OPEN LETTER to: - The Honorable Ehud Barak, Israel Prime Minister elect:

While recognizing the tremendous effort on the part of your future coalition government to maintain security in Eretz Israel. the Middle East Political Forum finds itself in accord with you most of the time..

Permit us to introduce the organization. The Middle East Political Forum is first and foremost an *Information Project*. it is a Jewish group comprised of men and women of different religious backgrounds with the highest regards for the welfare of Israel. The Middle East Political Forum backs the efforts of Professor Paul Eidelberg, striving to implement a Constitution for Israel.. MEPF has also accepted the goodwill political gesture/cooperation of the National Unity Coalition, which consists of more than 200 Christian groups that collectively form 40 Million Christian Zionists.

MEPF. has several concerns though. that must be considered for the benefit of all Israeli Jews in Israel, to these Jews that intend to commit to Aliyah, and Jews like us committed to uphold Israel's Hasbara on the American Continent.

A). We have noticed that when Arab prisoners are released from Israeli prisons, they are automatically let out the front gate and inflicted again on the Israeli population. In our estimation. no Arab prisoners that have served time for crimes against the Jewish people, be given another opportunity to inflict another offense. Instead, Arab prisoners should be taken out of Israel to any Arab/Moslem country or other countries of their choice. [At a certain stage in past History, British criminals were taken out of England to populate Australia].

B). We have Mr. Prime Minister more than 850,000 Jordanian citizens living in Israel. These people are remnants from the time when Jordan was in control of Judea and Samaria for nineteen years. They opted for Jordanian citizenship then, and are holders of both Jordanian passports and ID's after swearing allegiance to Jordan. Mr. Prime Minister, these are Jordanians in every sense of the word.! When the Jordanians were pushed back in 1967 to their own borders, their own citizenry should have followed or made to follow. Jordan should have asked for them before the signing of the Peace agreement with Israel. Israel on the other hand should have insisted they take them back home, long before the ceremonial signing process took place. Israel, Mr. Prime Minister should not be held accountable/responsible for Jordanians.! These people should be REPATRIATED to their own country!

Steps must be taken to REPATRIATE the 850,000 Jordanian citizens lingering in Eretz Israel. What are they doing there.? (a) They are a burden on Israel's Economy. (b) They are propagating hate against the Jews and undermining the infrastructure of the state of Israel. These 850,000 are peppered with Hamas followers, sympathizers, and Shahidin=martyrs, that are willing to forgo their lives at the snap of a finger.

At this stage Mr. Prime Minister, you have an historic duty to correct the present situation and deflate the ominous, deleterious and pernicious atmosphere that is being inflicted daily on the Jewish people... Israelis are not free to breathe freely, to travel without fear, unmolested, to any destination in their homeland, the way they used to do before Oslo... The daring between them, carry sidearm for their protection. Most get involved in stoning by Arabs and are forced to retaliate... Is this what Israel augur for its people?

An Israeli Government decree should be declared this instant stating that: All persons that are in Israel NOT for the purpose of "ALIYAH" and have OVERSTAYED their three months "Legal Stay" should apply under penalty for a LEGAL EXTENSION. The others that are in Israel without authorization [no matter from what countries... either they are from Jordan or any other country on this Globe] should leave forthwith or be forced to leave after their arrest.

We cannot suggest another alternative to our above statement. Israel is recognized in the World as a Jewish State and it has been so RECONSTITUTED.! Israel has dedicated itself for the ingathering of Jewish exiles and not the ingathering of who wants to undermine it and erase it off the map.

The 850,000 Jordanians in Israel are Alien/Illegal Residents, they should be REPATRIATED next door to their own Country. (Now that Israel has relinquished its claim on it and made Peace with it rulers.) If some of them would be willing to forego their Jordanian citizenship and revert once again to the Palestinian Arab identity, they should be absorbed in Gaza and Jericho. If Arafat intervenes and considers these people his own subjects. then, in all probability he considers all Jordanian less the Bedouins his own subjects also. [Is this hilarious or what?]

If the REPATRIATION phase of the 850,000 Jordanians is quickly implemented, this will tend to deflate the present Palestinian Arab problem and cut its threatening objectives towards Israel in half. It would put also the "Israeli Arab" allegiance to Israel on notice and under scrutiny. This would lessen the opportunity of some Knesset Arab members/leaders to be tempted to play a double game i.e. with the Syrian Dictator.

The followers of Arafat (now reduced to a non-impressive number) should be ensconced in Gaza and Jericho. The other Arab towns of Ramallah, Hebron, Jenin, etc., should be declared open towns, demilitarized in the REAL SENSE of the word and under the watchful eyes of Israel's IDF from the outside for security purposes only.

C) Some countries in addition to the Muslim world consider Israel an "OCCUPIER." This is the biggest blasphemy thrown at Jews in general. Your non-reaction to this statement in the past, is fueling the "Big Lie" propagated by these countries. Are you giving credence to this? Israel has been RECONSTITUTED for the Jewish people and not the Arab people...! It is high time to stand proud and tall and show the world that Israel is daring enough to take action. Please do not be intimidated by American or European threats for these countries will not be forthcoming when push comes to shove, and would rather see Israel sacrificed on the Altar of Opportunism, Self-serving interests and "OIL Benefits." Mr. Prime Minister, the Arab Countries are many and Israel is only ONE, so the tendency to sacrifice it for supposedly Peace and quiet in the Middle East for the flow of oil is very REAL!

D) Mr. Prime Minister, Israel has to find a solution to the Israeli menial labor problem and refrain from giving work to Arab workers. This is not Israel's responsibility! Give the Arab Countries an opportunity to take care of their brethren. the more Israel gets involved in the upkeep of Arabs, the more you are giving them an opportunity to encroach on the Land of Israel. Ben Gurion used to emphasize the slogan AVODAH IVRIT, so the sooner this is taken into consideration, the quicker Israel will grow roots in their land. It is amazing how a people who have sworn to destroy the Jewish Patrimony, have been given Carte Blanche by the victimized Israelis to carry on with the systematic destruction of the Jewish State.

It needs to be emphasized, however, that Islam itself. specifically. its love of violent death as the key to paradise and the promise of virgin brides, incites suicide-bombers and thus fosters the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent men, women, and children. As already indicated. Jihad, or the Holy War against infidels, is a basic religious obligation for Muslims. The Qur'an, which is the only mortar that motivates and unifies all Muslims, teaches them: "Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends" [Sura 5:50]. "Allah ... forbids you to make friends with those who have fought against you ... or abetted others to do so" [Sura 60:9]. From this passage comes the necessity on the part of Arabs to describe Jews as "aggressors." The Qur'an imperative on dealing with "aggressors"? "Kill them wherever you find them" [Sura 2:190]. Consistent therewith, the seemingly innocuous late King Hussein of Jordan (who welcomes arch-terrorists in Amman) once urged Arabs to "kill Jews wherever you find them, kill them with your hands, with your nails and teeth." In 1994, during an event closed to the media at a mosque in South Africa, Arafat proclaimed: "The jihad will continue...You have to understand our main battle is Jerusalem...You have to come to fight a jihad to liberate Jerusalem, your precious shrine... No, it is not their capital. It is our capital."

Shortly after the violence committed by PA police in September 1996, Arafat announced again: "We will be willing to die as martyrs until our flag flies over Jerusalem. No one should believe they could frighten us with weapons. We have much stronger weapons, the weapon of sacrifice, the weapon of jihad."

The Arabs have a great advantage over the Israeli Jews. The Arabs know that they want to destroy Israel. They are not ashamed or bashful about their agenda. Therefore, they can carefully plan and develop engines to do the job..

Mr. Prime Minister, someone went through an awful lot of trouble to itemize the PA's violations, yet they failed to tear up the Oslo agreement in response. No one could blame us for reacting to such violations by retroactively nullifying Oslo. Yet no one in the past Government dared whisper such a suggestion. Instead they call upon Arafat to fight terror. if this is not the biggest joke yet., we should all be crying.

The answer is simple. We don't want war. Nobody really wants war. But war, like breathing, seems to be a fact of life. If you choose not to accept it . .. . you perish. Those who choose not to fight anymore always make peace. Another definition of those who choose not to fight is "loser". Losers, upon being defeated, give up and make peace by accepting the dictates of the winners, those who are stronger. The strange thing with Israel is that, despite the fact we are consistent winners, we insist upon behaving like losers. And, what is worse, while we have always been good winners who had mercy upon our defeated enemies, [They... the Arabs do not respect weakness. This is a fact!] We know that our enemies would destroy us totally if they could. Honestly we have no choice but to fight! In spite of this we seek to negotiate with our would-be-murderers. Mr. Prime Minister, the people who will assert their right on the Land of Israel with continuous success will be "THE WINNERS!"

Stop for a minute and consider the absurdity of the negotiations. The PA demands that Israel stops building homes and charges this country with provoking war by so doing. Israel demands that the PA cease murdering Jews, as if that were a parallel demand. Thus, the compromise solution is that Israel stop living and then the PA will stop murdering us. How can any rational people negotiate the pace of its own self-destruction, and treat it as a peace process?

There is no point in arguing about our rights if we have already, in advance of any future agreements, conceded, in principle, that the PA has rights in our homeland. It will never be an Arafat who will stop terror. Only the Jewish army can and will do that. For as long as we insist upon negotiating with those who plot our destruction, we invite the terror, which continues to plague us.

The Arabs indoctrinate their people to hate Jews and Israel and to act violently when the time is ripe. As stated by Freih Abu Middein, Justice Minister of the PA: "We must remember that the main enemy of the Palestinian people, now and forever, is Israel." The Arabs create effective propaganda to denigrate Israel. They lace their appeals with juicy words like "justice," "peace," and "brotherhood" -- words calculated to make the knee-jerk Liberal Israeli Jew salivate with pleasure and entice him into denouncing his own Nation. History is falsified for the purpose of separating the Jewish people from his Patrimony and a wedge is driven between Zionist and Jew with the intention of dividing them and assimilating them in the Muslim World. Some ignorant Jews worldwide now believe all this in general and so do some Israelis in particular.

Continuous Arab terror is forever blamed on the "injustices of the Jews" in stealing Islamic lands. Similarly justified are the continuing thefts of Israeli automobiles and property. In truth, the Arabs have a different system of justice than do the Jews - a morality that justifies the most ruthless of Arab crimes against Jews. This is a reality that precludes normal social and civil relations between Arabs and Israelis. The Arabs have no compunctions about robbing and murdering Jews and refrain only under compulsion.

Obviously, Arab foreknowledge about their aim to destroy Israel is a tremendous advantage in their war against Israel and the Jewish people. Unfortunately, too many Jews are unwilling to recognize that this is precisely the Arab aim. That is why they can see a terrorist like Arafat apart from his band of terrorists. Arafat informed a group of Arab < ambassadors meeting in Stockholm in January 1996 that the PLO had plans to eliminate the state of Israel by making life unbearable for the Jews: "We Palestinians will take over everything, including Jerusalem. We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem.we will import all kinds of Arabs.Three and a half million Arabs will thus be brought to Palestine. You understand that we plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state.I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under total Arab-Muslim control."

Were the Jews of delusion to judge reality by actual Arab words and deeds and the clear evidence of seething Arab hate directed at Jews -- the hate of people who cheer SCUDS aimed at Tel Aviv -- it would be clear that "peaceful Arab coexistence with the Jews of Israel" is an oxymoron -- a squared circle.. But such an oxymoron does not deter determined Jews from believing in the reality of this utopian dream nor does it deter the United States who wants very much for Israel to take desperate gambles with her existence on behalf of Western oil.

Jews are pleading with the chief terrorist himself who has been observed from day ONE of Oslo to have instigated and participated in Arab violence against Israelis. Arafat is determined to make the price of his illusory peace the attainment of a weakened, unlivable, and humiliated Israel, an Israel shorn of her strategic territories and Jerusalem and a haven for another 1,000,000 or more Arabs, called "refugees." He seems to be doing fine. On October 21, 1996, at a refugee camp in the West Bank, Arafat announced: "We have a long struggle ahead of us. I call upon each and every one of you to bring into this world at least twelve children and to give me ten of them in order to continue the struggle."

Israelis are lacking in due consideration for the realities of their precarious plight and what they must do to stem the advances of their enemies.

Yes. The Arabs are advantaged knowing that they want to destroy Israel while Israelis are oriented to thinking about other things. The reality of Arab aims is just too dreadful for Israelis to contemplate and the effort to save themselves is not worth the effort for what they erroneously see as an improbable event.

Contrary to the past knowledge that the average Israeli person was imbued with, during the time of Ben-Gurion, Sharett, and Meir, where the idea was to live side-by-side with Arabs, the present Hasbara (information) should be THAT TWO PEOPLE NEED TWO COUNTRIES, NOT THREE. The Mandate was already pre-divided between an Arab country and a Jewish country. We will not go into details because the details are obvious to everyone who keeps himself current. It is high time Mr. Prime Minister that you take the bull by the horns, put your foot down, and say, "I hear you," if you want to go down in history as the best Prime Minister Israel has ever had. The World has to be educated. the year on our calendar is 5759. I am forced to re-emphasize, Mr. Prime Minister, that Israel was Reconstituted in 1948 as a safe haven for the Jews and not a safe haven for the Arabs.

Unfortunately, rejecting reality will not bring Israelis the Peace and Security the Jewish people crave, but only the tragedy of bitter humiliation and destruction and the loss of the ONLY Jewish Patrimony for eons to come. At this stage, the loss of this battle with the Arabs will deny Israel a spot on the geographical map. Please try to understand.

Hermes Maverik