
                       No More Settlements!
                      by Gary M. Cooperberg
                        October 18, 1991
                                
       In days prior to the reestablishment of the Jewish State in the Land of Israel it was a
healthy and vital thing to establish Jewish settlements in the Land.  Creating "facts" of Jewish
enclaves in Palestine set the stage for the eventual arising of the third Jewish commonwealth.
       Today, more than 43 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, it is a sick
and perverted concept to continue to establish "settlements".  One establishes settlements on
frontiers, on unclaimed lands, never on one's indisputable property!  The very fact that this
country has continued to refer to Jewish communities in any part of our country as
"settlements", lends credence to the deceitful claim of our enemies that we are squatters on
their land.
       This unhealthy situation has given rise to a most incredible distortion of fact.  While
Arabs and their sympathizers accuse Israel of stealing Arab land, just the opposite has been
accomplished.  Rather than Jews returning to live in their towns cities and villages, they have
allowed the Arabs, who stole them from us after massacring our forebears, to continue to live
there, in a Jew free environment!  
       Instead of moving back into our ancient towns and cities we have built
"settlements" on barren hilltops near them, and, in effect, have limited ourselves to living in
isolated, caged-in ghettos!  One might expect the Arabs to be pleased with this situation and
even to support it.  Instead they have capitalized on our fear and not only express no
appreciation for the fact that we have literally given them our towns and cities, but they accuse
us of stealing "their" land by having set up Jewish ghettos on nearby hilltops!  
       With the exception of Hebron, which has a few token Jewish ghettos within the city
proper, Bethlehem, Jericho, Shechem, Beth El, and many other Jewish cities are literally
Judenrein!  
       The reason?  The hotbed of Arab terrorists who live in these places will murder any
Jews who try to live there.  Rather than enforce the law and remove these elements by force,
the Jewish government, in fear of what they perceive to be "world opinion", prefers not to
permit Jews to live in these towns, cities and villages.  In other words, because Arabs murder
Jews, the Jewish government has decided to give our cities exclusively to the Arabs!
       Who can say that crime doesn't pay?  Why shouldn't Arabs murder Jews?  The
Jewish government has, throughout the years, shown them that, not only need they not fear a
death penalty for murdering Jews, but, indeed, their butchery yields them benefits!
       We are living in a Jewish State, under Jewish sovereignty.  Were we a normal
society there would never be any question but that a Jew could live any where he chooses in
his own country.  If terrorists interfere with Jewish life it is they who should be removed, not
the Jews!  But we see the opposite taking place every day here.
       The handful of Jews who decided to move into a Jewish house in the City of David
in Jerusalem are facing heavy opposition only because the police would prefer not to expend
the manpower necessary to protect them from their Arab neighbors!  Because of the large
number of Arabs, it would just be easier to remove the Jews.   If we follow this policy to its
absurd logical conclusion we will find a Jewish police force and army evacuating Jews from
the Jewish State so as not to provoke the larger populations of our surrounding Arab nations!  
       The existence of a Jewish People and a Jewish State is a provocation.  The nations
of the world, including the great United States, refuse to accept the concept of Jewish
sovereignty in Israel.  We are a thorn in their side standing in the way of those who would
conquer the world.  Such has been the case for our entire existence whose climax is rapidly
approaching.  Shall we apologize for our existence?  Shall we placate our enemies by leaving
our homeland and committing suicide?  Shall we deny the fulfillment of Divine promises and try to
negate them?  
       Yet that is the very course we seem to be taking!  Of course we want peace; but not
the peace of the grave.  Let us desist with the nonsense of "settlements" in our country.  Let us
openly declare that all of Eretz Yisrael in our possession is eternally Jewish.  Let us tear down the
barbed wire and permit Jewish life to flourish in all parts of our country.  If Arab residents would
be willing to live together with us in peace, they would be welcome.  But they have shown there
true colors by murdering and maiming Jewish men women and children in an effort to throw us
out of our country.  Rather than reward the terrorists by giving them our cities, let us rather
remove them from our midst.
       No more settlements.  Just freedom for Jews to live anywhere and everywhere in our
country, free from fear and free from terror.  That should be the top priority for our government.  
