What's So Different?!

Yaffa Ganz quietly summarizes where we're at with the Road Map.

The currently favored remedy in our eternal march towards 'Peace' is the Road Map, the latest in a long line of plans to divide, weaken, dismember or otherwise incapacitate the Jewish State.

Since the Balfour Declaration in 1917, we have seen a constant parade of proposals and activities — partition plans, borders drawn and redrawn, military clashes, full fledged wars, cease fires, armistice lines, resolutions, unending conferences and now the 'hudna' (we'll see how long that lasts...). All were contrived to reach the ultimate Middle East Peace. There was the pre-state Peel Commission; the U.N. partition plans; Resolutions 181, 194 and 242; the Rogers Plan; the Geneva and Madrid conferences and the touted Oslo accords. Shaaram El Sheik, Wye, Camp David, Taaba have all hosted peace and problem solving assemblies. Kissinger, Reagen, Shultz, Baker, Ross, Clinton, Tenet, Zinni, the Saudis, and now President Bush have all contributed their combined wisdom, alas, to no avail.

The one thing in common with each and every one of these plans, suggestions, partitions and agreements is that each and every one necessitated additional Israeli withdrawals, restrictions and capitulation, compensated, of course, by inviolable international guarantees and promises of future support. The Arabs accepted or signed a good many of these agreements and then promptly proceeded to violate, break, trample upon and make a mockery of every single one.

As in the present hudna, Arab agreements with the enemy are a temporary, tactical ploy. Talk of a 'two-state solution' is a step towards a Judenrein Middle East.Their war against the Jews is not a political situation capable of compromise and solution; it is a war of victory or death, an honorable and historical Arab way of life.

When Jewish settlement to Palestine began to increase 200 years before the establishment of the Jewish State, when Palestine was a far-flung province of the Ottoman Empire and the Arab population of Palestine (which then included Transjordan) was very small and scattered, the Arabs still attacked, waged war, terrorized, slaughtered, stole and did their utmost to destroy any sign of new Jewish settlement. Yet this settlement is what transformed a poverty stricken, forlorn, empty area into a land of flowing milk and honey.