My
dear friends, Jews in Israel and the Diaspora.
I
am sorry to tell you that the terror attacks from which we suffer today and
yesterday, a week ago, a month, a year and a decade and century ago, are all
part of the same war, the same struggle, the same Jihad waged against us by our
neighbors for over a century.
Sometimes
it is a full scale war with tanks, noise, flames, planes and ships and
sometimes it is a war on a slow burner known as "terror" with
explosions, stabbings and shots. Each of these is Jihad in Arabic, each is aimed
at Jews just for being Jewish.
I
regret to remind you of the fact that this war began way before the
establishment of the Jewish state declared in 1948. The riots and
massacres of 1920, 1921, 1929, 1936-39 et al, were not due to a Jewish state or
what our enemies call the "occupation" of 1948, and certainly not
because of the 1967 "occupation". The bloody and cruel massacre of
the Jews of Hevron in 1929 was carried out against Jews who were not part of
the Zionist movement, quite the contrary. The Palestine Liberation Movement
(Fatah) was founded, may I remind you, in 1959 and The Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964, years before the 1967
"occupation" that was a result of Israel winning the Six Day
War.
I
hate to point out to you that the shouts we heard, mainly in the 1948 War of
Independence, were "Itbach al Yahud" –
"Butcher the Jews" – and not the "Israelis" or the
"Zionists," because their problem is with the Jews who refuse to be
dependent on the mercy of Islam, refuse to live as dhimmi, protected
ones, the way Islam mandates for Jews and Christians. In the Arab world,
children still sing (in Arabic): "Palestine is our country and the Jews
are our dogs."
It
is not pleasant to tell you this, but Israel's enemies' most popular chant is
(in Arabic) – "Kyber, Khyber O Jews, Mohammed's army will yet
return." Khyber is an oasis in the Arabian Peninsula that was
populated by Jews until Mohammed slaughtered them in 626 C.E. The chant
commemorates that event and threatens a repeat performance. The Jews,
according to the Koran (Sura 5, verse 82) are the most hostile enemies of the
Moslems. Verse 60 states that Allah's curse and fury upon them turned them into
monkeys and pigs.
Despite
what you think, peace with Egypt was achieved only after Sadat realized that
despite Arab efforts to destroy Israel in the 1948 War of Independence, the
1956 Sinai Campaign, the 1967 Six Day War, 1970 War of Attrition, and even the
1973 Yom Kippur War that took Israel by surprise, the Jewish state managed to
push back all the Arab armies and bring the war to their territory. That is why
Sadat understood that Israel is not conquerable and that there is no choice
other than making peace, even if this peace is temporary and based on the
precedent of the 628 C.E. Hudabiya Peace in which Mohammed gave a 10 year
hiatus to the infidels of Mecca, but broke it at the end of two years when
they fell asleep on the watch.
Yassir
Arafat did not sign the Oslo Accords because he believed in peace, but because,
calling it the "Hudabiya peace," he saw the agreements as a Trojan
horse that would hoodwink the Jews.
The
only objective of the Oslo Accords
was to create a Palestinian entity with an army and weapons that would be used
to destroy Israel when the time was ripe. He repeated this constantly, but our
decision makers explained that he is only saying it for domestic consumption,
and when suicide bombers set themselves off in our streets, the victims were
called "victims of peace." Since when does peace require victims? And
when will the rifles we allowed them to obtain be turned on us?
It
saddens me to tell you that all of Israel's efforts to please the Hamas Gazans
failed, and Hamas went on from being a terrorist organization to becoming a
terrorist state. Deathly rockets, attack tunnels, suicide bombers - all
are considered legitimate in the eyes of Gaza's Jihadist government, so to hell
with the lives of the men, women and children living there, and to hell with
their welfare, health and assets. The Gazans are pawns in the hands of
Hamas, the Jihad and the Salafists, all of whom appointed themselves the
liaison between the residents of Gaza and Paradise, having already given them a
taste of hell on earth.
It
pains me to tell all the soul-weary peace seekers in Israel and the world, that
the concrete and iron that you forced us to give the Jihadists in Gaza in order
to rebuild their destroyed homes, were used to build tunnels of death both to
Gazans and Israelis. Instead of building hospitals, schools and infrastructure,
the Jihadists built an infrastructure of death, suffering and disaster.
You were wrong again – basing your policy on pipe dreams, delusions and hopes instead
of on facts and figures. Analysts, including me, are not entirely blameless:
they said in wondrous harmony that when Hamas has to bear the responsibility
for food, electricity and welfare in Gaza, its leaders will become more
moderate, realistic and pragmatic.
We
were wrong: Hamas, despite leaving the opposition in order to rule, has
not ceased its Jihad against Israel and has not removed Israel from the top of
its list of priorities, nor has it changed in the slightest its wholly negative
view of the "Zionist entity."
I hate to ruin the "two states for two
peoples" party, but I must, because what is happening in Gaza today is
exactly what will happen to the second Palestinian state you are trying to
establish in Judea and Samaria.
Hamas
will be the winner of elections for the legislature, as they were in Gaza in
January 2006, and will win the presidential elections as well. If they don't
they will take over all of Judea and Samaria in a violent putsch, just as they
did in Gaza in 2007. And when that happens, what will you say? "Ooops…we
didn't know…we couldn't imagine…?" So now you know and do not have
to extrapolate. This should be your working hypothesis. If Gaza's Hamas is
digging tunnels of death in the sand today, it will be digging through rocks to
build them from Judea and Samaria – and let's see you find them and blow them
up when that happens.
And
to anyone with a short memory, let me refresh it: In July 2014, Hamas
managed to shut Ben Gurion Airport for a day by launching rockets from Gaza.
If
and when they gain control of Judea and Samaria, they will be able to shut Ben
Gurion down with a slingshot, and will be able to overlook all the runways from
the Beit Arye heights. Anyone who does not believe me should get into his car
and drive to the top of the hills to the east of Ben Gurion Airport, located in
"conquered, occupied territory" (conquered from whom, precisely?).
And
if we are already talking about Jerusalem, what will you do when the State of
Hamas presents you with an ultimatum: Jerusalem or war? The Temple Mount or we
shut down Ben Gurion Airport?
And
when the world supports their demand for Jerusalem, letting Israel pay the
price of calming down radical Islam, what will you say? And when the
snipers go back to shooting at passersby on Jerusalem streets from the walls of
the Old City as their Jordanian brothers did until 1967, where will you hide?
Behind concrete walls? A security fence? Or will you simply move Israel's
capital city to Tel Aviv?
I
am sorry to disappoint you but the worst thing
that ever happened to Israel's hopes for peace was the rise of the peace
movements, those calling for Israel to establish a terror state in Judea and
Samaria and give up East Jerusalem for it.
In
the Middle East, he who expresses a desire for peace, talks about his yearning
for peace and offers his land and country as bribery in exchange for a paper
which has the word "peace" on it, is looked upon as someone who lost
a war and is begging for his life.
The
peace movements turned Israel's image into that of a weak and soft defeatist
country, the exact opposite of the kind of country that achieves peace in the
Middle East. In the violent and radical region where Israel is trying to
survive. In the Middle East, peace means
that your enemies leave you alone because you are too strong, threatening and
dangerous to start up with. In the Middle East only the unvanquished obtain
peace.
Anyone who does not accept these facts, who is not ready
for "blood, sweat and tears," he who impatiently demands "Peace
Now" does not belong in the Middle East.
Here,
we have room only for the brave, the strong, the steadfast and those who
believe in the justice of their cause. Anyone who lacks those traits can find a
suitable home somewhere else, where life is peaceful, quiet, prosperous and
blooming. May we suggest Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Boston or San Bernardino….
