Israel's Gift To America
A Conspiracy of Silence in Israel: Part 2
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
On October 26, 2004, the Likud-led Knesset of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voted 67 to 45 for Labor’s policy of "unilateral disengagement" (with 7 abstentions and 1 member absent). The vote was astonishing because this same Knesset came into existence as a result of the January 28, 2003 election, when the parties opposed to Labor’s policy of territorial retreat won 84 Knesset seats or 70 percent of the Knesset’s membership! Here is a list of the parties and of the seats and votes they won by opposing that policy of appeasement:
Likud (38 seats; 925,279votes)
Shinui (15 seats; 386,535 votes)
Shas (11 seats; 258,879 votes)
National Union (7 seats; 173,973)
National Religious Party (6 seats; 132,370 votes)
Torah United Judaism (5 seats; 135,087 votes)
Israel B’Aliya (2 seats; 67,719 votes—joined the coalition after the election)
Since disengagement was the paramount issue of the campaign, it’s reasonable to conclude that as many as two million voters were cheated in the January 2003 election. By stealing their votes, Sharon effectively nullified that election. (22 other Likud MKs yielded to his blandishments, which they could readily do since MKs are not individually accountable to the voters in regional constituencies.)
If we consider the results of the January 2003 election, when the vast majority of the public opposed withdrawal from Gaza, imagine the outrage and protests that would have then resulted from a government’s decision to withdraw from Judea and Samaria! Hence, the ruling elites recognized that the Jews of Israel would have to be further conditioned to the Oslo process of territorial retreat. The official mind-numbing lies of "saving democracy in Israel" and taking "risks for peace" had to continue.
As we now see, six more years of this psychological conditioning were required to stupefy the people of Israel. Thus, during the campaign for the February 10, 2009 national elections, Benjamin Netanyahu refrained from speaking of this Oslovian risk-taking issue. He waited four months, until June 14, before announcing his endorsement of a Palestinian state cunningly using the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University for his venue. No public outrage. The people had been lobotomized.
Let’s cut to the chase: During the past two decades, not only Israel’s leftwing-dominated media, but also Israeli governments, regardless of which party was at the helm, have been conditioning the people of Israel to accept a Palestinian state. This is what the “peace process” is really about: it means the deliberate or Machiavellian erosion of the Jewish people’s religious and cultural attachment to the Land of Israel, especially Jerusalem.
This is why no Israeli government has ever based Israel’s claim to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza on international law. Why? Because the evidence supporting Israel’s legal claim to this land is overwhelming. This has been demonstrably confirmed by legal papers published by attorney Howard Grief since 1995, papers culminating in his monumental work, The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law (Mazo Publishers, 2008).
Such is (or was) the profundity of the Jewish people’s attachment to the Land of Israel that in the June 1992 election, Labor leader Yitzhak Rabin pledged he would not negotiate with the PLO. He violated his pledge to the nation by concluded the Israel-PLO Agreement of September 13, 1993. The Likud has never challenged the legality of that agreement.
Indeed, every Likud-controlled government since Netanyahu’s election in May 1996 has deliberately ignored the voluminous and compelling legal arguments for Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and Gaza—arguments articulated even by American professors of law! The Likud refrained from making this a case because that would have strengthened immeasurably the people’s opposition to abandoning their territorial birthright, and this would have put these supine prime ministers on a collision course with Washington.
The truth—obscured by Israeli political scientists who propagate the myth of Israeli democracy—is that during the past two decades most voters in this country have been effectively disenfranchised! They have unwittingly elected pseudo-nationalist or phony right-wing prime ministers who have betrayed them with parliamentary electoral impunity. Under the facade of "saving democracy in Israel" and for the sake of establishing "peace" with Jew-hating Muslims, these prime ministers have conditioned Jews to accept Israel’s territorial truncation and Jewish self-effacement. Is it any wonder that Israel is despised, especially by their arrogant enemies?
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