                          The Big Lie 
                       November 25, 1993 
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg

     An attempt is being made to demonize a whole segment of the Jewish population in
Israel in order to justify, in the eyes of the majority, the act of treachery being perpetuated by
the Rabin government upon the state of Israel.
     "The "settlers" and/or the "settlement movement" is the biggest obstacle to peace,"
according to the implications of this effort.  The media of the western world are quick to pick
up on this slur campaign on the part of the Israeli government.  Who can blame them for being
anti-semitic or anti Israel if the Prime Minister of Israel himself equates angry demonstrations
by Jewish citizens with outright acts of cold blooded murder by Arab terrorists?
     Even the simple terminology defining who these people are has given the impression
that they are some kind of illegal squatters on lands which do not belong to Israel.  Jewish
citizens of Israel who choose to live in Judea Samaria or Gaza are not really "settlers" or
"Pioneers" in the sense that term is interpreted by the American experience.  They are Jews
who have returned to Jewish Land.  Every government in power, from 1967 until now,
directly encouraged Jews to live in these areas by providing all kinds of financial incentives for
them to do so.  This was done because it is in the interest of the Jewish State to have Jews
living in all parts of our country... not just on the coastal plain.
     Today those who answered their country's call, who sacrificed the comforts of living in
the big cities and risked the danger of living among a hostile enemy population in order to help
to build the Land of Israel, are being labeled and libeled as fanatic trouble makers who are
endangering the peace process.  In spite of the insane course of events, which has seen the
Israeli government not only recognize a fraudulent entity as an authentic and rightful one, but
which has attempted to transform an arch murderer into a saint, no power on Earth can alter
the eternal truth that all of the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People.       Not only will this so called peace process never come close to bringing peace, it will
guarantee a bigger and far bloodier war than this country has ever seen.  The cruel and
dishonest attempts to cede parts of the Jewish homeland to others will only result in bigger
disappointments when it is discovered that such a deal can never be consummated.
     Let us stop lying to ourselves about ourselves and about our enemies.  We did not
come home to Israel to take over Arab lands.  We came home to our legitimate birthright. 
Because we refused to live up to our obligation to remove our enemies when we returned, our
enemies have become emboldened and confident that they will soon be able to destroy the
entire Jewish nation. Does any honest observer truly believe that by taking terrorists out of
prison, giving them parts of our homeland, a flag, uniforms and weapons, that they will protect
the Jewish state?  
     Should we Jews, who happen to live on holy Jewish soil which our government has yet
to recognize as Jewish Land, apologize for opposing efforts to destroy, not only us, but our
entire country?  The reigns of Jewish "leadership" in our present government are in the hands
of those whose mentality, in the past, legitimized the concept of turning fellow Jews over to
the enemy when we were under British domination here.  Because they are capable of such
perfidy and have demonstrated that capability in the past, it is not surprising for such people to
fear that fellow Jews who oppose their political stance would be equally backstabbing to them. 
     That is why, despite declarations to the contrary, secret security forces have attempted
to sneak into Jewish communities in Judea Samaria and Gaza to spy on their fellow Jews.  And
why do they think that their fellow Jews would turn on them?  Because they know that they
are acting against the interests of the Jewish State out of desperation.  This alleged "peace
process" is not a courageous attempt to find true peace.  It is a cowardly surrender to blackmail. 
One pays a blackmailer out of desperation because he feels that he has no choice.  This feeling
that "we have no choice" was openly stated by our Prime Minister.  But he is wrong.  We do have
choices.  We can stand up to our enemies and fight for what belongs to us.  To do less can never
be called "courage".
     I know that the mentality of the present government can never believe that the so called
"right wing" will not take arms and rebel against a perfidious government.  That is because, if the
shoe were on the other foot, these peace mongers wouldn't hesitate to kill fellow Jews in the name
of "peace".  We who know from whence true peace comes are of a different breed.  It is a result
of a misplaced collective guilt feeling on the part of our entire nation that we have been cursed
with self-hating leaders.  It is the G-d of Israel alone who determines who shall take leadership
positions of the nations of the world.  We get what we deserve.  And our behavior in the past has
earned us the leaders we now must suffer under.
     No.  We will never take up arms against fellow Jews.  But, by the same token, we will
never honor agreements or laws which violate Torah principles... no matter what the
consequences.  Like it or not, the government of Israel is our government and the IDF is our
army.  We accept and respect both.  But should either require us to go against Torah, we will not
honor that requirement.  We do not choose to live where we live because we oppose peace.  On
the contrary.  We know that by voluntarily surrendering that which is rightfully ours to our
enemies we invite war; war which will take the lives of Jews in all parts of our country.  Yet, in
spite of the fact that we live on the front lines and seek the welfare of Jews of all ideologies, we
are labeled as fanatic, self-seeking and one sided.  
     Our government knows that its ideology is deceitful and self defeating.  They advocate it
out of fear.  That fear has gone beyond rationality as they seek to destroy the voice of reason and
truth by making their most patriotic citizens appear to be wild eyed radical extremist haters of
peace.  Despite their efforts to legally intimidate those who exercise lawful expressions of dissent,
they will never succeed in silencing the voice of Jewish Truth.