W r i t i n g s
Years 1974-6 5734-5-6
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
“Surely this nation is wise and understanding people.”
(Deuteronomy 4);
“Will you thus repay the L-rd, O foolish people and
unwise. . . “(Deuteronomy 32)
How is it that a wise people can be so incredibly
foolish? We were given free will to
choose either of the two above paths, and incredibly we chose to be a people,
foolish and unwise. . . the government
of Israel – and by conditioned reflex, the hapless Jewish Establishment in the
United States - is up in arms. Confusion, anger, indignation. Why?
The U.S. State Department has issued a study that concludes that the
Palestine Liberation Organization is the sole representative of the
“Palestinians.” And the Rabin government
is fuming. The foolish men of Jerusalem
who raised their eyes unto Washington and looked for salvation from Kissinger
and Ford and the Pentagon; the gentilized Hebrew speakers who placed their
faith and trust in the bruised and shattered reed of America. Mass confusion and dismay now reigns. How can the United States which just last
week refused to entertain the PLO as a party to talks; which eloquently
defended Zionism from the UN; which had Dr. Kissinger say that the security of
Israel is the cornerstone of American foreign policy in the Middle East, now
come dangerously close to endorsing the PLO as the spokesmen for the
“Palestinians?”
O foolish people and unwise.
Doubly foolish, unwise ten times over!
Foolish to have ever trusted the United States and unwise to have ever
believed that eventually Washington would not recognize the existence of the
PLO. WORSE! Foolish to have ever claimed that the PLO
does NOT represent the views of the “Palestinians” and unwise, mad, insane and
lunatic to think that one can admit to the existence of a “Palestine” people
and then insist on choosing their leaders for them.
Let it be clear that the United States is tired of Israel
and the political headache she represents.
Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger know that all the charades surrounding
Egypt and even Syria will be meaningless if the “Palestine” question is not
resolved. And they mean to resolve it no
matter how shattering that is to Israel.
They mean to resolve it within the context of the Rogers Plan and that
means the complete withdrawal of Israel from ALL the lands liberated in 1967
and the establishment of a “Palestine” in the areas of the West Bank and
Gaza. And this means that
“Palestinians” will be invited to peace talks and this means that the United
States will seek representatives of the “Palestinians” and as much as the
unwise gnash their teeth over it, the State Department is quite correct and the
Israelis are wrong and mad self-deluders.
Stop the nonsense from the mouths of Rabin and Peres and
Eban and all their foolish Miller, Jacobsen, Blumberg, and Fisher
followers. Stop the foolish babbling
that the PLO does not represent the thinking of the Arab dwellers of the
liberated lands, the “Palestinians.” The
fact is that if the Israeli government would allow an election to take place
and the PLO to run, the terrorists would win an overwhelming majority and among
the young and the intellectuals they would have almost unanimous support. The absurd denial of this is almost as absurd
as the Israeli statements that it will not recognize the PLO because it is a
“Terrorist” group. (How well that will
go over with the United States that sat in Paris with the Vietcong, the British
who negotiated with the MauMau and the French who settled with the Algerian
FLN!)
The clear fact is that the PLO DOES represent the great
majority of the Arabs in the liberated lands and the foolish and frantic
efforts of Peres, Alon and Rabin to dig up elderly Arab Uncle Toms and
Quislings of the effendi-sheik Ja’abri strips are doomed to ridiculous
failure. Let us understand one thing:
As long as the government of Israel insists on recognizing a
“Palestine People” they will have to recognize, sooner or later, the
representative of the “people” – the PLO.
It is only the foolish and the unwise who believe that they can,
somehow, have their cake and eat it too – recognize “Palestinians” and then
tell them who their leaders are and what boundaries of their country will
be! O foolish people and unwise. . .
Those who follow this course will not succeed in convincing
the world but will succeed grandly in confusing their own people, Jews in
Israel and abroad. It will only take one
little word (false) or recognition of Israel under the most absurd terms by the
PLO to have Jewish liberals and other confused types screaming for Israeli
recognition of the PLO. The cold, harsh,
logical fact remains immutable: IF YOU
RECOGNIZE A “PALESTINE” PEOPLE YOU MUST RECOGNIZE THOSE THAT THEY INSIST
REPRESENT THEM. And if the Israelis keep
telling the Jews of the world that there is a “Palestine” people then those
Jews will believe it and will insist that self-determination eventually be
given them – along with the right to elect the PLO.
The solution? To
become wise and understanding. To know that there is no “Palestine” and no
“Palestine people” and that neither PLO nor anyone else can represent a thing
that does not exist. Arabs in Judea,
Samaria, Gaza and the Golan? Certainly,
but no “Palestinians” a concept that cannot be unless Zionism died. But if Zionism did indeed live all the years
of exile and if Jews never gave up their hope to return, then every non-Jew who
ever set foot on Jewish soil was nothing more than a trespasser. He remains what he was before he
arrived. A Bedouin, an Arab, a Turk,
what have you. But a “Palestinian?” That
can only be if there is a “Palestine” and that can never be as long as the hope
of the Jew to return to Zion –Zionism – was and remains alive.
Written - November 28, 1975[This was the beginning of what we are living with today.bg]
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