         Woe unto Them that Decree Unrighteous Decrees
Isaiah X                         
                      by Gary M. Cooperberg
                         November 1994
                                
     The Prime Minister of Israel recently explained to a group of American Jews that it is
an absurdity that Israel needs to maintain three brigades of troops in Hebron to defend 450
citizens who live among Arabs there.  He is quite correct to note the absurdity, but totally
oblivious to the reason.  To him it makes perfect sense to simply remove the 450 Jews, who
are all targets of Arab hatred, to a safe ghetto and be done with the problem.  But this
philosophy would eventually see us all packing and leaving Israel for safe haven elsewhere.  Is
this the reason we established the Jewish State?  Shall we flee antisemitism here too?
     The honest facts are as follows.  The Jewish State redeemed parts of our ancient
homeland as a result of an unwanted war of defense, (a war, by the way, which Shimon Peres
apologizes to Arafat for having waged).  In spite of the fact that Arab squatters on Jewish soil
sought our destruction, our benevolent political leaders welcomed them to remain in our
country and to live here "peacefully" together with us.  The Arabs have continually
demonstrated, quite vividly, their unwillingness to do so.  Is it a reasonable reaction then for
the Jews to simply pick up and leave?
     If we have made peace with the so called "palestinians" then we shouldn't need soldiers
to protect Jews living together peacefully with them.  If Rabin is convinced that we need three
IDF battalions to defend Jewish lives in Hebron, and clearly he is, then how does one explain
the need to tolerate the continued presence of Arabs here?  Rabin simplistically suggests that
we remove the Jews!  The fact is that should Rabin suggest that we remove the Arabs he
would be called a "racist".  But when he defames Jews and calls them "fanatics" simply
because they choose to live in the City of our Fathers, it is perfectly "reasonable" for him to
suggest that we remove the Jews.
     Where is the outcry?  Why is the concept of transfer unmentionable when applied to
Arab murderers but quite acceptable when applied to Jewish citizens?  Is this not "racist
discrimination"?
     Peres is right when he declares that we cannot continue to rule over a foreign people. 
But why is the solution to this problem for us to abandon parts of our homeland to enemies
who openly attack and murder us?  The fact is that we cannot indefinitely survive a "peace
process" which forces us to live together with enemies who continue to murder us just because
we are Jews.  The evidence is continuous yet we continue to close our eyes to it.  The "peace"
with Arafat and the "peace" with Hussein and the upcoming "peace" with Syria is exactly what
Assad calls it... a strategic move for a greater end.  It is a coordinated Arab plan to weaken
Israel and then to destroy her.  The Arab nations are laughing at us and we applaud their
mockery and call it "peace".
     The Arabs of pre-67 Israel, our citizens and Knesset members, openly and proudly
declare their allegiance to "palestine".  The very concept of "palestine" is the direct antithesis
of a Jewish State.  How then does a Jewish Prime Minister shake hands, recognize and give
away Jewish land to an enemy whose very being negates Israel's right to exist?  And, even
worse than this, how does such a Prime Minister get the backing of the Knesset for such
treachery?
     Once he broke the taboo and numbed the senses of the nation, it was easy for him to
violate a basic halacha and principle of self-respect which forbids any Jew from permitting any
part of Eretz Yisrael in his possession to fall into the hands of goyim.  
     The joyous "peace treaty" with Jordan, rather than being a cause to celebrate, as the
Prime Minister duped most of us to believe, was a tragedy even greater than the agreement
with Arafat.  As hateful any connection with Arafat may be, at least the terminology described
that agreement as self rule under Israeli sovereignty.  But, contrary to this spirit, the treaty
with Jordan finds a nearly unanimous Israeli Knesset declaring its formal recognition of Arab
sovereignty over Jewish soil.  This is a grave national sin for which we will all pay dearly.
     While it is an embarrassment for the Jewish people to have a drunk for a Prime
Minister, it is a tragedy to find an entire nation in the throws of national stupor and drunk on
the concept of a "peace" process which is actually a new form of war which finds us without
any form of defense.  And, even worse than this, not one faction in our Knesset, or even an
individual member of Knesset, has stood up to defy this effective attack upon our very
existence.
     As the coming days loom ever darker before us we would do well to remember the
words of our Rabbis that the most intense darkness always immediately precedes the dawn. 
Let every Jew transform what could easily become despair into new hope.  Let us at long last
recognize the fact that we have only One hope and that is with our Father in Heaven.  He has
taken our greatest leaders from us and left us with fools.  The reason is that it is His Will that
we turn only to Him for salvation.  And when we do He will surely answer us.