Survivor: Israel

By Rob Muchnick

This week I came across a new CIA report which concluded that Israel would not exist for more than 20 more years. If I didn’t have faith then it would have disturbed me. This led me to review who really supports continued Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel and the state of Israel.

Let’s start with the Jewish leftists. They’re easy - they want a democratic, bi-national (Arab & Jewish) state of Israel. Cross them off the list.

How about the Israeli establishment? They founded and built the country on the principles of Communism and of paying lip-service to Judaism to fool American Jewry into financing them. They’ve lost all of their ideology except to do whatever it takes to keep control of the reins of power. They would prefer Israel to be a pile of ashes than have Jews loyal to G-d and the Land of Israel control the government [to paraphrase Shlomo Baum]. Cross them off, too.

How about the so-called “right-wing”? Under Menachem Begin & Yitzhak Shamir it was honest but weak. Ariel Sharon (who really fits into the last category but people think he was a rightist) has his notoriety resting on giving away Gaza in return for thousands of unanswered missiles. Good deal, huh? And Benjamin Netanyahu? All that needs to be said is that Bibi is the reason that Manhigut Yehudit exists. Our leaders helped get him elected in 1996 because he pledged to end the Oslo farce, but 10 minutes after he was sworn-in he changed his mind. He gave Arafat control of Hebron, he released Jew-murderers, he released those who became mass-murderers of Jews, and he gave away land that was used to snipe at and murder Shalhevet Pass in her father’s arms. Then he voted in favor of Sharon’s Gaza Expulsion before cynically resigning his post one week before it started. Now as PM again he is working night & day to create a viable ‘partner for peace’ on the ‘palestinian’ side so that he can create an Arab terror state in our biblical heartland of Judea & Samaria. He even calls this state “a fait accompli”. So much for “the right wing”.

The US under Obama has swung noticeably to the ‘palestinian’ side, but is this really a change in US policy? In 1948, Harry Truman is virtually sainted for formally recognizing Israel moments after it declared independence. However, honesty makes one note that Truman enforced and continued the arms embargo on Israel so that he could ensure Israel’s destruction (as the entire world thought would happen) while appearing to be a great friend of Israel. Lyndon Johnson commissioned a Joint Chiefs report in 1967 which concluded that Israel must keep Gaza, the Golan, a sliver of Sinai, Judea and 85% of Samaria in order to be militarily defensible. This report was seconded in 1974. What kind of friend continually tries to push you into a position where you are ripe for the taking by your enemies? Now we have Barack Obama saying that “Israel is crazy if it doesn’t accept the Arab Peace Plan” which calls for bringing 5 million Arabs into Israel and making it an Arab-majority state. And Rahm Emanuel tells Israel that it must make ‘peace’ with the PLO in order to gain US support against an Iran bent on nuclear genocide. The US can keep its 2.7 billion dollars - we’ll take our sovereignty and our lives thank you very much.

How about the largest ‘pro-Israel’ Evangelical organization, John Hagee’s CUFI? CUFI refuses to tell the US government to stop the peace process, refuses to say publicly that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People, and refuses to publicly oppose the Israeli government while it gives away G-d’s Land. They even invited a speaker to their upcoming conference who is proud of the fact that he personally carried Jews out of Gaza. Why is this? They don’t want to upset the Israeli establishment which lets them build their Christian centers in Israel and doesn’t stop their proselytizing. This kind of help we don’t need.

What about Europe? They’ll never be with us. Enough said. And the Pope? His mantra this week in Israel was that ‘justice’ required the formation of an Arab state in Israel. Oh yeah, he wants Jerusalem, too.

And the American Jewish organizations (besides AFSI)? A recent past president of AIPAC admitted to my associate that Sharon’s folly was “a failure”, but that he “would support the next one anyway”. The most they will say is ‘don’t pressure Israel to make concessions until the Arabs stop the terror’. They will never put Justice on our side by saying that Eretz Yisrael belongs to the Jewish People and that is that. Never. Because they want to “stay in the game” and not be extremists.

The only honest ones are our mortal enemies. The ‘moderate’ PLO/PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ representative said last week that the two-state Solution means the death of Israel, because losing our holy sites and our biblical heartland will take away our chosenness, our communal spirit and raison d'être. He’s right.

It’s time we all realize that we are alone on this island. We cannot and should not beg or kowtow to anyone. We have no other choice but to do what is right, show that true justice is with us, and do what is in line with G-d’s will. If we do this well enough and hard enough, G-d will surely finish the job for us, as He has done throughout history whenever we have merited it. May we merit it now!