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I never cease to be astonished by
the folly-ridden arrogance of Israeli Prime Ministers.
These scorners of the Torah act as
if they own the Land of Israel, and they believe they can barter away parts
of this land for “peace” with Israel’s enemies.
Consider Ariel Sharon. In September
2000, he walked on the Temple Mount and proclaimed his belief in “peaceful
coexistence between Jews and Arabs.” Immediately thereafter, the Arabs
commenced a full-scale terrorist war against the Jews. A few months later,
in his campaign for the premiership, Mr. Sharon pledged he will bring
“peace and security” to Israel.
Why not a pledge like this: “I
will crush our enemies!” Or this: “I will uphold the rights of
the Jewish people!”
Is it not obvious that words like
“peaceful coexistence” ignore the simple fact that the Arabs hate
Jews, love war, and are not interested in “peaceful coexistence”?
Is it not obvious that to achieve “peace and security” the Arabs
must first be conquered?
Clearly, Mr. Sharon does not take the
religion of these Arabs seriously (or does he believe he’s the man to
overcome their 1,400-year contempt for Jews?). Of course, as a secularist,
he does not take seriously the religion of his own people, else he would
not be so avidly willing to surrender their land to Jew-killers.
Instead of upholding the rights of
his people he demoralizes them by saying, “We must make painful
sacrifices.” Who is this self-effacing “we”? Is he speaking
for the Jewish people or for Jews like Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin who
do not even believe in the concept of the Jewish people, let alone have the
guts to stand up for their God-given rights?
Would Peres and Beilin suffer pain
if countless Jews were uprooted from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza? Judging from
their words and deeds, the expulsion of these Jews would bring a smile to
their lips.
As for the Prime Minister, since this
land does not belong to him, giving this land to Israel’s enemies makes
him a thief as well as a fool. And this is not all.
Yielding this land to Israel’s
enemies constitutes, prima facie, a violation of Israel’s Penal Law
on treason! I cite only one category of acts prohibited by this law: acts
which give assistance to an "enemy" in war against Israel, which the
law specifically includes a terrorist
organization.
The punishment prescribed for such
acts is death or imprisonment for life. Since Israel does not otherwise have
capital punishment, the law on treason emphasizes the profound importance
of Eretz Israel to the Jewish people. They know this is God’s Chosen
Land. They know they have a special mission which can only be fulfilled on
this Land. Countless Christians know this. They can’t understand how
Israel’s Prime Minister could surrender any part of this holy land.
They know he’s not religious, but they do not see how his surrendering
land to Israel’s enemies will bring “peace and security” to
his people.
For 2,000 years the Jewish People,
while scattered throughout the earth, never surrendered their title to this
Land. Indeed, what sustained them through all their sufferings were these
words of the Torah: “If your outcasts be at the far ends of the heavens,
from there will the Lord your God gather you, and from there will He fetch
you; and the Lord your God will bring you back to the Land which your fathers
possessed, and you shall possess it” (Deut. 30:4-5).
The Jews should therefore assemble
in front of the Knesset and proclaim, loudly and incessantly, that the Land
of Israel—including Gaza and Judea and Samaria—belongs
eternally
to the Jewish People. Let it be known to all the world that no transient
Prime Minister, no transient government, no transient Knesset—and certainly
no “Quartet”—has any right, legal or moral, to surrender any
part of this Holy Land to any foreign entity.
But know also this: The agreements
Israeli Prime Ministers have made with the PLO-Palestinian Authority will
eventually collapse like a house of cards. Only fools, liars, and scorners
of the Torah say otherwise. The prophet Isaiah in 28:14-18 describes them
as the “ballad-mongers” of Jerusalem. These soothsayers, he warns,
have made a “covenant with death.” They obscure the true nature
of this covenant with fine-sounding words like “peace and security.”
But the prophet exposes what is hidden in their souls: “We have made
lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves.” Hence the
prophet warns that the duplicity of these “ballad-mongers” of Jerusalem
will not prevent disaster. Indeed, he prophesies: “Your covenant with
death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand ...”
Isaiah’s prophecy should be dinned
into the ears of Israel’s Prime Minister, and his words should strike
the eyes of every politician.
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Prof. Eidelberg, special to TheRaphi.com, is a political scientist, author
and lecturer; co-founder and president of
The
Foundation For Constitutional
Democracy and is the
President of the Yamin Israel movement.
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