by Dror Eydar
The source of Arab murderous behavior is not despair, but rather the delusional hope of kicking us out of our land.
Now
that the metal detectors on the Temple Mount have been splattered with
the blood of murdered Jews -- a grandfather, a father and a sister
slaughtered at the hands of a miserable wretch who unfortunately stayed
alive (why?!) -- to back down and remove them would be shameful and a
disgrace, as well as a legitimization of bloodshed. Furthermore, anyone
who thinks that removing the metal detectors will diminish the desire to
murder Jews among those who wish to destroy us is dangerously misled.
Pay no mind to the
repeated accusations of "Jewish radicalism." They are part of what
prominent poet Nathan Alterman described in a poem after the Six-Day War
about the Devil's attempts to defeat the Jewish people not by use of
force, but rather -- "only this shall I do: I will dull his mind and
cause him to forget the justice of his cause."
2.In
reality, the weakness of our response (what the brainwashing machine
calls "moderation") contains within it the seeds of terror. As early as
the 1920s, Revisionist Zionist thinker Ze'ev Jabotinsky called for a
physical as well as a psychological "iron wall" of security to ward off
the Arabs. Only this way will we bring peace to the country, he
asserted.
The source of Arab
murderousness is not despair, but rather the delusional hope of kicking
us out of our land. To our shame, this murderousness draws its power
from our weak conduct, namely the public dispute among Israeli security
bodies after the deed was already done and the metal detectors were put
in place. Is it not yet clear to us that we must put up a united front
and stand as a wall of fortitude against threats by the "voice of wrath"
from Ramallah and the Islamist elements from within us? Is a century
insufficient time to get to know this murderous pattern, fed by Jewish
hesitancy?
3.Where
does this hesitancy come from? From doubting our right to this land,
specifically to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. The incessant propaganda
has succeeded in dumbing our minds to such an extent that we appear to
have forgotten the basic tenets of Zionism, outlined in the original
version of "Hatikva," Israel's national anthem: "To return to the land
of our fathers ... the land of Zion and Jerusalem." This is the
justification for our return as a people to history in general, and
specifically to Zion.
Here is another
fundamental truth that our sages taught us in the Babylonian Talmud, one
that we have been learning on our flesh since the day we became a
nation: The moral imperative of "if someone comes to kill you, rise up
and kill him first." This includes those who incite to kill Jews, and
those who justify the killing of Jews with false claims that Israel is
threatening the Temple Mount (while those who actually desecrate it are
the Muslims). We must rise up and disarm them before they rise up
against us. It is the Palestinian Authority and the Muslim Brotherhood
among us that are responsible for the spilled blood.
4.In
an interview with Al Jazeera, Coordinator of Government Activities in
the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai all but apologized for
Israel's actions, saying repeatedly, "We don't want to change the status
quo ... only to prevent another attack." And what do you know, the
general, presented on Al Jazeera as "Coordinator of Occupation
Activities in the Palestinian Territories," asked his interviewers
whether "anyone has an idea on how to prevent terrorist attacks,
which are likely to happen again, in a secure manner that would
safeguard the worshippers?" So, dear Al Jazeera viewers, how would you
advise the Israel Defense Forces general to prevent a terrorist attack?
5.This
murderousness was not born in 1967 or even in 1948. It was born with
Islam, which imposed its beliefs on many nations by force of the sword.
The Jews refused to accept the religion of Muhammad; they knew that he
drew his principal ideas from us. The construction of the mosque on the
Temple Mount was a symbolic declaration of Judaism's cancellation and
the victory of Islam as our rightful inheritors. It symbolizes the
only true occupation: the Muslim occupation in 638 with Caliph Omar's
conquest of Jerusalem. Anyone who thinks that the dispute is political
or security-related is ignoring the challenge the Temple Mount issue
brings to our door: the question of our identity as a nation that has
returned to its land. The Arab world is testing us to see just how
attached we are to this land.
6.What
is the source of the anger over the UNESCO resolution denying our link
to the Temple Mount? Why do we ask other countries to move their
embassies to Jerusalem? If the Israeli government demands that the world
recognize our sovereignty over Jerusalem, we must conduct ourselves as
sovereigns there. Indeed, the dispute over the metal detectors comes
from them monitoring the sovereign presence of the Jewish state on the
Temple Mount.
A sovereign presence
requires determination. Not a hesitant, indecisive presence that wishes
to appease our enemies, but rather a clear and natural presence of a
nation at its holiest site, a place of longing that brought us back home
after 2,000 years. Just as it would be entirely unreasonable for us to
abandon security arrangements because of the threat of gang violence in
Tel Aviv, it would be equally unreasonable for us to forgo security
measures in Jerusalem because of terrorist threats against Jewish lives.
7.A
Jewish family gathered to celebrate the birth of a baby boy on Friday
evening, right before he enters the covenant of our father Abraham. This
beautiful custom is called Shalom Zachar, or welcoming the male. The
covenant is connected to peace, as is written in Numbers 25:12: "Behold,
I give unto him My covenant of peace."
From its inception, the
ritual circumcision is connected in scripture to inheriting the land
(see Genesis 17). The Arab murderousness seeks to sever this bond
between the Jewish people and its land, just as Islamist propaganda
seeks to sever our connection to the Temple Mount. The Zohar, the
primary kabbalistic text, speaks of a sort of connection Muslims have to
the land of Israel, as they are also circumcised. This right will wait
for them until the blood of the thousands of murdered Jews will drown
our murderers and evict them from our land. "Sing aloud, ye nations, of
His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will
render vengeance to His adversaries, and will make atonement for the
land of His people" (Deuteronomy 32:43).
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19499
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