Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
I’m a Jewish physician, a general surgeon from the “settlement” of Hadera, a place attacked by terrorists during the past few years. I live on its main street, which has several times been stained by Jewish blood since the ill-fated Oslo agreements.
Some years ago, you gave a wonderful speech in our city. After that, I came to the podium where you stood to shake your hand. I told you how I was moved to shake the hand of an Israeli hero. A hero who built the famous “101 Force” which had operated to destroy Gaza’s terrorism more than 40 years ago. A hero who had crossed the Suez Canal to subdue the Egyptian army which had attacked us in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, saving our country from the prospect of complete destruction.
Nevertheless, on May 25, 2003, you took a disgraceful and cowardly decision. When you officially accepted the so-called road map, you accepted a plan that will erode the State of Israel step by step, slice by slice, while building a Palestinian country that, ultimately, will be built upon our own ruins.
I confess that I don’t have your refined intellectual capability to analyze the strategic situation of Israel. I am a “primitive” thinker, one who sees the reality of the Middle East through simple eyes and straightforward thoughts, even after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
In 1987, when the first intifada began and Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers, I noticed that, instead of opening fire against these mobs in order to disable them, our fighters hid themselves inside armored cars. At that time I told all my left-wing intellectual friends in Israel that, according to my primitive thoughts, in the future we would see Israeli Arabs throwing stones against us (Jewish civilians) on the road that passes through the Arab villages of Wadi Ara near Hadera.
They laughed at me, of course: “Are you nuts? ‘Our’ Arabs will throw stones against us? Not a chance! They have learned democracy. They will never join the Palestinian Arabs. They know they have a lot to lose.”
It took 14 years until it actually happened. My leftist intellectual friends were astonished: How could my primitive prophecy have been proven superior to their cultivated and dispassionate analyses?
In 1993 Yitzhak Rabin brought us Yasir Arafat – the third largest genocidal slaughterer of Jews in the 20th century (after Hitler and Stalin) – as our ‘partner for peace.’ I told my leftist intellectual friends that years of Jewish slaughter would occur as a result. Needless to say, once again my primitive prophecy came true.
Three years ago, when Ehud Barak, fearing Hizbullah, ordered Israel’s army to run away from Lebanon, my primitive brain brought forth a primitive idea: that Palestinians will learn from this event a great lesson. They will learn that violence against Israel is worthwhile. Once again, my unsophisticated ideas were prescient, and in two years of a cruel and new intifada, hundreds of Israelis have been blown to death and torn to shreds in malls, buses, restaurants, etc. Whole families have simply disappeared in these unspeakable genocidal crimes.
And now, my dear prime minister, Hero of Israel, you surrender Israel to more terrorism. And you do this at a time when “our” Arabs are learning an important lesson from their Palestinian brothers. You justify your decision by saying that “We can’t dominate millions of Arabs” – but this is exactly what Rabin said when he ordered the IDF out of Gaza ten years ago. At the time I had another primitive prophecy: I warned that ‘If we won’t dominate Gaza, Gaza will dominate us.’ Once again my leftist friends, jubilant over our exit from Gaza, didn’t listen to me, and those few who did listen did not accept my primitive idea.
They began to understand my primitive prophecies only when they saw on television a female police officer holding a baby dressed up as a clown (it was Purim) on the street in front of a mall in the center of Tel Aviv. The baby was severely injured, her Purim costume drenched by her own blood. Moments before, a Palestinian suicide bomber had exploded himself, murdering and wounding many people. The police officer was looking for an ambulance. The baby’s mother had been killed. Suddenly, my leftist friends understood what I meant when I said: “If we won’t dominate Gaza, Gaza will dominate us.”
Needless to say, many more women and children have been murdered in Tel Aviv in subsequent attacks from Gaza’s Palestinian Arab “freedom fighters.”
As an aside, I have many primitive questions on my mind: If we can’t “dominate” millions of Palestinian Arabs, how will we “dominate” 1.5 million Arabs of “our own”? If we can’t dominate the Arabs of Baka-el-Sharkyia (eastern Baka) why should we dominate the Arabs of Baka-el-Garbyia (western Baka), which is the same city, with the same Arab families, only divided by the “Green Line Frontier” of 1948? Are there Arabs we should dominate and Arabs we should not?
Will we now have to relinquish (for the same reasons) Wadi Ara, the Galil and other integral parts of our country where a substantial Arab population also lives? What will we do when “our” Arabs learn from their Palestinian brothers on the other side of the Green Line the road map lesson that terror pays? What if our Arabs get weapons, money and incitement from their Palestinian brothers and from the soon-to-be founded Palestinian state? What will we do then?
My dear prime minister, in contrast to what you said, we are not conquerors. Judea, Samaria and Gaza (known in Hebrew by the abbreviation of “Yesha”) are not “occupied territories.” In the Six Day War we returned to lands that were ours by history and by authoritative international decision. The Arabs, not the Jews, are the true “occupiers.” The League of Nations gave us these lands at the 1920 San Remo Conference and that decision was ratified at the creation of the United Nations Organization (Article 80, Chapter 12 of The Charter of the United Nations). No other decisions concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict (e.g., the decision on division of the land, S.C. Resolutions 242, 338, etc.) endorsed the current erroneous presumption that the territories are “occupied” by Israel.
Now, my dear prime minister, if the road map you’ve endorsed will be implemented, my primitive mind tells me that the Arabs will learn anew that the more violence they apply to us, the more rewards they’ll get. As a result, we’ll see mega-attacks like the one that struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Terrorists will likely bring down on Tel Aviv an El Al Jumbo jet after its lift-off from Ben Gurion Airport. Thousands will die, burned and crushed beyond recognition.
The road map’s Palestinian state will have its own airport and seaport. A Palestinian plane, full of bombs and fuel, will lift off from Gaza and act like a Kamikaze in the center of Ashkelon, Ashdod or perhaps even the nuclear center of Nahal Sorek. Ships filled with weapons of mass destruction and Katyusha long-range rockets (like those Hizbullah has in Lebanon) will arrive at the Palestinians’ port. As a result, mega-attacks could become a daily occurrence.
My dear prime minister, I know my prophecies are much too primitive to be compared to your intelligence analyses, but because all of my previous prophecies have come to pass, I’m afraid they’ll become reality again when a Palestinian state emerges.
So, to end my letter to you, I have one more primitive question: How many more Jews (including women and children) will have to be slaughtered in Israel to convince you that this road map will drive us only to hell?
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