Like two well-trained ballet dancing partners who no longer need to practicetogether, the enemies of peace from both sides jumped into action. Eachknew exactly what to do.
On the morning after the signing of the Wye Accords, Moslem extremistscarried out an attack. Jewish settlers immediately responded withan act of “revenge.” The Moslems demanded that the implementation of theAccords be stopped immediately. The Jews demanded that the implementationof the Accords be stopped immediately. And so on and so forth, for theumpteenth time.
Since Judaism and Islam have a lot in common, the actions of eachreligion’s extremist side are quite similar. The same beliefs, thesame goals, the same methods. And the same mendacity.
It is permitted to lie for the sacred goal. In fact, it is a requirement.As the Bible commands: Thou shalt wage war with deceit.
On the Jewish side, the deceit revolves entirely around the concept of”security.” The leaders of the messianic “Black Revolution” knowperfectly well that the public is not about to mobilize for theinsane cause of settlements in the heart of Palestinian territory.Only few are prepared to die for the cause of “Greater Israel.”Slogans such as “Not an inch” and “Liberated territory will not berelinquished” evoke nowadays only a derisive chuckle.
Every Israeli wants “security.” Jewish history, the holocaust, a centuryof struggle on the land — all of these have created a hunger forabsolute, total security, unlike anywhere else in the world. In the nameof such security, any abomination can be justified, the most revoltingthing can be made pure, and any intention can be disguised.
Which is why the settlers no longer speak of the bells of salvation,of the days of Messiah, of the cleansing of the land of the “Ishmaelites”(see Sefi Rakhlevsky’s book “The Messiah’s Donkey”). The seedsof insanity have found their way to Hebron and a dozen other sites,all in the name of security. Now these places have to be defended inthe name of security. The return of one percent of the West Bankendangers their concept of security. Peace itself is a terribledanger to security.
This is, of course, a completely false claim. In truth, security is anentirely inconsequential matter to these settlers and their admirers.They are prepared to risk their children’s lives every day in order toreach their goal. In their view, the secularists are the Seed of Amalek,and their deaths are insignificant. But they have succeeded so well withthis brainwashing about security that all the Israeli mediahave bought it, repeating this lie every day. For the sake ofsecurity, Netanyahu is prepared to put an end to the peace processand lead the country into a new century of regionalnuclear-chemical-biological warfare.
All that it would take to burst this bubble of deceit would be the answerto one simple question: If the problem of security were to be absolutelysolved, would the fanatics be willing then to turn over the entire WestBank and the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians? To dismantle thesettlements? To reach compromise on the matter ofJerusalem? The answer is, of course, an absolute “NO.” End of thelie.
For the Palestinian extremists, the big lie is now called “humanrights.” Anyone who wants to bury the peace process talks of “humanrights.” Left-wingers, who not too long ago worshipped Stalin andjustified the slaughter of millions, now have taken up the cause ofhuman rights in Ramallah. Religious fanatics, whose entire aim isto establish in Palestine a government like that of the Taliban inAfghanistan, or at the very least like that of Homeini in Iran, speakall day long about “human rights” which are being trampled by theabominable Palestinian Authority.
Public polls indicate that the vast majority of the Palestinianpopulation wants peace. It cannot be swayed by the vision of afundamentalist regime that imprisons its womenat home and which abdicates all of its power in favor of an extremereligious faction. That public no longer believes in the religiousdecree that turns all of Palestine into an islamic “Wakf” (islamicproperty) which would prohibit Palestinians from relinquishing asquare inch to the Jews. Palestinians yearn for peace and quiet, andthey believe that Arafat can deliver it.
Which is why the extremists do not speak of their true goals, except whenamong themselves, in their homes and in their mosques. Outside, theyspeak of human rights. The evil Arafat persecutes those innocentfaithful who have done no wrong. He violates human rights.
The Internet is full of their noise. Their words are disseminated allover the world, courtesy of the Israeli media.
However, here, too, one can ask just one simple question: Were Arafat tosanctify every single human right, and if the Palestinianpolice were to behave like its Swiss counterparts — wouldthen the religious extremists cease their war against thePalestinian Authority and the peace process?
The Moslem extremists play dumb: They are not trying to undermine Arafatat all, they say, nor to fight the elected Palestinian government.God forbid they should raise their hand against their Palestinianbrothers. All they want is to carry out bloody acts against theIsraelis. So why is Arafat so hostile to them?
This is a very sophisticated lie. The Palestinian Authority, like anyelected government, is expected to run state affairs. To that end, itmust have control over all of the armed forces. It can not allowsplinter armed factions to wage their private wars, because this wouldprevent any chance of setting a national strategic course, to conductstate affairs and sign agreements. Those who plant a bomb inthe Mahane Yehuda marketplace of West Jerusalem intend to destroy theagreement signed by Arafat, and in this manner, destroy the electedgovernment of the Palestinian Authority. It is a direct assault onPalestinian democracy. But talk of human rights is intended todeceive the Palestinian public.
It is all very simple: The Israelis deserve security. Naturally. ThePalestinians deserve human rights. Naturally. But the Israelis will notachieve security through the settlers, just as the Palestinians will notachieve their human rights from Hamas and Jihad. Both will lead todisaster, bloodshed and mutual hatred. And in order to fight theextremists of both sides, one must first rip off their masks.