Just Peace For Israel

Open Letter to the Prime Minister

The importance of voting your conscience, especially on an issue of grave importance such as Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria, could not be overstated.

On the historic date of June 7 1967, when Israel finally regained the Land of Judea and Samaria, the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and the rest of Jerusalem including the ancient Jewish Quarter and all that they represent, when three Arab states; Egypt, Syria and Jordan, openly promised to annihilate the Jewish People and take over our land, one would have the right to expect better from our government!

The high ground of Judea and Samaria, including all the communities, all the “settlements” and yes, Ulpana, are critical to Israel's defense and are the only reason why there were no major attacks from our hostile neighbors since 1973!

The Western World, the EU and the Obama Administration may choose to continue to play dumb on the issue of Israel's rights in Judea and Samaria and continue to promote “The Two State Solution,” despite the fact that such a “solution” is not possible practically and politically. In the event of such a “solution,” Israel will no longer be viable or defensible! True, they are promoting the Arab goal of dismantling Israel in stages, but Israel should not participate voluntarily in this macabre joke!!!

Judea and Samaria are our land, historically and legally, so recognized by the League of Nations in 1922. It I time, Mr Prime Minister, for the Jewish State, the State of Israel, to openly state that fact!

Again and again, Israel is not obliged to provide citizenship to a hostile population living among us who want nothing but our destruction. Again, democracy is not a suicide pact!!!

The only relevant UN resolution – Resolution 242 – states clearly that the parties to the conflict, the Arabs and the State of Israel, will negotiate between them a peace agreement without coercion and that the parties, including Israel, will have recognized, secure and defensible borders.

Israel's defensible borders lie at the Jordan River, and no amount of coercion and pressure from the EU or Mr. Obama can change that fact nor the wording of UN Resolution 242!

The facts on the ground are clear: The fake “Palestinians” on our land, as well as their masters, don't want peace with Israel. They want to usurp our land!! The peace agreement with Egypt is a good example. Despite giving up the entire Sinai Peninsula, the peace agreement remained cold, and many provisions of that treaty unfulfilled or totally ignored, and now, after the Egyptian revolution, the treaty hangs by a thread with a great majority of Arabs totally opposed to it!! Treaties in this part of the world are not permanent!! The sad truth is that the Arabs aren't interested in peace with Israel!!

Mr. Prime Minister, under ideal conditions, a wide coalition would be beneficial to the state and the people of Israel. A united people in a national unity government at a time when our nation still faces many challenges and many dangers, would indeed be ideal. However, the wide chasm that still exists between the coalition partners can not be reconciled, between the Likud platform – your platform in the last elections, and the other major players, who still vainly hope for peace with the Arabs, despite all the facts to the contrary and are ready to sacrifice defensible borders and a viable Israel for a chimera!!

Mr. Prime Minister, you can be very persuasive – it is time to present the facts of life to your coalition partners and our friends in the EU as well as the Obama Administration.

Friends and Foes

TO ALL AM ISRAEL

The greatness of American presidents has always been judged by their effectiveness against their enemies. Harassing friendly nations does not enhance their standing in the eyes of history.

The current US President will not attain greatness by attempting to bring Israel to its knees and turning a blind eye to the aggressors of the world.

Iran is moving ever closer to building an atomic weapon, large quantities of highly enriched uranium would lead to a large arsenal of atomic weapons, obviously not all intended against Israel.

Mr. Obama and the subservient EU leaders are sitting on their hands attempting to prevent even Israel from exercising its natural right of national self defense!!

Worse, Obama's public hostility towards Israel has emboldened the Jihadists in our region. Worse yet, he “demands”(!!) that Israel capitulate to the Jihadist aggressors!!

Israel has regained Judea and Samaria – historically the Land of Israel - in a war of self defense as well as its holy places in Jerusalem, illegally occupied by Jordan. Similarly, the Golan was taken from Syria after years of aggression against Israel.

UN Resolution 242 came into being following the 1967 war. The Resolution provides for secure and defensive borders for Israel. It does not provide for rewarding Arab aggression. The resolution makes no mention of the fake “Palestinians”, let alone to create a state for the proxies of the Arab League in the heart of Israel!

Mr. Obama's “demands” have no basis in International Law. The friendship of the American and the Jewish People and Israel, will survive the hostility of its current president. His popularity is waning.

Israel must guard its population and its current borders. To do otherwise would be dangerous folly.

Israel can not always please its allies particularly when national security is at stake. We must remain strong and vigilant!

As we have just celebrated Passover, our festival of freedom from slavery, we must rededicate ourselves to protect our freedom and our land.

UN Security Council Resolution 242, November 22, 1967

This post is taken form The Indictment by Sabina Citron, Appendix 9 pages 343, 344. The entire book is available for free download in pdf format here

Following the June ‘67, Six-Day War, the situation in the Middle East was discussed by the UN General Assembly, which referred the issue to the Security Council. After lengthy discussion, a final draft for a Security Council resolution was presented by the British Ambassador, Lord Caradon, on November 22, 1967. It was adopted on the same day.

This resolution, numbered 242, established provisions and principles which, it was hoped, would lead to a solution of the conflict. Resolution 242 was to become the cornerstone of Middle East diplomatic efforts in the coming decades.

The Security Council, Expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East,

Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security, Emphasizing further that all Member States in their acceptance of the Charter of the United Nations have undertaken a commitment to act in accordance with Article 2 of the Charter,

 

1. Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following

principles:

1. Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
2. Termination of all claims or states of belligerency andrespect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
2. Affirms further the necessity
   1. For guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international waterways in the area;
   2. For achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem;
   3. For guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political independence of every State in the area, through measures including the establishment of demilitarized zones;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to designate a Special Representative to proceed to the Middle East to establish and maintain contacts with the States concerned in order to promote agreement and assist efforts to achieve a peaceful and accepted settlement in accordance with the provisions and principles in this resolution;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the progress of the efforts of the Special Representative as soon as possible. Adopted unanimously at the 1382nd meeting.

To All Am Israel Message of April, 27 2007

The first responsibility of government, any government, is to defend its people and its borders.

Israel has had to defend its people and its borders in several wars of unprovoked Arab aggression - aggression with genocidal intent!

Israel’s leaders, from Menachem Begin to Yitzhak Rabin, swore never to go back to the 1949 armistice lines, which Abba Eban called “Auschwitz borders”!

UN Resolution 242 called for defensible borders for Israel. There was no reference to the mythical “Palestinians” nor was there any question about Israel’s sovereignty over its ancient land.

As we commemorate Yom Hashoah, its martyrs and heroes; as we commemorate and celebrate the return to our land from the horrors of our long exile; as we commemorate our heroes, who gave their lives in defense of our land, and as we celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, we must rededicate ourselves to the safe future of our people and our land.

Peace will come when our enemies tire of hostility, aggression, terrorism and poisonous propaganda; when they educate their children not for suicide missions, but for peace,

- THEN PEACE WILL INDEED REIGN IN THIS TROUBLED REGION.