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Ariel Natan Pasko is an independent analyst & consultant. He has a Master's Degree in International Relations & Policy Analysis. He also has degrees in Economics, Politics, and Jewish History & Thought.
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By Ariel Natan Pasko
February 15, 2005
The "peace at any price" bug has returned to Israel. This cyclical moral-decadence disease has reinvaded the Israeli body politic. Once infected, messianic hallucinations of "peace" begin to confound the victim's moral compass, leading to confusion, lack of moral clarity, and a suicidal death wish for the "Peace of the Grave."
It weakens the patient's resistance to falsehood, distorting the ability to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad, and enemy from brother. This moral-AIDS disease is sweeping through Israel again, on a scale not seen since the "peace drug" induced false euphoria of the Oslo days.
We know what that led to death and destruction. But that was just a trial run testing this bio-terror weapon. This time, with planned expulsions of Jews from their homes, mass arrests, and the limiting of civil liberties in Israel, it's the real thing.
Helped by their "Uncle Sam," who wants to make the world "safe for democracy," i.e. America; infected peacemongers in Israel are at it again. No price is too high, no pain is too great, and no fantasy is too deformed, to stop the "bulldozer" from leveling Jewish homes. Those not infected with the "Oslo Madness - Part Two" are being considered a menace to public health.
In the name of "democracy," which is spreading throughout the region -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine -- a people's 2,000 year old dream is being shattered on the altar of false peace. The Jewish People's homeland is being nibbled away at by the worms of peace, Peresites that fantasize about "New Middle Easts" and "worlds without borders". And the "Sharon-istas," those meglomanical dictator doctors, to save the body politic, tell us that radical surgery, a "Gazectomy," is needed, and fast. But like all good "surgeons," they want to make sure they get all the "sick" tissue out, so if a few extra right-wingers are beaten up by the police, and a few "extremists" are jailed, and a few journalists are frightened from reporting the truth, no matter. Then of course it will be required to removed parts of Samaria, Judea, the Golan Heights, perhaps parts of the Galiee and Negev, and of course Jerusalem, until the disease is cured.
But, like the Rabbi Nachman of Breslov story of the poisoned wheat (where everyone who ate it went crazy and the last remaining sane people who hadn't eaten it, had to remind themselves that they're not the crazy ones), we who have not imbibed from the "peace pipe," and have not succumbed to the drugged stupor of "dark fantasies," have a responsibility to ourselves (to remind ourselves and everyone else who will listen), that true peace will not come from the falsification of history, the denial of the Jewish People's G-D given right to the Land of Israel, or expulsion of Jews from their homes.
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