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Doron Kescher , originally from Emek Hefer, is currently based in the Asia-Pacific region, working for a corporate advisory firm. A fluent English and French speaker, he has spent much of his time since September 2000 explaining the current conflict to non-Jewish work colleagues.
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By Doron Kescher
February 24, 2004
"The apartheid wall, the fence - why do you Israelis need it?"
That is what is being asked in all the fashionable coffee houses, legislatures and newsrooms around Europe at the moment.
Well Europe, do you really want to know? It's quite simple really.
In the towns and cities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, there are thousands, perhaps millions, of Muslim Arabs who want to kill Jews. That's not a euphemism. They literally want us dead, and there is no shortage of people actually willing to do it. As their opinion polls constantly remind us, approximately 3 out of every 4 Palestinian Arabs support suicide bombings (it was only 2 out of 3 during the "good old days" of the Oslo Peace Process).
Here in Israel, we are part of the first world. We are a liberal Western democracy where we work, rest, play and cry when our children are murdered or killed in the line of duty. On the other side of the fence (metaphorically, not literally, yet) there is a society infused with evil that eats, works, teaches hate, and wildly rejoices in the murder of Jews, even - nay, especially - when their children are killed in the process.
Palestinian society, like Nazi Germany, is evil. It needs to be defeated, crushed and then rebuilt.
"But, what about the silent majority of Palestinians, who just want to live in peace?" I hear the Europeans ask.
You'd better sit down for this one: it doesn't exist. That's right, you heard me. The 'silent majority of Palestinians who just want to live in peace' simply does not exist. If there are any peace loving, Jew-tolerating Palestinians, they are very, very silent, and they are certainly not anywhere near a majority. From all opinion polls and from the empirical evidence at hand, the overwhelming majority of Palestinian Arabs despise the Jews, and want them dead (or at least out of 'Palestine').
So what can we do about our neighbors, the Palestinian Arabs?
Well, we have the military capability to crush them and expel them, but no one, no-one, not even the "hard-line right-wingers" in the Likud Party, wants that. (Remember, we are a civil society with a liberal Western democracy.)
Or, we can crush their terrorist infrastructure, remove their corrupt, murderous leaders and install a new civil administration with municipal elections, universal health care and education. But, we've already tried that, in 1967, remember? Not only that, but any suggestion that the corrupt anti-Semites sleeping with Hamas and Islamic Jihad be replaced brings howls of anguish from the left, from Europe and from our dear friends at the State Department. (That is, from everyone who lamented the imminent destruction of Saddam Hussein.)
So what are we to do? We cannot (and would not) expel them, we cannot reform them; what are we to do, oh learned pontificators in Europe? Are we to 'bare our necks' and die quietly (again)? Actually Europe, don't answer that...
Well, the only thing left is to build a fence; a passive barrier that restricts the entry of Arabs into Israel.
On one side of the fence, there will be the free world, with elections, emancipated women, religious freedom, free markets, health care, education, hi-tech industries and safe and efficient buses that are pleasant to ride on.
On the other side, the Palestinian Arabs. There they will be free to honor-kill their daughters, oppress their women, force their Christians to emigrate, hate the West, despise equality, fear democracy, resist modernity and fire machine guns into the air every time a Jew is killed.
Only, after the fence is built, the Palestinians will not be able to do the killing themselves. They might want to, but they won't be able to.
The fence, Israel's security barrier, will block the murderers from reaching their victims. It's as simple as that.
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