This is sure to bring out the opposition who feel their sacrificing for peace and just give Abbas everything he wants for peace club and whatever will happen is simply the price for peace they are willing to have everyone else pay. How dare the Prime Minister set conditions on a foreign dignitary over meeting him during an official visit to Israel. Where this was a contentious move, it was fully justified for the Prime Minister to place conditions for any visiting dignitary that meeting with NGO’s which are diametrically opposed openly to the government and its policies will result in their not being met by the Prime Minister, such as ended up the case with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel who chose to go ahead with his Tuesday meeting with Breaking the Silence. According to the Office of the Prime Minister, “Prime Minister Netanyahu’s policy is not to meet foreign visitors who on diplomatic trips to Israel meet with groups that slander IDF soldiers as war criminals. Diplomats are welcome to meet with representatives of civil society but Prime Minister Netanyahu will not meet with those who lend legitimacy to organizations that call for the criminalization of Israeli soldiers.” The release from his office continued, “Imagine if foreign diplomats visiting the United States or Britain met with NGOs that call American or British soldiers war criminals. Leaders of those countries would surely not accept this. Our relations with Germany are very important and they will not be affected by this.”
Such groups were delineated to include but not limited to Breaking the Silence, BDS Movement and B’Tselem. It is worth noting that there was no public rebuke from the government when British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson met with anti-settlement NGO Peace Now during a visit in March. Where it is doubtful they would now be considered acceptable. Much of this has to do with the extreme left in the developed world where they have sided strongly with the delegitimization of Israel in the international forums such as the European Union, United Nations, Human Rights Watch and numerous others. This movement of the left, the far left in particular, towards delegitimization of the State of Israel is a virtual declaration of a state of war as they are demanding that the existence of Israel as a free nation and the State of the Jewish People be called into question and be forced to change to simply a democratic nation with free and open borders willing to accept any immigrants desirous of coming here to live. When these people are given examples of how their ideas would destroy the Jewishness of Israel, they claim to see no difficulty or problem with such events. These same people are the ones calling for unfettered immigration into and across Europe and North America allowing the borders to be opened in all these lands to anyone with a desire to immigrate without any limitations. Their willingness to remain blind to the consequences is astounding. They defend their positions claiming that the national Constitutions would continue to have these nations remain democratic institutions as if this would defend any peoples residing from their idea of unfettered immigration.
The idea that within weeks well over seven million Arab Palestinians would empty the camps including all the current Syrian refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan and all these Arabs would arrive claiming their Palestinian roots and at the next election, which would be forced sooner rather than later through violence soaked demonstrations across Tel Aviv and Jerusalem strangling these and other cities until elections would be called. After elections, the newly elected Knesset with the new coalition of pure Arab Parties would pass laws calling for the execution of the Jews. The leftist scoff at this and claim, this would be prevented by the Basic Laws, the same basic laws which can be altered by a simply majority vote. Really? Nobody can truly be that blind to facts and reality, but apparently, these people are either that blind or lying to our faces. We suspect we are being lied to, as these are intelligent people, they just suffer from a bad case of anti-Semitism. Actually, their hatreds go a bit farther than simply Judaism; they also hate all of Christendom. Their real desire is to remove what they refer to as White Privilege which by definition begins with the removal of Jewish Privilege. This simple formula has been cropping up in University of Illinois at Chicago (see picture below), taken further to support for idea of punch a Zionist at McGill University (Canada) and is a supporting concept which helps to drive the BDS Movement and the delegitimize Israel movements. It are these last examples which the Prime Minister was referencing as it was Israel he is concerned about directly and world Jewry largely as that is often a forerunner and indicator of people’s feelings towards Israel.
One standing inconsistency is the idea that Israel is made up entirely of Holocaust survivor families, European Jews and North American Jews making Israel a white nation, and this appears to be a widely held misconception. Israel is a diversely colored and peopled nation where half of the population (technically over half) came from the Middle East and Northern Africa and are as dark as or darker than most Israeli and Palestinian Arabs. Additionally, there are the Ethiopian Jews and the Menashe from India and several other groups claiming to be the lost tribes who checked out as valid and was brought back to their ancestral home to Israel. These additions make Israel a picture of Judaism, a picture which many are unaware of its diversity and how despite any outward differences, we all share our love for Hashem, our devotion to His Torah which was given us when we entered into the Promised Land by Moses as one of his final acts before leaving the Jewish People with Joshua leading them into the Land promised to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob. Even in the Exodus we were more than a singular group as the twelve sons of Jacob took different wives from differing places making for our various tribes and their differences as time went forward in Egypt where they were left to experience the world as Egypt was a center of trade and activity bringing people from around the world. So much for the theory that Israel is a European colonial enterprise, another canard used by Peace Now, Jews for Peace, Rabbis for Peace, Breaking the Silence, BDS Movement and B’Tselem; it is the calling card used by virtually every anti-Israel leftist group despite it being completely and thoroughly debunked and proven false.
The Prime Minister was within his rights, within his right mind and we completely condone and defend his stance and reasoning. For far too long there has been no price extracted from those demanding Israel dissolve herself for the good feelings these leftists claim would be enjoyed the world over if only Israel would allow the Arabs to take over their country. So what if the Jews become stateless refugees being kicked from one country to the next, they lived like that for nearly two thousand years, another two thousand years wandering should not bother them. So what if destroying Israel very easily could mean the end of Judaism, who cares. Certainly not the Secular Humanists whose claim is that Judeo-Christian Ethic is the core belief which is at the center of what they see as wrong with the world, and we are back at White Privilege which required the destruction of Jewish Privilege. This entirety is all but unbelievable and that so many Jews would also support such insanity is beyond the cusp in weirdness. Especially for Jews who are living in Israel. Where is it that they reside in Israel and manage not to see the ethnic variety which definitely surrounds them every day, they just need to open their eyes and look around.
And furthermore, we Zionists are going nowhere and refuse to permit anybody to threaten our Jewish State. This sliver of land which even if we were to include all of Judea and Samaria within Israel, this was lands promised the Zionist Congress by the San Remo Conference and the Mandate System in which the lands for Israel as well as Jordan, the first for Jewish Palestinians and second for the Arab Palestinians, were set out as divided along the Jordan River. All those who select Israel for their attack first and foremost, need to understand that demanding of Israel obedience to demands and constrictions which would never be applied to other nations is anti-Semitism as it is stating that the Jews must meet a different standard for having their own State which other nations need not meet. It is about time that we had signs from the Prime Minister that he was ready to fight those who would destroy our dreams and work to demand that which is rightfully ours. We are not yet assured that the Prime Minister is completely with us in all things, but this is a start in the correct direction. Now we must wait and see first whether the Prime Minister ends up caving to the leftist pressures which are sure to follow or remains steadfast on his and our principles. We can only pray that Hashem has finally stiffened his resolve, we can only pray.
Beyond the Cusp