Forces are finally coming around and realizing that the paradigm of “Land for Peace” has failed utterly because the Arab World refuses to accept a Jewish State in the Middle East no matter the size. The time for Israel concessions in any form should be beyond debate and relegated as a dead horse who has been kicked enough to prove its death and is actually putrefying. Israel need adopt the adage used by the American Revolutionaries of “Live Free or Die,” and adopt the position that Israel will not die. The means of this outlook should begin with the wiping of Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, the removal of the Arab population and the complete rebuilding of Gaza into the haven the Arabs should have built but refused choosing instead to make war on Israel. Should they then attack Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, the Israeli government should impress upon Egypt that if they do not end such actions, then Israel will and without any regard for delicacy. Israel should, at the same time, annex all of Area C and inform the leadership of the Arabs that any terror attack will be met with the annexation of additional lands which will be wiped clean of Palestinian Arabs sending them into the smaller and smaller area and within a set number of attacks, the entirety of the lands will have been annexed and the Arabs exiled into Syria. The time has come for Israel to cast aside her illusionary visions of peace and recognize them for what they are, a hallucination fed them by the combined efforts of the Europeans, Islamists, anti-religion leftists and the ever persistent anti-Semites into giving away their ancient homeland in small pieces until their state will no longer be viable and there is a final attack in which the Jewish population and many of the rest of the Israeli population will be exterminated.
There will be many from within Israel who will read these words and immediately reach into their consciousness and query, but what will the Europeans and Americans think and say. The problem is no matter how much evidence these Jews are shown, they remain convinced in the back of their minds that they still need to worry about what the rest of the world community thinks of their actions. They believe that they are still living under the rule of the non-Jews and not under their own rule in their own country. They still think as they did when being oppressed and when any act which drew attention to them might cause them harm from the authorities. Realizing that they are electing their own authorities now is an idea that is still foreign to them. Because of their fears, they shy away from electing forceful leadership which would do that which is necessary for the prolonged existence of the Jewish State. They fear to even think to request that the world keep the promises made to the Jews just less than a century ago. They believe that were Israel to simply take the lands promised her and expel those who would threaten the continued peaceful existence within these borders that they would be punished. As long as the people show this much trepidation over declaring to the world that you promised us these borders, the Jordan River to the east through to the Mediterranean in the west, and those are the borders we declare and not a millimeter under those promised, then their leaders will reflect this fear because the people expect no more from them.
The way to reject this thinking and free oneself to realize the real freedom of a people living within their own lands given them by Hashem is actually quite simple and very liberating. Step one is to remember what life was back in wherever it was that you, your parents or grandparents lived or however far back you need reach. Realize how the people treated the Jews and remember the authoritarian attitudes and how they simply demeaned Jews into being timid. Now realize that this is your land and that you are now the one who is the authoritarian and realize that though we will not demean the stranger, as that is against Torah, but that we can be just as authoritarian about where our borders lie and in demanding everything which was promised us by Hashem and by the world after World War I. The final step is to be proud and loud in the declaration that we were promised lands and that even the United Nations recognized these promises even if they have worked every day since to eliminate our nation from the community of nations. We no longer can be required to scrape and beg for that which we know is ours; we can simply take all that is ours and need not countenance those who would deny us our rightful lands. And for those whose memories require a little reminder, here is a map below which depicts that promise. One last nudge, before 1964, when the world used the term Palestinian, they were referring to the Jews and that was the truth until the Arabs stole the name along with the history of the Jewish people back to the Israelites and made that lie their claim to our homeland.
British Mandate with its division between an Arab State of Jordan and
Palestine denoted to be the Jewish State later named Israel
For those who require an actual revelation of how the world would react were Israel to declare that the game with the Arabs is over, here it is. Once Israeli forces cleared out Gaza, the world would rise up and scream, declare boycotts, demand we give it all back and probably demand we give the Arabs the Negev as a gift as the way of saying we were sorry. When we simply refuse, they will get all in a huff. When we simply do not care and continue to press the Palestinian Authority to prevent all attacks or else, they will scream and yell. The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and the rest of the alphabet of United Nations agencies will hold emergency meetings and there will be cases brought in The Hague and every sort of crazy maneuverings which will result in nothing. Why will it result in nothing? First, because we would be claiming that which is rightfully ours as warned by an Egyptian jurist at The Hague. The Honorable Justice El Araby warned the UNGA and others that filing further ran some risks, as he stated,
“The international legal status of the Palestinian Territory (paras. 70-71 of the Advisory Opinion), in my view, merits more comprehensive treatment. A historical survey is relevant to the question posed by the General Assembly, for it serves as the background to understanding the legal status of the Palestinian Territory on the one hand and underlines the special and continuing responsibility of the General Assembly on the other. This may appear as academic, without relevance to the present events. The present is however determined by the accumulation of past events and no reasonable and fair concern for the future can possibly disregard a firm grasp of past events. In particular, when on more than one occasion, the rule of law was consistently side-stepped. The point of departure, or one can say in legal jargon, the critical date, is the League of Nations Mandate which was entrusted to Great Britain.”
The truth of the matter is that it has been the problem of the Israelis not forcefully demanding their rights which has led to the decay of their claims to the lands set forth under the British Mandate. Should Israel state in a unified voice that their lands are a sacred trust which cannot be breached by popular politics or world opinions and that Israel will set all other claims to rest as they claim their rightful and promised lands, then the world would think twice before tempting fate. Israel will continue to be dragged and befuddled for as long as they permit the world to dictate what they may and may not do in their own defense. No other nation has been so defamed despite the realities which point out that the opposite of every claim against her is the truth and that the reality is that Israel has been too willing to accommodate the desires of those who wish to do her harm. That must end and that can only come to fruition when the Israelis choose not to be the timid darlings afraid to live proudly within their own lands and ignore the agitations from critics gaming to bring ruin upon her. Either Israel exists as promised or eventually Israel will not exist. The latter is the desire of most of the world and the majority of world agencies; it cannot also be the desire of the average Israeli. That is the reality and the answer is for Israel, through the demands of her people, to be represented by political leaders willing to declare these truths and demand from the world that which has always been rightfully Israeli lands and end the fiasco which has been perpetrated ever since the Arabs failed to destroy Israel in 1948, 1967, 1973, and finally with the Oslo Accords and all the foolhardiness which has resulted since.
Beyond the Cusp
Beyond the Cusp 