by Dror Eydar
The Palestinians are the last thing that the Europeans care about, just as they care nothing about the atrocities being perpetrated in Syria, Iraq or Africa. The Europeans are recognizing the Palestinian state not because they have any desire to improve our neighbors' situation, but because they have a problem with the Jews. They always did.
1. The upcoming
elections have plunged Israel into a wartime atmosphere, and a good deal
of blame is being thrown about. Each side, instead of looking to its
own misdeeds, is making accusations against the other. They are not
saying, "We have sinned," but rather, "You have sinned."
Here, too, the
accusations are meant to generate shallow headlines rather than
addressing deep issues. This is a big mistake. Despite the piles of mud
and refuse that are customarily dumped onto the average Israeli, the
average Israeli is generally well aware of what is going on. They
understand ideology and vision.
On the political plane,
one gets the impression that the discourse, at least on the Left, is
still stuck in the 1980s, before the great experiments that the Oslo
Accords brought upon us -- before Hamas, before Islamic State, before
the Middle East fell to pieces. What can Tzipi Livni accomplish with the
Palestinians that she hasn't done over the past two years, when she was
in charge of the talks with them? Did she bring any sort of agreement
to the government that it turned down? If so, let her tell us.
But she knows that
there is nobody to talk to on the other side. They never had the
slightest desire to end the conflict with the Jews. I would be glad to
hear any Arab leader name his final demands -- the ones for which, if
they were fulfilled, he would sign on the dotted line that the conflict
was over and state that he had no further claims. Are there any
volunteers?
We have not even
mentioned Jerusalem or the refugees or recognition of Israel as a Jewish
state. The demand that our neighbors recognize Israel as the national
home of the Jewish people was not for us, but for them. That is the
litmus test of the integrity of their intentions. Do they recognize the
right of Jews to any part of the historical Land of Israel? We know that
any Arab leader who grants such recognition can expect an uncomfortable
death.
That is the reason for
the effort to anchor the Jewish nature of the State of Israel in a Basic
Law. It is because not even a utopian-style peace treaty will end the
fight against Israel that is being waged by Europe and the global left
wing (and here as well, to some degree). The dozens of organizations
that have been established to take away the Jews' right to their own
land (for some reason, these groups are known as "human-rights
organizations"; after all, you know, we Jews have no human rights) will
no longer show any interest in the cruel dictatorship that they helped
set up next door. Instead, they will aim their heavy artillery against
Israeli society, which they will accuse of racism for being an exclusive
state for the Jewish ethnic group instead of a "state of all its
citizens," which is actually code for "a state of all its
nationalities."
2. As we look on,
Europe is falling like a ripe fruit at the feet of the radical Islam
sweeping over it. The more terrorism conquers the streets of Europe, the
greater the Europeans' desire will be to pay the terrorists a ransom in
exchange for being left in peace, unmolested. As history has taught us,
the ransom will be the Jews. The ludicrous statements by the European
parliaments about recognizing the Palestinian state show the blindness
of a society in decline that lost its basic instincts long ago. The
Europeans care nothing about the Palestinians, whom they have doomed to a
life of misery and suffering under oppressive regimes that are among
the worst in the world, where there is no such thing as basic human
rights.
The Palestinians are
the last thing that the Europeans care about, just as they care nothing
about the atrocities being perpetrated in Syria, Iraq or Africa. The
Europeans are recognizing the Palestinian state not because they have
any desire to improve our neighbors' situation, but because they have a
problem with the Jews. They always did.
Ironically, the return
to Zion made the Jewish problem worse because it gave the Jews an
independent political living space -- which the Europeans find
completely unacceptable. That is also the reason why there are dozens of
European organizations in this region, and why they funnel hundreds of
millions of euros supposedly to help the Palestinians, but actually in
efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state. The "peace
process" is just one more tool in that mechanism.
3. The talk of a
"diplomatic agreement" is also a media ransom, lip-service paid by
politicians who seek the sponsorship of the media party. Avigdor
Lieberman is quite familiar with this work.
"We must reach a
diplomatic agreement," he said in a "closed-door conference," and
received flattering headlines right away. "What is going on today is
that they are doing nothing; there is a status quo. The initiative must
be a comprehensive regional agreement."
Have we not heard those
empty phrases a thousand times already? Have we not tried to reach a
political agreement in all kinds of ways? Has Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu not gotten into trouble with his own camp over it? Did he not
freeze construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months? And, before
him, did Ehud Olmert not offer our neighbors what even Lieberman (I
hope) would never dare offer?
And what about the two
Yisrael Beytenu princes, Uzi Landau and Yair Shamir? Where are they? Why
are they not responding to their party chairman's heretical statements?
After all, were they not the ones who gave Lieberman the stamp of
approval to be a right-wing party? More evidence of Lieberman's
desertion to the Left is his use of the well-known leftist scare tactic
terminology: "a political tsunami." But what burst out this week was
more of a police tsunami against the members of Yisrael Beytenu. Now
that the leader has adopted the Orwellian language of peace and speaks
the language of the media party, maybe they will cut him some slack.
4. In the end, the
dispute between most of the Right and most of the Left boils down to one
question: Do we believe the Palestinians or not? Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas has declared many times that he will never
recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and he specifically named 6 million,
with all its symbolism, as the number of Palestinians who expect their
demand for the right of return to be fulfilled. Abbas is currently being
kept alive by the Israeli army, which is protecting him as they would a
delicate flower from attacks by the street, which supports Hamas. This
does not stop the Palestinians from going all over the world, accusing
us of every possible atrocity.
The purpose of their
action is to gain the maximum amount of territory at the minimum price
-- actually, for no price at all -- but not to establish a tiny
statelet. The past hundred years have taught us that what unites
Arab-Palestinians is not the desire to improve their own living
conditions, but to destroy the Jews' lives. What more has to happen for
us to believe what they say? In the meantime, they are sticking close to
us so that we will protect them against Islamic State.
5. So what is the
solution? First, whoever said that there was a solution? Second, if we
tried and did not succeed, maybe we ought to leave something for future
generations to accomplish. You do not really believe the well-known
chorus of lamentation that things are bad here and that the country is
"stuck."
We have succeeded quite
well, thank God, considering the fact that only one of our hands is
engaged in construction, development and cultural work, since the other
is busy with self-defense. Where were we just 70 years ago, in 1944 --
and where are we now? Let us put things in perspective.
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=11041
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