                      A Voice from Hebron
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg
                   The Buffoon and the Coward
        A Pathetic demonstration of Impotent Leadership
                       December 11, 1997
                                
     Last night Israel Television entertained us with an unusual "debate".   The unlikely duo were
two former Prime Ministers, Shimon Peres and Yitzchak Shamir.  Truly it was a pathetic display.  On
the one hand you have a fool who really thinks that he knows how to bring peace to the world by
choking his own country, and, on the other hand, you have a confused former freedom fighter who
really thinks that we can live with our enemies by forcing them to accept our concept of "autonomy"
without independence.
     Peres was quite correct to assume that we cannot continue to rule over an alien people.  But his
solution, to cut up our homeland and give parts of it to our enemies, is nothing less than absurd.  First
of all our enemies don't want "parts" of our homeland.   They want it all.  And, secondly, the only
"peace" any of our Arab neighbors really want, is for Jews to desist from being a sovereign entity in
the Middle East.  Of course Arafat will talk with us.  We are paying him with bloodless military
victories over Israel.  He will continue to talk until we stop surrendering.
     Shamir was true to form when he insisted that we cannot permit a PLO state.  When asked
about Jordan, his pathetic reply was to note that it already exists.  Were he a true Zionist, he would
have decried the fact that Jordan is sitting on Jewish soil and declare that it should not be recognized
by us as being a legitimate entity either.  Clearly Shamir exhibited frustration and indignation at the
predicament we are in.  Yet he demonstrated his total inability to come to terms with the reality of the
problem.  Neither leader, both of whom recognize the fact that we cannot live in peace with the Arabs,
has the courage to address the issue.  One suggests that we simply cut off large blocks of land where
Arabs happen to live and give them sovereignty there.  And the other insists that we can control them
by allowing them limited autonomy in these areas without giving away our sovereignty there.
     They are both pathetically off the mark.  If Peres had his way and all of Judea and Samaria
became a PLO state, what would happen with the Israeli Arabs?  Would they move to this new state? 
Hardly.  These Arabs also consider themselves to be Palestinian and to be living in their homeland in
Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem and other areas within the so called "green line".  They will have learned the
lesson that Israel gives away land if you throw enough rocks and blow up enough buses.  So all Mr.
Peres will have accomplished is to have created yet another independent Arab enemy state on Jewish
land which will work to help to liberate its brothers who are still "suffering" under Israeli "occupation. 
Peace?  Hardly.
     And what would Shamir do if he had the choice?  Perhaps he would nullify Oslo.  Perhaps he
would even depose Arafat.  But he still recognizes the need to permit our enemies to live in Israel and
even is prepared to give them "limited autonomy" whatever that means.  Yet such an offer is
tantamount to offering a hungry person the right to smell a roast beef dinner, but not to eat any.  While
such a person might have been able to live with his hunger for a while, the savory smell would drive
him to fight for what he craves.
     The Arabs are not stupid nor complacent.  Thanks to our arrogance and stupidity, not to
mention lack of self respect, we have helped them to design a strategy to take our country from us.  All
of  the governments of Israel are collectively guilty of having created the impossible situation in which
we find ourselves today.  The only reason this is so is because no Jewish leader has had the courage to
face reality.  We would prefer to curry favor with the United States by declaring ourselves to be a
carbon copy of that country than to openly declare our true mission to become a light unto the nations
by accepting our role to be a Jewish State run by the Law of G-d!  Every Arab nation, without
exception, has no trouble to declare its allegiance to Allah.  Even the United States of America has a
national motto "In G-d we Trust".  Why is it that the one Nation in the world who has a genuine
obligation to conduct itself according to the Will of G-d refuses to as much as acknowledge that
obligation, much less live up to it?  We, the Jewish People, were commanded by G-d to come home to
the Land which He promised to our Father, Abraham as an eternal possession.  No Jew, be he Prime
Minister, King, or Messiah, has the right to give away one grain of sand on Gaza beach to a non-Jew
for any reason.  It is our obligation to the Creator of the Universe to possess all of our homeland.  How
dare we assume that we can achieve peace by violating G-d's Law?  
     Our leaders have proven themselves to be G-dless leaders.  They rush to please all sorts of evil
people.  Why does Bibi run to France, England, Egypt and America to explain how he will
accommodate a mass murderer in Israel?  How dare any Israeli leader shake hands with the very
symbol of Arab terror who is personally responsible for the murder of countless Jewish men, women
and children?  Is this a reasonable method to achieve peace?  On the contrary.  It will only guarantee a
bigger war than this country has ever seen.  It will, and already has, encouraged all of our enemies to
use political pressure to get Israel to either destroy itself, or weaken itself enough so that our "peace
partners" can finish the job for us.
     The "debate" between tweedle dee and tweedle dum only accented the pathetic loss of touch
with reality suffered by all of our would-be leaders.  The more they try to appease our enemies and
"friends", the more they will discover that it is impossible to please them.  And, if it is impossible to
please them, then it is lunacy to proceed with policies which only weaken the Jewish state, physically,
morally, and spiritually.
     Only when we find a leader who is not afraid to speak and act as a proud Jew will we have any
hope to achieve real peace.  Such a person will understand that Israel is not another "United States",
rather the fulfillment of Biblical prophesy.  It is the eternal homeland of the Jewish People to which
they will return from all four corners of the world, as they have, indeed, begun to do in spite of their
hapless leaders.  There is no possibility for an authentic Jewish state to share its sovereignty with
outsiders.  Foreigners, who are willing to follow our laws, may be permitted to live here as resident
aliens, without rights of citizenship or voting or ownership of land.  Any foreigner who dares to
declare that any part of Israel belongs to him, or seeks to acquire foreign sovereignty over Jewish soil
should be removed immediately from the country.  
     The PLO has already given us every opportunity to get out of the web of insanity called Oslo. 
They have violated their own signed agreements and taken actions which are clearly hostile to the
Jewish State.   As such it is well within reason and law for Israel to declare the Oslo agreements null
and void and to take immediate steps to undo the mistakes which were taken under false pretenses. 
The Jewish government has every right, and more so, a moral obligation to stop all negotiations
unilaterally, and to repossess all Jewish land currently under PLO autonomy, as well as to confiscate
all weapons and property that pertains to that autonomy.  The monies given to Arafat and his PLO,
most of which was never used for the purposes intended, should be used to relocate all those Arabs
who choose to call themselves "Palestinians" to Tunis or the deserts in Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else
in the world outside of Israel that they wish to live.  Let Arafat take his "Authority" and use it to take
care of his downtrodden people in some other country.  The Arabs have over twenty such countries,
each of which is far larger than the only Jewish one.  It is far more reasonable to set up his PLO state
in an Arab country than in the Jewish one.  The Jewish leader that will employ such a solution will be
the first world leader to begin a process which will eventually result in genuine peace, not the insanity
under which we presently delude ourselves.