Is there some kind of longstanding conspiracy, some tacit agreement
between Jewish leaders in Israel, the Diaspora, and the Gentile
Western nations? Is there some kind of timetable whereby Israel
commits suicide, selfdestructs, and ceases to be? Is there
some timetable in which the land of Israel is declared, encouraging
as many Jews as possible to return and reclaim the land from desert
and swamp, making it fertile, building cities, creating a modern
infrastructure only to hand it over to the Arabs?
Israel was reconstituted through the determination of a people
to sacrifice everything in the face of all odds and win. Israel,
a persecuted little nation, who after many years of oppression
had vowed not to be passive any longer, and fought to survive
and prevail. Israel is the story of how a people created something
out of nothing...a homeland made out of sand and rocks, and against
great adversity.
It took an unusual breed of people to create the State of Israel....people
with great physical stamina, deep conviction, great persistence,
courage and an understanding of what it was all about. The builders
of Israel were the true pioneers, nationbuilders...people of
destiny. They were people you knew you could rely on ...they wouldn't
let you down. They were all team players and highly disciplined
soldiers. They were a group of people who showed the world how
human beings could reach for the stars and bring them down to
earth.
No one handed the Jews over a state on a silver platter, except
for the sons and daughters who were willing to lay down their
lives for it. They were the silver platter on which Israel
was offered to us.
Do Jewish leaders, Israeli politicians, Jewish establishment figures
in the West really want a Jewish State? Did they ever genuinely
desire a Jewish land in which the Jew alone, would be master of
his own destiny? A land under Jewish law, in which the Jew, after
2,000 years of being murdered with impunity by his neighbors,
could at last feel free to walk the streets in peace, security
and safety?
Certainly, the longsuffering Jewish people have always wanted
Israel to be that land. Unfortunately we have been denied a genuine
Jewish land, peace, security, and safety by leaders who have deliberately
betrayed all the aspirations of their own people. Up until
now, Israel has been cursed with leaders, politicians, and establishment
figures whose loyalty belongs exclusively to their Gentile masters
in Washington whom they fear.
From Ben Gurion to Netanyahu, whether Labor or Likud, all have
been instructed and controlled by the West, never daring to declare
to the world the Jewish nation's sole and rightful ownership of
the Temple Mount, Hebron, Judea and Samaria. They have been despised
by the Arabs for their selfabasement, and are jumping to the
whims of their Western puppeteers. Through government control
of the media, they have infected Jews with guilt and selfhatred.
Israelis have been convinced that they are thieves who have stolen
the land from the "poor Palestinians." This makes it
all the easier for them to accept suicide and the destruction
of the Jewish State. The message that gets to the people is that
the Arabs, Arafat, and the PLO, etc., are not the real enemies
of Israel, but Judaism is.
They have always ensured that no genuine Jewish leader would ever
be allowed to gain political power. No man, no party would ever
be allowed to emerge that could alter the set course of selfdestruction
of the Jewish Nation. The longsuffering, selfsacrificing
Israeli Jews deserve much better than leaders who continually
betray them into the hands of their enemies, and who speedily
silence with harsh jail sentences patriots who criticize or
dissent.
Even though Gd has bestowed upon us miracle after miracle in
His land, our leaders, through fear of angering their Western
masters, have overturned every one of them, always insisting on
immediately turning the clock backwards and putting Eretz
Yisrael and the Jewish people into a more dangerous position
than before. They turned victories into defeats, and Jewish pride
in winning, instead of losing, into shame for living instead of
dying.
If there is no formal agreement, no conspiracy, no timetable
for Israel to commit suicide and selfdestruct, then Oslo, Wye,
and the Israeli government's determination to speedily implement
this disgraceful crime against the Jewish nation, must go down
in history as the greatest betrayal of one's land and people that
has ever been known. Silently accepting this will surely hasten
the disappearance of the State of Israel.
It is time for Jews to send a message to the world again: WE ARE NOT COWARDS AND WE CAN WIN.
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Rachel 7 is the director of the Middle East Political
Forum on AOL.Reprinted from The Jerusalem Post of
January 28, 1999