                 Peres Issues License to Murder
                        December 7, 1993
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg

     After the frequent airing of the video clip of Kiryat Arba residents shooting at Arabs
who were attacking them in Hebron, and with the harsh condemnation of their acts of self
defense, we now see the Arab response.  
     The Jewish family which was cut down in cold blood was not throwing rocks or
shooting at Arabs.  It was driving in the family van to Jerusalem.  Mordechai Lapid and his
nineteen year old son were not demonstrating or even defending themselves.  They were trying
to live the same kind of normal life that any Israeli would expect as his right as a citizen.
     I didn't hear any of the government minister's who only yesterday were so vehement in
their denouncing the Jews in Hebron who used weapons to defend their lives, even make
similar gestures of outrage against the slaughter of an innocent Jewish family.  But our deputy
Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, yesterday issued a license to kill such citizens.  He took a
casual remark by the new Attorney General, labeling all citizens of Israel who happen to live in
Judea Samaria and Gaza as "rebels", and announced that this is the policy of the Israeli
government!
     Peres and his cohorts continue to insist that their is no relationship to their policy of
national suicide and the increase in the murder of Jewish citizens.  He is dead wrong.  The
transformation of Arafat from gangster to hero has set the example for all such engineers of
the destruction of Israel.  If Arafat got as far as he did as a result of murdering Jews, why
should others not emulate his efforts?
     Once again the army chief of staff, Ehud Barak, announced the official government
policy of haflaga.  After Jews are murdered, the army does everything it can to find the
murderers.  But nothing can be done to prevent more murders because that may interfere with
the "peace process".  The general openly declared that he cannot prevent future murders of
Jews!
     So what are we supposed to do?  Roll over and die?  We do not care how many of us
get arrested.  We will continue to defend our lives if our army "cannot".  And as every football
player knows, the best defense is a good offense.