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made it seem that everything is negotiable, thus
strengthening the hand of those who denounce Israel as the
obstacle to peace. Even Arafat's inviting of Hamas into
his brutal Palestinian Authority has not led Netanyahu to
say, "enough! It's over!" The miracles of 1948 and 1967
have been all but cast away. Night is approaching.
Three thousand three hundred and eight years ago, the faithless spies whipped the people into a frenzy of surrender and fear. They preferred returning to Egypt as today many Israelis prefer the shopping malls of the coastal plain and perhaps after that, fleeing to Long Island when Arafat, Assad and Yassin arrive to claim what they insist they want. When Joshua and Caleb stood in the breach steadfastly declaring, "The Land is very, very good! You should not fear the people of the Land for the Lord is with us," they were stoned. And so it is today. Raviv is free, while Har-Shefi goes to jail. Journalists who doctored tapes of Netanyahu are excused after a lame apology, while Arutz 7 is raided. Shimon Peres flounces around the world making speeches about internationalism while Rabbi and Rabbanit Melamed are interrogated by the police.
Continuing surrender of Land makes Israel defenseless and threatens to turn history's most miraculous and important renewal into a nightmare. Yaakov Katz, Rabbi Melamed, David Wilder and Gary Cooperberg of Hebron, its Rabbi, Eliezer Waldman, Yoel Tzur of Beit El who lost his wife and son to Arab murderers in December 1996, all who protest this surrender are themselves the cornerstone of an Israel that can live. They are the leaders of whatever future Israel has. If enough people stand with them, perhaps it will happen that toward evening time, there will be light.
Eugene Narrett is a Professor of English who teaches at Boston University.
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Israel's "peace partners"(!) is exposed by the
Middle East Media and Research Institute, which provides
verbatim translations of the Arab media. Here,
among countless examples, is one from the Palestinian
Authority daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida of July 2, 1998:
"What Hitler did to the Jews actually exposed the Jewish plot. World public opinion, manipulated by the Jews, took advantage of these [persecutions], disseminating stories about a collective massacre. They concocted horrible stories of gas chambers which Hitler, they claimed, used to burn them alive. The press overflowed with pictures of Jews being gunned down by Hitler's machine guns or being pushed into gas chambers. The [press] focused on [suffering] women, children and elderly people in order to rouse empathy and claim reparations, donations, and grants from around the world. The truth is that such persecution was a malicious fabrication by the Jews. It is a myth which they named 'The Holocaust' in order to arouse empathy."
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to purge the nation of the Oslo nightmare Rabin,
Peres and their friends have visited upon it. As surely as
the sun rises in the east, that day will come. And as
surely as it sets in the west, those who treated the laws of
the Jewish State like so much toilet tissue will be brought
to answer for their deeds under the Penal Code of Israel.
William Mehlman is a member of the Executive Committee of Americans For a Safe Israel.
(Excerpts from a report by news correspondent Shimon Schiffer in the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, June 26, 1998.)
Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Eliahu Ben-Elissar met on June 22, 1998, with members of the U.S. National Security Council responsible for Middle Eastern affairs, among them Bruce Reidell.
During the meeting, Ben-Elissar expressed his surprise that the U.S. arms Egypt with the
most modern weapons and plans to increase military
funding for Egypt.
"We ask ourselves," Ben-Elissar told the NSC members, "who is Egypt arming itself against? Against Libya? Against Sudan? Why should we be punished twice--once for our readiness to forego part of the civilian aid given to us and once by increasing the American aid to Egypt?"
The NSC members replied that "Egypt negotiates to receive aid with the American Government. You run to the Congress and try to bypass us via the chairmen of the congressional budget committees."
(Courtesy of Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director,
Independent Media Review & Analysis [IMRA])
July-August 1998 - 11 - Outpost