What hasn't the Left
done to sustain the fantasy they've been promoting? The other side of
that fantasy is flinging it in our faces: We aren't interested in an end
to the conflict; we do not recognize the right of the Jewish people to
any sliver of the State of Israel, not even to the Florentin
neighborhood in the heart of Tel Aviv. All of it comprises an Islamic
waqf belonging to the Palestinians, who have existed since God created
the world.
(This week, new
revelations about the Big Bang theory were published. Immediately, it
was asked, "Who caused the Big Bang?" What kind of question is that? The
Palestinians.)
But on the Left,
business as usual. Nahum Barnea was lamenting over the outcome of the
last nine months of negotiations, writing, "Every gamble has two
parties, a swindler and a fool. That also applies to the
Israeli-Palestinain conflict; and in this case, our prime minister is
not the fool." Barnea is an expert at injecting venom into his political
enemies, but the depth of depravity in his writing represents his
fundamental standing alongside the Palestinians. Poor little Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, he wrote, he could have lied as
Arafat did, but he chose integrity, proclaiming, "First of all, no!"
Then, alas, he "fell into the trap."
So what are Saeb
Erekat, Nabil Shaath or the rest of these "Israel lovers" to us, when so
many Israeli journalists have accepted the Ramallah group's narrative
anyway -- namely, that Israel is just toying with the Palestinians and
isn't actually interested in peace. It is no accident that Barnea used
the term "gamble." It's what members of his circle have been doing for
years: betting on our future because they're in a hurry to get rid of
the "territories," as they've nicknamed our beloved country.
Let's go over this
again: The demand to recognize the Jewish state is not caprice. It marks
the core, the root of the conflict over the 20th century: Do the Jews
have a right as a nation to a part of this land? If there's no
recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the
conflict will persist even after the ratification of an overdue "peace
deal." If Israel is not the country of the Jewish people, indeed Jews
have no right to any of its territory. The Israelis are marauders,
colonialists, even within Israel's narrow boundaries.
Because of this, the
international boycott movement and the scores of left-wing organizations
will continue the battle inside the little State of Israel -- and here
too the despicable "apartheid" claim will be thrown around; after all,
there is a 20-percent non-Jewish population in Israel, and the Law of
Return applies only to Jews. Although Arabs have equal civil rights,
they have no national rights, and that's where the demand for an
autonomous status for Israeli Arabs comes in -- the Jews do not have
national rights over "little Israel." A democratic, Jewish state will be
defined as racist ethnocentrism (Haaretz already refers to Israel this
way), and voices around the world calling to transform Israel into "a
state of all its nationalities" and remove official Jewish
characteristics from the public sphere will gain traction.
* * *
"What will you do with a
21-percent Palestinian population?" Shaath asked on the radio. This is a
widespread lie. The figure relates to different minorities -- Muslims,
Christians, Circassians, Druze and more, many of whom do not identify
with the Palestinians. But let us, just for the sake of it, ponder "what
we will do with them": They already get equal civil rights, much more
than other Arabs in the Middle East. And the fact is that they do not
want Palestinian citizenship.
But the national right
in Israel belongs to one nation alone, and it is the only country that
belongs to this people the world over: the Jews. Recognizing that is an
extremely important condition for concluding this conflict and putting
an end to further demands. It is a litmus test for testing the integrity
of Palestinian intentions. Refusing to recognize this should signal the
catalyst propelling this conflict's existence. It is not about
territory, but our legitimate existence as the Jewish nation in our
land. Don't you understand?
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