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Irwin N. Graulich is a well known motivational speaker on ethics, religion and Judaism. A child of Holocaust survivors, he has been successful in showing religious and secular people the need for God-based ethics. Irwin considers himself a multi-denominational, serious Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jew.
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By Irwin N. Graulich
December 7, 2004
Now that Yasser Arafat is finally at room tempSo where do we go from here? Do the Palestinians deserve, a state? The simple answer is "No, but...."
After 2000 years, the world agreed to divide ancient Israel, which belonged to the Jews, into 2 parts; giving half the land to Arabs and the other half to Jews.
Naturally, Arabs were permitted to continue living in the Jewish part and reap their rewards. However, Jews were forbidden to live in the Arab portion, keeping Arab/Muslim land Judenrein. Somehow, the entire free world has agreed with this bizarre position.
Egyptian born Abu Amar aka Arafat was able to change his birth certificate without forgery by simply repeating the big lie. This Master Manipulator understood that the best way to keep his message on CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS was to maintain refugee status on his people and change the word occupation from a noun to a verb. The wandering Jew has morphed into the wandering Palestinian, a people without a homeland.
Would it be possible to keep generations of people in refugee camps, where no one was guarding them or forcing this squalor? Now that is a trick worth studying whereby bright people remain destitute and willing to kill themselves, while their leader steals infrastructure funds to set up his wife in a Parisian hotel on $500,000 per week. And they
somehow love him for it. This is not a fairy tale. The wicked witch was a real live person with a kaffiya.
Now that the ultimate terrorist is dead, where do we go from here? Is peace possible in 2004-5? The truthful answer is "no," unless one has the bizarre belief that it is indeed possible to negotiate and trust
evil. Of course, many immoral, foolish leaders have bought into the Neville Chamberlain approach. Such moral luminaries (sic) as Chirac, Straw, Annan and Schroeder have fallen into the foolish leftist trap called "trusting humanity", whereby even Bill Clinton and Dennis Ross once mistakenly stepped.
Unless we begin with the premise that people need to earn or deserve something before the are given it, society will fail. The Jewish people yearned for a return to their homeland for 2000 years. Therefore, a valid argument can be made that the Palestinians still have 1950 years to approach a quid pro quo. Why did this simple fact not even enter into the Oslo process or the Camp David talks? Because we live in a world of immediate gratification which usually leads to disaster.
It is necessary and better for a group to wait and learn values before they are permitted to have a state. There are very wise biblical precedents for this concept. 3350 years ago, God made an incredible effort to "take the Jews out of Egypt," and bring them into their land of Israel. He used plagues to free them and even split a giant sea to permit escape.
After all those amazing miracles, the Master of the Universe made those same Jews wander in the desert for 40 years, before bringing them into the Promised Land. Herein lies the answer to the present Israeli-Palestinian issue. God understood the important concept that the children of Israel were simply not ready for their own state, because they were filled with poisonous Egyptian values and a death culture.
That generation had to die out and a new generation had to be raised and taught different values and behavior. Unless this same change is applied to the Arab Palestinians, a decent, democratic state is not possible. As the Jews did 3300 years ago, Arabs must change their thinking, their ideologies, their methods of raising their children and their behavior. The Arab Palestinians must go through their own "Wilderness Program" in the same way that Jewish Palestinians underwent their transformation.
The simple answer to this lingering problem that politicians have not been able to figure out is that the West Bank and Gaza should become commonwealths of Israel for at least a generation.
If the Palestinians take advantage of learning science, technology, business, nation-building, values and democracy from Jews, while teaching their children the important biblical concept of "love your neighbor," a separate state can eventually go off on their own. Just like an IPO spinoff, only then will their shares truly be worth something.
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