The Third Suicide Bomber

by Yehuda Adam

Please note that this article was written immediately after the double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, and before Operation Defensive Shield.

In all the morning newspapers we will read with great sadness and anger about two Arab suicide bombers who like so many of their brothers before them decided to blow themselves up so they can be rewarded with a ticket right into heaven, and so that they may help send more Jewish 'infidels' to their graves. We will read about how President Bush "condemns these attacks in the strongest possible language" and hear Arafat (may his name be cursed and his memory obliterated) follow suit in doing, and of course let's not forget our 'War Monger' Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who will undoubtedly condemn the attacks as well. Of course Sharon, since he is 'so right wing' and such a militant will add statements saying that "Israel will respond" or that "Israel will react" and do "all she can to protect the lives of her citizens." And then of course, Sharon or some other government representative will add that "the Palestinians must respond with actions and not just words." What should of course be obvious but will in all probability go unnoticed are the group making up the third suicide bomber who have made their appearance as well, but in all likelihood will go unnamed (again). Israel, due to a group that some have termed the "Oslo Criminals", led by such delusional Jews as Peres (who committed treason by negotiating with the Palestinians, behind Rabin's back, and then presenting him with a fait accompli), Beilin, and Sarid, have decided to pursue a "course of peace" with the Palestinians.

I truly hope that these Jews are simply ignorant and uneducated fools, in order to have such illogical views and ideas of peace. I hope they are idiotic and misguided fools, because the only alternative explanation for their actions is one that none of us would like to believe about anyone, let alone our own leaders; namely that these Jews are cruel and heartless, even evil. [But for those that think that is entirely impossible I turn you to Israel and the Left's dirty little secret in Dr. Kastner, Mapai, and the Holocaust, which I would encourage everyone to read more fully about in Ben Hecht's book Perfidy.] Perhaps these "leaders" are even as cruel and heartless as the Arabs who murdered our brothers and sisters last night, perhaps as much as the countless Palestinians and Arabs who are waiting for their turn to do so tomorrow. They are cruel and heartless because they are unwilling to protect the lives of their own people, and as government officials are ignoring their prime responsibility. Perhaps these claims sound overstated-emotional rather than logical- they are not.

Israel is being led by suicide bombers in the guise of Jewish 'leaders' who have decided to take a course of action that explicitly contradicts a governments most basic responsibility to its citizens, to protect their lives. The two suicide bombers that we will (or have) read about through our burning tears would never have been able to carry out their mission, and certainly not with such ease, if it were not for the group of suicide bombers making up a majority of the Israeli Knesset. This government has completely denied itself any claim or right to power, there is not a single Western political philosopher (be it Hobbes, Rousseau, Thoreau, orLocke) who would deny this claim. A governments right to power, its right to take away certain freedoms from individuals, is only justified in return for that governments offer of certain guarantees, the most basic of which is of course to protect its citizens lives. What is perhaps even sicker, no! incredible, is the degree and gall with which the Israeli government has undermined its right to power. As Hobbes and Rousseau state, it is not even mere death that the government is to prevent, rather it is VIOLENT death. It is the fear of having a bomb rip through a pedestrian mall with results described by one Jew in the following interview early this morning in Israel:
" I saw people without arms. I saw a person with their stomach hanging open. I saw a 10-year-old-boy breathe his last breath. I can't believe anybody would do anything like this."

It is the fear of a VIOLENT death such as this that necessitates a government having power to take away individual freedoms in order to prevent the VIOLENT DEATH of its citizens (see Hobbes' Leviathan or Rousseau's On the Social Contract and Second Discourse). Is there anyone who will dare to tell me or any other Jew that fear of such violent death is not a daily element of Israeli life? 'That the government has done what it can' to prevent such violent deaths? Nonsense. Here we have the third suicide bomber. Here we have a defense minister in Shimon Peres, perhaps one of the most despicable Jewish 'leaders' in all of our long history who runs to shake the bloody hands of Arafat. Here we have a 'right wing' Prime Minister who talks about how he sees favorably the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Here we have courts that condemn the Chief of Staff for having allowed troops to fire on violent Arab rioters in the north a year ago. Here we have a government and supreme court that saw it fit to outlaw Kahane and his Kach party (WHICH IN THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTHS TO HIS BANNING IN 1989 HAD POLLED AS THE THIRD LARGEST PARTY INISRAEL WITH AS MANY AS 12 SEATS ONE MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTTION). Here we have a 'democratic government' that saw it fit to deny the right of over 250,000 of it's Jewish citizens (who numbered a little over 3 million at the time) the right to vote for the party of their choice, the party that an exponentially increasing number of Israelis saw as the only party that would protect them from violent death. Here we have a 'democratic' government that makes the word democracy into an utter joke, a government that has made Israel-the state created to prevent another Shoah- the most dangerous place in the world for a Jew to live. A Jewish 'leadership' unwilling to stop the murder of Jews have turned the promise of the Jewish dream into a nightmare.

Peace in Hebrew is called shalom. The root of shalom is the three letters shin, lamed, and mem. This same root is used in the word Shalem, meaning complete. As the great Jewish commentator Rashi says, "If there is not peace, then there is nothing." To be complete means to have peace. But the meaning lying in this seems to have been radically misunderstood by the Oslo Criminals. Perhaps a more elucidating quote is one that we find at the end of the prayers for Grace after meals. "God grants strength to His people, He will bless His people with peace." Strength is granted before peace is promised. Why? The answer to this is simple. If someone is unwilling to recognize your right to exist, is unwilling to recognize your humanity then there can be no discussion with them. A relationship, a discussion, is premised on the idea that there are two people, and 'I' and a 'Thou'. If the second person in this 'relationship' doesn't even recognize your inherent right to live, your humanity, your right to live in freedom, then how can there be so much as a single solitary meaningful word spoken between these two individuals? (Let alone the achievement of peace!) So what is the role of strength? The same role that it was able to play in the non- violent demonstrations of Martin Luther King and Ghandi. The other person (white or British or whatever) did not want to see them as a human, so force was used to achieve this recognition. King and Ghandi had the 'luxury' of being able to do so in a non-violent yet forceful way, often at the expense of their own people's blood.

Israel does not have such a luxury. Strength for Israel can not be manifested in a non-violent way. That is the AWEFUL but sad truth. We have seen the results of non-violent demonstrations with the Arabs and our plea for them to see us as human. Israel has been offering a non-violent demonstration* in her very existence* for over half a century. Jews had lived with Arabs in Hevron for over 500 years, and yet still the Arabs of Hevron do not see us as human. In 1929 the Arabs made one of the most viscous and disgusting attacks on Jews that our battered people has ever known. The entire Jewish community of Hevron was expelled after more than 50 Jews had been murdered and raped, after the doctor who had treated these Arabs his entire life was butchered, after the Jewish cook who had baked for the Arabs so often was burned alive in his own oven, after a young Jewish girl was gang raped by her Arab neighbors while her 7 year old sister watched. This is how the Arab treats his Jewish neighbor. If real peace is wanted, then Israel must act with strength, and in this case, VIOLENT strength. Not because violence is preferred, not because we as Jews do not recognize the humanity in the Palestinians and Arabs, but because we are fighting for our survival and they have refused to recognize the Jew as human. The Nazis were not negotiated with. Nor were the Japanese. But when World War II was finished, when violent strength had been used against them and they had been forced to recognize the existence of America, then American policy makers and citizens had the ability to reeducate and talk with them. The results today are rather stark and clear, if not necessarily perfect. If Israel ever wants to be accepted by the Arabs, she will have to force them to recognize her right to be there, the right of the Jew to live without fear for her life. Peace will not be thinkable until strength is used and asserted, until the Palestinian and Arab sees a common denominator of being human between himself and the Jew next to him. It is the common denominator of all humanity that the Sages were referring to when they said that, "God created loving human interrelationships before He created the world." To be Israeli is to be Jewish. The criteria to be Israeli is not, and should not, be to have been born in Israel. The Supreme Court thought differently (and illogically) when it ruled and stated "The existence of the State of Israel as the State of the Jewish people does not negate its democratic nature, just as the Frenchness of France does not negate its democratic nature."

Incredible! Coming from a freshman in a logic class, it would get a well deserved grade of "F". Coming from the Chief Justice of a High Court, one is simply appalled. What a comparison! The "Frenchness" of France and the "Jewishness" of Israel! Note the difference of Shamgar's own comparison. He uses two totally equal concepts in discussing France, i.e. the ‘Frenchness of France’. He does not, however, speak of the Israeliness of Israel. He does not, because he cannot, because Israel was not established as the home of the Israeli people, but that of the Jewish people. One becomes a Frenchman through the simple act of being born within a certain territory or acquiring citizenship within that territory. "Frenchness" as far as France is concerned is not a national origin since a Pole can come to France and simply by acquiring French citizenship become a Frenchman. But he does not become a Jew through living in Israel. At most he becomes an Israeli. In order to become a Jew he must go through a religious conversion and until he does that he is not a Jew and since the State of Israel is defined as the Jewish State and not the Israeli state, someone who is not a Jew cannot be allowed to become the majority or else there will be no Jewish State! And that is why Israel, as the Jewish state, discriminates by law against non-Jews.” (Rabbi Kahane in Israel: Referendum or Revolution Page 166)

If one wants to deny the right of the Jew to exist and have a home, fine! He is an anti-Semite, and he should at least have the decency to says o out loud and without hiding behind ridiculous claims. To discriminate by law against non-Jews as a result of Israel being a Jewish state is no more wrong than it is for America to discriminate against Canadians * by law* since America is America, not Canada. A Canadian can join the American people by becoming a citizen, a non-Jew can join the Jewish people by converting. No one is asking the Arab (Christian or Muslim) living in Israel to convert, they should be able and encouraged to practice their own identity freely, and are granted the full civil liberties to do so. But that does not mean that they should be citizens of a Jewish State. And if the non-Jewish (and what should thereby be non-citizens) of Israel decide to remain violent, they should be removed, by force if necessary. The only person who is being racist and immoral is the one willing to deny the Jew the right to a Jewish national home, to a Jewish State, with all that is implied therein. The Arab (and certainly the Christians and Muslims) have plenty to choose from, let us have ours.

May the Merciful One create brotherhood between the children of Isaac and the children of Ishmael. Amen.