Mistaken identity

Submitted by Yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), Aug 10, 2006 at 16:30

The mistake Jews, and Americans, keep making is the failing to perceive the identity of their enemy. Is the enemy the masked man brandishing a gun, surrounded by a gang of admiring kids, or is it the admiring kids? The PC response is, the masked man. Reality, it is the masses of admiring kids, who by their sheer numbers and democracy can drive the Jew out of house and home. The Oslo accord had one main aim, overwhelmingly more important than how many guns can move from A to B, and that was the creation of a non-Israeli formal identity for all these kids, their mothers and sisters. Suppose all those Arabs living in areas controlled by Israel had demanded Israel annex Judea Samaria and Gaza, and give Arabs citizenship, just like Arabs already ensconced within the Green Line. A demographic disaster on the one hand, versus being branded an Apartheid State on the other.

The Oslo Accords gave them a foreign identity, so that now they are foreigners living, temporarily in the Land of Israel. Now, there was a risk, which was not met with sufficient force, but that has been generally taken care of. Militarily Israel still controls the mountainland, Jewish settlements are being strengthened, and the current unrest in the North, which will persist for years will keep the Olmerts from accomplishing a second retreat from Judea and Samaria.

Moreover, under Israeli rule, the arab population exploded. Now, under PA rule, utterly decrepit and corrupt combined with Israeli intrusions due to terror, the population diminishes rapidly. Look at the Million Arabs who simply were not there for the PA elections. Under Hamas things are even worse. The demography is shifting in israel's favor. irrevocably.

Seen this way oslo was a trade-off, a reasonable one, with some risks not well abrogated. It was a far-reaching plan with long-term positive results. I have no idea if Rabin planned it that way, and now he is not here to be questioned.

The key take-home message is,terror is not the enemy. The population from which terror springs is the true enemy, and Eurabia is still in blinkers concerning this basic truth.

Yuval Brandstetter MD, Israel

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