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The Impossible Takes a Little Longer

by Jack Berger

“For you are crossing the Jordan to come and possess the Land that G-d gives you and you shall possess it and you shall settle it… for you are a holy people… Hashem has chosen you for Himself to be a treasured people, from all the people on the face of the earth… Deut. 11:26-14:2”

We are now coming up to the eighteenth anniversary of the fraud of the Oslo Peace and Slaughter Jews Process when an American President presided over a handshake that ramped up the 1400 year war between Arab and Jew. What a sight it was with all of American and Jewish royalty shaking hands, smiling and congratulating one another on a peace process that led to the murder of another 1700 Jews in the land of Israel. The bravado and over blown headlines in those days announced peace in our time. Those who spoke of the reality were slandered as “an enemy of peace… or right-wing crazies”… As is the warning in the Torah, “Do not follow a majority to do evil.” The wishful stupidity of too many Jews who even today talk of peace and a two-state solution, delusional Jews who have learned nothing from the last eighteen years should be pitied as anyone who has a mental disorder and should be cared for in an institution of their choice – pick any Jewish organizational institution who refused to see the reality then and who continue to grovel for recognition begging for Jew haters to just please recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

But there is a gold lining in the challenges that we Jews face in our coming year of 5772 and all it will take is to see the world as it is, not how Jews have wished it to be and to have the courage of a Ben Gurion who once said “the difficult will take time but we can do… the impossible takes a little longer.”

In 1979, President Carter demanded at Camp David that Israel stop building settlements. At the time there were only 10,000 Jews living in Judea/Samaria. In 1993, at the time of the Oslo signing, President Clinton demanded that Israel stop building settlements. By then there were 110,000 Jews living in Judea/Samaria. By the end of 2010, after President Obama demanded that Israel stop building settlements, there are now over 350,000 Jews living in Judea/Samaria. The Jews of Judea/Samaria are “pruing and vuing” as G-d commanded and seem to be quite good at it.

Three American presidents have demanded Israel must stop building in our Biblical homeland. To stop building homes meant to stop building day care centers, stop building kindergartens, stop building clinics and schools, in essence to stop having children. Why do the various American administrations continue to give in to the Arab demand of segregation. Why should the Jews in Israel not be allowed to live in certain areas because the Muslim Arabs don’t like Jews. In America it’s called a hate crime. Sounds like anti-Semitic segregation to me – I wonder if President Obama would get it if the Muslim Arabs said no black Christians allowed. Religion aside, there is only one Jewish solution to the challenges facing Israel and it’s not a two state solution…

Remember that in 1922, 78% of the original Palestine Mandate was lopped off by the British. Arabs who lived in the area of the original mandate, known as the National Government of Moab, were called Jordanians.

From 1948 to 1967, while Jordan controlled the West Bank, during those 19 years did anyone hear an outcry for an independent “Palestinian State”. From 1967 to 1970 again there was an Egyptian terrorist group called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by a little thug by the name of Yasser Arafat, but still there was no outcry for an independent Palestinian state. The Arabs living in the West Bank biblically known as Judea/Samaria were happily Jordanian citizens. In September of 1970, the PLO tried to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and was defeated when the little king begged help from – you guessed it – Israel. A defeated Yasser Arafat and his PLO gangsters then shuffled off to Lebanon to try to take over Southern Lebanon. No demand for a Palestinian state – and strangely, no claim of displaced Palestinians yet.

After the Six Day War of 1967 three independent memorandums were written by General Thomas Kelly, Colonel Irving Kett and General Earl Wheeler of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the American War College and each concluded, “… I don’t know about politics, but if you want to defend this country (Israel) and if you want me to defend Jerusalem, I’ve got to hold that ground… flying west of the Jordan River a fighter jet can be over the Mediterranean Sea in 64 seconds…I have been practicing to fight wars for almost 40 years… weapons can only do certain things but land is needed to protect the population… Israel and the American Jewish community… need to work very hard to speak with one voice and that doesn’t always happen…” And now the clincher, in the words of Colonel Irving Kett, “Any American Jew advising Israel to surrender Judea/Samaria is no friend of Israel and any Israeli who does likewise is simply suicidal” His words, not mine. It’s time to annex Judea/Samaria. For those Jewish atheists, including those who wear kippot, close your eyes for the next few sentences… if you want to give up – not give back the land that was given to you by our G-d, His ways are perfect, remember Israel gave up land in southern Lebanon and He brought you Hezbollah, Israel gave up land in Gaza, He brought you Hamas, and if Israel and others haven’t learned yet, if you try to give up land in the biblical homeland of His beloved Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… you have been complaining about those missiles from Gaza, imagine what He will bring down on Israel … for remember He has turned His face from our people before and it wasn’t pretty... And about that nonsense of occupation, there is no occupation except by the Mohammed-come lately Arabs. If you want to talk occupation, remind England that it’s time to give back the Falklands and remind France to give back Corsica and Turkey to give back Cyprus – remind them that none of these areas even touch their mainland. That’s occupation. It is time that we recognize our history and our inheritance - Judea/Samaria was liberated in 1967, and today those lands are growing more and more Jews.

57 Muslim countries comprise almost 11 million square miles of land and the 22 Arab countries over 5.2 million square miles. Israel after annexing the West Bank would be just over 10,000 square miles. Isn’t it a bit intolerant of the world to begrudge the Jews of the world just one very small piece of land while Arab and Muslim land is plentiful? Jordan alone is over three times the size of Greater Israel with 15% fewer people.

A Saudi journalist by the name of Yousef Nasser Al Sneidan while writing for the Kuwaiti daily Al Siyassa on March 5, 2007 wrote “It is time for the Arabs to admit their cumulative mistakes and it’s trading on slogans like the right of return… these families do not need another 60 years of misery, wretchedness and suffering… in order to figure out for the thousandth time that all the talk about return is nothing but nonsense and deceit, a fairy tale that exists only in the old, worn out demagoguery of Arab propaganda…” It is time to save the U.S. taxpayer $300 million per year by finally closing the Hamas enabler organization UNRWA.

Yet perhaps the most recent reality check came from a journalist who writes for the Jerusalem Post, Khaled Abu Toameh. On a recent tour of the United States he gave three presentations in Chicago – the University of Chicago, Circle Campus and at the most rabid anti-Israel campus of the three, DePaul University. I went to all three presentations not just to hear what he had to say but to hear the questions he would be asked.

At each of the presentations the first question asked by the Muslim Palestinian-Arab sympathizers was, “If there were a Palestinian state, would you live there?” and his answer was:

“Israel is a free and open democratic country. I enjoy living here and I would rather live as a second class citizen in Israel,even though I am not, than a first class citizen in any Arab country.”

No Jew had to pay him to state the obvious, yet this was not what the kafiyyed Israel bashers in the audience wanted to hear. After his presentation at DePaul, posters with his picture on it were defaced with swastikas. So much for enlightened higher education.

What should be remembered, but too often isn’t, is that the Arab residents under the British Mandate resented the use of the name Palestinian since the term Palestinian was another name for Jews. What is clear from history is that over the last 30 years, Israel and Israeli Jews have been victims of identity theft. Arabs in the 1930’s and 1940’s were called Arabs. Their institutions were identified as Arab as in the Arab Higher Committee, Arab Liberation Army, the Arab Executive Committee and were part of the Arab awakening written of by the Arab activist George Antonius.

Jewish institutions were called Palestinian – the Palestine Post, later known as the Jerusalem Post, the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the Palestine Philharmonic, the Palestine Electric Company, and the United Palestine Appeal were typical examples of Jewish institutions prior to May, 1948. The Arab leader Auni Bey Addul –Hadi told the Peel Commission in 1937, “There is no such country as Palestine – Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Koran…” And it was the leading Arab historian Phillip Hitte who testified before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946 who decried the use of the word Palestine because it was associated, “… in the eyes of the average American and Englishman with the Jews… there is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not!” Again as late as 1977, Zahir Muhsein, an executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw, “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel.” Truth is not always remembered, but it is time the identity theft is exposed. Armed with the courage of a Ben-Gurion of 1948, or 1956, to speak the truth… the land known as the West Bank is ours. The United Nations is going to continue to hate Israel, the Arabs are going to continue to hate Israel, the Europeans will be unhappy as well, but they’ll all hate Israel no matter what, so we should give them something that, in their double standards and depraved hypocrisy, they can really hate Israel for. It’s obvious they haven’t quite come to terms with 1948.

It has been 63 years since our Jewish people came home. Eighteen years since the fraud of Oslo. Forty years since the old demographic canard of the liberal left that the Arabs will out baby Jewish Israel. With 1.5 million Israeli Arabs and 1.4 million Arabs in the West Bank and now close to 6 million Israeli Jews with a birthrate of three children per family and growing, anyone with a remedial knowledge of math can see that Arabs, with their falling birthrate of now less than four children per family, aren’t going to outnumber our people. It’s time to have the courage to annex Judea/Samaria to Israel, give the Arabs of Judea/Samaria a better standard of living than their brothers and sisters in the surrounding countries, and if they feel the need to vote, let them continue to be, as they were from 1948 to 1988, loyal citizens and voters in Jordan. Not much has changed in the last 70 years, but what has changed is that there is a Jewish homeland that can, if it has the courage, determine its own future. What the last 18 years has proved is that, no matter what contortions Israel has gone thru, the United Nations and other world governments had become too used to the historically submissive Jew. In the year 5772 it is time to do what is best for Israel... from the river to the sea, “The impossible does take a little longer”.

Shabbat Shalom Jack Berger