The Self-Incrimination of a Leader

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

On March 31, 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's Prime Minister and Shimon Peres held the post of Foreign Minister, an article appeared in the Jerusalem Post entitled "The Enemy Within." I quote the last four paragraphs, which began as follows:

'When I told the Knesset this week, "This government is against everything that is Jewish," several leftists were riled. But for me, the Jewish cause transcends everything. Israel is the Jewish state; Jerusalem is Jewish, and exclusively Jewish; Hebron is forever Jewish.

'Anyone who aided Arafat in the Lebanon war is anti-Jewish. [...this alluding to Shimon Peres...] Those on whose head lies the blood of the 134 Israeli citizens murdered since the Oslo Agreement are anti-Jewish. And those for whom Jericho is the "tomb of Rahab the harlot" (as Shulamit Aloni put it) and the Cave of the Patriarchs "the burial place of an Arab sheik" are against everything Jewish.

'Anyone planning to hand over Beit El and Shiloh is against Jews and Judaism. Those who gave official status to non-Jews on the Temple Mount are anti-Jewish. Whoever proposes granting Israeli funds to the PLO -- whose leaders transfer the money to their own bank accounts or use it for anti-Israel purposes, including incitement of Israel's Arab citizens -- is anti-Jewish.

'Anyone emotionally closer to the PLO assassins than to the settlers in Hebron, who warmly shake hands steeped in Jewish blood but turns in disgust from shaking a Jewish hand holding a prayer book in the Machpela Cave is against everything Jewish. Inciters against Jews, indifferent to their blood being spilled, are anti-Jewish.'

The letter concludes: "Ergo Mr. [Yossi] Sarid and his friends are anti-Jewish, and I am a Jew."

The author of this letter is none other than Israel’s current Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon!