In this part of the world the weak do not survive, nor do nations unwilling to fight for their land. Only if we restore our will to fight to preserve our country and people and put an end once and for all to withdrawals which provoke aggression, signal weakness and betray our national aims, can we hope, one day, to live in peace.

Michael Kleiner is a member of the Knesset representing the Herut Party.

Kosovo Reconsidered

Elyakim Haetzni

The issue of Kosovo is not dead and buried and is highly relevant to Jews living in Israel. Nevertheless, it is being kept out of the limelight and removed from the international agenda. Remember the bombings? Remember the trains of Albanian deportees which NATO's well-oiled propaganda machine compared to the trains transporting the Jews to Auschwitz--no less? Getting down to the main thing, do you remember the rumor mills about genocide, holocaust, which the Serbs were presumably perpetrating on the Moslem Kosovars? Ethnic cleansing and genocidethese were the key words dangled before the eyes of the enlightened world to exonerate the bombing which killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent Serbian civilians, and to justify the conquest of Kosovo by the Allies, headed by the Americans and the Germans.

Let me admit here, that I too fell into the snare. Initially, I supported the Serbs, out of a gut feeling that they were the victims of the same type of disinformation and character assassination tactics which the "enlightened West" is perpetrating upon us as well. Nonetheless, when in the end I saw pictures displaying piles and heaps of corpses, I too supported the NATO countries' military intervention. I thought in my heart that if a similar readiness had existed during the Holocaust, and more exactly on the eve of the Holocaust, who knows how many millions could have been saved.

Kosovo presently has been, for quite a number of months, ruled by a military government acting under the UN aegis, and the truth is slowly surfacing. But this is a truth that is inconvenient to the western powers. It negates their pro-Islamic and anti-Serb interests and therefore the hostile world media, whose victims, in this case are the Serbs, is silent and is squelching that truth.

Fact: There was no genocide in Kosovo. The Serbs did not murder 100,000 as the Americans contended. UN investigators have uncovered 5,000 corpses -- victims of the civil war, of pogroms. There was no proof as to pre-meditated extermination planned by the Serbian government. On the other hand, in the course of seven months after the end of Serbian rule, the Albanians have managed to murder 705 Serbs, kidnapped 630 -- of whom 69 were murdered.

Fact: After the Serbian rule ended, ethnic cleansing began in the opposite direction. The Albanians are transferring Serbs and the gypsies who supported them. Thus far, 250,000 Serbs and 100,000 gypsies have been expelled. Whole districts have been emptied of their inhabitants and all this took place under the benevolent rule of the U.N. and the NATO countries. And why does a liberal and bleeding-heart world keep silent? Because while ethnic cleansing of Albanian Moslems is a crime and an abomination, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs is a necessary evil, an enlightened political solution. In Israel this rings a bell.

The liberals planted indelibly, as with a white hot iron, the stigma of racism on Rabbi Kahane and his followers, for one reason only: they supported the transfer of Arabs. But in the mind of that very same Israeli, the transfer of Jews from the Golan or Judea-Samaria is not considered racism, Kahanism or Fascism. On the contrary, ethnic cleansing of Jews is "O.K." because it constitutes a "separation of populations", necessary to facilitate "peace." Why is that so? Because it depends on what peace we are dealing with. The Romans, who were not so hypocritical, called their peace Pax Romana -- a Roman peace. America and Europe are enforcing an Arab peace, an Islamic peace, at the expense of the Jews and Serbs and they would do the same at the expense of the Russians in Chechnya, if they only could, but here the Russians put an end to this game.

Fact: Together with the expulsion of the Serbs from Kosovo, 50,000 Serb homes have been plundered and burned. Likewise, 78 churches and monasteries have been bombed, burned, and plundered. Some of these monasteries were 500 to 600 years old--a historical loss to human civilization. All this occurred under the vigilant gaze of the UN and NATO authorities. No protest demonstrations on the Israeli Sabra-Shatilla "400,000" rally model occurred in London, Paris, Berlin or Washington. No one invoked Justice Kahan's inquiry committee principle of "indirect responsibility," which put the blame for Christian Arabs killing Muslim Arabs on territory occupied by Israel's military squarely on the

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