By Zahava Englard
I’ve come across a number of articles in the last couple of days where Jews are suddenly waking up to the fact that there is no difference between the Arab Muslims that live in Jerusalem, Haifa or Be’er Sheva to those that live in Judea and Samaria. And, seriously… Spare me the generalizing lecture. The few Arabs that object to the current war against Israel are too few and too silent to have any effect on the battleground.
This time, in this current war, the overwhelming majority of terrorists who are attacking us in our streets are Arab Muslims with Israeli citizenship. Think of it as “the boy next door” theme. Only, a tad different from the way westerners think of it. The battleground is not on our borders. It is the moment we set one foot out the front door. No one is immune. No man, no woman, no child, no baby. No city is immune. No neighborhood. No street.
And finally, more and more Jews are waking up and realizing that this war is not about borders. It’s not about land. It’s not about voting rights, health benefits and jobs. It’s only about getting rid of the Jews they hate and once and for all destroying any trace of the Jewish State of Israel. For the Arab Muslims, this is a fight to the finish. It has always been about that. But in the past, anyone who said as much was labeled a “Jewish extremist,” a “right wing nationalist fanatic.”
The trumped up accusation of “occupation” is just as “real” as the trumped up accusation that Israel is attempting to destroy the Al Aksa mosque. Not a bad idea, as that mosque is used to incite war against Israel and store weapons to that effect. But that’s a whole other talk show. And besides, someone might think I’m a, oh my gosh, a “right wing nationalist fanatic.” Alas, there still remains pockets of doe eyed people among us waiting and hoping for Arab Muslims and Israeli Jews to rise up in one huge kumbaya fest, despite all evidence to the contrary. But until the mannah from heaven begins to fall, Israel and its people must do what they need to do to survive. And that is expand full sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, for it is indeed our land, uproot the enemy from our country and to use all means at our disposal to do so. We are not required to babysit our killers.
Not to do so, and furthermore, to continue entertaining negotiations with those who are determined to eradicate us from the face of this earth is viewed by our enemy as weakness on the part of our leaders, as it should be. In addition, propping up our enemy’s leaders as statesmen, is not only the epitomy of acquiescence – giving consent to our enemy to wantonly spill our blood in our streets, but sheer imbecility, akin to a gold engraved invitation to our enemy to slaughter us.
This is an existential war and we have no allies. We have to deal with the real. We have only ourselves and God. And that’s okay. But our leaders had better come around and deal with the real before it’s too late.
The Arab Muslims want a fight to the finish? Let’s give it to them.
On our terms.
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