                      A Voice from Hebron
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg
        . . . .
               An Honest Jewish Response to the 
President of the United States        . . 
                          May 15, 1995
                                
Dear Mr. President,

. . . .I have just received a copy of a ridiculous form letter you sent to my friends the
Heilweils of Brooklyn New York.  While it was beautifully written and contained marvelous
concepts about what peace should really be, it was completely devoid of honest evaluation
of reality.

. . . .Mr. President, I cannot believe that you lack intelligence.  I do not want to
believe that you are an evil man.  All that I am left with then is that your quest for political
power has caused you to completely disregard all common sense in your evaluation of what
is happening in the Middle East.

. . . .The historic "progress" (as you choose to call it), of the so called "peace process"
may hold out promise to the enemies of Israel, but it portends only tragedy for the Jewish
State.  While you are certainly correct in your assessment of the evils of war which we have
been forced to endure ever since, and even prior to, the establishment of the Jewish State, I
would just love to hear your evaluation of our pending "reconciliation" with our neighbors. 
Tell me, if you will, just what are those "old sorrows and antagonisms" which Israel and her
Arab neighbors are trying to overcome?  What, indeed, is being negotiated here?

. . . .In 1948 the League of Nations agreed to the formation of a tiny Jewish State, with
absurd and totally indefensible borders within the region known then as "Palestine".  The
Jewish leadership of the proposed state actually accepted this death trap proposal as they set
the stage for so many future compromises on our very existence.  The combined Arab
response to our pathetic, self destructive compromise was to attempt to wipe the tiny Jewish
State off the map.

. . . .Mr. President, this was then, has always been, and continues to be the sum and
substance of our "sorrows and antagonisms".  Yes, Mr. President, we have differences with
our Arab neighbors.  We believe that the Land of Israel is the exclusive eternal G-d given
homeland of the Jewish People.  They believe that there is no room for Jewish sovereignty
on what they consider to be Islamic soil.  Dare you suggest that either Judaism or Islam or
both can compromise their principles and continue to claim to be G-d given religions?








. . . .Sadly, the Jewish State has been cursed with leaders who not only lack vision and
common sense, but even the most basic faith in the Living G-d of Israel, as well as self
respect for the Jewish faith and the Jewish people.  The reason the so called peace process
has been working so well thus far is very simple.  It has been a process of give and take. 
Israel gives and our Arab enemies take.  As soon as we have given all that we can give and
there is nothing left for our enemies to take via peaceful negotiations, then they will resort
to the old fashioned way.  Now, Sir, with all due respect to your promises of support for the
Jewish state, why would you want to deliberately render her indefensible and eventually
place the United States into a position similar to that which it faced in Vietnam back in the
sixties?

. . . .If you had genuine concern for real peace you would understand, from the outset,
that one never achieves peace by yielding to terror and blackmail.  Arafat is nothing but a
low life murderer.  How you could lower yourself to shake his hand and lend him the
dignity of appearing with you on the White House lawn, despite Rabin's self hating
stupidity, is a question which historians will ask in future generations.

. . . .The so called "progress" you refer to is clearly only one sided.  Israel has yielded
land to Egypt, Jordan, and the PLO.  It now awaits the opportunity to yield more of her
homeland to Syria and further emasculate her defenses.  Perhaps the "brighter future" you
refer to could be achieved more swiftly by the blinding brightness of a self ignited nuclear
explosion to put us all out of our misery at once, rather than the present method of stages.

. . . .Mr. President, there is no peace process.  Arab terrorists do not murder Jews to
destroy the "peace" process.  They simply want to bring the same "peace" quicker.  There is
only a conflict as to which method to destroy Israel is most effective... by direct attack or
via "negotiations".  By continuing to support this perfidious sham you, and the country you
represent, have a full share in bringing untold tragedy upon yourselves.  It is not Mr. Rabin,
nor his self hating policies which will prevail in Israel, rather the destiny of the Jewish
People as proclaimed by the G-d of Israel and His prophets.  If you conduct your foreign
policy in accordance to Biblical injunctions of which you are well knowledgeable, rather
than base them upon seeming political expedience, you may yet save the United States of
America.

. . . ."For the day of the L-rd is near upon all the nations: as thou has done, it
shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head."  Obadiah 15  