From: Paul Eidelberg
Will Judea and Samaria be a Replay of Gush Katif?
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
What are Jews in Judea and Samaria doing to prevent a replay of Gush Katif? If they didn't know earlier, they learned on June 14, 2009 that their stout-hearted Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, without Knesset or public debate, autocratically endorsed the creation of a PLO Islamic state in Judea and Samaria. Let me speak directly to the men among the 300,000 Jews now residing in Israel's heartland.
"You know very well—as does Bibi—that you are not going to co-exist in peace with more than a million Arab Muslims in a PLO state. Hence you know Bibi's commitment to a PLO state logically entails expulsion from your homes, destruction of your schools and synagogues, your farms and factories. You must therefore be aware that your wives and children are going to suffer the same traumas suffered by the women and children of Gush Katif.
"I ask with all respect, what are you doing NOW to prevent this monstrous crime? Are you going to wait for the police and soldiers to forcefully remove you from your flourishing communities? Do you think protest demonstrations ala Women-in- Green—God bless them—will save you? Are you going to be intimidated by the fear or bogeyman of civil war? Kindelach, don't you know there has been an "undeclared" civil war going on in this country since 1948, when its founders set out to make Jews a 'normal' people, hence to cease being Jewish? Don't you know that the political system facilitates this objective by fragmenting and disempowering the electorate. the people, compelling the voters to vote for one of as many as thirty fixed party slates—which produces not simply your inept multi-party government but a democratically elected dictator? Don't you have dozens of political scientists to explain this political trickery?
"Don't you know your ruling class can count? They knew long ago that the birthrate of religious Jews, unless counter measures are taken, will eventually relegate Israel's "normalized" ruling elites to the dust heap of history? That's why they imported hundreds of thousands of gentiles, especially from Russia, to diminish the voting power of religious Jews. Indeed, that's why they want to expel you from Judea and Samaria, where the prophets walked, because that will undermine your children's or your grandchildren's belief in the prophets and sages of Israel and the Beginning of the Redemption (atchalta d'geula).
"So what are you doing NOW to prevent the end of the Third Commonwealth? Don't you know a Muslim state on Jewish soil means no Jews will come here? Don't you know that thanks to the idolatry of democracy and its one-adult-one-vote principle, Arabs will soon outnumber Jews and take over the Knesset rightly despise by 80 to 90 percent of the public?
"Again, what are you going to do? You have in your midst former IDF officers. Why don't you work with them? Why don't you form a network of cells throughout Judea and Samaria, with links beyond to prevent a replay of the unspeakable crime perpetrated against the Jews of Gush Katif (and I have not forgotten the Jews expelled from northern Samaria).
"You need to form a Strategy Team NOW, consisting of military experts, lawyers, computer experts, constitutional experts, PR men, economists, political experts, and solid rabbis—and this team must be on the ready before Israel's so-called democratic government deprives you of your one and only homeland and desecrates the Name of God, as your prime minister did at Bar-Ilan University when he endorsed a PLO state – yes, without a whisper of rebuke.
"Are you going to wait and do nothing just as your timid government waited and did nothing while Hezbollah deployed more than 10,000 missiles before the outbreak of the Second War in Lebanon, a war Israel lost and thus enabled Iran's proxy to gain control of that country? Are you going to wait for another election to "change" the government? Haven't you learned by now that it makes no basic difference which party or coalition is at the helm: you are going to be undone?
"On the other hand, you know the government is timid. It allowed Hamas to establish an Islamist state in Gaza – another Iranian proxy. Since you must have nothing but contempt for this timid government, why don't you begin to think in regime terms, and not merely in policy terms? You have had years of warning since your prime minister virtually pronounced your doom at Bar-Ilan University where he endorsed the "two state solution." Rabbis, raise your voices and join up with Women in Green lest Judea and Samaria become another Gush Katif!"
