By Jack Engelhard
December 4, 2005
Two recent headlines make sense alone, but not together. One, Ariel Sharon will not tolerate a nuclear Iran. Two, Sharon will take Israel out of the West Bank.
So this is the question. Why worry about a bomb from the outside when, O Israel, you're doing such a good job bombing yourself from the inside?
Israel's leaders are so obsessed about Iran's nuclear intentions that they forget what we all know from this distance here in America, especially those of us who once served over there - Israel has already been nuked, by itself. The departure from Gaza -- what was that? Maybe it wasn't nuclear, but it is nuclear enough to the thousands of Jews who were displaced and misplaced out of Gush Katif and are now living virtually penniless in tent cities.
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David Hatuel lost his pregnant wife and four beautiful daughters as "sacrifices for peace." Should he worry about Iran's bomb? No. He's already given.
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On Sharon's watch, more than one thousand, three hundred Israelis have been murdered by Arab terrorists, more than ten thousand have been injured and maimed, and Sharon is worried about bombs from Iran? Why bother? The same bombing, in different forms, has been going on for the past five years, and just because it wasn't nuclear, that does not make it less lethal, especially to the dead and to those who still mourn them.
David Hatuel lost his pregnant wife and four beautiful daughters as "sacrifices for peace." Should he worry about Iran's bomb? No. He's already given.
There are two kinds of terrorism; the quick and the slow. We had the quick, 9/11, and Israel has the slow, terror that comes in doses. But there is no difference between these two, except that we awoke (more or less) and Israel is asleep, lulled by deadly attacks that are measured out, in drips and drabs, to avoid nationwide panic and mobilization.
If Israel's leaders, as they proceed to auction off the land at Sotheby's, clear out of Biblical territory, Judea and Samaria, then they will have surely deposited more good Jewish land to be wasted by jihadists, same as in Gaza - and this, too, is hardly any different from a nuclear attack. What's the difference? The fall-out? There's already plenty of fall-out in those tent cities. Visit those places and see what the aftermath of "disengagement" is like.
At this rate, Israel's executive branch, its cabinet, its legislature, its courts (and its news media), are nearly as much of a threat to Israel's security as a salvo of bombs from Iran. Their generosity to their enemies is near boundless, as is their disdain for their fellow Jews, especially if those Jews differ from the agenda of the moment.
Corruption in high places equals a nuclear attack and is sometimes more viral because it makes no big bang. Extreme leftists who dominate Israel's High Court are, in their own way, wiping Israel off the map, certainly its reputation for justice. Thirteen year old Israeli girls still sit in jail for civil disobedience (and nothing more) because from the lower courts to the highest court these youngsters were found to have an "ideology."
Or rather, an ideology that departs from the prevailing ideology. What is to be done with such girls? Shall we send them to "reorientation" camps to be brainwashed, as they used to do in the Soviet Union and as they still do in China and North Korea - and probably in Iran as well?
Israel is indeed a kingdom of priests, certainly in hi tech, agriculture and medical advances. These are good people, a near holy people, living on holy land. No nation of its size matches Israel for creativity and productivity. But all that is at risk, yes, from Iran. But that's tomorrow.
Today's nuclear explosions keep coming from the inside, silently, stealthily, craftily, in the form of high government defilement.
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