57-Backs against the wall

Backs against the wall Elyakim HaEtzni
December 10, 2006

In a public debate in a school in the center of the country, a student arose and addressed a direct question to a representative of the Left: Do you really want to tell us that such a thing is possible - a 'demilitarized Palestinian State'? Do you, yourself, believe this?!"

The questioner had no need of facts or arguments. The examples from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip were fresh enough in everyone's memory.
The students had no doubt that if Judea and Samaria were handed over to the Palestinians, their school would become a target for rockets. Knowing the map, they realized that if Kassam missiles simultaneously flew from Lebanon, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria, there would be nowhere else to run. All that needed further explanation was that an international force on our borders would not save us - there is already talk about international troops separating between Israel and the terrorists in both Gaza and the "West Bank", when it becomes Palestine. Such foreign intervention would paralyze us militarily, and politically we would become a protectorate, stripped of sovereignty. Not to mention the impotence and ineffectiveness of international forces, proven in Lebanon, Somalia, Serbernitsa, and now in Darfur.

The student, in her question, like the child of Andersen's parable, saw no need to list what clothing the king was lacking, because everybody could see the King of Peace - naked! And if the heroic effort made via the Oslo Accords to wring out of Fatah an announcement of recognition of Israel led with the Intifada to an end soaked in blood (1500 murdered Jews and at least three times that many Arabs killed), it is easy to guess what can be expected from a Palestinian Hamas-controlled "government", which despite all the pressure continues to proclaim openly its credo: the destruction of the State of Israel.

When such is the situation, the question, "What is the solution?" is idiotic, if not spiteful. Faced with Nazism, for example, what point was their to the Free World's seeking a "solution"? They had only one choice - to fight or surrender. Israeli leaders who try to avoid this clear-cut choice are like the statesmen and generals of France in 1940.

Thus, Prime Minister Olmert, who proclaimed in New York, "We are tired of fighting. We are tired of being courageous. We are tired of winning. We are tired of defeating our enemies" - is unfit to lead a nation facing war. Worse, with such an attitude, if he weren't actively involved in politics it is doubtful whether he would remain in Israel or follow in his two sons' footsteps and leave.

The Leftist, defeatist minority has forgotten that Zionism has endured for more than a hundred years already, and has even reached remarkable achievements without any "solution". To our great good fortune, however, the vast majority is ready to fight, and longs for victory.

Spearheading the optimists are the residents of Judea and Samaria, the so-called "settlers", who present a different sort of solution, the Zionist solution: settlement, Aliyah and consolidation -- spiritually, economically, technologically and militarily, until perhaps the great-great grandchildren of today's Arabs internalize that we, too, like them, are here to stay. The settlers do not dream at night about peace, yet they have no doubt that over the course of time peace with the Arabs is possible, on condition that they become convinced that it is unavoidable. And precisely this persuasion is missing from official Israel, which broadcasts weakness and loss of direction.

In the meantime, logic dictates that if a place that was emptied out of settlers immediately turns into a rocket launching pad or a terrorist training camp (as occurred in the Gaza Strip, in the settlements of Dugit, Nisanit and Neve Dekalim), we then have a duty to establish new settlements in Judea and Samaria along the mountain ridge which strategically commands the entire Coastal Plain, and to strengthen existing settlements, and all this as fast as possible.

Professor Arnon Sofer, a lecturer at Haifa University, took his students to visit the Jordan Valley, where he proclaimed to the media that without an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley, Israel's existence is endangered. He added that since a military presence without a civilian rearguard has not chance of enduring, we have to strengthen Jewish settlement in the Jordan Valley (which the Jewish Agency ceased to support in accordance with the "Disengagement" policy).

One of the Northern Samarian Jewish settlements from which the army withdrew, and from which it uprooted and expelled the Jewish residents, is Sa-Nur. Presently the Army says that since Northern Samaria is becoming a Hezbollah base threatening the entire Sharon region, we have to reestablish a permanent army base at the abandoned, destroyed Sa-Nur. Yet the government has rejected that request, out of a correct understanding that the army's return would be interpreted by the public as a government announcement of the Disengagement's failure. In other words, it would constitute an admission that the rift in the people and the Land, and all the unfairness and all the billions of shekalim of damage done, were all for naught. Today, Jews are bypassing army checkpoints and secretly visiting those two key settlements that were destroyed in Samaria - Sa-Nur and Chomesh. A settlement group is being organized for renewed settlement there, and on Chanukah there will be a mass march towards the two settlements.

Yuval Diskin, Head of the General Security Service, together with Army's top brass, warns about large-scale weapons smuggling from Egypt (Sinai) into the Gaza Strip, above and below the route that divides between Egypt and the Strip, called the "Philadelphi Route". The I.D.F. abandoned this route immediately following the expulsion of Gaza's Jews and the obliteration of Gush Katif, for lack of any choice. The "Philadelphi Route" is a fourteen kilometer corridor, about 80-100 meters wide (yes, you read right -- meters!). The only thing that prevented a death trap and a killing field for the soldiers there was the Gush Katif settlements that protected the army's rearguard.

The cease-fire has the Israeli security establishment worried, chiefly because it enables the terrorists to introduce anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons capable of neutralizing the Israeli Armored Corps and Air Force. They can also bring in new types of gunpowder that can turn every missile hit into a massacre. Therefore, the Army is demanding renewed control of the Philadelphi Route, yet it is doubtful whether this is possible without establishing Gush Katif anew.

And altogether, a Palestinian State west of the Jordan, facing Israel's rear, will make our country's life hell. 300,000 Jews who settled in Judea and Samaria and about 200,000 in East Jerusalem are the last dam defending our coastal country from a Palestinian Tzunami. Therefore, a responsible Zionist government that is not smitten with Leftwing defeatism would devote all its efforts and resources to achieving the one and only solution, the Zionist solution: settlement, settlement and more settlement -- to solve the Palestinian problem by settling a million Jews between Shechem and Hebron!

OK, I admit it: The writer of these lines loves Eretz Yisrael, the birthplace of the Jewish People, the Holy Land and the Promised Land, without any connection to security considerations. In his opinion, it is forbidden for any Jewish government to harm Eretz Yisrael, let alone to execute ethnic cleansing of its Jews, whatever the circumstances.

Yet love is a matter of the heart, and one can be convincing only by way of the brain. That is why this article demands a wave of renewed settlement in Judea and Samaria only because it is required in order to save our country from indefensible borders that are a travesty. Truth be told, it would have sufficed to say simply that it is our ancestral inheritance.

Dit artikel werd ovegenomen uit Gamla

56 - Waar blijft het CGKR nu?

In Beringen werden joodse chassidische studenten vorige donderdag met stenen bekogeld.
Het was een groep dat voor het weekend op bezoek ging naar Beringen. Toen ze daar aankwamen werden ze aangevallen door een groep Turken die ook antisemitische slogans riepen. Ook de ruiten van het verblijf waar de joodse groepen verbleven werden aan diggelen gegooid.

Het is trouwens niet de eerste keer. Een vriend die rgelmatig een school in Antwerpen voorbij moest, werd regelmatig vanuit de bovenste ramen met allerlei voorwerpen bekogeld en uitgescholden door Marokkaanse jongeren.

Eergisteren vertelde een Indische klant dat ook zijn kinderen al werden aangevallen door Marokkaanse jongeren en eveneens met stenen werden bekogeld.

Nu gaat men 'maatregelen' nemen!!
Dewelke?
Zou men niet beter beginnen door in de kranten te vermelden dat het NIET om Vlaamse 'jongeren' ging maar wel om Turkse 'moslimjongeren'?

Zou men niet beter beginnen met de daders te bestraffen in plaats van diegenen die kritiek hebben op die bepaalde 'jongeren'.

Zolang het CGKR ervan uitgaat dat een minderheid niet racistisch kan zijn tegenover een meerderheid zal er niets veranderen.
Door het blijven 'pamperen' van deze groep zal het geweld alleen maar toenemen. We staan voor een 'verloren generatie' maar wanneer er niet wordt ingegrepen zal de volgende generatie nog erger zijn. En dat zeg ik niet, maar dat zeggen geïntegreerde Marokkanen zelf.