Monday, February 16, 2009

No Peace Without Justice


Speaking at a convention for American Jewish leaders, Tzippi Livni said that "we need to give up half of the Land of Israel". She claims that in the interest of peace, Israel must surrender Judea and Samaria to the Arabs. For the sake of a peace, it is necessary to create a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel.

The Left is fond of saying that there is no peace without justice. There is no greater truth to that statement that in this case. An unjust peace is no peace at all. Peace is valuable yet it cannot come at an unreasonable price. Uprooting Jews from their land is too high a price to pay for peace.

To make Judea and Samaria jundenrein is the greatest perversion of history. These lands form the homeland of the Jewish people, where our ancestors, Patriarchs, prophets and kings dwelled. To uproot hundreds of thousands of Jews from their rightful homes and destroy flourishing communities is a betrayal of history and of the generations of Jews who yearned for the dream of Zion. Although we were forcibly removed from our land, we never vacated it in our hearts and souls. We continued to look longingly to the day when "our eyes will behold Your return to Zion in mercy", despite the oppression and degradation of exile. The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people by every conceivable historical, religious and political right. The Jewish people are the only nation to have roots in that land. Abraham is buried in Hebron, Jacob lived in Beit El and Joseph tended his sheep in Shechem (Nablus). When a certain prophet had his first revelation in Arabia, the Jewish people already had thousands of years of roots in the Land of Israel.

The Land of Israel is the inheritance of every single Jew around the world, and only the Jews. Every nation has its own land and no one would demand that it carve itself up to appease those who covet it. It would be unreasonable to expect the United States to offer Texas or Massachusetts to al-Qaeda in the hopes of peace. The United Kingdoms would never surrender London and France would never give away Paris. Similarly, Israel can never give away parts of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was, is and always will be a uniquely Jewish city. Catholicism is centered in Rome, Islam in Mecca and Judaism in Jerusalem. Jerusalem forms the basis of our national psyche. 3 times a day, looking eastward, a Jew pleads for the rebuilding of Jerusalem, as well as after he has had a meal and says Grace. We have ended our Passover seders and Yom Kippur fasts for 2000 years with the fervent prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem!" At every Jewish wedding, the groom breaks a cup to remember the destruction of Jerusalem and pledges "if I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning."

The early Zionist pioneers had a slogan: "With fire Judea fell, and with fire Judea will arise." The dream of Zion could only be realized through the sweat and toil of the pioneers and settlers. The Jewish state only exists by virtue of the over 20 000 Jews who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their people. Thousands of good Jews fell defending and liberating Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Only 40 years ago, tears streamed down the cheeks of even the most alienated and assimilated Jews as we were reunited with our Holy Temple Mount, with the Western Wall and with the Old City of Jerusalem. A nation that held faith for two millenia does not forget so quickly the pain that we felt when we were denied access to our most holy sites. We have not forgotten how the Jordanians forbade us access to the Western Wall, desecrated synagogues and study halls and used ancient Jewish cemeteries as latrines. Only a lunatic would advocate a return to this terrible and dark time.

The basis of peace is self-respect. A Jew with a modicum of Jewish pride would never part with his homeland for anything in the world. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Golan, Galilee, Negev and coastal plain all are an integral part of the Jewish homeland. A condition for peace cannot be the amputation of half of the Land of Israel and denial of the right of the Jewish to settle freely in their country. What is being challenged is the basic Jewish right to their own land as the world tries to herd the Jews of Israel into the Greater Tel-Aviv ghetto. What we fail to understand is that our right to Tel-Aviv, to Herzliah, to Be'er Shevah, is our right to Jerusalem, to Hebron, to Shechem, to every inch of the Land of Israel.

The Arabs have more than enough land for themselves. They occupy 99.5% of the Middle-East, and no one is challenging their claim to it. Yet Jews must stand up and assert our right to less than a percent of the land in the Middle-East. This is not a conflict over land as much as ideology. The Islamic supremacist ideology which demands that Jews be second-class citizens opposes Zionism, the most basic desire for a Jew to control his own destiny in his own sovereign state. If Tzippi or the Left were able to carry out their nefarious plans, G-d forbid, to expel the Jews of Judea and Samaria, it would mean the virtual end of the Zionist enterprise, of the building and settling, of the Ingathering of the Exiles, of the return of the Jewish people to its home and the hope for the Ultimate Redemption, may it be speedily in our days. I could think of no greater tragedy than for the Jews to come home after such a long exile and re-establish themselves only to be uprooted by corrupt leaders at the behest of anti-semitic governments.

This is a struggle of an indigenous people against the forces of a cruel occupation. Islamic imperialism cannot succeed in driving the Jews from our soil. The Jewish nation has survived far more powerful empires and powers. A nation with such deep roots cannot surrender before a non-entity, a pseudo-nation bent on its destruction. Peace will come one day in the Middle-East, but only when Arabs and Jews respect each other and each other's boundaries and borders. There are 22 Arabs countries and one Jewish country. That Jewish country exists and survives only by resting on the shoulders of our grandparents, good Jews who, in the ghettos and shtetls of Eastern Europe, in the mellahs of Morocco, exiled in Arab countries or under Christian rule, never forget that one day they would return to their home. To betray them would be a travesty, the height of injustice and cruelty. Every people is entitled to its own country, not least of which are the Jewish people, who have felt the pain and burn of being guests in a foreign land. There can be no negotiations, no compromise, no surrender on this most elementary point, our national aspirations and dreams. Such injustice cannot be tolerated. I hope for peace, but not for the fake "peace" promised by the Left, bathed in the blood of Jews. Peace will only come when the Jewish people are firmly planted in their land, as a Light unto the Nations. May that day come speedily in our days, amen.

15 comments:

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Anonymous said...

How is it that all Muslim trolls appear to have the same 'literary style', for want of a better expression?

Is there just one guy going around all the blogs, or are they cloning them in the mosques?

Anonymous said...

Allah is a pagan moon god with three daughters http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-allahs-daughters.htm

Anonymous said...

ti evreuga nikogda ne videl zhidovskij flag vtoptannij v griaz? a escho ja bi s ydovolstviem vtoptal v griaz tvou xaru.

Anonymous said...

Najistani: I believe people who do this are misinterpreting the Koran. While you'll get no argument out of me that Muslims today are using Allah's name to deface humanity, and that they're wrong in doing so, it's not an excuse to slander Islam as a whole.

Anonymous said...

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.

http://infidelsarecool.com/2007/08/21/turkish-prime-minister-there-is-no-moderate-islam/

Anonymous said...

... oh, and what part of "Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them" are they misinterpreting? All the peaceful verses in the Koran are abrogated by this one late verse.

A third world war between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb is made INEVITABLE, by the very meaning of Dar al-Harb.

Anonymous said...

evrejskaja pidovka, ja tebia odnim pal'tsem pereshiby...nikakoe karate ne pomozhet...a esli popadeshsia bratve tak i vovse mokroe mesto ostanetsia. tak chto smerdi poka tebe daut takyu vozmonost'

Jacob said...

Y'all need to read yrselves some Edward Said.

Paul said...

'The United Kingdoms would never surrender London and France would never give away Paris.'

If only that were true Bar. Large areas of both French and British cities are effectively surrendered to Islamic dominance under so called multi-culturalism.

Anonymous said...

WEll here's what I say. I'm Muslim and I'm HARDLY tribal. Do you know there are Muslims ALL OVER THE GLOBE?? Do you know that there are Christian Arabs in the same boat as the Muslim Arabs? Do you know that only anglo Jews support Israel? And of course those weirdo evangelicals...and the politicians are merely on a payroll. Wait untill they are NOT and see how many there are left! The semitic ones don't even BELIEVE in Zionism. You guys are a minority in a very big world. I can't believe how neurotic is this blog! But then again, what else could you be? I don't mean to be impolite...just that the content here is mind boggling!

Anonymous said...

nice article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did anyone hear that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.

Anonymous said...

Looks like you've made the choice in the inevitable confrontation between zionism and democracy as the demographics in Israel become more and more outta whack.

Will you start expunging individuals with a certain fraction of arab blood in order to keep Israel "zionist"? That will be the only way! zionists are not breeding!

Maybe you should rethink your ugly propaganda, and start trying to become more attractive. Because the only way for Israel to remain zionist, is not to commit genocide of arab-israelis(as your ideology logically leads to), but to start breeding.
Unfortunately it seems the breeding plan won't work, seeing as how you get your jollies dropping white phos on an open air prison, rather than fucking.

Anonymous said...

Possibly the most influential post I read all year!?


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