by Dror Eydar
The Arabs would never agree to a small Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, as the kibbutzim across the border would keep burning their eyes.
A giant mirror was
placed in front of the Israeli Left on Monday, and justly so, given the
Left's self-righteousness in the diplomatic and socioeconomic realms.
Joint Arab List MK Dr. Jamal Zahalka revealed what Israeli Arabs truly
feel about the Left. Indeed, if, as the Left usually puts it, we are
"thieves" in the heart our land, Judea and Samaria, the cradle of our
people, then, God forbid, Zahalka is right and we are also "thieves"
throughout the entire land. There is no such thing as being half-right.
After centuries in
exile, we returned to Zion, and Zion is Jerusalem and its surroundings,
the mountains of Judea and Samaria -- the land of the Bible and the
prophets. During biblical times, the coastal plain was controlled by the
Philistines for some centuries. On Monday, Israelis who now live on the
coastal plain and call the pioneers in the mountains "thieves" were put
on notice by Zahalka. "You are bandits who occupied our homeland," he
told them.
In reality, however, it
was Muslims who occupied the land of Israel in the seventh century and
in a historical process pushed Jews living here to either convert to
Islam or go into exile. The system of building kibbutzim on the ruins of
Arab villages, which Zahalka accused the Left of, was learned by the
Jews from the Muslims who built the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa
mosque on the ruins of the most holy site of the Jewish people and now
claim that no Jewish temple ever existed there.
The Arabs in our region
have turned their false discourse about rights into an art and the Left
has bought it. Based on a "security discourse," the Left claims that if
only we said "yes" to a "diplomatic agreement," then peace would be
upon us. But the Arabs have always said "no." This is because if their
view of things is correct, then their terrorism is "justified," their
terrorists are "freedom fighters" and ex-IDF soldiers who call Israel's
presence in the heart of its land an "occupation" are speaking the
truth.
For many years, the
Left has used Israeli Arabs and Palestinian Arabs as a means of
demonstrating moral superiority over the Right. Leftists travel around
the world and receive prizes, claiming that "they" -- the Right, the
religious and the settlers -- do not want peace, while "we" -- the
"humanists" -- recognize the righteousness of the Arab cause. On behalf
of these values, the Left is even willing to give up Jerusalem's Old
City. Pioneers who live across the Green Line are slandered by the Left
as "grave kissers" and "land worshipers," even though the Green Line is
an imaginary Israeli concept, as the Arabs have never accepted it. The
only line the Arabs recognize is the "Turquoise Line" of the
Mediterranean Sea coast.
The irony is that the
opposition of Arab MKs to the gas framework does not stem from an
adherence to the disastrous economic views of Zionist Union MKs Shelly
Yachimovich or Stav Shaffir and their friends in the media. Rather, in
the eyes of the Arab MKs, the gas fields do not belong to Israel, but
rather to the "glorious" Arab nation that has existed here since the
world was created, and Yachimovich and Shaffir a part of the Labor Party
which "expelled" Arabs and "murdered tens of thousands of
Palestinians." As Zahalka put it, Laborites were "the engineers of
racism, discrimination, exile and expropriation. ... Now they are
preaching morality." I can already see leftist radio host Razi Barkai
and his ilk dedicating hours of broadcast time to self-examination.
If we do not learn the
facts of history and if we do not instill the eternal values of our
people and their deep connection with our land, more and more of us
could, God forbid, adopt the views of Zahalka. This is a fateful debate.
It is not about the Green Line or 1967. Rather, it is about 1948 and
the founding of the State of Israel on the ruins of the Arab aspirations
to exterminate the Jews in the land of Israel and establish another
Arab state here, which would have been one of many such states.
That is why the Arabs would never
agree to a small Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, as the
kibbutzim across the border would keep burning their eyes. My friends in
the Left, what more do you need to wake up?
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=13699
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