                      A Voice from Hebron
                     by Gary M. Cooperberg
                         March 11, 1996
  What is the Alternative to Negotiating our Self-Destruction?

     No one likes terror.   I daresay even Shimon Peres is opposed to seeing his people, men
women and children, continuously butchered in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.  Why then
would people be so callous as to accuse our Prime Minister with complicity in the murder of our
children?
     After every bus bombing all of the wizards of security  huddle together in dark offices to
devise an effective plan to combat terror and make our streets safe again.  One of the favorite
methods was "closure of the territories".  Being a democratic country, who is at peace with the
PLO, however, forced this option to be a temporary one.   So terror could be only temporarily
stopped.  The surprise came with the bombing of the #18 bus in Jerusalem which took place
during one of these very effective "closures".  
     A new idea which popped up was to hire more policemen.  Perhaps if a policeman were
assigned to each and every bus, that would deter the bus bombers.  Unfortunately we lost a few
policemen to bus bombers too.
     What is ignored completely is the well known fact that, if one is prepared to give his life to
commit an act of terror, it is veritably impossible to prevent him from doing so.  Clearly there are
many such individuals in Israel, on both sides of the so called "green line."
     The first question which should be asked, if you really want to end terror, is "Why are
people voluntarily blowing themselves to smitherines in order to murder innocent civilians?  What
do they want?"  If we are painfully honest, the answer is remarkably simple.  The terrorists, and
those who support them (which is the entire Moslem world), want an end to Jewish sovereignty in
the Middle East.  Yes, they, like Mr. Peres, want a New Middle East.  And they will stop at
nothing until they achieve their aim.  The reason Mr. Arafat gets along so well with Mr. Peres is
also very simple.  Rather than crushing terror and putting an end to Mr. Arafat and his PLO, Peres
has actually joined forces with him.  The infamous Oslo agreements are nothing less than the blue
print for the self-destruction of the Jewish State in stages.   
     Now, as Clinton, Mubarak, Hussein and a host of others meet with Peres and Arafat at
Sharem El Sheik to have an international anti-terrorist conference, it is clear that not one Israeli
leader has the slightest idea of how to deal with the continued acts of terror in our homeland. 
There is not a thread of hope that this conference will have the slightest affect upon our situation,
other then to worsen it.
     There is a way to end terror.  It has always been within our ability to stop it.  But our
leaders have consistently refused to discuss this method to save Jewish lives.  It has gotten so far
as to be literally against the law to propose such a solution, and no one does.  Expulsion.  There, I
said the dirty racist word wherein lies our salvation.  If we cannot say it, how can we ever hope to
accomplish it?  Were I to say that Arabs should be expelled simply because they are Arabs, I
would, indeed, be a racist.  But that is not what I am saying.  I am saying that Arabs should be
expelled from Israel because if they are not, they will continue to murder our people.  That is
clearly not racism.  It is an open expression of a survival instinct.








     When Yitzchak Rabin first got into office, one of the first ways he reacted to terror was to
expel terrorist murderers to Lebanon.  For this visionary act the Kach movement actually made
him a temporary honorary member!  Alas it didn't last, and Rabin allowed all of the murderers to
come back to Israel to continue their trade in death. How dare anyone refuse to consider the only
method to stop terror?  How many more innocents must die before all of us understand that there
is no alternative?  The Land of Israel was given to the Children of Israel by the G-d of Israel.  No
Jew, from any party, not even a true King of Israel, has the right to give away, bargain away or
sell one inch of this country.  There is no such thing as a "palestinian", certainly not one with any
rights to any part of this country.   This holds true for the make believe kingdom of Jordan, as
well; delightful as our peace agreement may seem.
     If we really want to stop terror there is only one way to do so; by beginning to act like a
proud Jewish nation.  We must, once and for all, conduct national and international policy with
Jewish pride and self respect.  What other country invites a foreign leader to sit in on its internal
cabinet meetings, virtually inviting him to dictate policy to us?   What other country sits by as
missiles are hurled at its population and allows foreign forces to "protect" it?  What other country
conducts peace negotiations with the premise that it must give away its birthright to its enemies?
     You want to know why we suffer under terrorists?  Because we invited them to attack us! 
You want to know how to stop terror?  You simply destroy or at least remove those who seek
your destruction.  Anything less is futile and just plain stupid.