Thursday, May 31, 2007

Gotta Love Israeli MK Avigdor Lieberman!!

And I'm not being facetious. He will propose a great idea to PM Olmert, an idea I had ages ago.

The idea goes like this: Hey, Palestinians! You want your own state? You got it. We're going to completely withdraw from Gaza, close the borders, stop supplying you with economic support, water, and electricity, and declare you an enemy state to the State of Israel. Continues Lieberman: "We must sever all connections with Gaza and declare it an independent enemy entity. There is no reason Egypt cannot supply the electricity and water for Gaza and let the European Union build infrastructure and provide security if they care about the poor Palestinians so much. Membership in the axis of evil has a heavy price—financially, politically, and militarily.” For the complete article, click here.

Awesome. I may be pretty left wing when it comes to American politics and even Frumkeit, but when it comes to Israel, the security of Jews there, and politics there, I'm pretty darn far to the right. It's been forty years, and despite repeated good faith efforts by the Israelis, the Arabs in YESHA (Yehuda, Shomron, and Gaza) have time and again rebuffed any efforts at peace and have sabotaged pretty much every effort made by Israel.

Now, it's time to let go. It sucked that Israel had to give up Gaza, a part of Eretz Yisrael that rightfully belongs to the Jews, but if we had to give it, we need to give it up completely. It's time to stop pandering to the Arabs and it's time for them to start taking responsibility for themselves. Don't like it? Tough. You've had plenty of chances at peace, and you've squandered all of them. If, once the borders are closed and the Israelis completely disassociate from you, you decide to kill each other off, your problem. If you decide to attack Israel, you are declaring war and you are fair game. If you decide you want to try for true peace and accept that Israel is there to stay, good too. Whatever. But now it's time for the Palestinians to start taking responsibility for themselves, grow up, join the 21st century and start acting like civilized people, not a bunch murderous gangs of thugs who can't even get along with each other, much less with neighboring countries.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gaza is part of of Eretz Yisro'eil? All of it? That's new to me.

Am Kshe Oref - A Stiff-Necked People said...

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

And here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/greater-israel-maps.htm

And here: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story1045.html

And here: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Land_of_Israel

And this: Bamidbar 34:1-15 describes the land allocated to the Israelite tribes after the Exodus. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh received land east of the Jordan as explained in Bamidbar 34:14-15. Numbers 34:1-13 provides a detailed description of the borders of the land allocated to the remaining tribes. The region is called "the Land of Canaan" (Eretz Kna'an) in Bamidbar 34:2 and the borders are known in Jewish tradition as the "borders for those coming out of Egypt". The English expression "Promised Land" can denote either the land promised to Abraham in Genesis or the land of Canaan, although the latter meaning is more common.

Had enough?

Am Kshe Oref - A Stiff-Necked People said...

Oh. And glad I could teach you something new.:)

The back of the hill said...

I saw that article on channel seven too. It's a lovely idea. But, at the risk of sounding like a scratchy record, count on the Europeans to find a reason to object, count on the Europeans to find a reason to object, count on the Europeans to.....

My friend Munzer refers to the folks currently dominating Gaza as a bunch of gangsters, and says he wishes the Israelis would take it back, if only for a little while, so that he can sell his property there and tell his kinfolk to go "ferp" themselves.

Am Kshe Oref - A Stiff-Necked People said...

In general, there are a bunch of thugs. I used to live in Shomron. We befriended a Palestinian worker in our town. He used to come to us for Turkish coffee, we used to go pick figs in his father's orchard, and it was a nice friendship. Until. Until my father asked hiim one day what would happen if there were a war between our peoples and my father and Yousouf met on the battle field and Yousouf had the upper hand. Would he kill my father? Yousouf answered that yes, he would, because his father, the mufti of his town, commanded it, but he would do it with tears in his eyes. These people have no honor, no regard for friendship, and no regard for human life. It's sad, and I know I sound racist, but I'm not. I'm a realist. Yes, I'm sure many, maybe even most Palestinians would prefer to just live their lives without all the misery caused by this war, but with the terrorist gangs controlling the PA, the common person has no power and has to follow orders on pain of death.

I vas just following orders. Sound familiar?