has continued on a suicidal downward slope. Just as Lebanon 2006 failed due to years of inexcusable poor planning and political decisions, Israel will face even worse to come if it persists in acting like the proverbial ostrich.


Recently, a group of Jews having an Independence Day celebration picnic were surrounded by thousands of Israeli Arabs threatening them, waving Hamas and PLO flags, and so forth. And the Olmert government's reaction was minimal and late in coming. Earlier,a similar thing happened to Jews in Jaffa. Indeed, these stories - like those involving actions against the state by Arab members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset - have been on the rise for many years.


Decades ago, the late Rabbi Meir Kahane warned of such things and was branded a racist and extremist. His warnings were as correct then as they are now.


What nation would put up with such actions committed by its own citizens - in this case,

What nation would put up with such actions?

the freest Arabs anywhere in the Middle East? Over twenty thousand Arabs who opposed Hafez Al-Assad in Syria were eliminated in short order in his Hama Solution. Ditto in Iraq and so forth. And those folks just opposed the regime - not the very state in which they lived.


Time is running out on the Israeli Left's delusions. The time to act decisively is now. Israel must unabashedly confront this problem head on. It must try its best to reason with its Arab citizens. Some will undoubtedly prove to be loyal, but for those who take aim at their Jewish neighbors and the very state in which they live, the time for play has passed.


Trials for treason must be forthcoming with expulsion as the punishment. These are long overdue. Let the guilty choose from the almost two dozen Arab states to date, conquered mostly from non-Arab peoples.


Jews just have one, tiny, reborn state - and they don't need to be intimidated in it by Arabs (most descendants of immigrants into the state themselves) who have more rights in Israel than they would have in any Arab or Muslim state.


Just as half of Israel's Jews are from refugee families originating in so-called Arab states, Israel's Arab citizens live in a Jewish state. Why is it alright for the one but not the other?


I don't care how politically incorrect it sounds: as Kahane wrote decades ago, They Must Go.


No nation would tolerate a potentially deadly fifth column aiding and abetting avowed enemies sworn to that very nation's destruction. Putting these folks in jail will just cost Israel money and will be yet more temptation for the blackmailers. Israel must send a new message in this post-Lebanon 2006 era if it wants to avoid catastrophe.


Israel must enact swift execution for murderers and their accomplices. That will also mean removing Lefty suicidal judges, as well. Disembowelers of Jewish babes and other innocents need to be dispatched quickly - or not taken alive in the first place. Such folks think nothing about blowing up buses and restaurants along with everyone inside. By swiftly executing capital offenders, Israel will avoid the constant blackmail it is subjected to (going on right now, yet again) for the return of a few prisoners who, unlike the Arab ones, have never been visited by the International Red Cross to determine if they're even still alive.

Rabbi Meir Kahane warned of such things and was branded a racist.



Arabs have boasted that they're hunting for more Jews to kidnap. So, what's Israel going to do about it? Call for more alerts? Not anywhere near enough. Israel needs to be more proactive - like in the good ol' days. And it needs to be very unpredictable; it must leave all Arabs worrying about what its next move may be.


Arab leaders must come to fear for their own lives if they threaten Jews the way that they are. Israel knows how to do this well; it just needs to start doing it once again.


Israel needs to have surprises waiting for those Arab gatherings where hundreds of "militants" mass together, with rifles firing into the air, screaming for Jewish blood. The latter need to be taken out en masse, not just one or two at a time; it's a waste of expensive missiles.


Anything less than fighting to win is unacceptable at this point. The Arabs have made clear (if there was ever any doubt), both with their Mecca Accords and the Saudi Peace (of the grave) Plan, what their intentions are - regardless of what their assorted white-washers say.


Israel must have exponentially devastating increments of justice awaiting enemies sworn to its demise. And it must not hesitate at putting those into effect, regardless of what hypocrites elsewhere will say. Worrying about the latter is what got Israel into the mess it's in right now.


It's also time for the Arab leadership itself to pay the price for its behavior. Both the head and the body of the snake must be dealt with.


If a state can't or won't stop, or actually promotes, the violence of its citizens against its neighbors, then it can't complain when those neighbors do what's necessary for their own security. America's own Powell Doctrine calls for massive retaliation against America's own enemies. An Israel roughly the size of New Jersey can't afford to do less. It must put fear back into the Arabs' thinking.


I wish there was another way. Unfortunately, for Arabs, there isn't - short of Israel's disappearance.


The earlier peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan came about not due to any Arab love for Jews. The fear of Pyrrhic victory did the trick. But 1967 and 1973 are long in the past, memories have faded. Israel must take extreme care not be lured to fight according to the Arabs' game plan, as it did in Lebanon last summer. It must come up with conclusive new shocks of its own.


The Jews did not ask for this war. But if the Arabs insist on deliberately waging it from amidst their own non-combatants, using them as human shields, then - as the Geneva Conventions say - the consequences will rest upon their own heads. Israel must lose no sleep over this. If it means withdrawing from the United Nations, taking cuts in American aid, or whatever, then so be it.


Enough of fighting a murderous, inhumane enemy - which deliberately targets Jewish

Anything less than fighting to win is unacceptable.

children and uses its own kids as shields - with one hand tied behind the back. Both Hamas and Fatah must be taught the long overdue, painful lesson Hizbullah was unfortunately spared.


The US State Department and President won‘t like this (not to mention others), as they're still trying to shove Fatah's latter-day Arafatians down Israel's throat as "moderates." Israel must act decisively anyway. Its very existence is at stake at this point.
 
It may mean that new Israeli elections must be ushered in first, if at all possible. Ehud Olmert's crew and their delusions brought about Lebanon 2006 and other potential disasters.


If Israel does what it takes to follow through on all of this, it may yet avoid the next, costlier war with Syria and, perhaps, with Iran. as well.