No Compromise between Winning and Losing

No compromise between Winning and Losing

by Hebron, Israel resident Gary Cooperberg

When the rug is pulled out from under you and you fall helplessly to the ground, you wonder if you can get up or should even try. Fear is a strong motivating factor in our behavior. Our enemies instill fear by indiscriminately murdering Jewish civilians. And our own government instills fear by brutally beating demonstrators. Fear is an ancient tool used to control behavior. It usually works. Yet, even a tame rabbit has a limit to succumbing to fear. If cornered, with no chance to escape, he will fight back.

The Jewish citizens of the Jewish State have faced fear all of their lives. We have lived in a constant state of war ever since the establishment of the state. The alleged peace treaties we have with some of our neighbors is only a result of their failure to destroy us and their fear that we cannot be destroyed by war. No Arab entity has truly accepted Israel as a legitimate country. The treaties are merely a tool to prevent us from attacking them while allowing them to develop more sophisticated methods of gradually destroying the Jewish State. Even Shimon Peres publicly told the people of Jordan that the true reason for peace is the suspicion that Israel has nuclear weapons.

We have tried to make peace with our enemies in so many ways, including voluntarily yielding land to them, over the years. The fact that all of our efforts have consistently failed has not dampened our determination to keep trying. Our present acting prime minister has come to a conclusion which has long been espoused by our leftist self-haters in this country. The only way to have peace with our Arab neighbors is to separate from them. If one were honest he would see in such a statement a recognition that peace with our Arab neighbors is simply not an option. Arab immigrants to Israel from foreign Arab countries never wanted to live in peace with a Jewish State. They sought to destroy her. When their attempts clearly failed they were prepared to leave. Rather than encouraging them to do so our myopic leaders insisted that they remain and promised them equal citizenship in our tiny state. Never mind that Arabs never wanted to be equal to the Jew whom he considers inferior to him. The Arab knows how to accept defeat. Our leaders, on the other hand, do not know how to accept victory! Every miraculous victory achieved in battle was needlessly undone at the "peace" table. Our enemies are not stupid. They can see that although we are victorious in battle, we do not have the courage to accept our victories. With such a people it is only a matter of patience until they eventually defeat themselves.

Menachem Begin once rhetorically posed a question to reporters. He asked, "What are we to negotiate, the terms of our self destruction?" At that moment he clearly saw the absurdity of peace agreements which demanded that tiny Israel give up land to the Arabs who possess nearly all of the land in the region! Yet, absurd as it may be, this is exactly the stance of our nation's leaders. The only difference between alleged right and left is the pace of our self destruction. And, what is worse, we are arbitrarily negotiating with ourselves to the favor of our enemies! Our leaders are cowards who are afraid to honestly face the reality which clearly threatens us. Indeed, we do need to separate from our enemies. Yet the way they choose to separate is to flee from them. Sometimes running away is the only option. Yet when you run from an enemy even if you are stronger than him, you only encourage him to chase you. This is the present policy of the Jewish government. The more difficult but only sensible way to separate from our enemies is to drive them away by force. No Israeli leadership has the courage to even consider this option. A fact which has destined us to needless terror. Many consider the idea of forcibly removing our enemies as tantamount to racism. Yet they fail to understand a very basic difference. The reason for removing our enemies is not because they are Arabs. Rather it is because they have clearly shown us that they seek our destruction and will never back down from that goal. One simply cannot live with such an enemy. To voluntarily surrender to them, as we have already begun to do, only encourages them to believe that we can be destroyed and thus inspires yet more terror. For us to welcome elections of a foreign entity on Jewish soil is already a surrender of our sovereignty. Dare we assume that such a surrender will encourage our enemies to make peace with an Israel of any size?

When Netanyahu surrendered eighty percent of Hebron to Arafat, he failed to give Arafat all of the Arabs living in our remaining twenty percent. Yet not one Jew can live on Arafat’s side. When Sharon expelled all the Jews from Gaza (why was this not considered racism?), were he serious about separation from our enemies, he should have expelled all of our Arabs to Gaza. Olmert wants to throw Jews out of most of Judea and Samaria, yet I have heard no plans to throw Arabs out of what is left of Israel. He wants to build the PLO or Hamas a new country on Jewish soil. To do so he accepts as axiomatic the need to remove all Jews from the terrorist country and to keep future human bombs inside what is left of Israel. This is clearly cowardice and insanity. We are simply strengthening our enemies and weakening ourselves. It is a suicidal plan and a monumental blunder for which we will suffer dearly. The bottom line is that our enemies do not want a Jewish State of any size in the Middle East. If our leaders are afraid that we cannot stand up to our enemies because they are too overwhelming, then the only intelligent thing to do would be to just pick up and leave altogether. If they are not willing to do this, then the only option left is to fight for what belongs to us. . . even against the overwhelming odds. You cannot do both.

Gary Cooperberg will be on a speaking tour in the states between March 19 and 30th. He is interested in spending that Shabbat in a Jewish community which will give him opportunities to speak about Israel and aliyah. You may contact him by email: gary@projectshofar.org.