The Israeli Conquest of Israel

The Israeli Conquest of Israel
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Why is Ariel Sharon committed to an Arab Palestinian state? Most people will say Sharon regards Palestinian statehood as inevitable and as the only road to peace.

If so, why is Sharon advertising Arafat’s probable successor, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who climbed to power on the corpses of Jews and who has not forsaken terrorism—why, I ask, is this murderer being flaunted as a “moderate”? Was not Arafat himself portrayed as a “moderate” before Oslo? In other words, why is Sharon replaying Oslo? What is there about Oslo that, despite its consequences—10,000 Jewish casualties—attracts Israelis to that demonstrable disaster?

To answer this question we must understand the hidden objective of Oslo’s principal architect, Shimon Peres.

No doubt it would be deemed outrageous to say that Peres is committed to a Palestinian state as a means of destroying the Jewish state. So let us be moderate and merely say that Peres wants to transform Israel into “a state of its citizens,” and that a necessary step in this direction is the establishment of a Palestinian state. But to transform Israel into a “state of its citizens” cannot but lead to the evaporation of Judaism in the Land of Israel. Hence, objectively speaking, Shimon Peres is indeed committed to Israel’s destruction as a Jewish state! That was Oslo’s ulterior purpose.

True, Oslo has been advertised as a means of preserving Israel as a Jewish state. Peres and the Left would have us believe that Israel cannot incorporate Judea and Samaria, with its two million Arab inhabitants, without losing its Jewish and democratic character. And so the 230,000 Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria must leave. That’s what the “security fence” means.

To condition Jews to the ethnic cleansing of Judea and Samaria, the Jews must first leave—must be expelled from—Gaza. Thus, when Sharon speaks of “disengagement,” this means not only disengagement from territory or from Arabs but also from Judaism. Consider only Judea and Samaria—which is not to minimize the significance of Gaza.

As I have elsewhere written, Judea and Samaria are engraved in the Jewish people’s collective memory. The teachings of their prophets and sages are intimately linked to this heartland of the Jewish people—which includes eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. So long as Jews remain in Judea and Samaria, Jews in Israel will remain bonded to Judaism. Hence this bond has to be severed: Judaism has to be eviscerated and the Jewish soul deconstructed. This was the hidden purpose of Oslo’s architects.

As Yoram Hazony points out in The Jewish State: “In some crucial way, the Oslo agreement had signaled the end of the [anti-Zionist] mission, a turn of events that the celebrated author David Grossman described—mimicking the language of the accords, which called for an Israel military redeployment—as a ‘redeployment from [and shrinkage of] entire regions of our soul.’”

Consistent therewith, the Rabin-Peres Government of 1992-1995 all but eliminated Jewish content from the public school curriculum. Its goal was to dejudaize Israel, the only way the secular Left could preserve its political power vis-à-vis the religious community, whose birthrate dooms the Left to political oblivion.

That the Left could enlist Ariel Sharon in support of its goal of emasculating Judaism by a Palestinian state is easy to explain: Sharon is nothing but a Machiavellian whose lust for power underlines his 30-year record of political maneuverings and reversals. Sharon will even enlist the religious parties to serve his Machiavellian objective—the more readily since the leaders of these parties are clerical politicians, people who use the Torah not as an end in itself but as means or instrument of politics.

Notice how Sharon is so anxious to share prime ministerial power with Peres—which he did after the February 2001 election, when he gave Peres a veto power in the security cabinet when dealing with Palestinian issues. He knows very well that Peres is first and foremost an Israeli, not a Jew. Recall Peres’ interview with Ha’aretz following his defeat by Benjamin Netanyahu in the May 1996 prime ministerial election:

Interviewer: What happened in these elections?
Peres: We lost.
Interviewer: Who is we?
Peres: We, that is the Israelis.
Interviewer: And who won?
Peres: All those who do not have an Israeli mentality.
Interviewer: And who are they?
Peres: The Jews.

Sharon, too, is an Israeli. And no one should be deceived about where he is taking the Jews. The Israeli conquest of Israel is on the agenda.