Letter to the Defense MInister of the State of Israel:
Dear Mr. Barak:
While former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin lead our country to participate in Mr. Shimon Peres’s Oslo Accords and peace process, you agreed to assist in the training of a sniper unit for the Arab -or as you termed it- Palestinian Police Force. You honestly thought, I assume, that these snipers would take out terrorists before they entered Israel’s territory and strike at Jewish targets. Although the concept is laughable, it is what you did. When you became Prime Minister of this country, you agreed to hand over Judea, Samaria and major parts of Jerusalem to the so-called Palestinian people via arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. Surprisingly, he shunned your offer.
You eagerly participated in Ehud Olmert’s expulsion of the Jews from Gaza and northern Shomron. And today, you continue to issue orders of demolition against Jewish homes, all the while ignoring Arab land-grabs, illegal Arab building, and Arab terror. Is it because you are still hopeful that we can achieve peace with these people? Some might argue that you probably do. I find it hard to believe, but either way, that is not the question that I feel compelled to ask you.
You have given orders to remove blockades that prevented Arab attacks. You have virtually tied up the arms of our soldiers and have rendered the IDF useless against Arab terror. There is no certainty that we will eliminate the nuclear threat Iran poses. No certainty that we will eliminate the threat of the Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, or that we will put an end to the continuous rocket attacks being launched from Gaza. But you boast about how you have managed to limit construction of Jewish homes.
Two weeks ago, a bloody attack in Itamar decimated a Jewish family. Last week 50 rockets struck the community of Sderot. Today a bomb in central Jerusalem left one Jewish woman dead and 50 people injured, and rockets fell as far as Beersheva. So the question to you sir is, how many Jews must be killed before you allow the IDF to defend Israel? How much land do we need to give away to murderers before you realize these people want you and I and every Jew in Israel, dead? How many, sir? Maybe if you tell me the number that will make you use your head for a change, I can sit and know, that as hard as it will be, there is a number that you will consider to be the last straw.
So again, Mr. Barak, what is your number?
Oh, and before you even think about telling me you do not have such number, and that you do what you do because it is the only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, allow me to remind you that both Jordan and the Sinai are great places to push our enemies to. Iran’s nuclear plants are not invincible. Southern Lebanon can be cleaned out, and if you do not believe it can be done, then please, it is time to retire and allow those that are able, to step up to the plate and do their job.
Ze’ev Shemer Author of ‘Israel and the Palestinian nightmare’ Naharia, ISRAEL |