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By Elyakim Haetzni - August 20th, 2007 - Some day we'll recall
these tranquil months of headlines devoted to road accidents
and minor scandals ­ the headlines of a society free from
existential cares -- as a fool’s paradise whose fools turned
a blind eye to the erupting volcano threatening to bury us all.
There was another summer like this one preceding Yom Kippur in
’73, but this time the surprise attack is being readied
from within, and the calamity will be diplomatic. I’m referring
to the ritual sacrifice that the Bush administration is preparing
for us this November that goes by the name of a “peace conference.”
The role of the sacrificial lamb will be filled by Jerusalem,
Judea, Samaria, hundreds of Jewish communities, and hundreds
of thousands of Jews that will become refugees in their own land
­ all this on the backdrop of national, societal, and diplomatic
collapse.
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- The kindling and the fire for the sacrifice will be brought
by Shimon Peres and his perpetual partner in crime, Terje Larsen.
Serving them are Haim Ramon, Ehud Olmert, and Abu Mazen. Spurring
them on are two evil and ambitious women who, like the most destructive
tornadoes, are called by cute nicknames: Tzippi and Condi. On
the tombstone the gravediggers will engrave the words “The
Diplomatic Horizon” (for the Palestinians) and/or “Principles
for the Final Status Agreement” and/or “Framework Agreement
for the Establishment of a Palestinian State.” The conference
will deal with “core issues”, that is to say it will
uproot the core and the heart of our hold on our land: Jerusalem,
borders, refugees, destruction of the settlements.
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- Discussions on these matters are being held continually and
urgently to the end of bringing the sacrificial lamb to Washington
on time, already bound and readied for slaughter. There are those
who are working to ensure that the sacrificial feast will be
well attended -- from Morocco in the West to the Gulf States
in the East. Israel’s enemies have waited 40 years for this
moment when Israel will be forced to regurgitate all that she
swallowed during the Six Day War. Their eyes will finally merit
to see the ceremony of subjugation whereby the Jews will return
to the Arabs their lost honor and resume their proper places.
To our enemies’ good fortune, manning the helm of Israel’s
ship of state is a man supremely appropriate to the task of self-administering
this coup de grace to the Jews -- a man dogged by failures and
accusations of corruption, whose personal attributes embody all
that is weak, rotten, spoilt, and foundering among the Jews in
their land at this hour . . .
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- At this “peace” conference, the enemies of Israel
from the East and from the West will dictate the decree that
Olmert and his friends are writing now in absolute secret together
with the Americans and the Arabs while the Israeli public, including
the national camp and the settlers, twiddle their thumbs. It’s
comforting to tell ourselves soothing tales such as how Olmert
is weak and Abu Mazen is even weaker, and that both of them lack
the standing and support among their people to undertake such
far-reaching diplomatic initiatives. There are no lack of such
rationalizing yarns. Whoever calms themselves in this way doesn't
understand the nature and quality of the liquidation ceremony
that’s being prepared for us.
- This ceremony doesn't require any strength, in fact it doesn't
require anything at all except for a declaratory statement, ink
on paper, the most feeble exhalation of breath, an effort that
even a dying man could make without difficulty. However, a declaration
like this is enough to bring about, in the words of Shimon Peres,
“the concluding chapter of the conflict with the Palestinians,”
and, in actual truth, the concluding chapter of Israel’s
independence. After this, Israel will be a state in name only.
In reality Israel will become a protectorate of the United Nations,
whose foreign policy and security are given into the hands of
the Quartet, and whose security, that is to say our lives, are
entrusted to international forces in the North, center, and South
of the country.
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- At the sacrificial peace conference in Washington, Israel
will likely obligate itself to establish a Palestinian state
on its ancestral inheritance. The capitol of the new state will
be Jerusalem, and not even one Jew will be allowed to live within
its boundaries. It doesn't matter that the conference will not
determine on which street in Jerusalem and over which hill or
through which valley the border will pass. It is of no significance
that the conference won't decide how many Arab “refugees”
we'll be forced to swallow. What will be determined, irrevocably
and eternally, this coming year or next year at the latest, is
Palestinian sovereignty as a diplomatic, international, fact
­ with finality. The rest truly isn't important. So too when
they signed the Oslo Accords with only the “Declaration
of Principles.” In its wake, as thunder follows lightning,
we were hit by the “interim agreement” with all its
details that demanded actualization: areas A, B, and C, the Palestinian
“police”, inserting a terror state infrastructure from
Tunis into our borders, and all the rest of the insane arrangements
that buried 1,500 Jews in their land and prepared the state for
its final act of self-immolation in the guise of a Palestinian
state that will turn life in this land into a living hell --
an irrevocable living hell.
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- It’s not important that the governmental apparatuses
of the Palestinian state will be weak or even non-existent. It
doesn't matter whether a prime minister or the head of some terrorist
faction will rule. It’s not important if this state has
no economy and will live on the handouts that Israel, the Europeans,
and the Americans pay to the gangsters as protection money for
a modicum of quiet. The world contains a number of such non-functional
states. Somalia, for example, is ruled by gangs of tribal thieves
and thugs, but that doesn't in the least detract from Somalian
sovereignty and from the land remaining the land of Somalia according
to international law. Herzl had a vision of a Jewish state arising
with international legal recognition. Now this vision has been
turned on its head, and a foreign entity is achieving international
recognition as sovereign over the Land of Israel. And who is
promoting this travesty? The Jews themselves.
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- What is the irredeemable, eternal meaning of Palestinian
sovereignty? When Israel liberated Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
and Gaza in the Six Day War, she didn’t conquer land that
belonged to any sovereign power. Neither Jordan in Judea and
Samaria nor Egypt in Gaza had any sovereign rights in those territories.
Both had invaded those territories in 1948 in order to frustrate
the League of Nations decision of November 29, 1947 recognizing
Israel. Egypt never claimed sovereignty over Gaza and established
military rule there from the beginning. Jordan, in contravention
of international law, attempted to establish sovereignty over
Judea and Samaria, but renounced this aspiration on its own initiative
in 1988.
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- Only because of this vacuum in sovereignty was Israel authorized
to utilize state lands to settle Jews in Yesha or to settle the
lands in any way. Had there been a legal sovereign before Israel’s
takeover of those territories, the Hague Convention would have
forbidden Israel from making fundamental changes to the status
quo, including the utilization of state lands. International
law views the conquering military administration as custodian
over the occupied territories until they are returned to the
original sovereign in a future peace agreement. Until then, the
conquered lands are held in trust by the occupying power. In
the same way, the conqueror is forbidden from excavating antiquities
located in occupied territories. They too are held in trust for
the conquered power that will eventually regain sovereignty.
Therefore, coins from the Great Revolt or the Bar Kochba Revolt,
bearing images of the Holy Temple and other Jewish symbols, will
belong to the Palestinians the moment they became sovereign over
Judea and Samaria; Israel will be obligated to give up all the
Jewish antiquities that she’s excavated since ’67.
All this we will bring upon ourselves the moment a Jewish hand
signs an agreement granting Palestinian sovereignty over the
Land of Israel.
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- For the Palestinians to win eternal sovereignty over our
homeland, it doesn’t matter that Abu Mazen today happens
to be weak, or if the day after signing an agreement he resumes
his alliance with Hamas, or that he resigns, or is assassinated.
From the moment that Palestine is declared a state, what is done
can never be undone. The Palestinians, of course, will instigate
terror and wars. The IDF might conquer Shechem over and over
again, but will always be forced to leave and return the land
to the Palestinian sovereign. This is because the land has become
Palestinian land according to international law from the moment
that Palestinian sovereignty is officially recognized. Just so
was Berlin conquered and destroyed and divided, but in the end
returned to Germany as its capitol. Just so the Nazis came and
went, but Germany remained.
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- I've already described how this scenario is viewed under
international law. The giants in the field, professors Stone,
Rostow, and Schwabel, have proven how the provisions of the Mandate
for Palestine, granted by the League of Nations to Britain over
the Land of Israel, are in force in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza
until this day. According to the Mandate, the area of the Land
of Israel is allocated under international law as the national
homeland of the Jewish nation ‘in recognition of the historic
right of the Jewish people to reestablish their national home
in Palestine’ (including, of course, Judea, Samaria, and
Gaza). Why are the provisions of the Mandate in force to this
day despite the fact that the League of Nations has passed from
the world and been replaced by the United Nations, and despite
the fact that England is no longer here? The professors have
explained that although a part of the lands of the Mandate have
become the internationally recognized State of Israel and although
another part of the lands of the Mandate east of the Jordan River
have become the internationally recognized State of Jordan, a
third part of the Mandate lands, that include Judea, Samaria,
Gaza, and East Jerusalem, were left without a recognized sovereign.
As long as international law doesn’t officially recognize
any other sovereignty, they'll continue to be governed by the
provisions of the Mandate, which states, inter alia, that state
lands are to be used for intensive Jewish settlement, to encourage
aliyah, and names the Jewish Agency as a tool to serve those
ends.
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- When will these Mandate provisions cease to apply? When another
sovereign will be declared over Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and Jerusalem.
In the first stage, Israel abdicated her right to declare her
sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and left those lands
undefined and ownerless. Now she is moving to the next stage,
the stage of the historic terminus of Jewish rights over the
Land of Israel, the stage of voluntary relinquishment of sovereignty
and of transferring her rights to an alien power. In all the
years of our exile and persecution, there was not found among
the Jewish people any authority willing to sever the people from
its beloved land. We had to return and persevere here for 120
years, undergoing difficult and bitter trials, in order to establish
a state authorized under international law to give the Land of
Israel a decree of divorce in the name of the Jewish People,
now and forever.
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- Intensifying the heartbreak is the fact that Judea, Samaria,
and Gaza are the only remaining territories on the entire earth
(excepting the South Pole) which remain ownerless ­ as if
an invisible hand guarded the ancient Jewish home for the Jewish
people. And now that people’s representative is pushing
away this hand in an act of historic betrayal that will resound
throughout the generations. Now the more we ground and strengthen
our claim that we’re the real and legal owners of Judea,
Samaria, Gaza, and Jerusalem, the more we’ll ground and
strengthen the newly acquired right of the Palestinians to those
lands. After all, who is most authorized to gift and grant ownership
over land if not the rightful owner? He and only he can legally
effectuate the transfer!
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- When this despicable act will be final, all else will flow
from it. Whether the Israeli army drags the Jews out by their
hair from their homes on land that has become “Palestine,”
or whether it will be left to the Palestinian murderers in uniform
to do the job by themselves, from the moment land comes under
Palestinian sovereignty, that will be the end of all Jewish life
there.
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- One can almost hear the destroyers talking, from Ramon to
Livni and from Olmert to Peres: Soon the Palestinians will come
and sweep away everything with a giant broom, the legal and established
cities together with the “illegal” outposts and hilltops.
Nothing will remain of the hated settlement enterprise, and together
with its disappearance will come the collapse of those that bore
it, the religious and national camps that endanger leftist rule.
Our rulers are an elite that sprouted from what used to be called
“the rule of the proletariat”, in whose name they meant
to appropriate the state in perpetuity. While the Socialist rationalizations
have passed from the world and the elites represent no one but
themselves, the socialist heirs still intend to rule in perpetuity.
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- I don't bother to ask, “Where is Netanyahu?” or
“Where is the Likud and its Knesset members?” at this
fateful hour. Neither am I asking where Lieberman is or what
Rav Ovadia and his party are doing. I'm asking the settlers whose
lands will be the first the Palestinian bulldozer overturns:
“Where are you?!” “Going up to Homesh”? The
return to Homesh isn't taking place in a void. Homesh is not
suspended in thin air. This enterprise only makes sense and has
purpose as part of a struggle for our continued existence in
Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and Jerusalem that is now in immediate
danger of destruction.
- We need to gather all the Jews ­ all those who remain
Jews ­ while there’s still time and embark on a struggle
to the bitter end in order to prevent at any price taking the
one step from which there’s no return, the one additional
step that will pull the ground from under us and fling us into
the abyss of Palestinian sovereignty.
- Remember, we've been warned!
- Elyakim HaEtzni
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