130,000 JEWS ‘ON THE BLUIE’
In a speech before the Knesset’s plenum in its special Herzl Day session, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu laid down five conditions for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority Arabs. These are:
1. The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish nation’s state.
2. The treaty must be an end to the conflict.
3. The Arab refugee problem must be solved outside of Israel’s borders.
4. A Palestinian state will have to be demilitarized and a peace treaty must safeguard Israel’s security.
5. The settlement blocs will remain within the state of Israel and Jerusalem will remain its united capital.
Elsewhere, in his presentation, he indicated ‘safeguard’ to mean the presence of the IDF must continue along the Jordan River. Additionally, his terms indicate Jews not living in ‘major settlements’ will presumably be expelled. MP Katz estimates the number of expellees at 130,000.
Two points present themselves instantly: The Arabs have previously rejected, out of hand, the conditions Netanyahu has spelled out for them and; after the expulsions from Gaza, it must be arguable that one hundred and thirty thousand Jews will refuse to go.
So far as Arab rejection of Israel’s existence is concerned, they rely on the West to reject those terms also. In fact, current plans are to test the endorsement of the West in a September push for Palestinian statehood to be declared by the UN.
Regarding expulsion of Jews, we see the problem of Arabs attempting to expel Jews as leading to a far more aggressive IDF involvement, probably in the face of UN attempts to portray Israel as a violent aggressor.
So while nothing new has been brought into the equation, aside from a little clarity on the part of Bibi, the air of confrontation has been somewhat warmed up.
The Arab World, despite recent rumblings of internal discontent in a number of states, remains pathologically committed to the destruction of Israel. It’s their religion, both that of the Qura’n and that of their global propaganda indoctrination. The idea of peace with a ‘palestinian state’ which teaches its children from infancy to hate all Jews and Israel is a contradiction in terms.
All along, we have said the problem for decades has been the insistence of Israel and Jewish leaders in playing the role of ‘nice guys’. Nice moral Jews remain calm and peaceful despite provocation and attack. This is misconstrued in the West as an Israeli concession toward the Arab argument. A legitimisation of palestinian claims.
This ‘weakness’ in Israel is understood totally by the Arabs. They know their victim well and the appreciate the fact, the Free World to a large extent shares this fatal vulnerability.
So all along we have assumed there will be a final solution.
Not that all Jews are entitled to be aloof from and protected from the carnage that must come. Just as millions, even billions, in the West, the East, among Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and every other creed or tenet must fall in the conflict that comes, those who survive will be exceptional in that they will comprise “The Pure in Heart”.
The conflict facing Mankind is a spiritual conflict.
Everything in the mortal world is spiritual. Everything that does exist, existed first spiritually before it could exist temporally. Every thought, word and deed is shaped in the spirit before it comes into existence in the mortal world.
Mortality was created for the benefit of Mankind. No other test would exert the defining criterion of a ‘Flaming, two-edged sword, sharp enough to sever the sinew from the bone’. Only the test of the individual, the test of how each living individual would exercise thought, word and deed, could be accepted by all of Mankind for all Eternity.
And as Time is now running short, particularly in the words of the Prophets, the vast majority, those who by their personal exercise of agency self-select themselves for destruction, will die.
In fact, History advances upon us so rapidly it’s astonishing there are not thousands rising up today to rebuke all political and religious leaders. The tidal wave of History is upon us and must repeat itself as it always has-in History.
So a failure in Bibi, of not simply declaring Israel “From the River to the Sea”, will not greatly contribute either to peace or war. The Global conflict between Enmity and the Sons of Adam was set in place thousands of years ago and races to denouement.
What the Arabs say or do about Israel is merely indicative of what Mankind will do about Mankind. Evil is afoot and war comes.
Rai
On the Bluie – jargon for one who carries his belongings on his back, as rolled in a blue blanket.