A false sense of entitlement on the part of many Palestinian Arabs to the entire land of Israel is a key source of fuel for the fire of motivating their people to terror. International Law, and thousands of years of anticipated biblical reality run contrary to such beliefs. By reducing that false impression, the foundation for terror can be undercut and true peace have a chance to reign in the land. Even handed attitudes towards the naturally greater rights to the land that Israel possesses confuses the masses and allows a window for manipulation by political leaders who support terror. Therefore the policy path of choice, is to not encourage a discussion of rights to the land at all, since the other side has shown a willingness to not care for the truth, whether written in the bible or signed by them. Rather unilateral steps towards annexation and naturalization combined with negotiation of optimum implementation with non belligerent Palestinian leadership and PR (hasbara) before the international community of the reasons that this is the best path to peace by a joint hasbara committee whose membership includes both Israelis and Palestinians who are highly supportive of the idea.
If so, and if Palestinian leadership is suspect in it's ability to leave behind it's love of terror, then how could this work?
National level political leaders of the PLO have been corrupt and or bloodthirsty. But many communal leaders have worked peacefully with Israel from the start. Therefore a group of mayors from small towns are most likely to be an example of a resource pool for such a committee of politicians committed to true peace more than hope that anyone in the Palestinian pseudo parliament could be counted on.
At the communal level, politicians are concerned primarily with job opportunities and city services, so even a wicked person in such a post is inherently used to doing what's best for people. At the national level, personal character traits and weaknesses can make or break a politician. This is true for any democracy. Only I hope the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza will benefit from a true democracy, not the fledgling terror state in the making that their national leaders are trying to form. Allowing them to join their cousins in Israel as a part of a true democracy would be a better kindness than forcing them to be under the rule of terrorists.
What is true democracy? I am writing to you today from New England on this anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, I can tell you that the Palestinians are not currently on the path to one. Voting for despots has nothing whatever to do with liberty and justice for all. The ability to elect and peacefully remove if necessary representatives that aid you in delivering good to your family is the foundation of liberty. The Palestinians do not have that. The Oslo accords cannot deliver that to them either. The longer they follow that path, the hand of terrorists is strengthened because they "tried the path to peace and it didn't work." Replacing the false path to peace with one that can actually work, is the only way to do it and the sooner the better.
What is hasbara ad for the current false path to peace, "Palestinians, you get to democratically choose which terrorist organization should rule over you.This is your Hell, enjoy it. Meanwhile we will enjoy the best democracy in the Middle East, please don't be jealous." What is the hasbara ad for a united State of Israel. "This is our taste of Heaven, let us share and enjoy it together." May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
Friday, July 4, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Stop the Cycle of Violence
Peacemaking with unrepentant terrorists is a prelude for more terror in the future. The goal of Hamas is not peace, despite what those who would speak for them are trying to sell. Therefore what happens when you strengthen a Hamas run enclave is you are strengthening a mass network of terror cells, conveniently disconnected from their political wing, enough to fool only diplomats from the UN who are trained to ignore reality within countries for the sake of "world peace", but not enough to convince anyone else, not even children.
Every time the IDF withdraws from conflict with Hamas rather than simply ending their reign, it is like a request for more violence in the future. The ending of Hamas' rule can be done without the violence you may think it would take. If negotiations of IDF supremacy in all land West of the River Jordan would replace further capitulation to terror. If against those who would offer armed resistance, patient siege of targeted structures replaces bullets from Gun Ships.
You can't make peace with a lynch mob by giving them rope, and yet that is what what is being done every time someone tries to resurrect the ghost of the Oslo Accords. To empower a leadership that believe that civilians are legitimate targets, to give firewood to pyromaniacs and guns to terrorists. Would you give firewood and matches to a pyro? Then why give strategic land and guns to terrorists?
When you dilute truth, justice and peace for the sake of pacifying other nations, does that help you keep your people safe from terror? To reverse the trend, the Knesset would have to look truly at the situation, pursue justice and only then could peace flourish, as it is written, "These are the matters that you shall do, speak truth each man with his fellow and a judgement of peace you shall judge in your gates. And let man not plan evil in your hearts against your fellow, and a false oath do not love, for all of these I hate, saith the Lord." (Zachariah 8:15 & 16) "...And a false oath do not love..." That is what the Oslo Accords have become, a nullified treaty now yes, but wrong minded from the start, based on not seeing Hamas for who and what they truly are and the inherent inability for Fatah to permanently part ways with terror. Therefore from the start it was always a false oath on the PLO's side for they knew what they planned to do and not do. An accord that in it's wake dropped two decades of terror on the nation.
Apparently, ignoring the Word of God is a source of bad luck, especially in the Holy Land.
Does the Knesset still want to keep that status quo going? May it soon awake from that nightmare as soon as possible, in a good way, by the grace of God.
Every time the IDF withdraws from conflict with Hamas rather than simply ending their reign, it is like a request for more violence in the future. The ending of Hamas' rule can be done without the violence you may think it would take. If negotiations of IDF supremacy in all land West of the River Jordan would replace further capitulation to terror. If against those who would offer armed resistance, patient siege of targeted structures replaces bullets from Gun Ships.
You can't make peace with a lynch mob by giving them rope, and yet that is what what is being done every time someone tries to resurrect the ghost of the Oslo Accords. To empower a leadership that believe that civilians are legitimate targets, to give firewood to pyromaniacs and guns to terrorists. Would you give firewood and matches to a pyro? Then why give strategic land and guns to terrorists?
When you dilute truth, justice and peace for the sake of pacifying other nations, does that help you keep your people safe from terror? To reverse the trend, the Knesset would have to look truly at the situation, pursue justice and only then could peace flourish, as it is written, "These are the matters that you shall do, speak truth each man with his fellow and a judgement of peace you shall judge in your gates. And let man not plan evil in your hearts against your fellow, and a false oath do not love, for all of these I hate, saith the Lord." (Zachariah 8:15 & 16) "...And a false oath do not love..." That is what the Oslo Accords have become, a nullified treaty now yes, but wrong minded from the start, based on not seeing Hamas for who and what they truly are and the inherent inability for Fatah to permanently part ways with terror. Therefore from the start it was always a false oath on the PLO's side for they knew what they planned to do and not do. An accord that in it's wake dropped two decades of terror on the nation.
Apparently, ignoring the Word of God is a source of bad luck, especially in the Holy Land.
Does the Knesset still want to keep that status quo going? May it soon awake from that nightmare as soon as possible, in a good way, by the grace of God.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
End the Red Tape to Prevent Terror
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,
expressed concern over the Israeli arrest operations
in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), as Israel continued to conduct an urgent search to save three kidnapped youths. At first I could not react to this as I felt it was inappropriate to be political at a time of danger to human life. Further the level of frustration I feel at even thinking about this is painful for another reason. I feel that the flaws of the Oslo accords are haunting us in this. That only because in an effort to win favor with terrorists, cities of refuge for terror were enshrined into administrative policy in Judea and Samaria so that today we find that the apparatus to immediately end the kidnapping in a good way does not exist. Something is wrong with security when you have to practically rely on miracles for the safety of your citizens.
In addition to the danger to the kids lives created by these cities of refuge that the Knesset signed off on, what about the reaction of the UN to this? Was this unexpected? No one with any familiarity of current trends at the UN would not expect this reaction. But rather than commenting on the injustice from the UN or quoting all the details of the story, I did want to point out that this horrible situation is an illustration of how failing to annex the territories is creating perpetual opportunities for the world to complain about urgently needed police action. It is constant Hasbara in reverse. A PR nightmare just waiting to happen every time the Palestinian Authority is unable or unwilling to resolve the situation. This situation also shows that the promises made by Labor, Kadima and Likud that we could give land and have security is just not true. If a treaty was ratified before the international community that the land the Palestinians govern for Israel actually belongs to them, would a future situation like this where Israel felt they must follow through in hot pursuit of a potential security breach create worse reactions or less reactions from the international community? Need I even comment on it?
There can only be the IDF in charge of all the security West of the River Jordan. The boys would likely already have been found if nests of hiding places from the IDF were not created by restricting their ability to travel freely for the sake of security. Imagine being the parents of one of those boys, knowing this would have been happily over already if the IDF had free reign to protect the people of Israel from kidnappers. Imagine what the parents of a different group of teens would say if this, Heaven forbid, would occur again? They would say to the Knesset. 'You knew! You knew and still you did not protect us!'
And now with Hamas in tow, does anyone seriously believe things with the PA will be getting better anytime soon? Remove the PA from power so that all people, Jew and Arab alike may live in peace and security West of the River Jordan. A safe plan of annexation like the Everyone Wins peace plan could ease the transition without further risks to the right or the left. Then the government will be able to say, we have done our job, we have protected our people. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
In addition to the danger to the kids lives created by these cities of refuge that the Knesset signed off on, what about the reaction of the UN to this? Was this unexpected? No one with any familiarity of current trends at the UN would not expect this reaction. But rather than commenting on the injustice from the UN or quoting all the details of the story, I did want to point out that this horrible situation is an illustration of how failing to annex the territories is creating perpetual opportunities for the world to complain about urgently needed police action. It is constant Hasbara in reverse. A PR nightmare just waiting to happen every time the Palestinian Authority is unable or unwilling to resolve the situation. This situation also shows that the promises made by Labor, Kadima and Likud that we could give land and have security is just not true. If a treaty was ratified before the international community that the land the Palestinians govern for Israel actually belongs to them, would a future situation like this where Israel felt they must follow through in hot pursuit of a potential security breach create worse reactions or less reactions from the international community? Need I even comment on it?
There can only be the IDF in charge of all the security West of the River Jordan. The boys would likely already have been found if nests of hiding places from the IDF were not created by restricting their ability to travel freely for the sake of security. Imagine being the parents of one of those boys, knowing this would have been happily over already if the IDF had free reign to protect the people of Israel from kidnappers. Imagine what the parents of a different group of teens would say if this, Heaven forbid, would occur again? They would say to the Knesset. 'You knew! You knew and still you did not protect us!'
And now with Hamas in tow, does anyone seriously believe things with the PA will be getting better anytime soon? Remove the PA from power so that all people, Jew and Arab alike may live in peace and security West of the River Jordan. A safe plan of annexation like the Everyone Wins peace plan could ease the transition without further risks to the right or the left. Then the government will be able to say, we have done our job, we have protected our people. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Kulam Marvichim - Everyone Wins
God blessed me to compose the Everyone Wins Peace plan 6 years ago. With the impasse due to the Fatah-Hamas alliance, I thought it appropriate to restate the best alternative to the diplomatic initiatives that brought us to this stalemate. How do you avoid a stalemate when negotiating with terrorists and their sympathizers?
The "Everyone Wins" Peace Plan requires the tying of West Bank/Gaza Arabic naturalization rates to the immigration rates of foreign born Jews. Whereas previous one state solutions called for relocating masses of people, this plan calls for no segregation whatsoever. Nobody has to give up their homes, neither Jews nor Arabs. Palestinians slowly but surely become complete Israelis without overwhelming the Israeli economy and infrastructure.
That means democracy without tyrannical leaders for the Arabs. Improved economic opportunity for Arabs without the need for any new infrastructure to power it. And, of course, peace for Israel.
To get there we need to stop trying to negotiate with terrorists in an effort to abandon the land that God gave us. What's so terrible about that?
Unilateralism such as this would bypass most multilateral negotiations, true. But isn't that the same thing that occurs when you buy your friend a present? If the gift is a good thing, does the friend hold it against you that he had no choice in the matter? That's the whole point of a surprise present isn't it?
Whereas trying to force a wolf into a sheepskin is risking real human lives for a plan that cannot succeed. Oslo, the Quartet, Labor, Kadima, Likud have all followed that path to no avail.
Dedicating policy towards multilateral-ism at all costs, brings high cost in it's wake. Focusing on the goals of true peace and justice for all is the path to true peace. You can't do that with terrorists, but you can do that with people.
May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
The "Everyone Wins" Peace Plan requires the tying of West Bank/Gaza Arabic naturalization rates to the immigration rates of foreign born Jews. Whereas previous one state solutions called for relocating masses of people, this plan calls for no segregation whatsoever. Nobody has to give up their homes, neither Jews nor Arabs. Palestinians slowly but surely become complete Israelis without overwhelming the Israeli economy and infrastructure.
That means democracy without tyrannical leaders for the Arabs. Improved economic opportunity for Arabs without the need for any new infrastructure to power it. And, of course, peace for Israel.
To get there we need to stop trying to negotiate with terrorists in an effort to abandon the land that God gave us. What's so terrible about that?
Unilateralism such as this would bypass most multilateral negotiations, true. But isn't that the same thing that occurs when you buy your friend a present? If the gift is a good thing, does the friend hold it against you that he had no choice in the matter? That's the whole point of a surprise present isn't it?
Whereas trying to force a wolf into a sheepskin is risking real human lives for a plan that cannot succeed. Oslo, the Quartet, Labor, Kadima, Likud have all followed that path to no avail.
Dedicating policy towards multilateral-ism at all costs, brings high cost in it's wake. Focusing on the goals of true peace and justice for all is the path to true peace. You can't do that with terrorists, but you can do that with people.
May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Pursue True Independence
If the international community is weak towards Russian violations of international borders, then that should be a wake up call to anyone still naive enough to believe international pressure will keep peace with a Palestinian country and Israel. And if the world tries to force Russia to the point of armed conflict, would that be a path of peace either?
UN peacekeepers? Their main offensive threat is how fast they can flee from a conflict. Their main purpose to protect media. Do they regulate any media bias? No. Freedom to slander and not help is all that UN peacekeepers would do, not because the soldiers are not brave, but the poor policy is so entrenched to the point that it blocks the good they could do.
The only way to have peace between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land is if one army is in control, not two opposing forces established to enshrine a perpetual state of war. History has shown us that army must be Israel's. The only way for an army to function is to have complete control not international observers to violence and political roadblocks to keeping the peace.
You may expect Russia to now take Israel's side and say that Israel must be able to have military control so that there can be true peace. But the opposite is likely the case. The world leading nations have conflicting agendas. To meet all of those agendas simultaneously would negate logic, common sense, sanity and security for Israel. Therefore the only solution for Israel is to recognize it's own needs and take care of them itself. It can no longer live the life of its foreign policy vicariously through the eyes of the governments of nations of the world. It should turn it's eyes to Heaven, and fulfill all that is right in the eyes of Heaven. Included in that is the concept of self preservation and the pursuit of true and lasting peace, not the chaotic and conflicting and consequently hypocritical whims of the governments of the nations of the world.
Do not empower your enemies any more. Empower your true independence from them. The independence that was yearned for and yet from 1948 until today still has not been the main foreign policy of the State of Israel. "A Place Among the Nations" is the title of a book you wrote Prime Minister Netanyahu. But a place independent from the nations is that which your people need.
May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
UN peacekeepers? Their main offensive threat is how fast they can flee from a conflict. Their main purpose to protect media. Do they regulate any media bias? No. Freedom to slander and not help is all that UN peacekeepers would do, not because the soldiers are not brave, but the poor policy is so entrenched to the point that it blocks the good they could do.
The only way to have peace between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land is if one army is in control, not two opposing forces established to enshrine a perpetual state of war. History has shown us that army must be Israel's. The only way for an army to function is to have complete control not international observers to violence and political roadblocks to keeping the peace.
You may expect Russia to now take Israel's side and say that Israel must be able to have military control so that there can be true peace. But the opposite is likely the case. The world leading nations have conflicting agendas. To meet all of those agendas simultaneously would negate logic, common sense, sanity and security for Israel. Therefore the only solution for Israel is to recognize it's own needs and take care of them itself. It can no longer live the life of its foreign policy vicariously through the eyes of the governments of nations of the world. It should turn it's eyes to Heaven, and fulfill all that is right in the eyes of Heaven. Included in that is the concept of self preservation and the pursuit of true and lasting peace, not the chaotic and conflicting and consequently hypocritical whims of the governments of the nations of the world.
Do not empower your enemies any more. Empower your true independence from them. The independence that was yearned for and yet from 1948 until today still has not been the main foreign policy of the State of Israel. "A Place Among the Nations" is the title of a book you wrote Prime Minister Netanyahu. But a place independent from the nations is that which your people need.
May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Terrorists Must Be Brought To Justice
You cannot make peace with people dedicated to terror, you must bring them to justice. You can only make peace with those fit to govern their own people, and unlikely to become a danger to their neighboring peoples. Do we agree on this?
Hamas is a rabid dog champing at the bit to attack the first innocent it can find. Fatah is a rabid dog that learned a few tricks, such as diplomacy. But remember Arafat's description of the peace process, repeated a hundred times by Abbas, "A Strategic choice for peace." Not a dedication to peace, not a path of peace, not even an experiment for peace. A war time strategy.
To even entertain the idea of a treaty with the PA is a sick joke, not a foreign policy. OK, I take that back, it is a policy foreign to the Torah way, or any common sense. The current US/Kerry initiative is not based on common sense, but on broader strategic considerations. ...Interesting how that strategy word keeps coming up... An initiative based on a philosophy with no historic support, but that made sense when it was thought up while high and listening to songs about peace. The Kerry initiative calls for risking friends to make friends out of enemies. Which means it is a dangerous path for not just Israel, but also the USA, NATO and the entire Western alliance.
To even entertain the idea of a treaty with the PA is a sick joke, not a foreign policy. OK, I take that back, it is a policy foreign to the Torah way, or any common sense. The current US/Kerry initiative is not based on common sense, but on broader strategic considerations. ...Interesting how that strategy word keeps coming up... An initiative based on a philosophy with no historic support, but that made sense when it was thought up while high and listening to songs about peace. The Kerry initiative calls for risking friends to make friends out of enemies. Which means it is a dangerous path for not just Israel, but also the USA, NATO and the entire Western alliance.
The Netanyahu Administration must not go into the light that Kerry is so excited about, but rather follow the light that was given at Sinai, and "Choose Life." May it soon be so, by the grace of God.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The Great Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, of blessed memory, was not merely a former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, nor was he just the Rabbi behind the Shas Party, but one of the greatest scholars of Talmudic Law of the past century and beyond. The burden of his loss can only be filled by many working together. We cannot expect just any rabbi to simply step right in and equal his affect on Israel and the Torah world.
His writings literally changed the customs of many Sephardi Jews around the world. His willingness to bring the Torah down from the Mountain and into the Knesset changed the path of politics in Israel for the better. He set Shas on a path to stand up for Torah ideals, and yet be willing to work with any party for the betterment of the State of Israel. We should not merely be grateful for the man, but for the One who gave him to us. He was just what the people needed, and that is what God gave. "The Lord gave and the Lord took, may the name of the Lord be blessed." (Iyov/Job 1.21)
His writings literally changed the customs of many Sephardi Jews around the world. His willingness to bring the Torah down from the Mountain and into the Knesset changed the path of politics in Israel for the better. He set Shas on a path to stand up for Torah ideals, and yet be willing to work with any party for the betterment of the State of Israel. We should not merely be grateful for the man, but for the One who gave him to us. He was just what the people needed, and that is what God gave. "The Lord gave and the Lord took, may the name of the Lord be blessed." (Iyov/Job 1.21)
Monday, September 16, 2013
Palestinian Authority Unable to Govern
The PA is unable to protect the citizens of Israel from past, present or future terror groups. In fact the Olso Accords were not based on security concerns at all, as Rabin and Beilin never consulted with security or intelligence officials over the Oslo Accords. I am not just blaming the Palestinian Arabs for this. A systemic flaw exists that precludes the possibility of reliance upon the pseudo government formed by the Oslo Accords. For the rule of law to exist, the Knesset must work toward a united state of Israel that includes the territories.
Ninety five percent of PA employees are currently on strike. There is no mandate with only 5 percent of their own population supporting them. The Palestinian Arabs are also eager for social and political change, not just economic improvement. They do not want their leaders. When you combine the unpopular character of Fatah and Hamas and the lack of support of third party candidates, you get the impression that perhaps the PA elections are being delayed until a fix can be put in to continue Fatah or Hamas advantage. Why did Hamas take over Gaza? Because when you are not allowed to vote for a better government, sometimes you vote for any kind of change, which unfortunately, turned Gaza into a fledgling terrorist state, though not officially under International Law. A third way party movement would already have taken steam under a society under such discontent, if it were truly allowed to. No political safeguards were another flaw with the Oslo Accords.
Even now, Israel could retake Gaza for the sake of the peace of Arabs and Israelis alike and justify it under International Law. Which means that certainly, to merely transfer governance from the PA to the Knesset in Judea and Samaria, while allowing local and municipal continuity in Arab leadership, would be more than legal, but actually the most practical solution available. On that day, most governments that support a Palestinian State would sigh in relief behind closed doors even as they undoubtedly would protest openly that there will not be any new terrorist states in the Middle East. However, when you present many of those disenchanted Palestinian Arabs as the very advocates before the world of a united state of Israel, the teeth will be removed from the bite of the critics against Israeli annexation.
No PR (hasbara) nightmares on that road. No more Roadmap to Peace nightmares of terror either.
The long delayed PA elections happen less often than regimes are changed in the Middle East today.
It is not for security that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords. It is not for democracy that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords.
Can someone remind me why we are waiting for this terrorist government to reform? Regime change via annexation by Israel and naturalization into Israel continues to seem to be the best viable option available.
It is not for peace that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords. Not real peace anyway. May that realization soon become understood by all friends of peace and justice, by the grace of G-d.
Ninety five percent of PA employees are currently on strike. There is no mandate with only 5 percent of their own population supporting them. The Palestinian Arabs are also eager for social and political change, not just economic improvement. They do not want their leaders. When you combine the unpopular character of Fatah and Hamas and the lack of support of third party candidates, you get the impression that perhaps the PA elections are being delayed until a fix can be put in to continue Fatah or Hamas advantage. Why did Hamas take over Gaza? Because when you are not allowed to vote for a better government, sometimes you vote for any kind of change, which unfortunately, turned Gaza into a fledgling terrorist state, though not officially under International Law. A third way party movement would already have taken steam under a society under such discontent, if it were truly allowed to. No political safeguards were another flaw with the Oslo Accords.
Even now, Israel could retake Gaza for the sake of the peace of Arabs and Israelis alike and justify it under International Law. Which means that certainly, to merely transfer governance from the PA to the Knesset in Judea and Samaria, while allowing local and municipal continuity in Arab leadership, would be more than legal, but actually the most practical solution available. On that day, most governments that support a Palestinian State would sigh in relief behind closed doors even as they undoubtedly would protest openly that there will not be any new terrorist states in the Middle East. However, when you present many of those disenchanted Palestinian Arabs as the very advocates before the world of a united state of Israel, the teeth will be removed from the bite of the critics against Israeli annexation.
No PR (hasbara) nightmares on that road. No more Roadmap to Peace nightmares of terror either.
The long delayed PA elections happen less often than regimes are changed in the Middle East today.
It is not for security that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords. It is not for democracy that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords.
Can someone remind me why we are waiting for this terrorist government to reform? Regime change via annexation by Israel and naturalization into Israel continues to seem to be the best viable option available.
It is not for peace that Israel and the West continue to support the Oslo Accords. Not real peace anyway. May that realization soon become understood by all friends of peace and justice, by the grace of G-d.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Transitioning to Full Rights in Judea and Samaria
Israel's status in International law is unique, and therefore potentially confusing. Preliminary dejure (full) rights are easily viewed as defacto (current practice, but not actual law). By selecting to attempt to give away land, Israel is superimposing by her chosen policy a defacto status to the territories that are really fully Israel's. Therefore the moment Israel's policy becomes to retain their land, in that moment it will gain full dejure status, as it is not predicated on International feelings, but on the legal process that began 90 plus years ago and applied since then.
Now in this context allow me to clarify a statement that I previously wrote about on this blog:
"...under International Law all disputed territories in Israel are Israel's by way of a defacto annexation. Implicitly, then, it is only because Israel has been trying to give parts of it away that this whole "dispute" even exists. Only because a significant percentage of Israelis wish to continue the fantasy of a Palestinian state being a boon for peace does the entire concept continue as foreign policy."
But that defacto status is only due to current policy, not intrinsic to the legal status of all territories West of the River Jordan.
Let me try to explain this with a parable. A person hurts his arm with painful wound that will fully heal in time and unwisely selects to undergo a voluntary amputation on that otherwise healthy limb. Until that surgery happens, the chosen limb is at risk, and considered "ill" (even though it is only the person's way of thinking that is ill). The diagnosing doctor marks the limb for amputation (he's a friend of the patient and just wants to be a "good friend" and listen to the patient), going against his own better judgement (assuming he has any). The surgeon (International Law in this parable) does not attempt to test the limb to see if it's healed (which would be a good medical practice for real doctors to follow). Unless the patient changes his mind before the surgery begins, his limb remains marked for amputation. It has a pending defacto status of a severed limb. The surgery in this example, is signing a final status agreement, which has never taken place.
By placing a PLO flag on Judea, Samaria and Gaza, the State of Israel has marked those lands for amputation. But it is extremely important for the patient to change his mind, for Israel to not go through with it. It is extremely important for the nations of the world to check the facts of the situation to see if the limb really must go and if the limb, once severed, would only serve to make a Frankenstein monster rather than a healthy clone.
May Israel soon awaken from the extremely bad idea of giving away the wonderful land that the Creator gave her. May she acknowledge her inherent dejure rights, her full and complete legal rights to all of the land West of the River Jordan. May it be very soon, by the grace of G-d.
Now in this context allow me to clarify a statement that I previously wrote about on this blog:
"...under International Law all disputed territories in Israel are Israel's by way of a defacto annexation. Implicitly, then, it is only because Israel has been trying to give parts of it away that this whole "dispute" even exists. Only because a significant percentage of Israelis wish to continue the fantasy of a Palestinian state being a boon for peace does the entire concept continue as foreign policy."
But that defacto status is only due to current policy, not intrinsic to the legal status of all territories West of the River Jordan.
Let me try to explain this with a parable. A person hurts his arm with painful wound that will fully heal in time and unwisely selects to undergo a voluntary amputation on that otherwise healthy limb. Until that surgery happens, the chosen limb is at risk, and considered "ill" (even though it is only the person's way of thinking that is ill). The diagnosing doctor marks the limb for amputation (he's a friend of the patient and just wants to be a "good friend" and listen to the patient), going against his own better judgement (assuming he has any). The surgeon (International Law in this parable) does not attempt to test the limb to see if it's healed (which would be a good medical practice for real doctors to follow). Unless the patient changes his mind before the surgery begins, his limb remains marked for amputation. It has a pending defacto status of a severed limb. The surgery in this example, is signing a final status agreement, which has never taken place.
By placing a PLO flag on Judea, Samaria and Gaza, the State of Israel has marked those lands for amputation. But it is extremely important for the patient to change his mind, for Israel to not go through with it. It is extremely important for the nations of the world to check the facts of the situation to see if the limb really must go and if the limb, once severed, would only serve to make a Frankenstein monster rather than a healthy clone.
May Israel soon awaken from the extremely bad idea of giving away the wonderful land that the Creator gave her. May she acknowledge her inherent dejure rights, her full and complete legal rights to all of the land West of the River Jordan. May it be very soon, by the grace of G-d.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Ending the Demographic Nightmare
A chief concern of those who refuse to accept the most obvious solution to the Palestinian issue, that of full Israeli annexation of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, is the question of demographics. No friend of Israel wishes it to endanger itself by disproportionately increasing Arabic power in the state of Israel. Therefore a peace plan would require two things, that annexation allows expansion of IDF control while simultaneously furthering the preservation of current political power levels of both Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel.
The key is keeping things proportional. If current demographics are maintained by adding an equal amount of Jews from outside the Green Line, then the current levels are not at risk. Pretty simple. Yet if you take out all Arabs with terrorist leanings, you'll still have more Arabs than Jews currently living outside the Green Line.
That why there is a need to tie the naturalization rate of Green Line Arabs to the immigration rate of foreign born Jews, as I stated previously.
Next comes the most important part, placing in a bureaucratic filter to weed out terrorist from naturalization candidates. But just as a credit card company can figure out who to trust with a credit card, similarly there is a way to get past that hurdle as well in the security field. Just as one with bad credit can build their credit back to good, one with an anti Israel past can regain lost trust, if they are sincere and patient.
The key is this, everyone gets to keep their homes. Both Jews and Arabs. Only enemies of the state must leave. So this gives this plan an advantage other plans cannot compete with, as no other plan allows retention of societal norms as does this one. That is why I named it the Everyone Wins peace plan. But it's decidedly more important that everyone actually wins, that true peace be given a chance to flourish, than this plan be called by my name for it. So rename it if you will, but I challenge anyone to come up with another plan better than this that does not require war to get us there.
The government has known about this plan for a few years now, let's hope it finally gets the serious review by the government that it deserves. May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
The key is keeping things proportional. If current demographics are maintained by adding an equal amount of Jews from outside the Green Line, then the current levels are not at risk. Pretty simple. Yet if you take out all Arabs with terrorist leanings, you'll still have more Arabs than Jews currently living outside the Green Line.
That why there is a need to tie the naturalization rate of Green Line Arabs to the immigration rate of foreign born Jews, as I stated previously.
Next comes the most important part, placing in a bureaucratic filter to weed out terrorist from naturalization candidates. But just as a credit card company can figure out who to trust with a credit card, similarly there is a way to get past that hurdle as well in the security field. Just as one with bad credit can build their credit back to good, one with an anti Israel past can regain lost trust, if they are sincere and patient.
The key is this, everyone gets to keep their homes. Both Jews and Arabs. Only enemies of the state must leave. So this gives this plan an advantage other plans cannot compete with, as no other plan allows retention of societal norms as does this one. That is why I named it the Everyone Wins peace plan. But it's decidedly more important that everyone actually wins, that true peace be given a chance to flourish, than this plan be called by my name for it. So rename it if you will, but I challenge anyone to come up with another plan better than this that does not require war to get us there.
The government has known about this plan for a few years now, let's hope it finally gets the serious review by the government that it deserves. May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
Monday, July 15, 2013
The Meaning Behind the Destruction of the Temple
A friend recently wrote of his impatience with G-d at the rebuilding of the Temple, saying that Our Father was ignoring us by leaving us with fast days of mourning destruction rather than restoring the joy of the rebuilt Bais HaMikdash. This is my reply...
Tisha B'Av and the Three Weeks of mourning for the Bais HaMikdash that is in ruins is not about doubting G-d's existence, it is about humbling ourselves in preparation for the high holy days when we must accept G-d's supremacy. Then we call Him, Our Father, Our King. He is not just an Abba, a father that allows room for us to calculate how much we can get away with, He is also our King, with the absolute righteous right to demand of us as He wills.
What father would ignore his children? Yet what king can tolerate if their behavior ignores him? This is the time of our wake up call. Return to Hashem, or at least recognize that we need to return to him.
When much of the nation wants to share G-d's mountain with another religion rather than wish that G-d's house, the Temple, be built there, then where is there room to doubt our Father, our King in His silence, however painful it may be? Yet He still protects us from our enemies. Even when the State of Israel was established while ignoring His Rabbis, G-d did not let us lose that war, or any since. Just as one can choose to lose a battle that that can be won, so too a child can choose to prolong their exile from their father's embrace.
May the policies of the government reflect the spiritual aspirations of the people and in our policy and in our daily lives may we reflect those ideals intrinsic to a rebuilding of the Bais HaMikdash, swiftly in our days. May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
Tisha B'Av and the Three Weeks of mourning for the Bais HaMikdash that is in ruins is not about doubting G-d's existence, it is about humbling ourselves in preparation for the high holy days when we must accept G-d's supremacy. Then we call Him, Our Father, Our King. He is not just an Abba, a father that allows room for us to calculate how much we can get away with, He is also our King, with the absolute righteous right to demand of us as He wills.
What father would ignore his children? Yet what king can tolerate if their behavior ignores him? This is the time of our wake up call. Return to Hashem, or at least recognize that we need to return to him.
When much of the nation wants to share G-d's mountain with another religion rather than wish that G-d's house, the Temple, be built there, then where is there room to doubt our Father, our King in His silence, however painful it may be? Yet He still protects us from our enemies. Even when the State of Israel was established while ignoring His Rabbis, G-d did not let us lose that war, or any since. Just as one can choose to lose a battle that that can be won, so too a child can choose to prolong their exile from their father's embrace.
May the policies of the government reflect the spiritual aspirations of the people and in our policy and in our daily lives may we reflect those ideals intrinsic to a rebuilding of the Bais HaMikdash, swiftly in our days. May it soon be so, by the grace of G-d.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
My Address at the Hall of the Nascent Sanhedrin
I was asked to address tomorrow night’s conference at the Hall of the Sanhedrin at Ohel Yitzchak in the
B'Ezras HaShem Yisborach, by the grace of G-d, may He be blessed. In Memory
of Howard Chaim ben Leah (Grief).
I am
grateful for the invitation to speak to you today in the Hall of Nascent
Sanhedrin. It is an honor to be asked to
speak in a place of Torah, before people of wisdom. I have been asked to
address two matters in the span of ten minutes, my feelings about Howard Grief,
and my perspective about the Har HaBayit, Temple Mount
I was
saddened at the news of International Law expert Howard Grief's passing. But
more than sadness, I am concerned. Concerned that today's scholars will not be
able to speak as strong and freely as Howard Grief did. He was polite, but
never catered to political correctness over absolute truthful analysis of
International Law about a region in which a clear declaration of the truth is
just as important as its understanding. We must learn from Howard to not
allow distractions nor an air of political correctness in legal discourse of
International Law and Israel
Howard
brought to our attention the San Remo Jordan Jerusalem
In Sefer
Ezra, the book of Ezra, we find the world leading political power, the Persian-Median
Empire’s recognition of Jewish rights to Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel Judea and Samaria Temple Mount
In the
Book of Ezra, chapter 4, which occurred some 2500 years ago, when the Jews were also returning to the Holy Land from an exile, the leading
political power of the World at the time was the Persian-Median
Empire. The Emperor Artachshast(a), in Aramaic – Artaxerxes, in English, converses
with the leaders of the adversaries of the Jews in the Holy Land . Both the jealous leaders of the Arabic areas of the Trans-Euphrates region of the Persian-Median Empire and the main political leader of the World in that
age itself each refer to the land of Israel Euphrates . A Jewish
Right of Return and legal authority of the Land of Israel
The Persian-Median recognition of Jewish rights to Har Habayis (the Temple Mount Israel
Thus there exists a profoundly deep historical reality of International
Recognition of Jewish Rights to the Land of Israel
Israel East Jerusalem 33 years ago. But even then the status of Israel's claims to the Temple Mount seemed on the surface to
be in doubt, despite Jerusalem's reconquest, for in 1967, less than a month
after it's capture, the keys to the Temple Mount were handed over to the Waqf.
This was, however, a transfer of administrative control exclusively, but not of
sovereignty. The transfer was conducted by the defense minister, not by a
head of state, to an Arab organization, not with a government. Further,
this took place prior to the Oslo
East
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount Jordan Independence Israel Judea and Samaria Independence Palestine
Thus our political dilemma now
has a religious question, not a legal one between states, and we need to know
the extent, if any, of the legal authority of the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount
First of all, whenever there is a question of the rights of
an organization, when in conflict with a government under International
Law, the weight of the law sides with a State.
Religiously speaking, the Temple Mount Temple Mount Third Temple
Any demand or decree from the Waqf, then, would have no legal bearing or
limitation upon the State of Israel Temple Mount Israel
Thus after all these years since Motta Gur's famous declaration, nothing has
changed. "Har HaBayit BeYadaynu!" ("The Temple Mount
Would that our political policies reflected our religious responsibilities so
that freedom of religion is at long last fully restored to the Jewish People,
by rebuilding our Holy Temple
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| The flyer for the event at the Hall of the Nascent Sanhedrin. |
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