Feiglin Does Jagger; Don't Call It Surrender; Can We Just Shut Up And Kill This Guy Already?

Gimme Shelter

By Moshe Feiglin


Why does Israel have to invest three billion shekels to build an underground nuclear bomb shelter for the government? For those of you who do not understand what the endless construction work at the entrance to Jerusalem is all about, we have some disconcerting news. The construction is part of an atomic shelter six kilometers long in which Olmert, Livni, Peretz and their aides can continue to run the country with no fear -- even if a nuclear mushroom is billowing at street level. The shelter also serves as a shortcut to Israel's airport. No, this is not a joke. An elevator descends from the Prime Minister's office to the secret tunnels, far from the traffic congestion on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway -- or the radioactive congestion -- straight to the airport and the reunion with Olmert's sons in New York. It's sort of like a modern-day Cave of Tzedekiah.

This morning, I heard Avi Farchan -- twice exiled from his home in Sinai and Gush Katif -- express his ire at the fact that the government is searching for a place to shelter the residents of Israel's south in the case of heavy shelling from Gaza. "There is no difference between the residents of Sderot and the residents of Ein Gev and Gadot, who continued to plow their fields under Syrian shelling," Farchan insisted. It is impossible not to like Farchan, but he is a bit reminiscent of the Japanese soldier that continued to "fight" in the jungles tens of years after Hirohito had surrendered. The kibbutzniks in Ein Gev who continued plowing their fields had leadership that intended to triumph. The residents of Sderot are soldiers whose leadership has backed out of the battle, leaving them abandoned in the battlefield. Who has the right to tell them to stay put and be sitting ducks, when their government has already surrendered?

The only way to understand what is happening now in the Western Negev and in the negotiations for the release of Gilad Shalit is to realize that Israel's government has already surrendered. When they tell us that there is "no solution for the Kassams," they mean that they have raised the white flag. The State of Israel continues to exist due to inertia and thanks to the perseverance of its citizens.

So why spend so much money to shelter the government far underground? After all, Israel's government has already surrendered. Why take bread out of the mouths of the poor? The elegant solution would be to send the government to a safe haven in London now. Why London? Because the English have experience with governments in exile.

In his research, Military Historian Dr. Uri Milstein claims that Israel won the Six Day War because the Chief of Staff broke under the pressure of the war and was hospitalized in a psychiatric institution, rendering him incapable of bungling the army's battle plan. Who knows? Maybe a government exile, elegantly implemented under the pressure of current events -- will liberate the healthy forces in this Nation, allowing them to rise, defend themselves and triumph?

Just think about all the money that we could save if we would halt the atomic shelter project. Think about all the miserable Arab refugees from Gaze who would be thrilled to get a small fraction of this money and start a new life in Canada. With these colossal sums we could have a genuine peace process here. And if we add the 13 billion dollars that the Separation Fence will cost (That's right, the fence that cannot stop anything from flying over it or crawling under it) we could also begin to solve the problem of the Arabs of Shechem and Jenin. And if we add the cost of the Disengagement, we could begin to consider solving the problem of Israel's Arabs -- who are involved in approximately half of the terror attacks attempted or perpetrated against Israelis. And if we add to all this money the incessant flow of funds that Israel has transferred to the terrorists since Oslo -- who knows? Maybe we could have set them all up with good jobs and nice houses all over the globe? And we may have even had something left for medicines and food for hungry children in Israel. After all, we have already accepted the principle of Evacuation-Compensation, haven't we?

What? Gaza and Shechem belong to them??? O.K., if you think so, maybe you really should take the elevator underground -- as close as possible to the airport.



Don't Call It Surrender, Call It "Protective Walls"



Now that Israel has retreated from Gush Katif, bringing almost daily rocket attacks to southern Israel, the hot topic is protective walls for Israel's kassam-bombarded cities and settlements. In other words -- surrender. The State of Israel has lost its faith in its own legitimacy and is shielding itself to death. The government is busily preparing an atomic bomb shelter for itself -- deep underground and complete with a quick escape route to the airport. (See Moshe Feiglin's latest article above). It seems as though the entire country has lost its will to live. What happened to the Jewish Nation? Why doesn't anybody dare rebel?

But on second thought, we really cannot complain about the average Israeli. After all, when Israeli voters attempted to escape the Oslo death trap and voted for the Right, they got double Left time and again. In other words, in the guise of sophisticated democracy, the Nation's right to choose was annulled. People got used to the idea that there is no solution. Now, despair is wearing us away.

The sooner that we succeed in presenting the true Jewish alternative, the faster the Nation will return to itself. Just like a huge snowball, the Jewish alternative will gain strength and momentum until it triumphs. We do not know at which point people will finally open their eyes. But at Manhigut Yehudit's Chanukah Conference we did learn that in the circles closest to Manhigut, there are thousands of people who have already woken up and are just waiting to act. Our next step is to reach out with our belief based alternative to all the Likud members -- and through them, to all Israelis.

Can We Just Shut Up And Kill This Guy Already?

When Arafat was on his deathbed, Moshe Feiglin published an article called, "Quick! Kill Him Before He Dies." The basic theme of the article was that the opportunity to mete out justice to the abominable murderer was quickly melting away. Of course, nobody took our advice. On the contrary -- the ever- pragmatic Israeli government did and still does all that it can to run away from the justice issue. "Do not be just," goes the famous Israeli saying, "just be smart." Israel has lost its ethics coordinates.

What would have happened if Sadaam would have fallen into the hands of the Israeli government? He would have continued to laugh at us all and would have eventually died of old age. Martin Buber opposed the execution of Eichman. If Eichman had been tried in Israel today, he most probably would have remained alive. A nation that does not believe in its own legitimacy does not see itself as a legitimate judge of others. The only enemy that remains for Israel's government is the settlers. In other words -- those people that express moral clarity, national justice and the distinction between good and bad.

Sadaam's execution is a small star twinkling in a world that has entered a state of moral vertigo. The star twinkles, reminding us all that we do not have to leap into the abyss. There is good and there is bad. Sadaam was hung simply because he is bad. Now, someone will likely take revenge and then we will hear explanations that the execution created more violence. That may be true in the short term. But in the long run, Sadaam's execution has fostered the world's sense of justice -- and that will ultimately decrease terror and violence.

"Don't wake me up." said Bush.

Sometimes, we can learn from the Americans.

The masks hiding the faces of Sadaam's hangmen tell the real story. The free world is represented by people who hide behind masks. The murderers don't feel the need to hide. But the people attempting to restore justice do.

In the last year, Israel's soldiers have also begun to wear masks when arresting terrorists. This is a dangerous precedent, born of the typical, visionless thinking of Israel's government and army officials. After all, in their opinion, we are here only temporarily. But the Arabs will be here forever. So, in order to safeguard our soldiers, it is best to conceal them behind masks. Until we lost our own sense of justice -- becoming colonialists in our own minds -- our soldiers did not need masks.

When Sadaam's hangmen put on their masks, Sadaam's legacy had already won -- at least this round.

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