There was a barrage of e-mails after Obama’s and Netanyahu’s speeches, what should Israel do, what should the USA do? Some warned Israel’s supporters that action is necessary for Israel cannot survive Obama. Others still use the recent speeches against Israel, blaming her for the fact that peace remains elusive after 63 years.
The President will remain in office for another year and a half. The Prime Minister’s coalition government also seems stable enough. Even in the Israeli political sandbox, it is likely to withstand any mishaps or votes to break it down. Thus, the lines are drawn and each must accept the other.
Netanyahu has very little maneuvering room. His back is against the wall, in a corner, facing challenges of both the physical sort like missiles and terrorism, and the still-intangible form of demonizing the Jewish People.
He is a realist, knowing whatever he and other Israeli Prime Ministers have offered to the Palestinians the latter rejected. Given the historical record of more than two decades, it is evident the Palestinians do not want peace and that any notion that land-for-peace will succeed is only true insofar as “land” is the totality of the “Land of Israel.” Nothing less will satiate the Palestinian appetite for destruction of the Jewish State.
Facts are further supported by official incitement, repeated over and over again into young, impressionable minds of children. Anyone who wishfully thinks peace is even a remote possibility is mistaken given the levels of hatred handed down from the highest levels of the Palestinian Authority.
Peace, for those who may wish to consult the recent chronicles of history, is possible – between Arabs and Jews, right in the Middle East. Israel and Jordan and Israel and Egypt have enjoyed solid peace treaties. In both instances, there was a partner who was willing to do what it takes, including taking the necessary risks and commitments, to achieve peace. Not so with the Palestinians.
So Netanyahu chose to say what everyone conveniently likes to ignore, pressing on the two core issues: Jerusalem and refugees.
Jerusalem’s fate over the millennia was to be destroyed when the Jewish people were not unified, when the Jews strayed the right path. Jerusalem today is thriving, all religions allowed to freely worship. It is a renaissance not seen for centuries, especially not under the short Jordanian or centuries-long Turkish (both Muslim) rules.
The city has developed, expanded and strengthened, and anyone toying with the idea of tearing it apart for anything but a Jewish capital is sorely mistaken. Even the Arab inhabitants, full residents of Israel, do not wish this to happen.
Tens of thousands of people are employed by the UN, which spends billions, to perpetuate the “Refugee Problem.”
Refugees are an equally alarming and contentious matter. No, it is not the worry that refugees will flood Israel. Rather, it is the end of one of the longest surviving enterprises of misguided philanthropy. Tens of thousands of people are employed by the UN, which spends billions, to perpetuate the “Refugee Problem.”
There is only one Perpetual Refugee in the world, the Palestinian. They and their descendants, forever and ever be considered refugees, ensuring the following: the flow of money, the continued existence of a huge bureaucracy and their effectiveness as a tool in the arsenal against Israel.
None of the Arab states wanted, or did anything, to assimilate the Palestinians. They are the same ethnicity, same culture, same skin color, same language and same hatred toward Israel, but in the social ranking the Palestinians are the lowest of the low (human slaves, common in enlightened countries like Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, do not even enter this scale, for they are an object).
Every time you fill up a tank of gas and pay close to five dollars a gallon, think of all the trillions of dollars flowing from our pockets to the super-rich Arab oil producing countries. There is clearly not a shortage of money to rid oneself of a refugee “problem,” but there is no incentive whatsoever. Not while they are serving their agenda to destroy Israel.
Israel, with meager resources, but an iron will, absorbed millions of refugees. First and foremost from the Arab countries who vomited the Jews from within as the modern State of Israel was forming. Today, even non-Jewish refugees (Sudanese and other Africans) are absorbed by the tiny Jewish state. The love of humanity and force of life make Israel do the impossible, create miracles and ignore difficulties.
Arab nations, will you ever try to do the same with your own brethren?
Thus, Netanyahu sharpened the notion of “Refugees.” If there are “two states for two people,” a Jewish and a non-Jewish state, then all the non-Jewish refugees will have to be absorbed in the non-Jewish state. A child would say the logic is “no brainer,” but the Palestinians immediately protested with outrage: this is a “Declaration of War!” they exclaimed.
Of course it is a declaration of war, for the only way to have two states, living side by side in peace, whereby one has no land, no capital, no right to exist is when Israel if finally obliterated for good from this world.
This, my friends is the essence of the struggle. The Palestinians want nothing less than the complete and final destruction of Israel and the end to any manifestation of the Jewish people on this planet.
And President Obama? He is misguided by advisers, some of whom are the most prominent Jews and ex-Israelis, telling him that a “divided Jerusalem,” the “1967-borders” and “pressure on Israel” will do some good.
While he already won one Nobel Peace Prize, he will not receive a second for shoving the Palestinians down Israel’s throat. Israel finally understands that if she knuckles under to pressure, she has no future. She is waking up to the realization she has no friend in the White House and that speeches to AIPAC are meaningless when flip-flopping routinely occur as soon as the speech, handshakes and photo-ops are over.
Israel must continue to wake up, look around and assess the events, the currents and the undercurrents. The Jewish State will survive only if she stands firm, and this she can do. The alternative will be final annihilation and this is no option for Israel.
