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Ze'ev Orenstein is a member of the Moledet Central Committee, and serves as Programming Coordinator for Yavneh Olami, a Religious Zionist student organization. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Ma'aleh Adumim, and finds himself taking an active role in the compelling drama that is the life of .
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By Ze'ev Orenstein
October 26, 2005
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| A dead Israeli lies covered at the scene of the Hadera bombing attack. (AP) |
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5 more Jews have been murdered and scores wounded in yet another terror attack upon the Jewish State. In this instance, the suicide bomber was released from an Israeli prison just over a month ago.
Let us understand, once and for all, how it is that we should not be responding to terror:
1) Not a security fence is not the answer to terrorism, which fails to fight terror while returning Israel to more or less -- in the words of Abba Eban -- Auschwitz borders.
2) Not temporary roadblocks and checkpoints.
3) Not shelling or bombing open fields.
4) Not fortifying roofs against expected rocket and mortar attacks, and developing early warning systems to tell us a few seconds before the missiles hit.
5) Not building tunnels and bypass roads.
6) Not disengaging and retreating from Jewish land and handing it over to our enemies.
7) Not providing our enemies with weapons and releasing terrorists from prison.
The "Palestinians" make it very clear that they seek nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish State and Jewish sovereignty anywhere in the Land of Israel. As such, it is time to call a spade a spade, re-recognize that the "Palestinians" are our enemy, and acknowledge that the PLO / PA is the head of the snake and must be crushed.
One doesn't make peace with enemies; one fights them until they capitulate.
There was Arab terror against the Jews before the establishment of the State of Israel, and there was Arab terror against Jews before there were ever any "occupied territories". There was Arab terror against Jews before the "peace process", and there has been Arab terror against Jews since the "peace process. There has been Arab terror against Jews before "Disengagement" and there has been Arab terror against Israel since "Disengagement".
Until the "Palestinians" and the rest of the Arab world are prepared to accept a Jewish State in the Land of Israel, then we must view them as our enemies. So long as the "Palestinians" and the Arab world continue to incite their masses (and particularly their children) to hate the Jewish State and People, they will be treated as our enemies. Anyone who is prepared to accept a Jewish State in the Land of Israel can live together with us in peace, anyone who is unable to accept these terms had better find someplace else to live.
The time has come to act decisively against our enemies, as only this will provide, in the long-term, the Jewish State with true peace and security.
True, the world will raise a fuss. The world has always cried out anytime Jews have stood up to defend themselves and their rights. The world has always been prepared to offer flowery eulogies over weak and dead Jews. I prefer the former over the latter.
Fighting for its rights means that the Jewish People are alive, proud and free.
If we are not prepared to stand up and fight for our rights, for our security, for a true, just and lasting peace -- one that where the Jewish People will be able to live as proud Jews in the State of Israel throughout the Land of Israel, then we have no future here in the Land of Israel, and we should do everyone a favor and pack our bags now.
I do not doubt for a moment that following this course of action will be difficult in the short term. But I do not believe it will be any more difficult than the pain and hardships involved in burying yet more dead Jews, murdered for comitting the crime of living as Jews in Israel.
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