Revelation About Israeli Civil Strife
- From: "Richard Shulman" <richardshulman5@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Jun 2006 06:21:29 -0700
REVELATION ABOUT ISRAELI CIVIL STRIFE 14235 - Richard H. Shulman
Most of you know that PM Ben-Gurion got Rabin to shell the Altalena,
bringing weapons and recruits both for Ben-Gurion's Haganah and
Begin's Irgun units in Jerusalems. Ben-Gurion would rather forfeit
the arms badly needed against the better armed Arabs, than miss this
chance to eliminate his rival, Begin. This risking of civil war later
is described by the Left as stamping out incipient civil war.
Ben-Gurion also got Rabin to have the Jews trying to get off the
burning ship shot down. So much for Ben-Gurion's patriotism in what
was a political assassination attempt.
Not in the accounts I read is the part played by Americans in it.
Americans volunteered as pilots, mostly bringing in airplanes from
abroad. Ben-Gurion ordered them to bomb the ship. They refused.
Pointing out that they were volunteers and not part of the Israeli
Army, they said that they did not come to Israel to kill hundreds of
Jews.
One of those pilots, a Col. Lichtman, observes that a one-sided
fratricide also has been taking place in Gaza and in the hilltop
settlements, thence in Judea-Samaria as a whole (from my Israeli
associate). The government does the beating and lets the Arabs do the
killing.
FIRST THE HILLTOPS & THEN THE SETTLEMENTS
With a growl of self-righteous indignation, Israel's new Defense
Minister Peretz (not Shimon Peres) set as his priority the removal of
Jews from hilltop outposts in Judea-Samaria. They are illegal, he
says. Peretz, himself, organized illegal strike actions, such as
blocking the roads, and closed down the ports. He should be the object
of indignation, not the author of it.
His affirmation of dedication to legality would be more convincing if
he, or his predecessors, ever had removed Arabs from their hilltop
settlements, built on State land not given to them. Oh, it's nice to
be an Arab in the Territories or Israel, for life is inexpensive when
one doesn't have to pay for one's land, building permits, code
compliance, and real estate taxes! It's safe to hate and fight the
Jews, for one gets to stay and the Jewish government chases out the
Jews. Would you call it normal for a government to turn the
countryside over to the genocidal enemy?
The whole government concept of permits and legality is the wrong way
to approach Zionism. The Arabs are waging a war of extermination.
Israel should be fighting back, to get the Arabs out and to acquire
uncontested title to that part of the Jewish homeland in Judea-Samaria
and Gaza, which happens to be key to the survival of the Jewish people
not only militarily but spiritually. Retreat means becoming
dispirited, and without spirit, dissolution.
Israel has a peculiar notion of illegality. Whatever the regime or the
Supreme Court says at the moment is illegal, is illegal. The Israeli
government requires a host of permits for everything. It keeps legal
status in limbo, because the Byzantine rules take so long to pursue.
This gives these governments of bad faith the power to intervene and
stop the process, leaving people's live savings wasted. The
government reneges on promises of approval, and then has the chutzpah
to condemn people following the rules for doing things illegally.
How did Jews get to the original settlements? With difficulty. The
government had no plan for that section of the Jewish homeland regained
in defense against Arab aggression, an area to which the Jewish people
have the most legitimate claim. This area is the unallocated portion
of the Palestine Mandate for the Jewish national home, which Mandate
requires "close settlement on the land by the Jews." But the
government opposed the people's exercising initiative to settle the
land. (Initiative seems to be against Israel's whole statist
system.) Even the right-wing Begin had pioneers dragged down from the
hills with wanton brutality. Persistence usually prevailed. It is a
hell of a way of gaining legitimacy! Some beautiful and productive
communities were built. Now the government plans to destroy them.
What a waste!
(The proper approach would have been a comprehensive plan to induce the
Arabs to leave and for the Jews to keep the whole of it. P.A.
bankruptcy is another "God-given opportunity" to do that. As a
fall-back position, the government should have determined what major
part to keep, and get the Arabs to leave that part, and then the Jews
would be able to settle more compactly in the rest. Absent a plan,
Jews settled in scattered areas, not enough to dominate them, however.
Now the isolation of those more scattered settlements is the pretext
for removing the Jews.)
After running the gamut of government troops, the settlers sacrificed
some of their own lives to Arab terrorists. Arabs shot at them along
the roads or at bus stops. The government made it easy for the
terrorists, by allowing Arabs to settle close enough to the roads to
provide cover for terrorists, making small roads too dangerous,
inasmuch as the government does not root out terrorism. The government
then bans Jewish travel on those roads, thereby concentrating the Jews
into more easily struck targets on the remaining roads. Brave Zionist
pioneers had to stake claims for their country against the opposition
of a most un-brave and unimaginative government.
I've stood on mountaintop settlements during times of sweltering heat
in the coastal lowland of Tel Aviv. I felt the cool breeze, smelled
the fresh air, saw all the way to the coast, and felt the freedom. It
was obvious that from such mountaintops in Arab hands, terrorists could
fire rifles and much worse into the valleys of Israel, itself, where
live masses of Jews. The Olmert-Peretz plan would put all of Israel
under the gun. That in the name on some days of security, on other
days of guaranteeing Jewish majority, o still other days some other
catchy rationalization.
First Peretz would destroy the hilltop outposts of settlements on
grounds of illegality, then the settlements, which are acknowledged as
legal. Then what's the hurry with the outposts? As for the Jewish
souls of Peretz, Peres, and Olmert, those decayed long ago.
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