In Hebrew, rasha means profane, ungodly, and hamas refers to violence and destruction.

The peace process must put even die-hard atheists to shame. Nothing short of a miracle explains that every time Israel is ready to cede Judea and Jerusalem, the Palestinians preclude the Jewish defeat. Arafat rejected Barak’s offer, which included just about everything the “moderate” Palestinians demanded. Now Hamas undermines Fatah’s efforts at chipping the Palestinian state out of Israel. Unless the wildest conspiracy theories are true and Israel’s security services are manipulating the Palestinians away from statehood, there is no other explanation: God doesn’t want the Jews to give the Promised Land away.

This chance is our last. The Almighty has created a situation in which the options are crystal-clear, and Jews need no crystal ball to see them. The entire Jewry outside of Israel has been annihilated—European Jews perished in the Holocaust, American Jews are lost to assimilation, and Arab Jews were uprooted and resettled into Israel. God tells us in the most straightforward manner that now we must decide: will the Jews live or die out? Zechariah’s prophecy is fulfilled: the two-thirds are lost, and it’s up to the Jews whether the last third will be refined as silver or burn out.

Jews, of course, have free will and can rebel against the divine injunction. Israel received every sign she could hold on to the Sinai: four wars with Egypt won, and the Yom Kippur war even extended Israel’s foothold. Jews nevertheless abandoned the Sinai; now we’re tourists there, and the Egyptians are the owners. Similarly, Jews can transfer Judea to the Arabs rather than the Arabs out of Judea. Such an act, however, would be equal to conversion. There is no practical difference between Jews’ converting to Christianity and consciously rejecting the commandments. Once the commandments are rejected, Jews can become anything.

Jews don’t live in the Land of Israel because of some stupid historical right. If Jews can return after 1,900 years, that is all the more reason Arabs can return after sixty years. Jews were sovereign on this land for perhaps four centuries; the rest of the time we existed as a protectorate. Muslims governed this land for much longer. Jewish national right to statehood? What nonsense! Ask the Chechens, Basques, Uighurs, or Bretons, and listen carefully to their reply: there is no such right. There is a single reason for Jews to conquer and settle this land: God has told us to do so.

Cleansing the land God gave us is a major commandment. It is arguably the major political commandment. Jews must drive away the inhabitants of the land. There can be no coexistence. Amalekites, Canaanites, or Palestinians would never be loyal citizens of a Jewish state. Cleanse first, build later. To build a Jewish state in a land populated by Arabs is impossible.