The Arabs believe we took their land. No amount of propaganda would change the fact that their dunes have become our gardens. “Their” is more important than “dunes.” On the contrary, Israeli education, available to Arabs, emphasize the nobility of nationalism, perseverance, and national liberation struggle on Jewish example; Arabs readily apply the example to themselves. There is not a single example in history where conquerors (and to Arabs, Jews took over their land) lived peacefully with the conquered. The victims were always eliminated to insignificance. Otherwise, acting in the very human (“inhumane”) manner, the victims revolt. They don’t believe in conqueror’s benevolence but read it as moral or physical weakness, and see it as an opportunity to prevail.
Peace negotiations lead to peace only when the argument is not essential for the warring parties; both France and Germany would love to annex Alsace-Lorraine, but can also live without it. When the argument is over the essential territory, the soul of the nation, it is not amenable to negotiations. The only way to live in peace is eliminating the threat. This truth is simple, but not nice, and so many imagine that somehow the history has stopped in our time, and all which was true before is false now, and wolves lie with lambs, and nations negotiate the core issues. That mindset is apocalyptic; our days are hardly the last days, and the human mentality does not change. If anything, the wars become bloodier.
Media coverage show us the enemy faces, and we see the enemy as individuals rather than the mass. Individuals arose compassion while masses – fear. Seeing your enemy, unwarlike as he is on TV, makes you unwilling to fight him. Imagine Allies’ media reporting live from fire-bombed Tokyo and Dresden, showing burned children. That would naturally have an impact on American public. The extensive media coverage of Arabs similarly turned them from enemies into “people like us.” Few understand that enemies are indeed like us, and their goals are like ours – and that is exactly the reason we fight, because both of us critically want the same tiny piece of land. Each of us wants to be a master of his life rather than depend on the possibly benevolent rule of aliens.
Assimilated Jews know a single line from the Torah: “You shall love the alien.” Many even imagine it runs as in Christianity, “Love your enemy.” But there is Exodus 23:31: “And I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall expel them.” The aliens whom we shall love are those who accepted basic tenets of Judaism. They are either full converts or God-fearers, but in any case we are mandated to love them because they are loyal and strive to be good citizens of Jewish state. Nothing can be farther from Israeli Arabs who identify with Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians – not with Jews or Israelis.
The Torah is practical. We cannot come to an agreement with sworn enemies, or live peacefully with those who consider themselves rightful inhabitants (and therefore sovereigns) of the land. There is no peace process, but there is a process that brings peace: namely, cleansing the land of our enemies.
=There is no peace process, but there is a process that brings peace: namely, cleansing the land of our enemies.=
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So it is;
we may not like it,
I don't like it,
I wish it was different,
but my wishes don't count.
Thanks Danny, appreciate your articles, however I feel the need to point out that there is a misconception of the view of true Christian doctrine here. There are two kinds of a Christian just as there are two kinds of Jews! Satan and his people hates the truly deeply committed Word loving Christian just as he hates the truly committed Torah loving and abiding Jew!Also just as the true Jew as Gods natural covenanted people are tied by their loyalty to their land by the promise of the Almighty through His Word, so also is the real Christian committed to that Spiritual kingdom and land through His divine promises! Furthermore about loving ones enemies also just is not completely true, whilst as Jesus even loved Judas who betrayed him, ther was no way that He loved that deceiving spirit that controlled this man who had sold himself to treachery! A true Christian therefore does not in any way identify himself with any evil or unrighteous act nor associate himself/ herself with anything that is contrary to the Word of God and is TO RESIST IT! Just as God told Joshua a type of Jehovah saviour to destroy their enemies and not to spare them! Except in the case where the Jebusites being afraid of Joshua and Israel feigned themselves as coming from a distant land put themselves under the sovereignty of Joshua and Israel and became under tribute to them to serve them. It´s either conquer or be conquered!! The same for a true christian either submit to the demon powers of darkness or reist them!Not in every case does a Christian turn the other cheek! This is a misnomer. Jesus taught us thye principle that the first commandment takes PRECEDENT OVER THE SECOND, the first being, "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy might!! Not the other way around!! Then love thy neihbour, but if your neihbour hates God and despises His commandments, what then? Also just as the true Jew believes in the One God, so also the true Christian believer believes that God is only One and not a trinity of deities which is Babylonion and pagan,Nebuchadnezzar over ran ancient Egypt, Cush who was the grandson of Ham who was cursed by his righteous prophet father Noah, then came philstim and caphtorim and all the pagan nations. Nimrod who was of the geneology of Ham subdued nations and first brought the art of war to the peoples just as Cain who was the seed of the serpent defiled the Word of God and destroyed the righteous Abel. Satan who was cast out of heaven then made war against the seed of God, today he is against both the true Jew and the true Bible loving believing Christian! But if the true Jew ever had faith in Hashem they would be valiant and victorious! The true Christian rejoices to see the true Jew fulfil that which is predestined and fore ordained for him, and they will yet be a light to the rest of humanity when God gets them in their right place with Him! then the true Cfhristian will rejoice together with the true Jew, that time will soon come, soon ther will be a showdown at the ok corral with the enemy, there´s goin to be a shoot out, and I know who is goin to win, and it won´t be the devil and his angels!!
Good post Obadiah. Danny, what happened to the news service?
What's with this christian reverand bullcrap here. This is a Jewish site. There is no promise to the goyim for our land, never has been, nor never will be. What, we Jews don't know what haShem wants from us, such self arrogated pride from a goy believer of a pagan man-god idol image named jesus, the true anti-christ!! Who are you to say who is a 'true Jew'. It's our business, not some pathetic reverand of the great lie of history, namely xtianity and all it's forms. The original followers of the historical JEW, never taught goyim anything, he never spoke to them and he only taught JEWS to return to the Torah. We don't preach on your xtian sites, so screw off and mind your own business. Read Rev 2:9 and 3:9, Read Proverbs 28:9 which reads Torah in Hebrew, not "law" in english. Even Eusebuis recognised that the earliest followers never paid attention to the Null Testament, only to the Tanach as the Bible. Replacement theology will never win.
"Soul" invested in "land" is primitive. Jews have had soul without land for millennia.
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I am not saying that J*V* (who is perfect) would change his advice. Rather I am saying that the strategy that his prophets would suggest the people adopt would evolve as the world political environment evolves. Strategic advice is situational. You must search out the modern day prophets and follow their advice, not blindly follow advice from millennia past.
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Obadiah,
you say:
"Few understand that enemies are indeed like us, and their goals are like ours"
And you are right, they are very much like us, and if we are to prevail, we need to understand this. However it is also important to understand the ways in which they are NOT like:
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Jews are a real nation, with unique culture, history, language, religion. Jews suffered tremendously for centuries trying to presevre their national character. History of the last 3000 years, shows that Jews need a state to protect their survival as a unique nation.
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Palestinians, on the other hand, are just Arab people. No history, culture, religion, or language distinguishes them significantly from other Arabs. Their identity is Arab-Muslim, in the first place, and they can be perfectly happy just living life as Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, or any other Arab state.
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Looking objectively, from general human perspective disappearances of the Jews as nation and culture, will be a great loss to humanity. On the other hand, national disappearance of "Palestinian nation" will not be a loss for the humanity, just like loss of Palestinian identity, will not mean much to the Palestinian Arabs.
When the above is translated to action it means that a transfer of Palestinians to a place where they can live in dignity among their own people can be a very successful enterprise.
The big problem is that in the West people have bought into the idea that Palestinians have equal right to a country as Jews. This idea is at the root of the major problems that Israel is facing. Without this idea, Palestinians would long ago have been transfered.