Jerusalem Defender: The First 50 Posts

Due to the fact that, by the grace of God, this blog has reached the 50 post milestone (this entry being post number 51) and many of the older posts may be needed by those researching the Everyone Wins Peace Plan, it occurred to me that a table of contents may be needed.

Whereas previously I only advertised on the the Internet for this blog, as of this month I am now running an ad in an upcoming edition of Viewpoint magazine. So our readership numbers may greatly increase and some of the new readers may not be used to "reading backwards" in the reversed chronological order of your average blog entry.

Therefore this post is something of an introductory post for those who are not as experienced with the format of the blogosphere as most of Jerusalem Defender's current readership is...

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Post #50 - March 2, 2009
The Spirit of a True Peace Plan

Post #49 - February 2009
The Everyone Wins Peace Plan Answers the Critics

Post #48 - January 2009
Religious Parties Unite!

December 2008
The Bearing of Leadership: National and Religious ...
(Full title: "The Bearing of Leadership: National and Religious Parties, Let Your Platforms Bloom")
Finally Action in Gaza: Now Make it Final!
Ending the Era of Weakness: Annex the West Bank an...
(Full title: "Ending the Era of Weakness: Annex the West Bank and Gaza")
Hybridized Political Thought on the Middle East Co...
(Full title: "A Statement of Hybridized Political Thought on the Middle East Conflict")
The Violence at Beit Hashalom: How the Olmert Admi...
(Full title: "The Violence at Beit Hashalom: How the Olmert Administration is Inciting Radicalism")
The Problem With Kadima: A Lesson in Pseudo Politi...
(Full title: "The Problem With Kadima: A Lesson in Pseudo Political Centrism")

November 2008
The Saudi Peace Plan is Roadmap to Armageddon

October 2008
Compassionate Zionism
The Difference Between Racists and the Enraged

September 2008
Land for Peace is Fuel for Terror
Ezekiel's Jerusalem
The Unsubstantial Nature of Past Peace Plans

August 2008
Israeli Settlements Are Legal Under International ...
(Full title: "Israeli Settlements Are Legal Under International Law")
Foreign Policy Toward Russia

July 2008
Individualistic Moral Accountancy: The Ideological...
(Full title: "Individualistic Moral Accountancy: The Ideological Foundation of Healing Societies")
Healing Societies: The Ideological Foundation of t...
(Full title: "Healing Societies: The Ideological Foundation of the Everyone Wins Peace Plan")
The Upcoming War With Iran
MK Rabbi Binyamin Elon is Now Aware of the Everyon...
(Full title: "MK Rabbi Binyamin Elon is Now Aware of the Everyone Wins Peace Plan")
How to Deal with International Hostage Crises

June 2008
Sarkozy Too Cozy With Division of Jerusalem
A Critique of the Elon Plan and a Summary of the E...
(Full title: "A Critique of the Elon Plan and a Summary of the Everyone Wins Peace Plan")
Palestinian Leaders Indicate Trust in the IDF
A United Jerusalem is the Only Chance for True Pea...
(Full title: "A United Jerusalem is the Only Chance for True Peace")
Russia & Iran: Avoiding a New Cold War

May 2008
Making Peace With Syria
The Friedlander Peace Plan Is The Everyone Wins Pe...
(Full title: "The Friedlander Peace Plan Is The Everyone Wins Peace Plan")
A Statement Against Arrogance
The Friedlander Peace Plan: An Evenhanded Policy f...
(Full title: "Toward an Evenhanded Policy for Peace in the Holy Land, Part 3: The Friedlander Peace Plan: An Evenhanded Policy for Peace
A Discussion on the Mechanics of the Naturalizatio...
(Full title: "Toward an Evenhanded Policy for Peace in the Holy Land, Part 2:
A Discussion on the Mechanics of the Naturalization of West Bank and Gaza Arabs to the State of Israel)
A New and Revised One-State Solution to Peace in t...
(Full title: "Toward an Evenhanded Policy for Peace in the Holy Land, Part 1: A New and Revised One-State Solution to Peace in the Middle East")

April 2008
A Comparison of Peace Plans
An Alternative Peace Plan
Why I Still Reject Kahanism Despite Palestinian Su...
(Full title: "Why I Still Reject Kahanism Despite Palestinian Support of Terrorism")

March 2008
How the Palestinians Can Redeem Themselves
Palestinians Choose Violence Over Peace
Succession in International Law
The Massacre At Mercaz Harav Yeshiva

January 2008
Diaspora Jews Are People Too
A Democratic Messianic King
The Iranian Dilemma

December 2007
The Definition of True Peace: Truth
Jerusalem & Jus Cogens
Temple Mount Is the Holiest Site in Judaism
Temple Time?
The Pollard Fiasco
Judaism and Jewish National Loyalty
Post #1 - Jewish Freedom of Religion and Jerusalem

The Spirit of a True Peace Plan

A true peace plan should create peace first inside and then out, not outside and then in. As we find in the Kaddish prayer “He who makes peace in His Heights should make peace between us and upon all Yisrael.” Why do the Rabbis of the Talmud place “we”, i.e. societal peace, before “all Yisrael” i.e. national peace? One would have thought that if we achieve external and global peace, we would instantly have Heaven on Earth even in private matters. But the Rabbis are teaching us an important lesson. Only once societal peace is assured, then can world peace be sure to follow.

Using this lens let’s look at what would have happened at the societal level if the Oslo Accords would have been successful. The left would have rejoiced as the right wing mourned. Now let’s consider what if the right wing had succeeded with a Kahane type plan. The right would have rejoiced as the left wing mourned. In either scenario only one side wins and perforce the other side MUST lose.

This is akin to the battle for property in the West Bank. The extreme Left wishes to make the West Bank Jews homeless, while the extreme Right wishes to make the West Bank Arabs homeless (the kinder and gentler Israeli Initiative Peace Plan wishes them to relocate their homes to the Kingdom of Jordan, but as far as the Arab’s current homes go, it is similar in effect as the Kahane plan). In either scenario again we find only one side can win and perforce the other side MUST lose.

But this is why peace has been elusive in the Middle East. The truth path to peace is not an economic equation. Its calculus should not and cannot be determined in mere economic terms of victor and vanquished. Its methodology is rather found in compromise, and not in seeking absolute terms.

The Everyone Wins Peace Plan is such a true peace plan.

The right can rejoice that the Everyone Wins Peace Plan secures an end to terrorist armies within a stone's throw of Israeli cities, it allows settlers to keep their homes, it also maintains the State's control over all the land and resources West of the Jordan River, and it guarantees freedom of religion to non-Muslims.

The left can rejoice that the Everyone Wins Peace Plan maintains West Bank and Gaza Palestinian Arabic control of their cities and allows the retention of their homes, it also frees them short term from terrorist police and long term from refugee camps, and it eventually allows them to join their cousins within the Green Line by having a right to vote in the State of Israel.

Everyone will rejoice that the Everyone Wins Peace Plan will put an end to the unhealthy segregationist environment that both sides are currently caught up in. The Everyone Wins Peace Plan also removes the main pan-Arabic excuse to discriminate financially against the State of Israel. This will only snowball the effectiveness of the plan at ending the conflict that much sooner, as improved finances and security means increased Jewish immigration rates which allows the expansion of the Arabic naturalization process that is at the core of this solution.

“May He who makes peace in His Heights soon make peace between us and upon all Yisrael, and let us say Amen.”